Watershed Lit: Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice
College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Six George Mason University students were awarded $500 each as winners of this year’s Spring Writing Contests. The contests are an annual tradition presented by the English Department’s Creative Writing Program.

Anna Persky, a fiction candidate in Mason’s MFA program, has had her thesis brought into the spotlight in an extraordinary way. She’s been interviewed by two primetime televisions shows—20/20 on ABC and Dateline NBC—about the true crime she’s researching.

Dong Li, author of The Orange Tree and inaugural winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize, closes the Creative Writing Program's Spring Visiting Writers Series.