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Visiting Writer Casey Cep • Thursday, March 23

Visiting Writer Casey Cep • Thursday, March 23

Casey Cep is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, which was a New York Times best-seller and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, The Economist, TIME, and President Barack Obama.

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A Journey to St. Ninian’s

A Journey to St. Ninian’s

St. Ninian’s is divested of human habitation. Not much remains of its 12th-century chapel nor of its last inhabitants, whose exodus occurred as the world eked into the 19th century. All that can be found here today are a few herds of locally owned sheep and an immense number of rabbits.

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Visiting Writers Series • Spring 2023

Visiting Writers Series • Spring 2023

George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Mason’s University Libraries and Watershed Lit in presenting the Spring 2023 Visiting Writers Series, which will feature two writers each in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Helon Habila in conversation with Mason President Gregory Washington

Helon Habila in conversation with Mason President Gregory Washington

Helon Habila talks with Mason President Gregory Washington about his process of combining compelling narratives and characters with current examples of oppression and exploitation, and how his factual account of the 2014 kidnapping in Nigeria of 276 young girls by the terrorist group Boko Haram forced him to confront his homeland as he had never seen it.

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Jaime Goh wins Robert Raymond Scholarship

Jaime Goh wins Robert Raymond Scholarship

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.

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