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 …
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Calling all Creatives! Opus Submission Deadline January 31st
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 …
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Calling All Poets!
Pivoting to a Professional Passion: Alumni Spotlight with Katharyn Haas (’15)
Written 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. I am currently the lead agent at Pande Lecture Management (PLM). We assist event hosts who are looking for …
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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 …
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Research Is No Solitary Sport
Discovering Chasing Beauty Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Deep in the basement of the Van Wylen Library, you’ll find the Rare Books Room. Lining its walls are hundreds of books ranging from first-edition novels to tomes of Michigan history. It’s both atmospheric and …