Kratz Center

Founded by Eleanor Kratz Denoon, The Kratz Center for Creative Writing supports creative writing students at Goucher College and the Baltimore Writing Community

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The Kratz Center is proud to host Goucher alumnus and poet Lindsay Stuart Hill for a reading of her latest collection, World of Dew, winner of the Brittingham Prize.

The event is free and open to the public.

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The Kratz Center is proud to present its Fall 2025 Blueprint Reading Series guests: poets Nate Marshall and Bobby Elliott. These events are free and open to the public.

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The Kratz Center is proud to host award-winning author Jennifer De Leon for a reading and book signing of her latest novel, Borderless.

Jennifer is the author of the YA novel Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, as well as White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing.

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The Kratz Center is proud to host Goucher Alum and Kratz Spring Writer in Residence Sarah Pinsker for a reading and book signing of her new novel: Haunt Sweet Home.

This event is free and open to the public.

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The Kratz Center is honored to host author Maria Melendez Kelson for a reading from her debut novel, Not the Killing Kind.

The reading will be held in the Soper Room (JR 227) on Tuesday, September 17th, at 7 P.M. Admissions are free.

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The Kratz Center's own Sarah Pinsker is publishing her newest book, "Haunt Sweet Home", which blends horror, comedy, and ✨show biz✨.

Set to publish this fall, more info is available from Reactormag here:
https://t.co/K0wCIKvi1j

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Kratz Center Director Emeritus Madison Smartt-Bell will be reading from his essay "La Paix: Peace as You May Find It" at the @bmoreart1's City of Artists event on March 27th, from 6-8 pm at the Connect+Collect gallery. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Shangyang, a poetry fellow at Michener Center for Writers, has won both the Joy Harjo Poetry Award and Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize.

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We are honored to host the poet Shangyang Fang for a reading from his collection of poems Burying the Mountain.

The reading will be held in the Soper Room (JR 227) on Monday, April 8th, at 7 P.M.

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We're honored to present the award to Enzo Rocksmith, Madeline Tredway, Natalie Edmonds, Spice Crawford, Kristen Wheeler, Hope Kamal, Alyssa King, Manny Vidal, Emily Strickl, Jupiter Berrysmith, and Lea Singer.

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Each year, the Kratz Center for Creative Writing offers summer writing fellowships that range from between $2,000 to $4,000. Here are this year's winners!

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The Kratz Center is honored to host author and Goucher professor Antje Rauwerda for a reading from her first novel, Slow Time, which came out earlier this January.

The reading will be held in the Soper Room (JR 227) on April 2nd at 7 P.M.

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@JaneDelury Hedge was a pick from both People Magazine and Oprah last year. Delury's previous novel The Balcony won the Sue Kaufman Prize in 2019. Delury’s fiction has been printed in The Yale Review and Narrative Magazine among others.

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We are honored to host author Jane Delury for a reading from her newest novel, "Hedge"! The reading will be held in the Soper room on February 20th at 7 P.M.

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Hedge was a pick from both People Magazine and Oprah last year. Delury's previous novel The Balcony won the Sue Kaufman Prize in 2019. Delury’s fiction has been printed in The Yale Review and Narrative Magazine among others.

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Proud to share that our managing director, Bill U'Ren, has published his translation of Jiri Kajanë's "Can I Hide Here With You?", alongside Kevin Phelan.

https://t.co/oAlIvWv49d?

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This event is hosted by a coalition of Goucher’s Peace Studies Department, the Center for Race, Equity, and Inclusion; and Goucher’s Office of Student Engagement.

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The Kratz Center is honored to be hosting RADI, America's #1 womxn slam poet, who will be giving a performance, an exercise in poetry and using your voice, and then a Q&A in the Soper Room!

Join us on Monday, March 27 from 2:30-4:30pm.

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What a great reading with Maggie Millner this week! Look forward to the incomparable Claire Jiménez on the 11th in the Soper Room!

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Blueprint Reading Series at Goucher in Spring 2023!