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 George Mason University, MFA teachin...
Upcoming Event
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center is hosting its second public BUSBOYS AND POETS LECTURE on April 23rd, 2024 at 6:30pm at the Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center, 3740 Blenheim Boulevard (formerly Old Lee Hwy), Fairfax, VA 22030. Parking Map: On parking I don't know if you are famil...
Klara Kalu may be best known as a Nigerian model and social media influencer. As Ifedioku, she’s earned more than half a million followers on Instagram, where she shares fashion and lifestyle images. But Kalu is also a writer, and in her continuing pursuit of that career, she joined the Mason Creativ...
On April 17th, the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center will continue its centennial celebration of famed novelist, essayist, and orator James Baldwin with The Symposium: Why Baldwin Matters. The day-long event will feature lecture and conversation "Looking for Jimmy" with David Leeming, Baldwin’...
DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2024WINNERS ANNOUNCED: MAY 3, 20242024 JUDGES: SEE BELOWGMU Rinehart Fiction Award | $500 GMU Rinehart Nonfiction Award | $500 GMU Rinehart Poetry Award | $500 Prolific in the early 20th century, Mary Roberts Rinehart was referred to as the "American Agatha Christie." In 1983,...
Martheaus (Mark) Perkins, a first-year MFA poetry student who graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX, is this year's recipient of the $1000 Robert Raymond Scholarship. Mark's application was selected in a round of blind judging late last semester. Judges were Claudia Ca...
Past Event
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Center for the Arts, Monson Grand Tier, 3rd Floor
"LOOKING FOR JIMMY" with David Leeming A lecture & conversation: 1:30-2:45 pm, Center for the Arts, Monson Grand Tier 3rd Floor, GMU, Fairfax, VAProf. Keith Clark will host David Leeming. David Leeming met James Baldwin in Istanbul in 1961. In 1994, Knopf published Leemings “James Baldwin: A B...
Creative writing professor Tania James's latest novel, Loot (Knopf, 2023), was named to the longlist for the National Book Award—one of the top ten contenders for the prize in the fiction category—and earned a spot on the Washington Post's "10 Best Books of the Year." "In Tania James’s epic 18th-ce...
Past Event
Thursday, April 11, 2024 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Horizon Hall, 4th Floor English Department
Join the MFA program and the English department in honoring and celebrating professors Eric Pankey and Jennifer Atkinson. As poets, teachers, and mentors, they have left their indelible mark on our creative writing community and countless students and poets. This spring semester marks Eric's fina...
George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Watershed Lit and Mason’s University Libraries in presenting the Fall 2024 Visiting Writers Series. Writers will meet for afternoon workshops with students from Mason’s MFA program in creative writing and will then participate in programs that...
