You’ve Got To Get Creative With Your Degree: Alumni Spotlight with Hannah Ford Warner (‘15)

Interviewed by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major, and Student Managing Editor for the English Department What do you do now? And we’d love to hear a bit about how you got there as well. After graduating from Hope in 2015, I got my MFA in creative writing (Fiction) from the University of South …

Winners Announced for the Hope College Academy of American Poets Prize

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Hope College Academy of American Poets (AAP) Prize! First place was awarded to AnnaLeah Lacoss, and honorable mention to Candace Williams and Elsa Kim. This year 51worthy poems were submitted for the 2025 Hope College Academy of American Poets University and College Prize. Thank you to all who shared their creative …

Leave Space for Kindness and Joy Every Day: An Interview with Jack Ridl

Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department The co-founder of the Visiting Writers Series, Jack Ridl, taught at Hope College from 1971-2006. During this time, Jack mentored many students and fought to bring creative writing to life on Hope’s campus. All the while, Jack poured …

From Hope to Houston

Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Alumni Spotlight: Eileen Ellis (’23) What do you do now? And we’d love to hear a bit about how you got there as well. Currently, I am in my first semester in the University of Houston’s  M.F.A. in …

Writing That Reached Us

By Anna Snader ‘26, English Literature Major and Political Science Minor On September 30th at 7:00 pm, the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series welcomed Heather Sellers, a former Hope professor, and Anna Gazmarian, a 2014 Hope alum, to read their work. After reading Devout by Anna Gazmarian and You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know …

English Course Preview – Spring 2025

Take a look at our upcoming offerings as you begin to plan. Be sure to make an appointment with your advisor if you are not sure which English classes to take in the spring.

Making Art Is A Kind Of Play: An Interview with Heather Sellers

Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department For many writers, the name Heather Sellers is a familiar one—we’ve all used her textbook, The Practice of Creative Writing, in an Intro to Creative Writing class. This, however, is often the only contact we have with her …