Stanley Plumly Memorial Lecture Series

The Stanley Plumly Lecture Series in Creative Writing is a biennial event that brings distinguished writers to the University of Maryland community to deliver lectures devoted to creative writing, read from their own work and spend time with students and faculty.

The series is named for the late Distinguished University Professor and state Poet Laureate Stanley Plumly, who founded the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at UMD in the late 1980s and served as its director for most of his teaching career at the university.

The endowed lecture series is made possible by the gift of an anonymous longtime patron of the English department’s Writers Here and Now reading series.