Karen Osborn ’79 shared the gold medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards’ Popular Fiction category for her novel, “Centerville,” while Shelby Smoak M.A. ’99 received the gold in the Autobiography/Memoir III (Personal Struggle/Health Issues) category for “Bleeder: A Memoir.”
An alumna of Hollins’ graduate program in creative writing, McElmurray is the author of “Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey,” winner of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction.
Schutt won the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ 2013 Annual Conference & Bookfair, which will be held March 6-9 in Boston, will feature 1,900 writers and 520 literary events.
Hollins University alumna and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey was named Poet Laureate for 2012-13 by the Library of Congress on Thursday. Trethewey, the daughter of Hollins English professor Eric Trethewey, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and [...]
Abby Hargreaves ’14 has launched a Facebook campaign to get people from across the nation to take part in “Write a Letter Day” April 30.
The award celebrates the most prominent new American poets by bringing the work of these artists to the attention of the larger public.
Carrie Brown, author of five novels and a collection of short stories, is a two-time winner of the Library of Virginia Book Award and is the Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College.
Amanda Cockrell has received some impressive year-end recognition for her latest book, What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay.
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing David Huddle’s work has been published in The New Yorker and earned praise from the likes of Esquire and the Los Angeles Times. In this interview with the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, he talks about his new novel, “Nothing Can Make Me Do This.”
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