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Writers Here & Now brings writers of national and international prominence to the University of Maryland.  It provides an opportunity for the university community to hear and meet the best writers of contemporary poetry and fiction.  The visits by writers include a public reading preceded by a reception at Queen Anne's Hall and classroom visits with MFA graduate students and undergraduate students in residence at the Jimenez-Porter Writers House.  Recent visiting writers include Andrea Barrett, Madison Smartt Bell, Anne Carson, Lan Samantha Chang, Amy Hempel, Major Jackson, Tony Hoagland, George Saunders, Susan Stewart, C.K. Williams, and David Wojhan.

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June 15, 2020
Mark Forrester's student, Dhruva Someshwar, receives the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar Award [1]
Dhruva Someshwar, a senior in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, has been chosen as a 2020-21 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar. Mark Forrester was listed as the faculty mentor who had the greatest impact on Dhruva’s academic achievement.
June 5, 2020
Alexandra Calloway adapts Writing Program Grant to meet new demands of COVID [2]
This Spring, lecturer Alexandra Calloway successfully adapted an innovative classroom project for her Technical Writing class funded by a grant from the Writing Program in order to meet the demands of new circumstances imposed by the COVID pandemic. 
June 5, 2020
Alysia Sawchyn publishes debut essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs [3]
Alysia's Sawchyn debut essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs, will be published by Burrow Press on June 9. More information about the book is available here.
June 5, 2020
Dennis L. Winston edits two editions of Words Beats & Life [4]
As Editor-in-Chief of Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip Hop Culture, Dennis L. Winston oversaw the publication of two issues of the journal this year: "Spaces and Places" (v7, i1): https://wblinc.org/publications/2016/3/23/blog-post-sample-4lehf-y8m9a and the special issue, "Street Lit" (v7, i2): https://wblinc.org/publications/2016/3/23/blog-post-sample-4lehf
June 5, 2020
Jess Enoch edits "Cluster Conversation" on 19th Amendment [5]
Jess Enoch edited a "Cluster Conversation" in the journal Peitho that is dedicated to the centennial memorializations dedicated to the passing of the 19th Amendment--women's right to vote. The title of the conversation is "The Suffrage Centennial: How, Why, and on What Terms Should We Mark this Moment?" UMD PhD student Katie Bramlett contributed an essay to the conversation "Stories of Filipinia Suffrage: Remembering Marginal Histories in Colonial Contexts." https://cfshrc.org/peitho-journal/
June 5, 2020
Tom Earles elected Vice-Treasurer of the MId-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Board [6]
Tom Earles was elected Vice-Treasurer of the MId-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Board. He also presented at MAWCA's 2020 conference at Towson University in March.
June 4, 2020
Howard Norman: Graphic Fiction, Memoir, & Film Versions of "Next Life Might Be Kinder" [7]
Howard Norman's novel Next Life Might Be Kinder is being written and directed by the Bolivianplaywright/director Fernando Arze Echevar.
June 4, 2020
Joshua Weiner, Translations and New Works Published [8]
This spring saw the publication of Joshua Weiner's new translations of German poetry by Nelly Sachs and Bertold Brecht, as well as three new works of his own.
June 4, 2020
Kara Pleasants publishes novel, "Disenchanted" [9]
UMD English Masters Alum and former lecturer, Kara Pleasants, recently published her first novel Disenchanted with Quills and Quartos Publishing.
June 4, 2020
Max Lasky published by Frontier Poetry [10]
 Frontier Poetry published Max Lasky’s poem, “Bad Aesthetic,” in May 2020.The poem can be read here.
February 8, 2019
Feb. 13: Kelly Cresap's story gig [11]
Takoma Park Busboys and Poets will feature Kelly Cresap and others to honor Valentine's Day.
October 18, 2018
Lindsay Bernal to Read at Area Bookstores [12]
Lindsay Bernal will read from What It Doesn't Have to Do With on October 21 in DC and October 22 in Baltimore.
May 6, 2018
Joshua Weiner Reading Bridge Street Books [13]
Joshua Weiner will be reading his Trumpoems on SUNDAY, May 6th, 6:00 PM at Bridge Street Books with DAVID GEWANTER in celebration of the publication of Gewanter's fourth book, FORT NECESSITY, just out from the University of Chicago Press.
April 10, 2018
Lindsay Bernal and Emily Flamm to Read at In Your Ear [14]
MFA Coordinator and recent winner of the National Poetry Series competition Lindsay Bernal and MFA Alumna Emily Flamm will read, along with Frank Montesonti and Jake Syersak. 
March 6, 2018
Kate Starbird, Lecture & Discussion: "Muddied Waters: Online Disinformation During Crisis Events" [15]
4:30 pm, Monday, April 9, 2018 | 1100 Cambridge Community CenterKate Starbird, assistant professor at University of Washington and expert on informatics, will share how alternative narratives of crisis information spread, creating confusion and clouding judgment.
