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Mason Creative Writing Alumnus Rion Amlicar Scott returns to Mason as a visiting writer.

The Fall 2019 issue of English Matters previews the new Laboratory for Scholarly and Civic Communication, Fall for the Book, and our upcoming Visiting Writers Series; welcomes new faculty; and celebrates the achievements of our faculty, alumni, and students in many directions.

Penny Lane's entertaining, incisive documentary tracks the media-savvy members of the Satanic Temple as they organize a series of public actions advocating for religious freedom and challenging corrupt authority. With intelligence and a wicked sense of humor, they speak truth to power in truly profound ways.

The violently suppressed workers' demonstration of 1819, and the poem it inspired Percy Shelley to write, continue to have meaning for social movements today. Professor Eric Eisner reflects on teaching the subject in his Romanticism courses.

The Creative Writing Program welcomes short story master Rion Amilcar Scott, MFA ’08, as the first visiting writer of its fall series, with a public reading on Thursday, September 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fenwick Library Reading Room on Mason’s Fairfax Campus.

In April, a small group of MFA students shared a half-hour Q&A session alone with Margaret Atwood at Mason’s Arlington campus.

Listen to the C19 episode "On Intake & Insanity: Women's Narratives of Institutionalization," offered up by our alum Liana Glew (Class of 2015), now a 4th year PhD student at Penn State.