The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University

03/10/2026

04/26/2025

Save the dates!

04/26/2025

On Tuesday, we held an inaugural Spring Writing Festival for our youngest writers 💐

Baltimore City Public Schools 4th and 5th graders joined their writing instructors—JHU students and WBS alumni—for an evening of writing activities and pizza at Johns Hopkins University in the very classroom where our The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University "Teaching Writing in Baltimore Schools" class met weekly.

We can't wait to do it again next year!

02/05/2025

Year 10 of Baltimore City Public Schools high school writers joining The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University for a spring semester course!

Help us equip our high school writers with books for the class.

Two titles available at bit.ly/WBSGreedyReads

The other at amzn.to/40NOix3

Thank you!

11/15/2024

We're delighted to introduce our 2024 - 2025 cohort of WBS Mentors for Teaching Writing in Baltimore Schools, our class in partnership with The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Yasmin Boakye and WBS alum Rejjia Camphor are serving as lead mentors for the class. WBS alumni Hagar Shabazz, Paisley Winter Eclarino, Javont'e Patterson, and Amaris Medina-Pinto are working as mentors and alongside Johns Hopkins University undergrads—leading our Writing Clubs in Baltimore City Public Schools.

We're so lucky to bring the expertise of alumni into our programming. We love our Monday evenings together!

04/25/2023

This is the last week to submit to the Stephen Dixon Fiction Prize for Johns Hopkins University-affiliated writers (ALL alumni, students, and current employees of JHU are eligible to submit) and the Anne Frydman Translation Prize for emerging and early career translators: deadline is April 30; $1500 prizes!

https://hopkinsreview.com/prizes

04/28/2022

JUST THREE DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT to the inaugural Stephen Dixon Fiction Prize for Johns Hopkins University students and alumni (judge: Porochista Khakpour) and the inaugural Anne Frydman Translation Prize for emerging and early-career translators (judge: Jean McGarry)!

Each prize comes with a $1,500 award.

Submitting is free for subscribers! Subscribe at hopkinsreview.com/subscribe using promo code THR15 at checkout (offer extended).
Read more about these prizes and submit your work at https://hopkinsreview.com/prizes.

Thanks to Antonia and Sophia Frydman for making these prizes possible.

02/16/2022

Join the Pulitzer Center, Northwestern University, and NU’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications for a virtual conversation on AI accountability reporting on Thursday, February 24, at 12:00 pm EST (11:00 am CST). Governments and corporations worldwide increasingl...

04/21/2021

Join the Pulitzer Center and Glendale College on Thursday, April 22, at 4:30pm PDT for a conversation with grantee and Writing Seminars lecturer Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson on the challenges of navigating the male-dominated journalism industry as a woman.

Join the Pulitzer Center and Glendale Community College on Thursday, April 22, at 4:30pm PDT for a conversation with grantee Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson on the challenges of navigating the male-dominated journalism industry as a woman. Simpson, a freelance journalist and lecturer at Johns Hopkins Unive...

04/05/2021

Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson's latest 6,500-word story from her Pulitzer Center social justice grant project explores racially biased policing in Baltimore via a wave of experimental policing technologies adopted in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death.

Deborah Katz Levi, head of the Baltimore City Public Defender Special Litigation Section, knew something did not square. One of her clients, Kerron Andrews, had been charged with attempted murder...

03/25/2021

The Simpson Literary Project and House of SpeakEasy invite you to meet the Finalists for the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize.

03/10/2021

Congratulations to Danielle Evans who has been named a 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize finalist!

We are thrilled to announce our 2021 Finalists. and . The work of these authors supports our vision for a truly democratic and literate society. We can't wait to share their stories, and celebrate their words with you. Congratulations, finalists! https://www.simpsonliteraryproject.org/joycecaroloates-prize-finalists-2021