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The Cheuse Center is honored to be partnering with the Kennedy Center, the Carmago Foundation and the Caine Prize for African Writing on a distinctive literary and arts event called Boundless: A Celebration of African Literature. 

On October 30th at 4:30 p.m., we will welcome award-wining journalist Christopher Leonard to George Mason’s campus, where he will be in conversation with George Mason professor and Pulitzer-Prize winner Steve Pearlstein about Chris’s new book Kochland, about the rise of Koch Industries.

In an article in the Washington Post Magazine, Matthew Davis, founding director of Mason's Alan Cheuse International Writers Center, discusses architecture designed to serve the Deaf and hard of hearing community.

2019 MFA Cheuse Center Grant Recipient Lisa DesRochers-Short discusses her time in Montréal researching and translating some family history.

2019 MFA Cheuse Center Grant Recipient Melissa Wade discusses her time abroad in France and Switzerland, where she researched choices made by those nearing the end of life for her novel, which centers on the travels of two brothers. One of which is seeking to end his life with the support of a death-with-dignity organization in Switzerland

2019 MFA Cheuse Center Grant Recipient Danielle Paige Williams discusses what it was like returning to her home in the Mariana Islands to research the poetry of the Chamorro

The Cheuse Center is absolutely thrilled to have had Ugandan writer Jennifer Nansubuga Mukambi for a full week since her May 17th arrival! Jennifer is a gifted novelist and short story writer whose novel, Kintu, has been called “The Great Africanstein Novel.” We are honored to welcome this writer of great depth, skill and compassion. She will be with Mason until May 4th, so please stay tuned for events and readings featuring Jennifer. Read her impressive bio below.