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VCU Visiting Writers Series
All events are free and open to the public. The series is presented on behalf of VCU's MFA in creative writing program in partnership with the James Branch Cabell Library Associates and VCU Libraries. Additional sponsors are the VCU Department of English, and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences. Upcoming Visiting Writers events will be posted here and on our events page .
Upcoming Events
Date: Thursday, Oct 10, 2024
Elisa Gonzalez, the 2024 Levis Reading Prize winner, will read from for her poetry collection Grand Tour.
Date: Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024
Alice Winn, the 2024 Cabell First Novelist Award winner, will read from for her novel, In Memoriam
Recent Events
Date: Thursday, Feb 22, 2024
The VCU Visiting Writers Series hosts an evening of creative nonfiction with a joint-reading by Chloe Caldwell and Jessica Hendry Nelson . . .
Date: Thursday, Jan 25, 2024
Zoë Gadegbeku is the 2023 winner of the Rebecca Mitchell Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize for outstanding short fiction. Her story “Of Flowers and Sorrows,” published in v20n3 in the spring of 2023, was selected by our editors from short fiction published by Blackbird over the previous two-year period.
Date: Wednesday, Oct 18, 2023
Corey Van Landingham, the 2023 Levis Reading Prize winner, will read from for her poetry collection Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens.
Date: Monday, Nov 13, 2023
Tess Gunty, the 2023 Cabell First Novelist Award winner, will read from for her novel, The Rabbit Hutch
Dates: Thursday, Apr 13, 2023 – Friday, Apr 14, 2023
A 2 day celebration hosted by Blackbird Founding Editor, Greg Donovan, featuring readings by Blackbird alums . . .
Date: Thursday, Mar 16, 2023
This event is part of the VCU Visiting Writers Series and is free and open to the public.
Dates: Thursday, Nov 17, 2022 –
"The Seed Keeper"
Dates: Thursday, Nov 10, 2022 –
"The Final Revival of Opal & Nev"
Dates: Monday, Oct 17, 2022 –
"White Magic"
Dates: Friday, Sep 30, 2022 –
"Philomath"
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Previous VCU Visiting Writers
Dorothy Allison
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Richard Bausch
Bruce Beasley
Aimee Bender
Charles Bernstein
John Bresland
Linda Bierds
Robert Olen Butler
Ron Carlson
John Casey
Jade Chang
Victoria Chang
Leila Chatti
Kelly Cherry
Joan Connor
Rebecca Curtis
Dennis Danvers
Samuel R. Delany
Junot Díaz
Mark Doty
Camille Dungy
Stephen Dunn
Stuart Dybek
John Englehardt
Angela Flournoy
Nick Flynn
Ru Freeman
Mary Gaitskill
Amina Gautier
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Linda Gregerson
Jennifer Grotz
Elizabeth Hand
Ron Hansen
Terrance Hayes
Fanny Howe
Barbara Hurd
Richard Jackson
Allison Joseph
Alison Kennedy
Ilya Kaminsky
Yusef Komunyaaka
Raven Lailani
Nick Lantz
Katherine Larson
Rickey Laurentiis
Dana Levin
Philip Levine
Kelly Link
Bret Lott
Thomas Lux
Elizabeth McCracken
Erin McGraw
Ling Ma
Thomas Mallon
Khaled Mattawa
Dinty Moore
Melinda Moustakis
Emily Nemens
Craig Nova
Larry Palmer
Kiki Petrosino
Stanley Plumly
Lia Purpura
Roger Reeves
Paisley Rekdal
Sheri Reynolds
David Rivard
Shawna Kay Rodenberg
Mary Ruefle
George Saunders
Christine Schutt
Rion Amilcar Scott
Alan Shapiro
Solmaz Sharif
Tom Sleigh
Karen Solie
Gerald Stern
Darin Strauss
Jean Thompson
Natasha Trethewey
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Helene Wecker
Colson Whitehead
CK Williams
Charles Wright
Jenny Xie
Dean Young
Michele Young-Stone
Matthew Zapruder
