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New Book from Scott Berg

New Book from Scott Berg

The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and The War for a City’s Soul, the latest book from English Professor Scott Berg, MFA ’97, was released September 26 by Pantheon Publishing.

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Fall for the Book festival celebrates its 25th year this fall

Fall for the Book festival celebrates its 25th year this fall

This October, Fall for the Book celebrates their 25th anniversary. The last two-and-a-half decades have brought many changes to Northern Virginia’s oldest book festival, but talented and storied headliners have remained a steadfast part of the festivities. This year is no different.

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Shawna Shapiro at Composition Program Workshop

Shawna Shapiro at Composition Program Workshop

Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing and Linguistics at Middlebury College, author of Cultivating Critical Language Awareness in the Writing Classroom, and the founder of the CLA Collective, will present an interactive talk and application workshop at the Composition Program's all-faculty workshop.

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MFA Student Arpita Roy earns Bread Loaf fellowship

MFA Student Arpita Roy earns Bread Loaf fellowship

MFA poetry student Arpita Roy has been selected as the winner of the Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award in Poetry for the 2023 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. For this highly competitive award, she was chosen out of a pool of 2,500 applicants.

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Stillhouse Press Author Published in Poetry Magazine

Stillhouse Press Author Published in Poetry Magazine

MFA alumnus and former Watershed Lit GPA Tommy Sheffield (Poetry, '21) met poet Latif Askia Ba, acquired and helped develop his book project, and successfully published The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon in 2022 under the Stillhouse Press imprint. Ba had two poems published in the June 2023 issue of Poetry Magazine.

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Poetry Daily at the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center

Poetry Daily at the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center

With funds from ArtsFairfax, nonprofit Poetry Daily sends Mason MFA poetry students into the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center to teach poetry to incarcerated youths as part of the Poetry Alive! program. “This new program brings young poet-teachers directly into the lives of young people who want to find language for their own stories and who may want to see those stories and their connections with others in a new light as they move forward,” said Peter Streckfus, a co-director of Poetry Daily.

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