Hendrix-Murphy is proud to announce the winners of the 2024-2025 Student and Alumni Playwriting Contests. According to a recent decision by the Hendrix-Murphy Board of Directors, in memory of our dear friend Werner Trieschmann, this competition will now be known as the Werner Trieschmann Playwriting Contests. Join us in congratulating these writers! Read full story here: .hendrixmurphy.org/article/2137466
Alumni Playwriting Contest:
First Place: “Dueling Hamlets” by Dawn Branch ’05
Second Place: “No Return” by Rhett Booher ’24
Student Playwriting Contest:
First Place: “Have You Seen Any Signs?” by Madeline Mundkowsky ’26
Second Place: “Backwoods Beast” by Jake Nurkin ’26
Stay tuned for information to come on Playwright’s Theatre, a staged reading of one of the above winners to be scheduled in early September; and on the 2025-2026 Trieschmann Playwriting Contests, with details to be announced next fall.
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost
We’re celebrating World Poetry Day by remembering some of the brilliant, award-winning poets who have visited Hendrix-Murphy: Gwendolyn Brooks, the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize; Donald Hall, a former U.S. poet laureate; Seamus Heaney, a Nobel Prize winner in Literature; Ada Limón, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and former U.S. poet laureate; and Ted Kooser, a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner and former U.S. poet laureate;.
Contact us by Tuesday, 9/24 for proposal review for the October 1 funding cycle! Visit About Hendrix-Murphy Funding to learn more: https://www.hendrixmurphy.org/page/about-hendrix-murphy-funding
Apply to the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation for support for your literature and language projects! Don’t miss our funding info session with Odyssey on Thursday, 9/5 at 11:10 am in Mills A! Visit our funding page for details and guidelines: https://www.hendrixmurphy.org/page/about-hendrix-murphy-funding
Join us on Thursday, September 5 at 8:00 p.m. in the Murphy Seminar Room for the first Word Garden of the year! This month’s reading features Playwriting in London Participants: Noah Carroll, Lydia Le, Alistair Luke, and Alaina May. All are welcome!
With the support of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation, Ella Britt and Murphy Scholar Mabrey Matz ’25 explored the Folger Shakespeare Library. This summer visit to the archives focused on literature to, by, for, and about early modern women in preparation of their anticipated senior theses.
Hendrix-Murphy is seeking a full-time Communication and Events Manager. See details at https://jobapply.page.link/TFqR5
Murphy Scholar Trevion Williams ’24 used his Murphy Scholar travel-funds on two language immersion trips to South Korea. Read about his experience in the Program https://www.hendrixmurphy.org/article/1688263
As a Murphy Scholar, Samantha Broussard ’24 was able to explore her passion for creative writing through a trip to AWP. Read about her experience in the Program https://www.hendrixmurphy.org/article/1656465
Murphy Scholar Gabrielle Lefear ’24 used her Murphy Scholar travel-funds to study abroad in Spain and deepen her Spanish skills. Read about her experience in the Program https://www.hendrixmurphy.org/article/1649924
We’re delighted to share the news that Carmen Maria Machado will visit Hendrix College this October! Mark your calendars for Machado’s public event on Wednesday, October 23. Stay tuned for event details and the full line-up of our upcoming Distinguished Visitors.
This spring the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation awarded $114,237 in grants for 17 student cocurricular projects, 2 faculty-led campus projects, and 3 faculty-led study-travel projects. Read about these exciting and immersive experiences here: https://www.hendrixmurphy.org/article/1626754
This May the seventh cohort of Murphy Scholars graduated as a part of the Hendrix College Class of 2024. Visit https://hendrixmurphy.org/article/1575137 for a complete list of Scholars along with their achievements and accolades in the Hendrix-Murphy Program and their wider academic careers.
AR Kids Read is seeking volunteer reading tutors for a 7-week summer reading program at Faulkner County Library. Volunteers are needed on Tuesdays from 4:00-5:00 pm. Visit www.arkidsread.org/volunteer to learn more about this opportunity!
Congratulations Murphy Scholar Campbell Christensen ’26! https://www.hendrix.edu/CampbellChristensenFulbrightUK.aspx
Join us on Friday, 4/26 at 12:10 p.m. in Bates Dining Hall for Literature and Language over Lunch! Hope Coulter will talk about the creation of the Poetry Sidewalks. Tell the front desk you are attending the Murphy lunch so that Murphy can pay for your meal.
Join us on Thursday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the Murphy House for the release of the Aonian, Hendrix’s annual literary magazine. Contest winners will read and discuss their work. Snacks and copies of the Aonian provided. All are welcome!
Join the Horror in Hispanic Literatures and Cinemas class for a thrilling midnight reading of horror short stories! The event will start at 11:50 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24 at a mystery, on-campus location. Horror stories can be in any language. To register contact Dr. Ruth Yuste-Alonso at yuste-alonso@hendrix.edu.
Join us on Thursday, April 18 at 5:00 p.m. on the Murphy Patio for the Senior Word Garden Potluck! Grace Epperson, Elliot Jackson, Colin Jenkins, Drea Ortega, Grace Peterson, Sam Pierce, Drew Skelton, and Sophie Yarbrough will read from their Creative Writing Senior Theses. Side dishes are appreciated but not necessary. Bring a blanket and a friend! All are welcome.
Join us Thursday, April 11 from 9:45-11:00 a.m. in the Murphy Seminar Room for writer Vince Granata’s ShopTalk: Writing from a Distance in Creative Nonfiction. All are welcome!
