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Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize

Undergraduates: Submit your poetry for the 2026 Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize!

Undergraduate English majors are invited to enter the annual Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize!
Diann Blakely Emerging Poet Prize

The 2025-2026 Diann Blakely Emerging Poet Prize is Open for Submissions

The Creative Writing Program and the English Department are excited to announce that the competition for the Diann Blakely Emerging Poet Prize has opened for submissions!

O-Jeremiah Agbaakin

Creative Writing Program Graduate Student O-Jeremiah Agbaakin Receives the 2025 John Lewis Writing Grant for Poetry

Andrew Zawacki

Dr. Andrew Zawacki publishes photo-poetry book

ENDSCAPE blends thirty photographs with twenty poems in the inaugural P5 photo/poetry
Anindit Dutta

Creative Writing Graduate Student Anindit Dutta Selected for Tin House Autumn Workshop

Established in 2003 with its flagship summer conference, the Tin House Workshop is a premier creative writing program offering in-person and online classes, seminars, and residencies in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.