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Robbie Maakestad, MFA ’17, has launched a Creative Writing M.A. program at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California.

Novelist Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different, appears as part of the Spring Visiting Writers Series

Casey Cep is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, which was a New York Times best-seller and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, The Economist, TIME, and President Barack Obama.

What does it mean to support Mason’s linguistically diverse students? Teams from the Composition Program and Writing Center are working to address this question. 

Lawrence Weschler, longtime New Yorker staff writer and author of Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, speaks in Fenwick Library as part of the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series.

St. Ninian’s is divested of human habitation. Not much remains of its 12th-century chapel nor of its last inhabitants, whose exodus occurred as the world eked into the 19th century. All that can be found here today are a few herds of locally owned sheep and an immense number of rabbits.

Cheswayo Mphanza is the author of The Rinehart Frames, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.

"The First Step Forward: Selected Essays from English 100," printed by Mason Korea’s English Department, showcases the progress of Mason Korea’s very own students as writers during their first semester at the university.

The English Department is pleased to announce the Dr. Barry Berkey personal essay award contest—open for submissions through March 10, 2023.