Northern Virginia Writing Project

Writing Mini-marathon! September 28 at the Workhouse Arts Center.

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.

I had no idea what to expect. I assumed that the way I had been taught to write—the throw the kid in the ocean and see if he can swim way—was the right and only method to use writing in a classroom.