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ScribbleCon is a community writing event organized by author and National Writing Project Teacher-Consultant, John Dutton. Now in its second year, ScribbleCon provides students and their families an opportunity to engage in risk-free creative writing, selecting from a range of topics designed to capture the imagination of all who attend.

NVWP's Summer Teacher Writing Institute returns July 8th through 26th

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.

Join Mason Creative Writing in Kansas City, Missouri from February 7-10 for the AWP conference!

We are thrilled to announce the third year of Poetry Alive!, a program that seeks to uplift and empower students at the Fairfax Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in their creative writing through interactive classes focused on contemporary poetry. Made possible through funding by ArtsFairfax, the 2024 program will allow JDC student poets to collaborate with visiting writers and three teaching fellows from George Mason University’s MFA in Creative Writing program, Nicholas Ritter, Katey Funderburgh, and Chelsea Lebron.

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.

Tania James' latest novel, Loot, is one of ten contenders for the National Book Award.

The five-day Modern Language Association workshop was designed to strengthen the teaching of reading and writing at community colleges and other schools that prioritize access over selectivity in admissions.

With funds from ArtsFairfax, nonprofit Poetry Daily sends Mason MFA poetry students into the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center to teach poetry to incarcerated youths as part of the Poetry Alive! program. “This new program brings young poet-teachers directly into the lives of young people who want to find language for their own stories and who may want to see those stories and their connections with others in a new light as they move forward,” said Peter Streckfus, a co-director of Poetry Daily.

On April 4th, the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center welcomed New York Times best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi for its first annual public Busboys and Poets lecture. This year, the Busboys and Poets lecture, a series of lectures that cover literature, culture, and global affairs—named after its sponsor—amassed 150 attendees.