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| Congratulations to Jane Satterfield, associate professor, who won a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts grant in poetry. |
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Congratulations to Peggy O'Neill, associate professor, who won a full-year Loyola sabbatical ('07-08). |
| | Congratulations to Ron Tanner, who won the 2006 Jack Dyer award for fiction. His winning story, "Diversity!," will be published in the Crab Orchard Review. |
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Congratulations to Lia Purpura, Writer-in-Residence, whose book, On Looking, has been nominated for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. |
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  Carl Phillips is the author of seven books of poetry: In the Blood (1992); Cortege (1995); From the Pastoral (2000); The Tether (2001); The Drowned; The Rest of Love (2004). Among his many honors are the Morse Poetry Prize, an Award in Literature
from the Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lamda Literary Award, a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress and the Guggenheim Foundation. Twice nominated for the National Book Award, he is also a professor of English and African-American Studies at Washington in St. Louis. Mr. Phillips will me reading on Monday, March 26, 2007 at
5:00pm in the 4th Floor Programming Room.
For more information call 410-617-2228. |
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Alice McDermott, whose forth novel Charming Billy captured the 1998 National Book Award, has enjoyed a successful career as a writer and teacher and is currently a member of the faculty with the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. She is the author of The Bigamist’s Daughter (1982), The Pulitzer-Prize finalist That Night (1987), At Weddings and Wakes (1992) and After This (2006). Ms. McDermott will receive Loyola College’s Andrew White Medal as part of her appearance, recognizing her contributions to literature.
Ms. McDermott will be reading on at 5:00pm in 4th Floor Programming Room.
For more information call 410-617-2228.
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Mark Jarman is the author of numerous collections of poetry: To the Green Man (Sarabande, 2004); Unholy Sonnets (2000); Questions for Ecclesiastes, which won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Black Riviera (1990), which won the 1991 Poets' Prize; Far and Away (1985); The Rote Walker (1981); and North Sea (1978). In 1992 he published Iris, a book-length poem. A collection of Jarman's own essays, The Secret of Poetry, was published in 2000. He is also co-editor of Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (with David Mason; 1996). Jarman’s awards include a Joseph Henry Jackson Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Jarman will be reading on Wednesday, January 31, 2007, at 5:00pm in 4th Floor Programming Room. For more information call 410-617-2228. |
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About the Writing Department: we are professors of Writing not only because we love to teach but also because we love to write—and all of us pursue very active careers as practicing, and publishing, writers of poetry, stories, essays, articles, reviews, novels, plays, and more. We offer two majors: the Writing major (13 courses from a wide selection) and the Interdisciplinary Writing major, which allows you to split our major with another field, like Biology or English or Political Science.If you’re interested in writing, you probably have a passion for working with words. And surely you know how exciting it is to move people with your own words—to make people feel what you feel, to help them see the world more vividly. You may be aware, too, that in the working world, everybody needs a writer: every business, every institution, every organization needs someone who can make sense of the world through the written word. According to research conducted by the National Commission on Writing, 91% of employers “‘almost always’ take writing into account when hiring” for professional positions.At Loyola, you will find a broad array of writing courses, thoroughly dedicated writing professors, and lots of opportunities to develop your writing abilities. Our department sponsors two literary magazines, for instance: the Forum, for essays and art work, and the Garland for poetry, stories, and art work. These are wholly student-run magazines that publish top-quality issues every year . We also have a Writer-in-Residence who works to connect students to publication, reading and award opportuities and an Internship Coordinator to help you find great writing-related apprenticeships at local publications and organizations. Our graduates have gone on to become lawyers, book editors, magazine editors, newsletter editors, public relations liaisons, publishers, teachers, grant-writers, journalists, webmasters, professors, feature writers, and more. If you'd like a tour of our department, click this TOURING link.
Be sure to check out the the "Writers' Community" (the button on the left of this page), a bulletin board for writers and students of writing--you can use it to talk to writing professors and/or writing majors at Loyola College. Stop by: we’d be very happy to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Ron Tanner, Chair
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