Crossroads VII in the community!
Crossroads VII is out and beautiful! We are so proud of our teen editors and authors! Our community has supported this issue, and Crossroads VII can be found at New Dominion Bookstore, and wouldn’t be possible without the faithful partnership with Writerhouse these last six years! Have a look at our first poem, more will […]
Spring Open Mic at Tandem – Magic in the Air!
What a wonderful reading we had Wednesday evening! Enjoy the images, wish you could have heard their prose and poems. Thanks to Tandem for hosting this reading in such a gorgeous, light-filled space!
Jokes in 18th Century French Literature
Alumni Olivia Vande Woude has been enjoying deep dives into special collections since her high school visit to the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collection Library for a TWC student field trip, during which the fabulous Molly Schwartzburg gave her famous “history of the book” tour. The experience led Olivia to an academic senior internship […]
Camille Dungy – 2019 Guggenheim Fellow
Congratulations to Professor and Poet, Camille Dungy, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow. We are honored by her grace and energy as a judge for our 2019 Mirabella Prose and Poetry Contest, and wish her the most productive year during her fellowship. Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic […]
A Wonderful Night of Poetry & Prose
The second annual Mirabella Prose and Poetry Contest held March 22nd at St. Anne’s Belfield was a wonderful tribute to teen writers in Central Virginia. A record 166 submissions were eagerly read by our student editorial staff, who selected and organized submissions and the manuscript for our Crossroads VII anthology. Enormous thanks […]
Local Students Win at Scholastic National Art and Writing Awards!
Local Writing Students Win Big!
virginia
virginia i have met virginia. she has sobbed drunk in my lap at 3:53 AM on a rainy august morning her tears rolling down my bones, her trembling mouth cool on my skin. pronounce she-nan-doah. it means ‘daughter of the stars.’ virginia, your pickup truck broke down night came, and it reached its charcoal […]
Mirabella Prose and Poetry Contest Award Ceremony!
Local teen authors read from their anthology! Thursday night at St. Anne’s Belfield thirty students, chosen from a gorgeous anthology of local teen writing, read to a mesmerized audience. Over the next month (starting today) some of their writing will appear here. The Anthology can be purchased online, links to be shared Monday evening. If you missed […]
Fall Meetings and Workshops begin September 7th!
Have you been making tracks on the planet all summer, locally or afar? Come share your treasure trove of experiences in our writing workshop this fall, join our team of student editors and help publish an anthology of teen writing, consider submitting your own writing in a supportive environment. Come to write, come to have fun! Our workshops start September 7th […]
my grandmothers thirteen bowls
“my grandmother’s thirteen bowls” my grandmother’s thirteen bowls had all come from Vietnam, round pale and dusty like her. thirteen hollow half-moons that hadn’t been full in years; her mother’s and father’s swam with dragons and fairies, while mountains stirred dumpling-shaped clouds for first brother and his wife, lotuses mingled with cranes for her three […]