2026 Conference Schedule

The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University is the second-oldest degree-granting creative writing program; established in 1947, John Barth was among its first graduates; its founder, Elliott Coleman, presented at the first AWP Conference in 1973. Generations of literary luminaries have shaped and been shaped by the Sems, as its alumni call it. This reading celebrates both the undergraduate and graduate alumni of the program, as well as their influential writing professors and classmates.