乔治·梅森大学（George Mason University）的非小说类文学硕士课程为期三年，结合了该领域的坚实基础和作家的手艺，并设有写作讲习班和与教职员工的一对一会谈。在过去的十年中，我们一直被评为美国最重要的计划之一，并且我们是华盛顿特区都会区中唯一提供如此广泛的财务援助（以研究金和教学补助金）给我们的学生。每年，我们都会邀请四位访问作家到校园来举办研讨会和读书，最近和即将来临的访客包括Mary Gordon，Peter Trachtenberbg，Jen​​nifer Percy，Lucas M
The Nonfiction MFA at George Mason University is a three-year Program that combines a strong foundation in the study of the field and the writer's craft with writing workshops and one-on-one meetings with a faculty member. Over the past decade we have consistently been ranked as one of the top programs in the nation, and we?re the only nonfiction MFA in the Washington DC metro area to offer such a wide range of financial assistance (in the form of fellowships and teaching assistantships) to our students. Each year we bring in four visiting writers to campus to run workshops and give readings, recent and upcoming visitors include Mary Gordon, Peter Trachtenberbg, Jennifer Percy, Lucas Mann, David Shields, and Leslie Jamison. Our aim is to help writers choose the topic, the focus, and the method of investigation for each project at hand and also for their future body of work.Throughout their careers, successful nonfiction writers negotiate the continuum between writing about the self and writing about the world. On one hand is the memoir and the personal essay, on the other, biography, history, literary journalism. Most writers place themselves somewhere in the middle, and their positioning changes from project to project. For each project, the method of investigating the self and the world may vary, from the traditional essay or feature piece to an experimental form such as the lyric essay or collage.