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George Mason University students teach poetry to detained and displaced youth at three different Northern Virginia Sites

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.

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

Fall for the Book will bring renowned writers Celeste Ng and Gary Larson to the George Mason University Fairfax Campus for this year's Fall for the Book festival.

Washington Independent Review columnist Caroline Bock interviewed Stillhouse Press Publicist and Marketing Manager Taylor Schaefer (MFA'25) on Stillhouse Press's work as a teaching press and publisher that focuses on projects off-the beaten path.

On May 15, 2025, the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center will return to the Arts Club of Washington to mark the ninth anniversary of the Cheuse Travel Fellowship, a program that has launched powerful literary works rooted in global research. The evening will feature readings by George Mason University MFA graduates whose Cheuse-funded international travel inspired their now-published and incoming books.

Exploring the 2024-25 annual theme of the Cheuse Center, broadsides by artists and poets bridge Cheuse Center themes and projects in multigenerational artistic collaborations. Our first poster: Only Language Can Hold Us Together is by Mason's own artist Kevin Jones and DC poet and Grammy award nominee Ethelbert Miller.

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.

On November 8th, the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center will convene four poets, to read and discuss their work on the Arlington campus’s Mason Exhibitions art gallery. Edited by poets Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky, this anthology is a critical reminder of the struggles Ukrainians are facing in light of war, and serves as a beacon of hope, determination, and reckoning for Ukrainians across the globe in their continual fight for democracy.