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This course booklet is a crucial tool in planning your Spring 2027 classes. Inside, you will find descriptions for course offerings in all English and Creative Writing graduate programs.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Danielle Badra, MFA Creative Writing '17, with the 2026 CHSS G.O.L.D. - Graduate of the Last Decade award. Badra is the 2022-2024 Fairfax County Poet Laureate and the author of Like We Still Speak, the winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. 

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Jessica Anthony, MFA Creative Writing '04, with the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award in English.

Three-time English alum Jessica McCaughey—MA English '05, MFA '11, and PhD Writing and Rhetoric ’22—has a new book coming out from Routledge end of September.

Associate Director of Women and Gender Studies Holly Mason Badra recently published a nonfiction essay, Ez Kurdim: Meditations on Ritual, Gathering, and Being, in The Markaz Review's Kurdish Issue: Hawar. 

George Mason Creative Writing Program presents its fall 2026 Visiting Writers Series, bringing some of the best working artists in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to campus for readings, conversations, and book signings.

George Mason University students teach poetry to detained and displaced youth at three different Northern Virginia Sites

Honors College student Abigail Mills graduates this spring with a second George Mason degree, capping a journey marked by resilience, mentorship, and creative discovery.