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...
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,...
Deadline April 1, 2024 at 12pm noon Complete SWC Guidelines Here 2024 SWC Judges' Bios GMU Rinehart Fiction Award | $500 E.A. Aymar’s recent Anthony Award-nominated thriller, When She Left, will "appeal to fans of Elmore Leonard…with high-stakes violence tempered by humor and disarmingly sympat...
The Cheuse Center for International Writers partnered with the Middle East Institute (MEI) Arts and Culture Center and the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation to create a two-day virtual, literary festival Narrating The Middle East: The DC Arab Literature Festival. “Literature offers audiences a cha...
