Don Gallehr was one of the earliest and longest serving faculty members hired at George Mason University, with a career stretching from 1966, when the university was still a satellite campus of the University of Virginia, until his retirement in 2021.

In an new article at the AWP website, Mason Creative Writing director Gregg Wilhelm reflects on the 2024 Fall for the Book festival and explores the opportunities available to Mason creative writing students through Watershed Lit: Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice.

This February, MFA students Chelsea Lebron and Jaime Goh will be teaching creative writing courses for the Mason Community Arts Academy, the community arts education division of George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. For the first time at Mason, MFA teaching assistants were given the opportunity to apply to teach a creative writing course of their own design for the academy.