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English majors Kaley Hoppenworth, left, and Sophia Ferraro are YouTube/Video co-chairs for Her Campus at FSU. They host The HCFSU Edit—"a phone call with your girlfriends"—which debuted Fall 2025.
University of Virginia Press chose Kate DeLay, left, and Caroline Laganas, doctoral students in the Creative Writing Program, as two of its 50 emerging writers for the annual Best New Poets 202 anthology.
The National Council of Teachers of English established National Day on Writing in 2009. The Reading-Writing Center and Digital Studio celebrated the role of Notes in Our Lives, the ways we write each day.
Hosted by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement, three English majors presented projects at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence.
Alumnus Andrew Street, self-proclaimed 'passionate palm nut', has stories to tell related to his work as a palm curator, including the discovery of a palm thought to be extinct in the wild: Coccothinax viridescens.
Alumnus Stewart Moore is evening anchor at WESH 2 News Orlando, and he was recently featured on the College of Arts and Sciences podcast Nole Edge to talk about his post-graduation work and success.
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Daniel Sutter named a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University
Daniel Sutter earned his doctoral degree in creative writing in Spring 2025. Sutter will use the fellowship, which began in Fall 2025, to fine-tune his dissertation novel.
Ph.D. alumna Dyan Neary creates and hosts New York Times podcast
Dyan Neary earned her doctorate in 2021 in Creative Writing-Nonfiction. She is an investigative reporter, and her series 'The Preventionist” airs on Serial Productions. The series tells the story of a Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, pediatrician’s controversial career.
Ìféolúwa Àyàndélé's earns Moon City Poetry Prize
Moon City Press chose Creative Writing doctoral student Ìféolúwa Àyàndélé's MFA thesis, My Father Paints his Dreams on My Body, as the winner of its 2024 Moon City Poetry Prize. In addition to a cash prize, Moon City published his poetry collection.
Professor Robert Olen Butler a finalist for 2026 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature recognizes significant contributions to world literature and has a history as a lead-up to the Nobel Prize in Literature. Butler was nominated for Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards, a 2004 collection of short stories.
Alumna Sofia Cabrera: graduate of Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law
Three-and-a-half years after graduating from FSU, Sofia Cabrera graduated from law school, passed the Florida Bar Examination in September 2025, and began practicing as an attorney at the Broward State Attorney’s Office.
English majors Whitney Bouk and Molly Stinson share research at Oxford University
Bouk and Stinson were two of eight students from Florida State University’s Honors Program who participated in the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights in July 2025.
Diamond Forde earned the 2025 James Laughlin Award
The Academy of American Poets announced her as the winner on Oct. 16 for her second book, The Book of Alice Forde earned her doctorate in 2022 in Creative Writing, with a specialization in both African American poetics and fat studies.