MFA Creative Writing Program - Syracuse University

03/05/2026

The collaboration brings George Saunders’ award-winning Lincoln in the Bardo to the screen through a hybrid live-action and stop-motion movie featuring Tom Hanks as President Abraham Lincoln.

01/12/2026

Information about the Creative Writing Program Raymond Carver Reading Series

01/12/2026

The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.

09/30/2025

Bruce Smith is on the latest episode of the New Yorker Podcast, reading Mary Ruefle’s poem “Open Letter to My Ancestors,” as well as his own poem “The Game.”

On The New Yorker’s Poetry Podcast, the poet Bruce Smith joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Open Letter to My Ancestors” by Mary Ruefle, and his own poem “The Game.”

09/08/2025

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We are thrilled to announce George Saunders as the recipient of the 2025 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The DCAL Medal will be presented to Saunders by Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor at The New Yorker, at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner on Wednesday, November 19, 2025.

Read the full announcement at The Associated Press (AP).

📸: Pat Martin

https://apnews.com/article/george-saunders-national-book-award-f07aae73404c75c12155a2e7afe31141

09/03/2025

https://artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/english-department/creative-writing-mf-program/raymond-carver-reading-series/

Information about the Creative Writing Program Raymond Carver Reading Series