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Upstart Crow is a literary podcast affiliated with Watershed Lit Radio. We recently got the chance to interview the hosts, William Miller, Ken Budd, and Jennifer Disano.

Writing and Rhetoric faculty member McKinley Green and doctoral candidate Munir Muttmaina recently won the Edwina L. Sanders Award for Outstanding Work on the Rhetoric of Health Iniquities for their article "Methodologies and inequities: Participatory and narrative approaches to research with marginalized communities."

The Incarcerated Writers Project (IWP) is an initiative of phoebe journal to provide feedback to creative writers who are incarcerated. Today, I sat down with Maya Gudapati and Katey Funderburgh, the current co-coordinators of IWP, to discuss their work and experience with the organization.  

The Mary Roper Award honors a classified staff member who has shown outstanding service in support of the core goals of the college – improving the quality of the liberal arts experience for all students, increasing the capacity for noteworthy and innovative scholarship and creating and strengthening external relationships.

When George Mason University English professor Eric Gary Anderson steps into the classroom to teach ENGL 419 Popular Horror, he’s not just talking about things that go bump in the night—he and his students are exploring what makes people seek out horror in the first place.

George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Watershed Lit and Mason’s University Libraries in presenting the Spring 2026 Visiting Writers Series.

This course booklet is a crucial tool in planning your Spring 2026 classes. Inside, you will find descriptions for course offerings in all English/Creative Writing graduate programs.

Teresa Michals delivered this year's Scott Pollard Lecture at Christopher Newport University in October.