http://www.hamline.edu/newsroom/http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294989494The Creative Writing Programs are proud to announce the hiring of Katrina Vandenberg as  full-time, tenure track Assistant Professor in the MFA and BFA programs.2013-05-20http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294989294On June 9, the Star Tribune will publish in its print edition and on its web site the first installment of Giving up the Ghost by CWP faculty Mary Logue2013-05-13http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294989026Creative Writing Program (CWP) faculty member Anne Ursu and Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) alumna Susan Koefod (MFA '04) have both been awarded 2013 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers. Honorable mention also went to CWP alum Brian Farrey-Latz (MFA '08).2013-04-30http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294989008BFA students: The Office of Marketing and Communications is looking for a Creative Services intern- position beginning this May.2013-04-29http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294987621Find Hamline CWP alumni and students reading all over the Twin Cities in this month-long reading festival, created by MFA alum Satish Jayaraj.2013-03-18http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294985823Two CWP alums are nominated for Minnesota Book Awards! Nothing Special, by Geoff Herbach (MFA '06), and Silhouette of a Sparrow. by Molly Beth Griffin (MFAC '09), are both finalists for best young people's literature.2013-02-15http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294985112Hamline Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults faculty member Mary Logue has received the Caldecott Honor Award for her recent children's book Sleep Like a Tiger. 2013-01-29http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294984748New books by Mindy Mejia (MFA '09) and Melanie Hoffert (MFA '08) featured in Sunday Review, Pioneer Press (January 6, 2013)2013-01-17http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294984713MFA students Lynne Maker Kuechle and Susan Nettell, as well as MFA faculty Juliet Patterson, have been awarded Minnesota Arts Initiative grants (prose) from the MN Arts Board.2013-01-15http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294982114Keeping Safe the Stars, a new novel by Associate Professor Sheila O'Connor, was featured in The New York Times Sunday book review. O'Connor is a faculty member in The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline. You can read the review on The New York Times website. 2012-11-12http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294981231"Koertge is a master at getting to subtle and uncomfortable emotional truths and relaying them in just a few precise lines." Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses is a collection of re-told fairy tales. 2012-10-19http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294980765CWP Faculty Juliet Patterson recipient of 2012 Loft Minnesota Emerging Writers' Grant2012-10-01http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294979730Sheila O'Connor's newest, Keeping Safe the Stars, is available October 11 (Putnam Juvenile). Celebrate at two launch events: October 13 at Wild Rumpus and October 21 at Red Balloon.2012-09-17http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294979141MFAC students/alums Daniel Bernstrom, Kristin Gallagher, Peter Pearson, and Rebecca Stanborough, and MFA alum Charlotte Sullivan, all recipients of The Loft 2012 Shabo Award for Children's Picture book Writers.2012-08-29http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294978723A Million Heavens was featured in the Sunday Book Review edition of The New York Times. [excerpt] 'More than once I handed “A Million Heavens” to a friend and watched the rhythms compel him or her into the thickness of a paragraph...' 2012-08-16http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294978613CWP alumna Molly Beth Griffin (MFAC, '09) has won the 2012 Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature for Silhouette of a Sparrow. Congratulations, Molly!2012-08-13http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294978332John Brandon's new novel, A Million Heavens, was published to rave reviews (McSweeney's 2012). The Daily Beast includes A Million Heavens in three "offbeat must-reads."2012-07-30http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294978419In Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses, Ron Koertge, "a much-honored poet and novelist retells, in free verse and from various points of view, twenty-three familiar tales..."2012-07-18http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294977902Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses is a new release from MFAC faculty Ron Koertge (Candlewick, July 2012). This is a book of "fairy tales" told only as they can by Ron Koertge.2012-07-12http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294977841Hear Garrison Keilor read Katrina's poems, 'Handwriting Analysis' and 'M', both from her new book of poetry, The Alphabet Not Unlike the World.2012-07-12http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294977839Read MFAC faculty Anne Ursu along with July Residency graduation ceremony speaker Chris Crutcher and many others in The Sports Pages, the new edition of the Guys Read short story series.2012-07-11http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294977488Midwest booksellers have nominated their favorite titles for the 2012 Midwest Booksellers, and our own Sheila O'Connor is among the finalists for her novel Sparrow Road 2012-06-22http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294977177MFA Alumna Kathy Weihe Reads from her new book of poetry, Unless You Count Birds. Friday, June 8 in GLC 100E.2012-06-06http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294976992Alumni of Hamline's Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults are filling the shelves with their creative work and passion for storytelling.2012-06-04http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294976940The CWP is developing a new blog site and we're looking at you to help us name it. Submit through the end of June. The winner will receive a shiny new Kindle Touch!2012-05-29http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294976922BFA class