Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars

Founded in 1947, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars is an academic program offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in writing in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. It is the second-oldest creative writing program in the United States.

Notable faculty of the program have included Edward Albee, John Barth, Madison Smartt Bell, J. M. Coetzee, Mary Jo Salter, Stephen Dixon, Mark Hertsgaard, Brad Leithauser, John Irwin, J.D. McClatchy, Alice McDermott, Mark Crispin Miller, Andrew Motion, Wyatt Prunty, David St. John, Mark Strand, Robert Stone, and David Yezzi.[1]

Writer Eric Puchner currently chairs the program, which has a strong reputation.[2][3] It has been ranked "One of the Top Ten Graduate Programs in Creative Writing" by The Atlantic, and in 2020 was ranked as the #1 creative writing program by creativewritingmfa.info.[4][5] In 1997, U.S. News & World Report ranked the program second in the United States out of sixty-five eligible full-residency MFA programs.[2][6][7] In 2011, Poets & Writers ranked Hopkins seventeenth nationally out of 157 eligible full-residency MFA programs.[8] The long respected Science Writing program[9] was closed down in 2013 as an on-campus program, but was re-established as an online/low residency program shortly thereafter.[10]

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  4. ^ "The Best of the Best". The Atlantic. August 2007.
  5. ^ "creativewritingmfa.info - rankings". creativewritingmfa.info. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
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  7. ^ Mike Bowler (February 10, 1998). "Strand writes off JHU Literature". The Baltimore Sun.
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  9. ^ Zivkovic, Bora. "Science Writing at Johns Hopkins | The SA Incubator, Scientific American Blog Network". Blogs.scientificamerican.com. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
  10. ^ Straumsheim, Carl (2013-03-25). "Johns Hopkins cuts science writing program for master's degree students @insidehighered". Insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2015-03-10.