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Major Jackson Featured in Premiere Episode of Vanderbilt’s New Podcast
Mar. 13, 2025—Director of Creative Writing and Professor Major Jackson has been featured in the premiere episode of Vanderbilt’s new Quantum Potential podcast. Check out the story and the episode here.
March 20, 7 PM – Fiction Reading with Adam Ross
Mar. 3, 2025—On Thursday, March 20, Fiction Author Adam Ross will visit Vanderbilt for a book signing and a reading of his latest novel Playworld. The book signing begins at 6:30, followed by the reading at 7pm. Adam Ross is the author of the short story collection Ladies and Gentlemen, and the novels Playworld and Mr. Peanut, which was selected as...
Sixth-Year Ph.D. Student Luke Vines Shines in Inside Higher Ed
Feb. 27, 2025—Current sixth-year Ph.D. student Luke Vines was recently published in Inside Higher Education. Check out his article on the virtues of slow reading here.
MFA Alum Tiana Clark Published in The New York Times
Feb. 24, 2025—MFA Alum Tiana Clark‘s (’17) review of the Super Bowl Halftime Show was published in The New York Times on Friday, February 14. Read the full story here. Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collections Scorched Earth, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and...
Major Jackson Wins Willis Prize for American Poetry
Feb. 13, 2025—Yale Library has awarded Major Jackson the Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry. This award honors a book published in the award period written by an American poet at any point in their career. Congratulations, Major! The announcement from Yale Library can be found here: Yale Library awards 2 prizes honoring the highest...
Recent VU MFA Graduate, Kanak Kapur, Published in The New Yorker
Feb. 9, 2025—Congratulations to Kanak Kapur (MFA ’24), whose short story “Prophecy” was published in The New Yorker! Click here for a link to an interview Deborah Treisman conducted with Kapur about the story.
VU Creative Writing Newsletter Out Now!
Jan. 8, 2025—Volume 3 of the Vanderbilt Creative Writing Newsletter (Fall ’24) is out now. The annual newsletter features program and department news, while spotlighting students, faculty and alumni. Click the image below to access it or visit this page to access all volumes of the newsletter.
Allison Schachter Receives Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies from the MLA
Dec. 12, 2024—Congratulations to Dr. Allison Schachter, Winkelried Family Chair in Jewish Studies, whose book Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939 was awarded the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies from the MLA. The committee’s citation of Allison’s book wrote the following: Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939 is a groundbreaking work of scholarship that...
Vanderbilt Literary Prize Winner Stephanie Niu Releases Book Cover of Forthcoming Poetry Collection, ‘I Would Define The Sun’
Dec. 9, 2024—Vanderbilt Literary Prize Winner Stephanie Niu has released the official book cover for her forthcoming poetry collection, I Would Define The Sun. The collection will be released on February 15, 2025. Stephanie Niu’s I Would Define the Sun, awarded the 2024 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection of poems that declare the impossibility of...
December 5 – Gregory Pardlo – Poetry Reading – Buttrick Hall 101 @ 7 PM
Dec. 4, 2024—♦ December 5: Gregory Pardlo, Poetry, Buttrick Hall 101 Gregory Pardlo is the author of the poetry collections Spectral Evidence and Digest, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other books include Totem, winner of the American Poetry Review/ Honickman Prize, and Air Traffic, a memoir in essays....