Makena Metz Wins 2023 James L. Doti Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Makena Metz (Dual MA English / MFA Creative Writing ‘23) has been awarded the highest honor for graduate students at Chapman University, The James […]
MFA in Creative Writing program
Dr. Leahy Awarded a Residency Fellowship at MacDowell
Dr. Anna Leahy (English) was recently awarded a MacDowell Fellowship after being selected from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants.
The Conference on the American Short Story
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences recently hosted the Conference on the American Short Story in celebration
Wilkinson Graduate Student Wins National Thesis Award
We are proud to announce Tryphena Yeboah, MFA ‘21, is the national winner of the 2020-2021 WAGS/ProQuest Distinguished Master’s Thesis
Carolyn Forché Honored as Newest Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets recently announced that Wilkinson College’s Presidential Fellow in Creative Writing Carolyn Forché has been
Grad Students Honored as 2022 Emerging Writers by the Literary Women of Long Beach
Montéz Louria (‘22, Dual MA English/MFA Creative Writing) and Santa-Victoria Perez (‘22, Dual MA English/MFA Creative Writing) have been honored
Faculty Book: “What Happened Was:”
Dr. Anna Leahy, Professor, Director, MFA in Creative Writing and Director of Tabula Poetica in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities,
Faculty Books: Dr. Martin Nakell on Consciousness
Dr. Martin Nakell, (English), doesn’t subscribe to notions of the poet writing in isolation or imperatives to originality. He embraces
Alum Adam Daniel Martinez on Remyth: A Postmodernist Ritual
Adam Daniel Martinez (MA English/MFA Creative Writing ‘14) recently published a collection of poetry, Remyth: A Postmodernist Ritual. A first-generation
Tryphena Yeboah Wins 2021 James L. Doti Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Tryphena Yeboah (MFA Creative Writing ‘21) has been awarded the highest honor for graduate students at Chapman University, The James
Zoellner Brings Home The National Book Critics Circle Award
Wilkinson College Professor Tom Zoellner (Department of English) is the winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in