Haiku Contest Winners
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.
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.
GW Creative Writing and English Professor Frederick Pollack Frederick Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure and Happiness, both published by Story Line Press. GW English is happy to announce that his collection of shorter poems, A Poverty of Words (Prolific Press), will appear in a few weeks. Many other poems of his have appeared in…
PhD Candidate Lori Brister Doctoral candidate Lori Brister has been awarded a 2013 Summer Dissertation Fellowship by GW’s Office of Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships. This fellowship will allow her to travel to several notable libraries and collections, including the New York Public Library and the GeorgeEastman House/ International Museum of Photography and Film in…
“Raising High & Saying Goodbye: Rebecca Radillo is a graduating senior majoring in English. She currently has an internship with TheDailyFandom.org where she writes on pop culture with an academic lens–she already has an article published analyzing Doctor Strange through an Orientalist and disability lens. She will be attending Boston College in the fall for…
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…
Professor and Deputy Chair of English Patricia Chu published her book Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return (Temple, 2019) just last Fall! Her book provides valuable insight into the narratives of diasporic Asians, as their offspring travel to Asia to reclaim their heritage. Where I Have Never Been “reframes…
D. Gilson (center) with graduate students Maia Gil’Adi (left) and Rachel Obenschain (right) On Friday, PhD student D. Gilson won the Larry Neal Writers’ Competition in the poetry category. Each year, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities presents these awards to commemorate the artistic legacy and vision of cultural understanding of Larry Neal –…