creates online literary publication, names winners of first contest2012-05-29http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294976800couplets for a shrinking world publication party and reading, June 8 at Open Book2012-05-22http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294976661MFA in Writing (fiction) faculty Sheila O'Connor has been granted tenure and promotion to associate professor in The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline.2012-05-15http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294975749"White Space" by MFA Alum Maya Washignton ('06) was awarded Best Short at the Minneapolis-St.Paul International Film Festival during the closing night award ceremony on May 3.2012-05-08http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294975657MFA alum Lawrence Benson's paper "Waste Not, Want Not: Polluted Bodies" has been accepted for presentation at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry's Northern Forest Institute's symposium of interdisciplinary scholarship in land use and ethics.  2012-05-04http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294975497Creative Writing Programs professor Sheila O'Connor has won the 2012 International Reading Association (IRA) award for her novel Sparrow Road.2012-04-27http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294975068The Laurel Poetry Collective is full of Hamline CWP alumni, faculty, and friends, including Deborah Keenan, Su Smallen, Nolan Zavoral, Teresa Boyer, Margot Fortunato Galt, Georgia Greeley, Ann Iverson, Regula Russell, Tom Rudd, Nancy Walden, Lois Welshons, and more.2012-04-20http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294974933MFA alum Brian Farrey won the Minnesota Book Award for Young People's Literature for his novel, With or Without You, published by Simon Pulse. Farrey is the editor at Flux, the young adult arm of Llewellyn Worldwide.2012-04-17http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294974800Creative Writing Programs faculty member Jim Moore Wins 2012 Guggenheim.2012-04-13http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294974397Hamline Master in Fine Arts student Diane Embry has just won the Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Project for her work, "Molding," which will be published in Mid-American Review. The Intro Journals Project is a literary competition for the discovery and publication of the best new works by students.2012-03-30http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294974254Award-winning writer and CWP favorite, Scott Russell Sanders, will visit campus Friday, April 20. All students interested in creative nonfiction in general, and/or Scott Russell Sander's work in particular, are invited to meet and engage with him in a discussion of his work and of writing.2012-03-27http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294973598 Almost 50 Creative Writing Programs (CWP) faculty, students, staff, and alums led panels, hosted an overflow crowd at a reception, and greeted conference-goers at the CWP booth in Chicago February 29-March 4  2012-03-06http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294971792The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline has had a great showing in the list of finalists for Minnesota Book Awards.2012-01-30http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294978400 A Secret Keeps is the new picture book from MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty Marsha Wilson Chall. Published by Lerner Publishing Group, Jan 2012.2012-01-29http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294971808Master in fine arts for children and young adults faculty member Kelly Easton's new book, Time in the Sleeping Sky, has just been published by Grace Notes Books. 2012-01-29http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294971526Patricia Kirkpatrick's work will appear in the April 2012 issue of Poetry which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the magazine and which will be given away by the Poetry Foundation to celebrate National Poetry Month.2012-01-24http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294970533Top writers for children and teens hold free public readings at Hamline this January as part of Hamline's Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.2011-12-22http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294969611MFA in Writing for Children & YA program faculty Anne Ursu's fantasy novel Breadcrumbs is the December pick for NPR's Backseat Book Club.2011-12-07http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294969135Want to try a course, but not sure about a degree program? Sampler Course registration opens on November 28.2011-11-23http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294968551Two faculty members in the low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults (MFAC) program are being recognized for the high quality of their work. Gary Schmidt's new novel, Okay for Now, has been named a National Book Award finalist and leads the list of Amazon's Best Books of 2011 for middle-grade readers. Also on this top-ten list is faculty member Anne Ursu's novel, Breadcrumbs.2011-11-09http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=4294968294The latest edition of Water~Stone includes contributions from emerging, mid-career and well-known writers.2011-11-03http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=2147517192The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) nominates MFAC faculty Ron Koertge and Gary Schmidt, MFA alum Geoff Herbach for best fiction.2011-09-26http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=2147516389Congratulations to the MFA and MALS students and alumni chosen as Loft Mentor Series, McKnight Artists Fellowships selections2011-09-13http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=2147515979In Caddis Wood, available Sept 13, continues to receive great reviews. Publication reading, September 23.2011-09-02http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=2147515501School Library Journal reviews Breadcrumbs, the much anticipated forthcoming fantasy novel by MFAC faculty, Anne Ursu.2011-07-19http://www.hamline.edu/hunewsdetail.aspx?id=2147513339Some of the best known writers of children's books and young adult novels will be at Hamline in July. The public is invited to attend free readings by the authors.2011-06-21