It is with great sadness that we announce that Hache (H.G.) Carrillo, a former professor of creative writing at GW English and Board Member of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, passed away last week. Author of Loosing My Espanish (2005), and numerous works of short fiction, Carrillo’s oeuvre explores Afro-Cuban American immigrant experience and the complexities of…
Please join the English Department in congratulating our very own, Professor Jennifer Chang, on her most recent accomplishments! Professor Chang is this year’s Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Reward Recipient! This prestigious award is given to a single US poet who has published a book of their poetry via a small publishing house….
George Washington University’s 2007 Creative Writing Graduate, Natalie Lund, has recently had her YA contemporary, magical realism debut novel, We Speak in Storms, picked up by Philomel Books. Publishers Weekly recently described Ms. Lund’s book as, “Moving between two timelines, and the alternating perspectives of three teens and a town’s lost generation, the story takes place after a tornado…
The GW English Department is happy to announce that Jennifer Henderson will be our Communications Liaison for the 2017-2018 school year! As the Communications Liaison, Jennifer will be helping out with the social media channels for the GW English Department, including this blog and Twitter. Jennifer is pursuing both her B.A. and M.A. in…
In 2015, we profiled GW Alum Elizabeth Stephens as she published her first novel. You can read that profile here. She’s back this year with a follow-up novel, The Hunting Town. An advance blurb for the novel describes it in this way: “Drugs, cartels, the mafia. Pain, greed, and revenge. When an unexpected murder brings…
Professor Daniel DeWispelare Publishes First Book, Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century I had the pleasure of interviewing Daniel about his new book and we had an engaging and edifying conversation about the process of creating this now-tangible text: …
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman was published in 2015 GW English is happy to announce that Professor Jeffrey Cohen’s 2015 monograph Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman will be awarded the Réné Wellek Prize for the best book in comparative literature from the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). The ACLA writes that the Réné…
GW Students in Kogan Plaza November 15, 2016 GW English and Creative Writing affirm that we are absolutely committed to fostering programs that recognize the value of studying all aspects of human experiences. Learning from and alongside student movements across the country that – as signs in Kogan Plaza have recently announced – say no…
The GW English Department congratulates the winners of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Haiku contest! All are graduates of Creative Writing courses in this department, which makes us extra proud. CCAS Haiku Contest Winners (2016) 1st Prize Winner Alicia Yeung CCAS Psychology Major Good morning Lincoln, Runners greet you at sunrise, You sit…
Paula Mejia (BA, Creative Writing/English ’13, MA, English ’14) “I WROTE A BOOK – WHO KNOWS WHAT AMAZING THINGS YOU CAN DO, TOO” Paula Mejia started as an International Affairs major at GW, and then encountered our Creative Writing faculty — which changed everything. Margaret Soltan talks to her about it. Since you graduated from…
