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Spring 2024 Visiting Writers Series: James Allen Hall (Poetry)

Upcoming Event
Thursday, April 18, 2024 7:30 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, Fenwick Library Reading Room

James Allen Hall (he/they) is the author of three books, including the poetry collections Now You're the Enemy (2008) and Romantic Comedy (2023, selected by Diane Seuss for the Levis Prize), and a book of lyric personal essays, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well (2017). They have received a...

Kevin M. Flanagan

Kevin M. Flanagan

Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 in English/film studies (dissertation - The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and, Genre). A book based on this project, called War Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and B...

Marriya Schwarz

Marriya Schwarz

Marriya Schwarz is an adjunct professor in the English department  at George Mason. She teaches composition at GMU, American University, and NOVA Community College. In creative endeavors, Marriya Schwarz focuses on comedy, fiction, and non-fiction. She has worked in TV development, working for showr...

Arlee Jade Pearlswig

Arlee Jade Pearlswig

Arlee Jade Pearlswig is a Ph.D student and research assistant in the linguistics program. Arlee's main research interests lie in understanding the ways in which syntax and pragmatics interact to create structural variation within a language, particularly with regard to polysynthetic languages. The in...

Spring 2024 Visiting Writers Series

Spring 2024 Visiting Writers Series

George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Watershed Lit and Mason’s University Libraries in presenting the Spring 2024 Visiting Writers Series. Writers will meet for afternoon workshops with students from Mason’s MFA program in creative writing and will then participate in programs th...

Mason Film Festival Spring 2015 Award Winners

Mason Film Festival Spring 2015 Award Winners

Congratulations to all our filmmakers and award winners at Mason Film Festival Spring 2015    This year's three-day program in the Johnson Center Cinema offered films from Beginning Video, Intermediate directing work in fiction, and Senior Films. Senior films are the culmination and capstone for Fi...

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. Writers will meet for virtual afternoon workshops with students from ...

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. The Robert Raymond Scholarship was established in 2018 by Roz Gann, a former Mason professor and former ...