Join Mason Creative Writing in Kansas City, Missouri from February 7-10 for the AWP conference! Several Mason Creative Writing professors and alumni will be participating in various panels and events. Additionally, be sure to stop by Booth 1203 at the book fair to chat with editors from phoebe, Poetr...
Art Taylor teaches creative writing and literature, and for many years he helped to coordinate marketing for the annual Fall for the Book Festival. Art is the author of two short story collections—The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions and The Boy Detective & T...
This course looks at the global city on screen in relation to questions of crime and criminality, surveillance and occupation, hopes and fears, gender and sexuality, resistance and revolution, and space and belonging. While the “global city” occupies a central position in the generation and global ci...
Deadline April 1, 2024 at 12pm noon Complete SWC Guidelines Here 2024 SWC Judges' Bios GMU Rinehart Fiction Award | $500 E.A. Aymar’s recent Anthony Award-nominated thriller, When She Left, will "appeal to fans of Elmore Leonard…with high-stakes violence tempered by humor and disarmingly sympat...
Debra Lattanzi Shutika is a folklorist specializing in critical race, sense of place and Appalachian studies and contemporary Irish Folklore. She is author of Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico (2011, University of California Press) which won the 2012 Chic...
MFA students might have any range of feelings about their thesis-in-progress: pride, anxiety, excitement, hesitation, and do I really want to bring any of this to workshop again? But Anna Persky, a fiction candidate in Mason’s MFA program, has had her thesis brought into the spotlight in an extraordi...
Mason Out Loud is the GMU English Department's podcast featuring premiere creative writing and scholarship from English department faculty, students and alumni. If you'd like your work to be considered for Mason Out Loud, please email masonoutloud@gmail.com. Contributors Epi...
BA English, Susquehanna University, 2000MFA Creative Writing, George Mason University, 2006 Tara Laskowski's debut suspense novel One Night Gone won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award and was a finalist for the Lefty, the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark, the Strand Criti...
