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Writing

Alphabetic text on a beadlike stone form

Archaeology

Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed

Published Nov 21, 2024

Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries

a collage that creates the american flag. the stripes consist of pieces of writing from the American Prison Writing Archive

Writing within prison walls

Published Fall 2024

Johns Hopkins houses the country's largest digital collection of writings by incarcerated people / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Writing with old feather quill with flying letters of alphabet and ink stain

Artificial intelligence

Writing around an AI taboo

Published March 6, 2024

A new collection of AI-assisted writing assignments co-edited by University Writing Program lecturer Carly Schnitzler offers teachers practical ways to incorporate AI into their work while setting ground rules for its use

What About the Baby

Essays

Writing counsel

Published Fall 2021

Reviewing Academy Professor Alice McDermott's new collection of essays, 'What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction' / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Colson Whitehead

President's Reading Series

A writer's DNA

Published Sept 26, 2018

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead breaks down his influences, career

A little boy peeks out from his hockey mask

Film

Being 7 in Baltimore

Published March 26, 2018

'7 in the City' project, which received Idea Lab funding in 2017, will premiere 12 short documentaries and a related web project in May

Salman Rushdie, dressed in a gray suit and striped shirt, holds open a hard cover copy of his book, The Golden House, and speaks into a podium microphone

President's Reading Series

Salman Rushdie's turn to realism

Published Sept 27, 2017

Acclaimed British-Indian author talks writing, politics at Johns Hopkins

Ron Capps stand in front of whiteboard that reads

Foreign Affairs Symposium

Writing therapy for vets

Published April 6, 2017

With Veterans Writing Project, JHU alum Ron Capps provides literary outlet for the stresses of war

Foreign Affairs Symposium

On walls, fear, and exclusion

Published Feb 23, 2017

Award-winning Dominican-American author, activist speaks at JHU's Foreign Affairs Symposium

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