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Tess Gunty’s novel, “The Rabbit Hutch,” is set in a dilapidated Midwestern apartment complex over the course of one formidably hot July week in Vacca Vale, Indiana. (Contributed photo)

Tess Gunty wins the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for ‘The Rabbit Hutch’

June 26, 2023

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VCU Creative Writing Yearly News Roundup

May 8, 2023

Greetings from VCU’s MFA program in Creative Writing! Our students, faculty, and alumni have been busy this past academic year, so we thought we should share the good news. There are a lot of accomplishments to celebrate!

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First Year MFAer Lands Book Deal

March 10, 2023

Congrats goes out to first year MFAer, Joshua Galarza, whose YA novel, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky, has been acquired by Henry Holt & Company . . . 

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English professor’s sound studies unearth forgotten musical histories of the African Atlantic

Nov. 22, 2022

Mary Caton Lingold interprets Atlantic Africans’ musical performances in the 1600-1800s and what they might have meant to the people performing them.

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Fall 2022 incoming MFA class

Aug. 17, 2022

Meet the eight new students we are pleased to welcome to our MFA in creative writing program for fall '22.

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Fall 2022 incoming MA class

Aug. 16, 2022

Meet the ten new students we are pleased to welcome to our MA in English program for fall '22.

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Fall 2022 incoming MATX class

Aug. 15, 2022

Meet the five new students we are pleased to welcome to our Media, Arts and Text doctoral program for fall '22.

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Humanities Research Center co-leads international symposium on Indigenous media and literature

July 21, 2022

The center’s director co-organized the event, an opportunity for scholars to discuss Indigenous publications and print culture as part of the center’s ongoing initiative, “On Native Ground.”

SJ Sindu and Geoff Bouvier

SJ Sindu and Geoff Bouvier to join MFA faculty

June 30, 2022

The Department of English is pleased to announce that Professors SJ Sindu and Geoff Bouvier will be joining our faculty this fall.

Winston - alum and recent student worker

Meet Winston: alum and recent student worker

June 22, 2022

Winston graduated this spring from VCU arts with a major in communication arts with a concentration in VFX. They worked in the Department of English since they were a freshman and took on a number of special projects like the custom illustrated author stickers for Black History Month and Women's History Month.