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Program News
Foreign Language Requirement Changes
Beginning in fall 2009, Mason's MFA program no longer will require that students demonstrate a proficiency in a foreign language.
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Health Insurance for TAs
Beginning in fall 2009, all full-time TA's will receive free health insurance through the university.
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What We're Reading...
Check out what our faculty and staff are reading this summer.
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In The Spotlight
Fiction Writing 
New to the blog: Nicole Lee (fiction) has a great interview with Madeleine Thein on the blog.
Mason’s MFA program, a community of writers near Washington, D.C., offers workshops in all three genres, enrolling just over 100 students. The program fully supports 37 students with full-time graduate assistantships and fellowships. Additional partial fellowships also are available. Program alumni publish with both major and small presses, as well as on-line, following the lead of the faculty, who collectively have published more than 65 books.
MFA Alum Wins Walt Whitman Award
J. Michael Martinez was announced the winner of the Walt Whitman Award given by the Academy of American Poets. J. Michael Martinez received the award for his collection of poems Heredities to be published spring 2010 by Louisiana State University Press.
Rachael Lyon Awarded Fulbright
Rachael Lyon (poetry, 2009) has been awarded a 2009-10 Fulbright grant to Vienna, Austria for her proposal “The Women of Café Raimund: A Poetry Translation Project.” Read more...
Kimberly Burge Awarded Fulbright
In January, Kimberly Burge will begin a Fulbright Fellowship in creative writing to South Africa, where she will be researching and writing a book about a year in the life of girls in Gugulethu township outside Cape Town. She’ll also be working with girls to form a creative writing club, helping them learn to tell their own stories.