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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.

Mason Creative Writing is proud to announce Worlds in Words, our spring 2019 series of translation talks, sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center.

On January 12th, the Virginia Center for Literary Arts (VCLA) Founding Director Sean Murphy and our own director, Matthew Davis, spoke with Egyptian journalist and novelist Ahmed Naji as their first co-sponsored event.

When creative writing student and experienced traveler Rachel Purdy decided to write about her family roots in the Balkans, she knew there was no better way to get to know the area than to be there herself.

2018 MFA Cheuse Center grant recipient Rachel Purdy delves into what it was like travelling to the Balkans to learn more about its coffee culture.

2018 MFA Cheuse Center grant recipient Carol Mitchell describes returning to her home country and what it was like interviewing Brazil's Lebanese diaspora.

On Thursday, September 27, we are proud to produce our second Day of Translation in conjunction with the Center for the Art of Translation. This Day brings together a dozen literary translators from across the globe to George Mason’s campus for a day-long series of events and panels centered around the art of literary translation.

On Wednesday, September 12, the Cheuse Center is proud to welcome Canadian writer Kim Thuy as part of the George Mason English Department’s Lunch Series. She will be discussing the difference between immigrant and refugee literature in the Johnson Center, Room 240A.

The National Book Critics Circle has just announced this year's NBCC Emerging Critics. The Cheuse Center is honored that this year’s class are recognized by a fellowship named in honor of the late NPR critic Alan Cheuse.

We are pleased to announce that the Cheuse Center will participate in the Annapolis Book Festival on Saturday, April 28. The Annapolis Book Festival is a free, day-long event in its 16th year that attracts over 3,000 visitors to the Key School in Annapolis, Maryland. The Cheuse Center is honored to be partnering with ABF on an exciting event that begins at 2:00.

What role does writing play in our lives? Professionals from three different fields (history, journalism, law) discuss the importance of writing in the 21st century. In Spanish and English. Thursday, March 29, from 12:00-1:15 PM

On Thursday, March 29, the Cheuse Center welcomes back Mikkel Rosengaard. Mikkel and Cheuse Center director Matthew Davis will be in conversation at 6:30 at East City Bookshop at 645 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, in Washington, DC.

On Tuesday, March 27, the Cheuse Center welcomes Kurdish translator Kareem Abdulrahman. Kareem will be in conversation with Slate Magazine’s foreign affairs columnist Joshua Keating at 7:00 at Solid State Books, 600 H Street, NE in Washington, DC. They will discuss Kareem’s remarkable translation of the Kurdish novel I Stared at the Night of the City, the first novel ever translated from Kurdish to English.

On Monday, March 26, the Cheuse Center and George Mason University will welcome Spanish novelist Jesus Carrasco. Carrasco will be in conversation with local novelist Gabrielle Fuentes at 7:00 at DuPont Underground, 1500 19th Street, NW in Washington, DC

Mikkel Rosengaard, one of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center's visiting international writers, received a stellar review in the NY Times for his first novel, The Invention of Ana - edited while he was a fellow at Mason. He will read from the novel on Thurs, March 29, at 6:30 at East City Bookshop in Washington, D.C.

The Embassy of Finland in Washington D.C. invites you to a unique evening of photography, literature and discussion on freedom of the press Monday, November 6, at 6:30 p.m. 

As part of his residency at the Cheuse Center, Danish novelist and art essayist Mikkel Rosengaard will be speaking about how the pervasiveness of digital culture is impacting literature and visual art.

The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center, in conjunction with Sixth & I Synagogue and Politics and Prose Bookstore, welcomes acclaimed writer Amy Tan. Amy will be in conversation with Deborah Tannen about her new book, Where the Past Begins.

THIS WEEK: The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center is pleased to welcome our first writer in residence, Catalan writer Toni Sala. Join him September 20 to learn more about the upcoming Catalan independence vote.

Our second inaugural Cheuse Center grant recipient Sam describes his adventures in French cuisine training as a chef in Provence and digging into what killed French food as we know it.

One of the two inaugural Cheuse Center grant recipients Liesel reports back from Germany with a new perspective on her grandmother's life, her homeland of Silesia, and her evolving thoughts on memory.

The founding director of The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center has been following the Gallaudet University football team, the world's only college football team for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, for the past three years. The culmination of this effort is featured in The Atlantic this month.

The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center at George Mason University will present an evening with acclaimed American novelist Richard Ford. One of the preeminent writers working in the United States, Ford will be in conversation with Maureen Corrigan of NPR's "Fresh Air" about his new memoir Between Them.

The Cheuse Center and The Spanish Cultural Center will present Spanish writer Andrés Barba at Upshur Street Books in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C. There Andrés will talk about his latest novel "Such Small Hands."

The Cheuse Center, in partnership with the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco, will be holding a Day of Translation to discuss the art and issues of literary translation.

MFA students, Sam Ashworth and Liesel Hamilton, will each receive $5,000 to conduct research abroad for their current creative projects in fiction and nonfiction.

The Cheuse Center and the Mexican Cultural Institute recently co-sponsored an event with prominent Mexican novelist Juan Pablo Villalobos at Upshur Street Books in Washington, DC.

Matthew Davis, the founding director of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center, took part in the university's "Sideline Coaching Program” on Wednesday, January 25.

The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center will encourage Mason's graduate creative writing students to study abroad, offer a home for established writers with residencies at Mason, and provide a hub for diverse conversations about art, literature and international issues, said Matthew Davis, the center’s founding director.