/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news.html null Sun, 19 Apr 2026 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/student-news/jesmyn-ward-wins-2017-national-book-award.html HZWP Alumna Jesmyn Ward wins her second National Book Award for "Sing, Unburied, Sing" Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/faculty-news/accolades-for-professor-peter-ho-davies-s-latest---the-fortunes-.html "The Fortunes" receives the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Award for fiction and the 2017 Chautauqua Prize! Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/faculty-news/hzwp-in-granta-s-best-young-american-novelists.html HZWP Faculty Claire Vaye Watkins and Alumna Esme Wang among Granta's list of Best Young American Novelists of the decade Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:30:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/student-news/alum-vievee-francis-wins-kingsley-tufts-award.html Vievee Francis, HZWP Alumna and associate professor of English at Dartmouth University, receives one of the nation's most prestigious poetry prizes for her latest collection, "Forest Primeval" Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/student-news/airea-d--matthews-receives-2016-rona-jaffe-writers--award.html Class of 2013 Poetry Alum and HZWP Assistant Director is Honored by the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Receives $30,000 Grant. Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:08:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/student-news/hzwp-alums-in-2016-s-awp-award-series.html Program alums Paisley Rekdal and Lauren Clark receive prizes in Creative Nonfiction and Poetry from the 2016 AWP Awards Series, books forthcoming in 2017. Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:52:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/student-news/Airea-D-Matthews-wins-Yale-Younger.html 2013 Poetry MFA Alumna and Program Assistant Director Airea D. Matthews's manuscript 'simulacra' will be published by Yale University Press in 2017! Wed, 02 Mar 2016 05:50:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/faculty-news/Tarfia-honored-by-Harvard-Law-School.html Warmest congratulations to our very own Tarfia Faizullah, who has been selected for inclusion in the 3rd Annual Harvard Law International Women’s Day Portrait Exhibit Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:29:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/student-news/first-novel-by-recent-alum-mo-daviau.html "Every Anxious Wave" hits bookstores today, complete w/time travel, indie rock, dinosaurs. Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:51:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/faculty-news/2016-nea-fellowships.html Professor Peter Ho Davies and Alum Celeste Ng receive 2016 NEA Creative Writing Fellowships in Prose Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:46:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/professor-claire-vaye-watkins--first-novel-set-to-debut-on-septe.html Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:51:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/professor-linda-gregerson-s-newest-book-will-be-released-septemb.html Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English; Director Helen Zell Writers’ Program Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:49:54 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/professor-tarfia-faizullah-s-interview-with-michigan-radio.html Tarfia Faizullah is a Delbanco Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:44:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/archived-news/2015/02/rosebud-ben-oni-awarded-fellowship-from-new-york-foundation-for-.html University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program graduate Rosebud Ben-Oni has been awarded a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in Poetry. Sun, 08 Feb 2015 05:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/archived-news/2015/02/mfa-alumni-and-faculty-publish-widely-in-2014-2015.html View the selected list of 2014-2015 publications by students, graduates, and faculty of the Helen Zell Writers' Program. Sun, 08 Feb 2015 05:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/archived-news/2015/02/mfa-grads-and-faculty-publish-widely-in-2014-2015.html Sun, 08 Feb 2015 05:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/archived-news/2015/02/khaled-mattawa-wins-macarthur-fellowship.html University of Michigan professor Khaled Mattawa has been awarded a Macarthur Fellowship. Wed, 04 Feb 2015 05:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/archived-news/2014/09/t--l--khleif-wins-2014-rona-jaffe-foundation-writer-s-award.html Tricia Khleif (MFA '11) was selected for a $30,000 award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Thu, 04 Sep 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/archived-news/2014/06/douglas-trevor-awarded-the-balcones-fiction-prize-for-girls-i-kn.html Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature and Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Michigan Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/archived-news/2014/04/linda-gregerson-has-been-elected-to-the-american-academy-of-arts.html Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English; Director Helen Zell Writers’ Program Wed, 23 Apr 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/archived-news/2014/01/khaled-mattawa-named-chancellor-for-the-academy-of-american-poet.html Wed, 29 Jan 2014 05:00:00 +0000 http://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/writers/en/news-events/all-news/archived-news/2014/01/a--van-jordan-nominated-for-an-naacp-image-award.html Wed, 29 Jan 2014 05:00:00 +0000