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The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars is an academic program offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in writing in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.
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Founded in 1947, notable faculty of the program have included Edward Albee, John Barth, Madison Smartt Bell, J. M. Coetzee, Mary Jo Salter, Stephen Dixon, Mark Hertsgaard, Brad Leithauser, John Irwin, David Yezzi, J.D. McClatchy, Alice McDermott, Mark Crispin Miller, Wyatt Prunty, David St. John, Mark Strand, and Robert Stone.
Writers Jean McGarry and Mary Jo Salter currently co-chair the program, the reputation of which has risen and fallen over the years. In 1997, US News and World Report ranked the program second in the United States out of sixty-five eligible full-residency MFA programs, though as the Baltimore City Paper reported, "What is interesting about the U.S. News rankings is that they are based on reputation--not test scores, job-placement rates, or student satisfaction." In 2011, Poets & Writers ranked Hopkins seventeenth nationally out of 157 eligible full-residency MFA programs. The long respected Science Writing program was closed down in 2013 as an on-campus program, but was re-established as an online/low residency program shortly thereafter.
Degree programs
Turnbull Lectures
The Writing Seminars hosts the Turnbull Lectures, a yearly lecture series on the topic of poetry. The series was established in 1891 and has run almost continuously between the years 1891-1984 and 2000–present. Recent lecturers have included Richard Wilbur, Paul Muldoon, Stanley Plumly, Edward Mendelson and Edna Longley.