{"id":11465,"date":"2026-06-11T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/?p=11465"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:00:44","slug":"former-ocean-state-summer-writing-conference-keynote-speaker-m-gessen-wins-the-pulitzer-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/news\/former-ocean-state-summer-writing-conference-keynote-speaker-m-gessen-wins-the-pulitzer-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ocean State Summer Writing Conference Keynote Speaker M. Gessen wins the Pulitzer Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the news that esteemed journalist and author M. Gessen has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Opinion Writing, we are fondly reminded of our 2017 Ocean State Summer Writing Conference, at which they taught a master class and gave a fantastic Keynote Address.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1361\/Gessen_page-0001-775x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1361\/Gessen_page-0001-775x1024.jpg 775w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1361\/Gessen_page-0001-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1361\/Gessen_page-0001-768x1015.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1361\/Gessen_page-0001-364x481.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1361\/Gessen_page-0001-500x661.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1361\/Gessen_page-0001-1000x1322.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1361\/Gessen_page-0001.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the news that esteemed journalist and author M. Gessen has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Opinion Writing, we are fondly reminded of our 2017 Ocean State Summer Writing Conference, at which they taught a master class and gave a fantastic Keynote Address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5264,"featured_media":11466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11471,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11465\/revisions\/11471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}