“No Modernism,” a poem by Monroe Lawrence MFA ’17, has been selected for inclusion in Best American Experimental Writing 2016, guest edited by Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris.  Monroe, who received his B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, has also seen his poetry published in magazines and journals including Prelude, Flag + Void, The Capilano Review, and others.  He is a Peter Kaplan Memorial Fellow at Brown.

Mark Baumer, MFA class of 2011, died in late January 2017, killed when struck by a vehicle as he continued his long-distance cross-country walk, undertaken to highlight concerns about climate change.

A memorial celebration will be held at 2 pm on Saturday, Feb. 4, in the Granoff Center for the Arts, 154 Angell St., Providence. All are welcome.  

PRY, a hybrid, online interactive novella created by Literary Arts alums Samantha Gorman  AB ’06, MFA ’10, and Danny Cannizzaro, AB ’06, has been released for iPad.

PRY was one of three finalists for the inaugural Time Warner Future of Storytelling Prize, awarded in October 2014.  The FoST prize seeks to recognize “the world’s most adventurous story creators, working across platforms to mastermind boldly interactive narratives.”

The Department of Literary Arts and the International Writers Project are pleased to welcome Cuban fiction writer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo to Providence.  Recipient of the International Writers Project Fellowship for 2014 – 15, Pardo Lazo will be in residence at Brown through February.

Brown University's Graduate School online application will be available beginning September 1, 2014.  Please log on to the Grad School website for more information.  

John Cayley, Professor of Literary Arts is featured in an article on Digital Language Arts in the Huffington Post.  The article can be found at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/illya-szilak/e-literature_b_2803299.html

The New York Times ran a moving article by current Brown IWP fellow, Nihad Sirees, reminding us of the fragile situation in Syria.   See "A Song of Lament for Syria" - April 26, 2013.

At the monthly faculty meeting Tuesday, April 2, President Christina Paxson announced the Brown University Presidential Faculty Award inaugural recipients: Poet C.D. Wright (fall 2013) and Charles Larmore, professor of philosophy (spring 2014). Recipients will receive a research stipend and will present their work to faculty colleagues in other disciplines.

with link to: http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2013/04/presidential

The Department of Literary Arts is pleased to announce the selected writings for the 2013 Prizes in Literary Arts.  Thank you to all who entered their work, and congratulations to the selected writers.  

To view the list of selected writing, click Literary Arts Prizes.