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Writing seminars

Reading series

Lorrie Moore's truth is stranger than fiction

Published Oct 10, 2018

Best-selling author reads from her new collection of essays during her talk at JHU

Q+A

Talking with Dora Malech

Published Fall 2018

Poet Dora Malech on experimenting with form and language, working with young writers, and how language shapes what we know and how we feel / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Literature

Discourse on (Dis)Ability

Published May 21, 2018

Emily Dorffer compiled and edited the '(Dis)Ability' anthology to encourage more accurate portrayals of disabled people in literature

Q+A

A tale of medical underdogs

Published April 20, 2018

New memoir by JHU writer-in-residence reflects on his younger brother's cancer diagnosis and the doctors who transformed the treatment of childhood leukemia

A man shifts rocks around while two partially harvest agave plants, trimmed of their spiky leaves, rest on the ground

Liquid culture

Published Fall 2017

Writer Granville Greene makes the case for knowing more about the people who made your mezcal / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on stage with crimson curtain backdrop

Foreign Affairs Symposium

'If you're going to create, failure has to come'

Published Feb 9, 2017

Author, activist, and JHU alum Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks politics, race, and writing as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium

Q+A

Novelist Katharine Noel on family dysfunction

Published Nov 9, 2016

Author, Writing Seminars lecturer reads from her second novel, Meantime, Thursday night at the Ivy Bookshop

Illustration of a man writing letters

Man of letters

Published Fall 2016

For his new book, Michael Kun returns to an old form: the epistolary novel / Johns Hopkins Magazine

FACULTY

A British poet in Baltimore

Published Jan 11, 2016

Sir Andrew Motion settles into life in America as a Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins

Illustration of a girl reading a book

Community Learning

Poetic change agents

Published Winter 2015

When Dora Malech started mentoring a Baltimore City teen, she had no idea they'd be designing a course together / Johns Hopkins Magazine