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UVA Creative Writing Program
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The University of Virginia's Creative Writing Program offers a master of fine arts in poetry and fiction writing, undergraduate English concentrations in poetry and literary prose, and elective coursework at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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The Creative Writing Program at @uva will host a poetry reading with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Rea Visiting Writer Gregory Pardlo.
The Creative Writing Program at @uva will host a poetry reading with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Rea Visiting Writer Gregory Pardlo.
October 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Come hear KEVIN MOFFETT and LISA RUSS SPAAR tonight in the Bryan Hall faculty lounge (Room 229).
September 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Please join us for a welcome reading by our first Kapnick Fellow in Creative Writing, Charles Clateman!

Charles Clateman's short fiction has been featured in Heavy Traffic, Blue Arrangements, HAD, and Forever Magazine.
August 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Please join us for a welcome reading by our first Kapnick Fellow in Creative Writing, Charles Clateman!

Charles Clateman's short fiction has been featured in Heavy Traffic, Blue Arrangements, HAD, and Forever Magazine.
August 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Meet our Rea and Kapnick visiting writers for '25-'26: Jonathan Lethem, Gregory Pardlo and Kathryn Scanlan in the fall, plus Helen DeWitt and Diana Khoi Nguyen in the spring! For more information, see our website: creativewriting.virginia.edu
August 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Join us as we celebrate the publication of #HonorJones' novel SLEEP -- OUT NOW from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social domhouse | LINK: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761973...
May 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We are pleased to announce our 2025-26 Creative Writing Program Visiting Writers:

Jonathan Lethem (September 2025)
Gregory Pardlo (October 2025)
Kathryn Scanlon (November 2025)
Helen DeWitt (February 2026)
Diana Khoi Nguyen (March 2026)
April 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Join us for a reading by Rea Visitor Corinna Vallianatos to celebrate her new short story collection, Origin Stories, out now with Graywolf Press. creativewriting.virginia.edu/rea-visitor-...
April 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Please join us for an evening of poetry with Airea D. Matthews, whose first collection, Simulacra, received the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Matthews’ Bread and Circus, a memoir-in-verse contending with the realities of class and race, was awarded The 2024 LA Times Book Prize in Poetry.
March 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Please join us for an evening of poetry with Airea D. Matthews, whose first collection, Simulacra, received the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Matthews’ Bread and Circus, a memoir-in-verse contending with the realities of class and race, was awarded The 2024 LA Times Book Prize in Poetry.
March 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Please join the UVA Creative Writing Program as we celebrate new releases from our alumni at the graduate and undergraduate level! This event is part of the Virginia Festival of the Book.
March 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
TONIGHT 3/4 Join us for an evening with acclaimed writer Ed Park. Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams (2023), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His debut story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, is forthcoming in 2025.
March 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Join us @ndbookshop.bsky.social for a reading with poets Brian Teare and Aditi Machado. Brian Teare will be reading from his recent poetry, and Aditi Machado will be reading from her new collection, Material Witness. This in-person event will be free and open to the public.
February 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Please join the UVA Creative Writing Program in welcoming Jesse Ball -- NEA fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and author of many books, including The Repeat Room and Autoportrait -- to the UVA creative writing faculty! #jesseball #uvamfa #creativewriting #greatandgood
February 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM