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Write on at ScribbleCon

Write on at ScribbleCon

ScribbleCon is a community writing event organized by author and National Writing Project Teacher-Consultant, John Dutton. Now in its second year, ScribbleCon provides students and their families an opportunity to engage in risk-free creative writing, selecting from a range of topics designed to capture the imagination of all who attend.

MFA students Chelsea Lebron and Jaime Goh lead Creative Writing courses for the Mason Community Arts Academy

MFA students Chelsea Lebron and Jaime Goh lead Creative Writing courses for the Mason Community Arts Academy

This February, MFA students Chelsea Lebron and Jaime Goh will be teaching creative writing courses for the Mason Community Arts Academy, the community arts education division of George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. For the first time at Mason, MFA teaching assistants were given the opportunity to apply to teach a creative writing course of their own design for the academy.

Mason at AWP: February 7-10

Mason at AWP: February 7-10

Join Mason Creative Writing in Kansas City, Missouri from February 7-10 for the AWP conference!

MFA Alum Champaneri Receives $25K NEA Fellowship

MFA Alum Champaneri Receives $25K NEA Fellowship

Priyanka Champaneri (BA '05, MFA '10) was named one of 35 recipients of a 2024 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. Creative Writing Fellowships of $25,000 are awarded in alternating years in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry, giving recipients the time and space to create, revise, conduct research, and connect with readers.

Spring 2024 Visiting Writers Series

Spring 2024 Visiting Writers Series

The Creative Writing Program's Spring 2024 Visiting Writers Series will welcome poets Sandra Lim and James Allen Hall, novelist Mary Kay Zuravleff, and memoirist Melanie Brooks.

Poetry Daily and Juvenile Detention Center Students Dream Big

Poetry Daily and Juvenile Detention Center Students Dream Big

We are thrilled to announce the third year of Poetry Alive!, a program that seeks to uplift and empower students at the Fairfax Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in their creative writing through interactive classes focused on contemporary poetry. Made possible through funding by ArtsFairfax, the 2024 program will allow JDC student poets to collaborate with visiting writers and three teaching fellows from George Mason University’s MFA in Creative Writing program, Nicholas Ritter, Katey Funderburgh, and Chelsea Lebron.

Colleen Kearney Rich honored with distinguished alumni staff award

Colleen Kearney Rich honored with distinguished alumni staff award

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Colleen Kearney Rich MFA '95, with the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award - Staff. Rich is managing editor of the university’s award-winning magazine Mason Spirit and its research newsletter Mason Momentum.

Stillhouse Press publishes two November titles

Stillhouse Press publishes two November titles

Stillhouse Press launched two new novels in November, T.N. Eyer’s Finding Meaning in the Age of Immortality and Josh Denslow’s Super Normal. These publications represent the first novels and the first works of speculative fiction published by Stillhouse Press, an independent teaching press staffed by students and alumni of George Mason University's graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs and affiliated with Mason’s Watershed Lit: Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice.