As an award-winning literary artist, Roberto Tejada has penned more than a dozen books throughout his illustrious career, but it’s his most recent collection of poems, started in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown, that has earned him a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

The University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is pleased to announce that Sally Connolly, associate dean for student and faculty success and associate professor of contemporary poetry, has been awarded the Outstanding Fellowship Mentor Award by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Major Awards (OURMA).

The University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) and the Department of English are pleased to announce that Associate Professor of English Francine J. Harris is the winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award for poetry. She received this honor for her most recent work, “Here is the Sweet Hand” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020).

Joy Priest is a first-year doctoral student in the UH Creative Writing program in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. She has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts which will allow her to set aside time for writing, research and travel.

English Department News and Events

Creative Writing Program Calendar

Boldface Conference for Emerging Writers

Glass Mountain undergraduate literary journal hosts conference dedicated to emerging writers.

Honors Day

CWP alum Dr. Lacy Johnson addresses graduates and award winners at English department Honors Day.

English Department Faculty Receive Grant from Hobby Center for Public Policy

Grant will support project titled, “Digital and Physical Inroads to Sustaining Scholarly-Community Rapport: Toward a Research Collective on Writing, Community, and Global Culture.