The Creative Writing Program’s Spring 2021 Visiting Writers Series kicks off Thursday, February 11, with a virtual event featuring novelist and short story writer Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!, Orange World, and most recently the novella Sleep Donation, named one of Buzzfeed’s Best Books of the Year.

The event begins at 7 p.m. on Crowdcast (link forthcoming at this space). The series is sponsored by Mason’s Creative Writing Program in conjunction with the University Libraries, and books will be for sale through One More Page Books in Arlington, VA. Learn more here.

Additional Visiting Writers Series events this spring include:

• Thursday, February 18: Reginald Dwayne Betts (nonfiction)
• Thursday February 25: Ted Conover (nonfiction)
• Thursday, March 11: Ayse Papatya Bucak (fiction)
• Thursday, March 18: Arthur Sze (poetry)
• Thursday, April 1: Kerri Webster (poetry)