February 21, 2018
Carlos Gamerro, “A Literary Threesome: Cervantes, Shakespeare and Fletcher in Cardenio” [16]
Carlos Gamerro will give a public lecture on Thursday, March 1 at 5:00 PM in St. Mary's Hall Multipurpose Room. [...]
February 20, 2018
Mock Turtle Has New Venue! [17]
Mock Turtle has a new home at MilkBoy ArtHouse! We are thrilled about this new partnership with a venue that not only provides a gorgeous space but also strives to foster the arts on campus and around College Park. Our first reading is this Saturday, and we would love to see you there. Details below: 
February 20, 2018
Victoria E. Burke, “Collecting, Compiling, and Creating: Engaging with the Bible in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscript Writing” [18]
The next meeting of the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies 2017-2018 series will take place on Friday, March 2nd, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Rosenwald Room (LJ 205), 2nd floor, Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. Dr. Victoria E. Burke will deliver a talk entitled “Collecting, Compiling, and Creating: Engaging with the Bible in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscript Writing.”
January 17, 2018
Denis Johnson Tribute at Politics & Prose featuring Maud Casey [19]
On Saturday, Jan. 20 at 6 p.m. at Politics & Prose, Maud Casey, Bill Beverly, and Amber Sparks will participate in a Tribute to Denis Johnson, celebrating the recent publication of Johnson's posthumous collection The Largesse of the Sea Maiden.
November 29, 2017
Folger's Annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute [20]
Join us on Monday, December 11 at 7:30pm, as we celebrate the genius of Emily Dickinson with scholar and poet Sandra Gilbert. This third reading in the 2017/18 O.B. Hardison Poetry Series is co-sponsored with The Poetry Society of America.
June 15, 2020
Mark Forrester's student, Dhruva Someshwar, receives the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar Award [1]
Dhruva Someshwar, a senior in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, has been chosen as a 2020-21 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar. Mark Forrester was listed as the faculty mentor who had the greatest impact on Dhruva’s academic achievement.
June 5, 2020
Alexandra Calloway adapts Writing Program Grant to meet new demands of COVID [2]
This Spring, lecturer Alexandra Calloway successfully adapted an innovative classroom project for her Technical Writing class funded by a grant from the Writing Program in order to meet the demands of new circumstances imposed by the COVID pandemic. 
June 5, 2020
Alysia Sawchyn publishes debut essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs [3]
Alysia's Sawchyn debut essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs, will be published by Burrow Press on June 9. More information about the book is available here.
June 5, 2020
Dennis L. Winston edits two editions of Words Beats & Life [4]
As Editor-in-Chief of Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip Hop Culture, Dennis L. Winston oversaw the publication of two issues of the journal this year: "Spaces and Places" (v7, i1): https://wblinc.org/publications/2016/3/23/blog-post-sample-4lehf-y8m9a and the special issue, "Street Lit" (v7, i2): https://wblinc.org/publications/2016/3/23/blog-post-sample-4lehf
June 5, 2020
Jess Enoch edits "Cluster Conversation" on 19th Amendment [5]
Jess Enoch edited a "Cluster Conversation" in the journal Peitho that is dedicated to the centennial memorializations dedicated to the passing of the 19th Amendment--women's right to vote. The title of the conversation is "The Suffrage Centennial: How, Why, and on What Terms Should We Mark this Moment?" UMD PhD student Katie Bramlett contributed an essay to the conversation "Stories of Filipinia Suffrage: Remembering Marginal Histories in Colonial Contexts." https://cfshrc.org/peitho-journal/
June 5, 2020
Tom Earles elected Vice-Treasurer of the MId-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Board [6]
Tom Earles was elected Vice-Treasurer of the MId-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Board. He also presented at MAWCA's 2020 conference at Towson University in March.
June 4, 2020
Howard Norman: Graphic Fiction, Memoir, & Film Versions of "Next Life Might Be Kinder" [7]
Howard Norman's novel Next Life Might Be Kinder is being written and directed by the Bolivianplaywright/director Fernando Arze Echevar.
June 4, 2020
Joshua Weiner, Translations and New Works Published [8]
This spring saw the publication of Joshua Weiner's new translations of German poetry by Nelly Sachs and Bertold Brecht, as well as three new works of his own.
June 4, 2020
Kara Pleasants publishes novel, "Disenchanted" [9]
UMD English Masters Alum and former lecturer, Kara Pleasants, recently published her first novel Disenchanted with Quills and Quartos Publishing.
June 4, 2020
Max Lasky published by Frontier Poetry [10]
 Frontier Poetry published Max Lasky’s poem, “Bad Aesthetic,” in May 2020.The poem can be read here.
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