Submission Time!
Submissions due! It’s time to submit your work! Local students are gearing up for The Writer’s Eye(November 30th deadline), and the Virginia Festival of the Book’s contest (opens December 1st, deadline February 15th). Nationally, students are preparing for the Scholastic National Art and writing Contest, Virginia deadline December 15th! If you live in Albemarle County […]
Writerhouse gifts!
We’ve spent more time leading and writing than posting this year, and the work coming out of our weekly meetings has been tremendous! Our teen meetings have been welcomed by Writerhouse for the past four years, and we want to share one of their gifts to our young writers! Writerhouse maintains a wonderful library of literary magazines they […]
Fall Programs Open Next Week!
Join us for our fall kick-off!
Weekly Writing Workshops
Weekly writing workshops begin in the fall with a “Memory Bank” theme, each offering a stand-alone workshop, together building a powerful bank of tools for a writing journal, developed by Martha Banks with help from Carrie Brown at the Hollins MFA program. Winter/Spring activities revolve around the editing and production of Crossroads, our annual anthology […]
City People
Photograph by Glen Walker City People Perri Nelson we were city people that much had always been clear on her eighteenth birthday my mother had packed her suitcase slammed it shut with a crash that never stopped echoing in the memories of her family the ones who had never thought of leaving she took the […]
Small Means Fragile
Photograph by Leela Ghaemmaghami Small Means Fragile Madeline Mitchem When you’re small like me you’re told what you can and can’t do you can’t fight or be intimidating, you can’t lift anything more than 10 pounds. But you can sit there quietly. They assume you’re as fragile as a vase. If you fall you’ll break… […]
Growing Pains
Photograph by Sydney Nicholson Growing Pains Kamryn Crossman The winds become a wolf’s cry and sirens screech echoing through the barren town that hides down beneath the compacted dirt. Dry lightning cracks along a ghastly sky. Her brother’s face soaked with the consumption of trembling fear, while bells are tossed and jerked like a beastly […]
raw journal
Photograph by Georgia Crum raw journal Julia Lindemann one. i knew i did not stand a chance (from the very moment i met you) two. you caught me at a point in my life where my shadow was complaining about never following joy (my most exuberant of emotions were shoved away in the dustiest corners […]
Faultlines
Faultline Marie Ungar I. “Ma’am, your son’s been in an accident.” […]
Crossroads IV Writing Award
We are thrilled by all the wonderful work received for this year’s teen anthology. We are doubly glad to announce our award winner, Marie Ungar, selected by UVA Creative Writing professor, Jeffery Renard Allen. Marie is a rising junior, poetry editor of our Crossroads IV anthology, active writer and winner of the latest Writer’s Eye […]