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| Tracking the Muse published November 18, 2010 | ||
| Since 2007, we have asked contributors featured in our Introductions Loop to provide us with some insight to their creative process. This year three poets and three short fiction writer discuss how the happenstance and anguish of revision contribute to the magic and hard work of creative expression. Enjoy commentary by Jocelyn Cullity, Melody S. Gee, Zachary Mason, Airin Miller, Joanna Pearson, and Sara Quinn Rivara. |  |
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A Reading by Terrance Hayes  published October 8, 2010 |
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| From our vault of unpublished audio captures we bring you a recording and transcript of a reading by poet Terrance Hayes. On April 3, 2008, Hayes read his poems, previously published and new work, on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. The reading was part of the VCU Visiting Writers Series, sponsored and organized by the university’s MFA program in Creative Writing. Hayes was introduced by David Wojahn. |  |
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| A Reading by Bret Lott published October 8, 2010 |
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| Here is another from our vault of unpublished audio captures, a recording and transcript of a reading by fiction writer Brett Lott. On April 24, 2008, author Bret Lott read from his novel, Ancient Highway on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. The reading was part of the VCU Visiting Writers Series, sponsored and organized by the university’s MFA program in Creative Writing. Lott was introduced by David Wojahn. |  |
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Introductions Reading Loop published June 9, 2010 |
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| Each spring we use the Introductions Reading Loop to bring to your attention writers whose work you may be encountering for the first time. In this issue, we feature fiction by Jocelyn Cullity, Zachary Mason, and Airin Miller; visual work by Ben Jurgensen; poetry from Melody Gee, Joanna Pearson, and Sara Quinn Rivara; as well as a sequence of sixteen poems from from Liana Quill’s Fifty Poems (with commentary by R.H.W. Dillard). |  |
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First Novelist Reading Loop published June 9, 2010 |
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| Now in its eighth year, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, created to celebrate the nation’s first year-long novel workshop, recognizes a rising new literary talent and is presented at the VCU Cabell First Novelist Festival. The festival highlights the journey a new writer undertakes from idea to publication, with a focus on those elements that make the experience unique. The 2009 winner of the First Novelist Award is Deb Olin Unferth for Vacation. |  |
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