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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.

Lawrence Weschler, longtime New Yorker staff writer and author of Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, speaks in Fenwick Library as part of the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series.

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.

Cheswayo Mphanza is the author of The Rinehart Frames, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.

The English Department is pleased to announce the Dr. Barry Berkey personal essay award contest—open for submissions through March 10, 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.

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.

Jen Renart, BA ’21, began ExMo Candle Company as a pandemic project, but found more in the process: steps toward coming to terms with her past and another outlet for her creative writing.

Each semester we honor graduating students nominated by their departments for their academic achievement and contributions to their respective fields.

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.