Dear Neighbor, I am thrilled to invite high school students in our community to participate in the 2025 Congressional Art Competition! This competition is open to all high school students who are residents of the 11th Congressional District, regardless of where they attend school. Public, private, and home-schooled students are all invited to participate, and I encourage any student who may be interested to submit an … Continue reading Opportunity for VA High School Artists

Busboys & Poets will be host a poetry reading featuring local authors Emily Tuszynska and Christian Teresi, as well as NYC’s Leah Umansky. You can find more info about this event and reserve your ticket here. Continue reading Echoes of Life Reading

Poets & Writers is hosting an online conversation between Karen Russell and Brian Gesko about her new book, The Antidote, which “examines a dark chapter of America’s past, but not without hope for the future.” This free virtual event will take place on March 10, 2025, at 7 PM EDT. Per Kevin Larimer, editor-in-chief of Poets & Writers Magazine: In “Of Dust and Dreams,” a … Continue reading Karen Russell Book Event

Phoebe, the literary journal of George Mason’s MFA program, is currently accepting submissions for their Spring 2025 contests in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. The contests are not open to GMU MFA students, but the Phoebe team would love to see work from other writers around the DMV! They’re offering a fat stack of cash–a $500 prize–to the winner in each genre. The contest fee is … Continue reading Phoebe Spring Contests

A REALLY EXCITING ONE-DAY LIT FESTIVAL IS COMING TO FAIRFAX! The Fall for the Book Mini-Fest will feature: Details about each of the day’s events below: Continue reading Fall for the Book Mini Fest

Write On, Fairfax!Genre: Short Stories Sunday, February 23, 2 – 4 pmLocation: City of Fairfax Regional LibraryFREE Presenters include: ABOUT THE PRESENTERS  Aziza Bayou is an anthropologist, teacher, and PhD student in Cultural Studies at GMU.  She writes in a variety of forms including ethnography, essays, poetry, short stories, and academic works. She is currently revising her first novel, A Human Figure, in which a teenage girl … Continue reading Write On, Fairfax!

George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Watershed Lit and Mason’s University Libraries in presenting the Spring 2025 Visiting Writers Series. Writers will meet for afternoon workshops with students from Mason’s MFA program in creative writing and will then participate in programs that same evening—open to the public, with readings and conversations hosted by Mason’s creative writing community.  Evening programs will be presented at 7:30 … Continue reading Mason’s Visiting Writer Series – Spring 2025

The flash non-fiction journal In Short, founded by friend of the Fox, George Mason’s own Steph Liberatore, recently launched their second issue for Winter 2025. This exciting issue contains compact and moving short CNF by the likes of Kyoko Mori, Andrew Bertaina, Ira Sukrungruang, Allison Bell Field, and more than a dozen others. These stories and meditations explore moments. How specific sewing patterns can evoke … Continue reading In Short Launches Issue #2