VT Creative Writing

Virginia Tech's Undergraduate Creative Writing Program. Fiction. Poetry. Nonfiction. Playwriting.

[VT Creative Writing @VirginiaTechCW]

Blessing Christopher's essay in the Sun gets noted as Notable by Best American Essays! https://t.co/fBCdYnSUSN

[VT Creative Writing @VirginiaTechCW]

VT's Karan Kapoor's story in Joyland: https://t.co/mGZ1CCSaMQ

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

“When I write, I often blend memory, the present, and the future. The present tends to show up as a feeling, tone, or grounding mechanism.”

—Khadijah Queen
#AboutThisPoem

https://t.co/xoJuvOWaII

[Chelsea Dingman @ChelsDingman]

“I was so brave I almost died”

—Khadijah Queen, from Anodyne

[Amy Long @amylorrainelong]

I can’t believe I didn’t do this yet! The first thing I’ve published since 2019 is in @GristJournal alongside friends @big_bad_stories, @danirosepoet, @EdFalco, @manyplums, and @SandraBeasley. Thanks to @ejjalloul for loving this piece.

[Noemi Press @Noemi_Press]

We are thrilled to announce the winner and finalists of the 2023 Noemi Press Book Award! Congratulations to "cells, fully differentiated" by @kinseymads! We will also be publishing "Oracular Maladies" by Sophia Terazawa and "Wrecks" by @erinlmccoy.

[Virginia Tech CW MFA @VTcwMFA]

"Some people just went on sending signals into dead air, waiting in vain for some small token of acknowledgment from the senselessly disordered world." Incredible piece by fiction candidate Kira!

[EastOver Press @eastoverpress]

"Vollmer’s essays show us how common the exceptional can be and how the quotidian is really quite extraordinary and profound.”

—#LilyHoang, author of CHANGING and A BESTIARY, on @matthewvollmer's essay collection THIS WORLD IS NOT YOUR HOME. Learn more: https://t.co/Z1nzwxtxba.

[VT English @VTenglish]

Everybody retweet Prof Itchuaqiyaq

[Dalkey Archive Press @Dalkey_Archive]

Deep Vellum to Relaunch Dalkey Archive in April 2022

https://t.co/xN893SVIhV

[Hub City Press @HubCityPress]

We are proud to announce we will publish acclaimed author @matthewvollmer's booklength essay, ALL OF US TOGETHER IN THE END, in spring 2023.

Read the full release: https://t.co/QNt4SryjYV

[erika meitner @rikam99]

hi my poem is in the @NewYorker (Oct 4 issue) & as a born-and-raised New Yorker, a long-time subscriber, & a previously unsuccessful & tenacious submitter, I’m having all the feels—thanks to @NMAAHCdirector for giving this poem a perfect home! https://t.co/zxHWBdt6GD

[erika meitner @rikam99]

Hey it’s double @VTcwMFA @VTenglish alums @AmeliYasmine & Anuradha Bhowmik in the brand new issue of @poetrymagazine!!!!! 🎈🎉 https://t.co/sETSIIvV4S

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“We are survivors of the
panic wars. We are reaching new
conclusions intuitively from inferences
about hugging.”

A poem by @rikam99. https://t.co/VPjeEiOCYp

[erika meitner @rikam99]

Y’all, I have a cover! USEFUL JUNK is coming to bookstores near you on April 5, 2022 from @boaeditions!

Big thanks to fab book designer Sandy Knight, & sculptor #GenesisBelanger @galerieperrotin for the cover image!

& If you want me to come read new poems near you, hmu!

[VT Creative Writing @VirginiaTechCW]

@ShainaPhenix —the Management

[VT Creative Writing @VirginiaTechCW]

@ShainaPhenix If you’re not a poet I don’t know who is.

[Nadxieli Nieto @NadxiNieto]

TINY NIGHTMARES is nominated for a @ShirleyJAwards!!! 🧟‍♂️📖🧟‍♀️ 🎉

Shout out to all our monstrously brilliant contributors!!!
@TheLincoln @CatapultStory

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Get a copy here: https://t.co/Txjj3niu65

[VT English @VTenglish]

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