Courtney Angela Brkic (M.F.A., New York University, 2001) is the author of The First Rule of Swimming (Little, Brown, and Company, 2013), Stillness: and Other Stories (FSG, 2003) and The Stone Fields (FSG, 2004). Her work has also appeared in Zoetrope, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine...
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...
The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and The War for a City’s Soul, the latest book from English Professor Scott Berg, MFA ’97, was released on September 26 by Pantheon Publishing. The new book landed a feature review in the October 2 issue of The New Yorker. A few weeks later, The Bu...
Six George Mason University students were awarded $500 each as winners of this year’s Spring Writing Contests. The contests are an annual tradition presented by the English Department’s Creative Writing Program. Winners included Brenna R. Fuhr for "Blessed are the Meek" (GMU Rinehart Fiction Award j...
Jaime Goh, a first-year MFA student in Creative Writing, has been named the recipient of this year’s Robert Raymond Scholarship, encouraging students who contribute to the MFA program’s diversity. The Robert Raymond Scholarship was established in 2018 by Roz Gann, a former Mason professor and former ...
