Welcome
Welcome to the website of The Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College.
Co-directed by Madison Smartt Bell and Elizabeth Spires, the Kratz Center is one of Maryland’s premier undergraduate academic centers devoted to the study and presentation of creative writing.
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Sarah Pinsker Nominated for two Nebula Awards
Today, the nominations for the 55th Annual Nebula Awards were announced with Sarah Pinsker, the Kratz Center’s current Spring Writer in Residence receiving two nominations. Ms. Pinsker is a finalist for the Nebula’s Best Novel Award for A Song for a New Day and also for Best Novelette for The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye. She has been nominated for Nebula Awards seven times before and won Best Novelette in 2015 for Our Lady of the Open Road. Ms. Pinsker, Goucher class of 1999, returned to campus this January to serve as the Kratz Spring Writer in Residence. She will give a reading on March 10th at 8:00PM in Buchner Hall. The event is free and open to the public. The Nebula Awards winners will be announced on May 30th. For more on the Nebula Award and other nominations, see the link below:
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/2019-nebula-award-finalists-announced/
Upcoming Events
Zeniada accepting submissions
Zeniada, an intercollegiate poetry and art magazine based at Johns Hopkins University is currently accepting submissions for its Spring 2020 issue. They accept poetry (including prose poetry) and artwork. Anyone who is enrolled in an undergraduate program for the current school year is welcome to submit. The deadline is March 23, 2020.
For more information, check out their website, here. The email address to submit is submit@zeniada.com. Questions can be sent to ask@zeniada.com
Announcing Sarah Pinsker as our 2020 Spring Writer in Residence
The Kratz Center is proud to welcome author Sarah Pinsker this coming spring. Sarah Pinsker ’99 has won Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon awards and has received seven Nebula nominations and three Hugo nominations. Her story collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, was published by Small Beer Press in March 2019, and her novel, A Song For A New Day, was released by Berkley/Penguin/Random House in September 2019.
Sarah Pinsker will read from her work on the night of March 10, 2020.
Please feel free to email any questions to Kratz.Center@goucher.edu.
Eleanor Kratz Denoon (1915 - 2010)
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The founding donor of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing was Eleanor Kratz Denoon, class of 1936. She was a tireless champion of literature, a lifelong advocate for peace, and a beloved alumna of Goucher College. |