{"id":762,"date":"2010-01-01T19:48:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T00:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/?p=762"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:13:34","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/files\/2010\/01\/kratzlogo2025.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1854 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/files\/2010\/01\/kratzlogo2025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>Welcome<\/h1>\n<p>Welcome to the website of The Kratz Center for Creative Writing.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/staff\/madison-smartt-bell\/\">Madison Smartt Bell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/staff\/elizabeth-spires\/\">Elizabeth Spires<\/a>, the Kratz Center is one of Maryland&#8217;s premier undergraduate academic centers devoted to the study and presentation of creative writing.<\/p>\n<p>Check us out on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/kratzcenter.bsky.social\">Bluesky,\u00a0<\/a>visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kratzcenter\/?hl=en\">Instagram page,\u00a0<\/a>or find us at the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoucherKratz\/\">Facebook page<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/515134745312567\">Facebook Group<\/a> for current students and alums.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KratzCenter\">X (Twitter)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scroll down for news about events, awards, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Welcome to the website of The Kratz Center for Creative Writing. Founded by Madison Smartt Bell and Elizabeth Spires, the Kratz Center is one of Maryland&#8217;s premier undergraduate academic centers devoted to the study and presentation of creative writing. Check us out on Bluesky,\u00a0visit our Instagram page,\u00a0or find us at the following: Our\u00a0Facebook page &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/welcome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330,54550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}