Each year the program invites notable writers to visit campus and read their work in our Writers Here and Now Series. These readings happen four times a semester, in the Special Events Room on the fourth floor of McKeldin Library. There is also a fine MFA student reading series called Readings in the Gallery, which also meets on Wednesday evenings. The Lannan Foundation each year offers several of our poetry students fellowships that allow them free entrance to attend seminars and readings at the folger library. These fellowships also offer students an opportunity to meet students in other nearby graduate writing programs.
Fellows are second year students chosen by lottery.
Each year the MFA program awards the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction and the Academy of American Poets Prize in Poetry. Here and Now reading series. This is the official Web site of the English Department of the University of Maryland. Please send information and corrections to Lynne A. Hamilton who is responsible for maintaining it.