Oglethorpe University Department of English and Comparative Literature

Bursting with pride that our very own won the PEN Open Book Award last night for his debut novel Ibis. We knew you when! 🤩🍾

Full Velvet 🎓

Congratulations, English grads of 2025! 🥂🥳📚

Congratulations to Dr. Justin Haynes, whose debut novel comes out next week and has been named a noteworthy debut by

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Congratulations to our graduates, including Bhavana Kunnath, who was awarded the JEO Cup 🏆

We’re so proud of you all, and we will miss you!

Location is TBD: Please make sure to check for updates! Please join us this Friday in celebrating Oglethorpe’s Literary magazine “The Tower” for the release of this year’s new issue! There will be an open mic as well as food at the event. You can also grab a physical copy of the magazine.

Three of our graduating senior English Majors and Creative Writing Minors presented their Honors Thesis projects at LASS today. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Well done, and congratulations, all!

Poet Willie Perdomo gave a craft talk to some of our creative writing students today as part of his visit to Oglethorpe.

Don’t miss his talk and poetry reading tonight at 6:30pm in the Library Atrium!

Our friends over at The Tower are currently taking spring submissions. They are accepting any prose, one act plays, or multimedia.

Mark your calendars! Join us on March 13th at 6:30pm at the Philip Weltner Library for an evening with renowned poet, Willie Perdomo. You won’t want to miss it!

Congratulations to our 2023 graduates!! We’re so proud of you! 🎓📜

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