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Congrats to our MFA class of 2019 on their graduation! Here they are doing their final reading at Rising Silo! We’ll miss you all!

Happening at VT this Friday: Anjali Sachdeva, Jamaal May & Colin Nissan! Also first year MFAs Carol Lischau & Evan Massey are reading as part of the event!

Virginia Tech MFA faculty are doing all the things at #AWP19! Come see Ed Falco & Erika Meitner & Carmen Gimenez Smith & Matthew Vollmer, or visit our wonderful MFA students at the Bookfair at Table 7084 @MinnesotaReview & pick up some program swag (#NikkiGiovanni buttons)!

This week we have an embarrassment of riches (writers) here at Virginia Tech: on Monday 3/18 we have poets Laura Eve Engel and Rebecca Morgan Frank from 4-5pm in Shanks 370/380; on Tuesday 3/19 we have author Zadie Smith at the Moss Arts Center (free tickets for MFAs and Creative Writing majors at the MAC box office with your VT ID!); and on Thursday 3/20 we have poet Melissa Stein at 7:30pm in Shanks 370/380! Come out for some literature!

We are totally thrilled to welcome poet sam sax to Virginia Tech next Thursday 2/21 as part of our Visiting Writers Series! sam will be giving a poetry reading at 7:30pm at the Moss Arts Center in the Cube, and a craft talk at 4pm in 370/380 Shanks Hall! These events are free and open to the public!

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We are so excited to welcome poet and scholar Stephanie Burt to Virginia Tech on Thursday 11/1! She will be giving a lecture at 4:00pm in Shanks 370 on “Poetry and/as Versus Song” and doing a reading at 7:30pm in the Moss Arts Center Grand Lobby!

fall 2018 readings at VT!

Happy start of the semester! Here are some of our MFAs at the Welcome Potluck last night!

Meet our MFA students, including our incoming MFAs (class of 2021)!

Please join us on Wednesday for two fabulous poets, just in time for National Poetry Month--Dan Albergotti and our very own Carmen Gimenez Smith will be reading together, and Carmen will be reading from her brand new book CRUEL FUTURES! 7:30pm in Pamplin 30 on Wed 4/4--free and open to the public! Books for sale at the reading courtesy of the VT bookstore!

Tess Taylor re-do! Tess is coming tomorrow (Wed, 3/28) to read poems to us! Please join us at 7:30pm in Shanks 370/380 (note venue change) to celebrate our VT undergraduate creative writers and hear Tess’s amazing poems!

Due to weather, the Tess Taylor poetry reading (along with the VT Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards Ceremony) have been rescheduled from tonight (3/21) to Wednesday March 28th at 7:30pm in the Newman Library Multipurpose Room.

As of now, the Tess Taylor reading & undergraduate CW prize ceremony tonight is still on! Please join us at Newman Library tonight at 7:30pm!

Catch Virginia Tech MFA students & faculty at the Bookfair (with Noemi Press and the minnesota review) or at our panels & signings! 

Our next Visiting Writers Series event is nearly upon us! On Thursday, Feb 22nd, we’ll be welcoming Rachel B. Glaser as our Soniat Writer, chosen by our MFA students. Rachel will give a craft talk at 3:30pm in 370/380 Shanks Hall, and a reading at the Moss Arts Center in the Grand Lobby at 7:30pm. All events are free and open to the public!

Please join us for our first Visiting Writers Series event of the Spring semester--fiction writer (and former Blacksburg resident) Chris Bachelder will be giving a craft talk from 3:30-4:30 on Wednesday 2.7.18 in 370/380 Shanks Hall, and he’ll be doing a reading and book signing at 7:30pm in The Cube at the Moss Arts Center. Come on out to hear some great literature!