Student Poetry Contest Elicits 41 Entries

It is with great sorrow that we note the sudden death of Jonathon Lucks, an alumnus of the English Department (class of 2006). He is fondly remembered by our faculty, as well as by those majors who took classes in the department with him. We offer our deepest sympathy to his family and to his…

If you have not yet applied for the screenwriting course with megasuccessful writer/producer Jason Filardi or the fiction course with Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones, it is not too late — but please apply immediately! The form for these sections of 182 can be found here. We need your completed application as soon as…

NEWS FLASH: GW English is proud to announce that the University is a major sponsor of the 2011 AWP Conference, to be held in Washington from February 2-5. The AWP, or Association of Writers & Writing Programs, is the country’s leading organization of creative writers and creative writing programs, and its annual conference—which takes place…

Prof. Evelyn Schreiber brought this cake to the department lounge today. It’s one layer of a birthday cake made to celebrate Toni Morrison’s 80th birthday at the Library of Congress last year. (This layer spent a year in Prof. Schreiber’s freezer.) Here is the cake in its original incarnation: This layer represents Morrison’s latest novel,…

Acclaimed poet Thomas Sayers Ellis will be on campus Thursday reading from his newest poetry collection, Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems. Skin, Inc. combines lyric sequences with Ellis’s own photographs to create an image for America. Ellis’s poetry has appeared in Callaloo, Best American Poetry, Grand Street, The Baffler, and other publications. He is the…

The application form for “Screenwriting” and “Fiction” has been slightly revised and can be accessed here. Copies are also available in Rome Hall 760. Share on FacebookTweet