Margaret Soltan on the BBC

English major and creative writing minor Gowri Koneswaran (class of 1997) writes: I’ve been thinking about the folks in the English department a lot lately! For the past four years, I’ve been working down the street at The Humane Society of the United States. For some of my non-creative writing, check out this article I…

Daria-Ann Martineau is the winner of a $500 prize for her poem “Orchids.” The English Department congratulates senior Daria-Ann Martineau, a speech and hearing major and creative writing minor, for her poem “Orchids,” which won this year’s Student Poetry Prize, awarded to the best poem submitted by a student at George Washington University. Martineau’s poem,…

Reflection on Suhayl Saadi Course Contemporary Literature Sadaf Padder As soon I received news of another author being brought to campus as a GW-British Council Writer in Residence, I jumped at the opportunity to be a participant of the course. I had heard of the Nadeem Aslam course last year too late to sign up…

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Sandra Bernhard really did visit the English Department on Thursday, and we have the photographic evidence: behold some pontificating in Rome Hall 771 NOT being conducted by an English department professor. Bernhard made a guest appearance in Faye Moskowitz’s creative writing class, then lingered in our seminar room to mingle with students, faculty, and (as…

Salutations from the new English Department Communications Liaison, Calder Stembel: “Liaison” is the first word on the first page of the first novel by Edward P. Jones. It is also the first word of a less renowned piece: this blog post. On the first of the first of 2009, “Liaison” is the first word of…