Kyoko Mori is the author of three nonfiction books (Yarn; Polite Lies; The Dream of Water). The title essay from her book, “Yarn,” was selected for The Best American Essays 2004, and Polite Lies was short-listed for PEN’s Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award. She has also published novels (Barn Cat; Sto...
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 t...
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...
Timothy Denevi's most recent book is Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism, (2018, Hachette/PublicAffairs). He is also the author of Hyper (2014, Simon & Schuster). His essays on politics, sport, and religion have recently appeared in The New York Tim...
Laura Scott received her MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University in 1993. She teaches fiction writing and is the Department's Academic Coordinator and primary advisor to undergraduates in the Creative Writing and English majors. Her debut novel, Death Wishing, was released in 2011. Her ...
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,...
2023 WINNERS GMU Rinehart Fiction Award | $500 | Judge: Okezie Nwoka Winner: Brenna R. Fuhr ("Blessed are the Meek") "For using exceptional skill in craft to tell the story of the most vulnerable among us: children." Honorable Mention: Bodie L. Fox ("Gas Station Gospel") "For reminding us that...
To honor its former faculty member, the creative writing program this year inaugurates two new awards, one each in fiction and nonfiction and named for him. Alan, who taught at Mason from 1987 until his death in the summer of 2015, was a strong advocate for the students who came to the university to...
The Mark Craver Poetry Award was created in honor of Mark Craver, an MA and MFA alum as well as a popular Mason adjunct professor and area high school teacher until his death in January 2004. Mark was the author of several books of poems, including The Problem of Grace, Seven Crowns for the White Lad...
Undeadness takes many forms. In the American south, some of these forms—like the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walking Dead—are eerie (and sometimes campy) physical embodiments as well as reflections of political and social frictions. Undeadness in the south often appears in symbolic,...
