Mason’s creative writing program offers an array of events featuring visitors that come to the campus to read from their work and conduct workshops or master classes for students. Next up: The New Leaves festival.
Readings, panels, and presentations on life as a writer highlight the 2017 New Leaves events. Topics include how to get fellowships, apply for grants, and network through social media; the Washington freelance market; and writing for money in D.C. publishing. The full schedule will be posted at creativewriting.gmu.edu.
Anchoring New Leaves, always, are the visiting writers:
- Monday, April 3 —Fiction writer Laura van den Berg, author most recently of the novel Find Me, selected as a Best Book by NPR, and the story collections What The World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth.
- Tuesday, April 4— Nonfiction alum Mike Scalise (’08), author of The Brand New Catastrophe, which explores his experiences after a ruptured pituitary tumor leaves him with the hormone disorder acromegaly and forces him to navigate the world of illness.
- Thursday, April 6—Poet Spencer Reece, whose debut collection The Clerk’s Tale was chosen for the Blakeless Poetry Prize by Louise Gluck and adapted into a short film by James Franco. Chaplain to the bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church in Spain, Reece won a 2012 Fulbright to work on collaborative writing with orphanage children in Honduras.
Each reading will be at 7:30 p.m. in Research Hall, Room 163.
November 10, 2016