@wrightallison

Executive editor, @VQR, 2019 National Magazine Award winner, General Excellence. Journalism prof, @UVA & @nyu_oj. PhD, @AmStudies. I love not camping.

 Charlottesville, VA
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Joined October 2009
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Some of the poems in the Pulitzer-winning collection appeared in VQR's Fall 2018 issue. Read "And If I Fall": vqronline.org/poetry/2018/10…
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Congratulations to VQR contributor @CPhillipsPoet for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book THEN THE WAR.
The Pulitzer Prizes@PulitzerPrizes8 May 2023
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Congratulations to @CPhillipsPoet, @fsgbooks and @WUSTL. #Pulitzer
Washington University in St. Louis English professor Carl Phillips has received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for "Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020" (FSG).

ALT Washington University in St. Louis English professor Carl Phillips has received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for "Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020" (FSG).

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Zach Rodvold@zrodvold17 Apr 2023
Eliminating the entire #SNAP program (which helps keep human beings from going hungry) would reduce the national debt by 0.35%. (That's ZERO point three five percent.) This is not a conversation about debt and deficits. #hunger
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@atrupar17 Apr 2023
Kevin McCarthy, speaking at NYSE, proposes work requirements for government benefits
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The first issue of our new weekly poetry newsletter features @Dalai_Mama_'s poem "Junker," from our Spring 2020 issue. Read & subscribe: mailchi.mp/virginia/joy-prie…]

Joy Priest's "Junker"

That one smelled like a Bradford pear you said.

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VQR's new weekly poetry newsletter will hit inboxes in April. Don't miss out! Sign up today: eepurl.com/ilfAh1
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This would have been impossible without the support of @pulitzercenter, our partners on this & so many other projects. #fundjournalism
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Our first issue is live! hammerandhope.org
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“The idea of a person whose identity is racially nonbinary was unknown to me for all of my life. As far as I knew, one had to choose sides,” @EdPavlic writes in our Winter issue: vqronline.org/essays-article…

At the Mercy of the Light

Reflections in My Racially Nonbinary Life

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📢 We're halfway through the submission period for the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize. Reminder to submit by February 28th! A $12,000 advance and publication by Graywolf will be awarded to a first novel manuscript by an African author. Details ⬇️ graywolfpress.submittable.co…
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Happy Valentine’s, bbs. The world is burning, publishing is doomed, etc., etc., but plants! 🌱🫶🏻 You, too, can heart the earth… you can even hump it, if you’re so inclined. Read all about it: vqronline.org/essays-article… @VQR

On Not Becoming an Ecosexual

I live in rural Scotland, in a village of sixty-five houses, with no cell service or shops. There is a kirk, a pub; there are more sheep than people. For the first time in my life, I have a garden. A...

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It had been a perfect day for Caitlyne Gonzales. The Uvalde survivor saw Beto O'Rourke, one of her gun-safety heroes, speak. She took a selfie with him, got free shirts, ate fried chicken after. Then, on the way home, police lights flashed behind her family's car. A thread:
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PEN America@PENamerica24 Oct 2022
Apply for the 2023 PEN/Robert J.Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! 12 winners will receive $2000 each & their stories will be published in Catapult’s annual anthology, Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize. Deadline: November 1st. pen.org/pen-dau-short-story-…

PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognizes 12 fiction writers each year for their outstanding debut short story.

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@TexasTribune20 Oct 2022
Texas struggles to get guns away from domestic violence suspects, leaving victims in danger: bit.ly/3ePftDA
A majority of women murdered by male partners in Texas were killed with firearms. This chart breaks down the percentage of femicides which were firearm-related each ear from 2011 to 2021. Texas reported over 100 femicides each year in the last decade and each of those years, women were most commonly killed by their male partners with a firearm. In 2021, around 75% of femicides were firearm-related.

ALT A majority of women murdered by male partners in Texas were killed with firearms. This chart breaks down the percentage of femicides which were firearm-related each ear from 2011 to 2021. Texas reported over 100 femicides each year in the last decade and each of those years, women were most commonly killed by their male partners with a firearm. In 2021, around 75% of femicides were firearm-related.

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gabriel rocha@avilezrocha4 May 2022
Because extreme relevance to this moment, I am reading again @mirandafeathers beautiful, sad, wise essay in @VQR Free abortion on demand, no apologies vqronline.org/essays-article…
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Laura Marsh@lmlauramarsh2 May 2022
I wrote about Julia May Jonas’s “Vladimir,” a perfect study of a familiar, maddening character type: the MeToo skeptic thenation.com/article/cultur…

Me Too and the Not Me Novel

Julia May Jonas’s new novel is a study of a campus scandal and a woman caught in the middle of it.

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CONGRATULATIONS to #VaBook2022 speaker @rabihalameddine, winner of the @penfaulkner Award for Fiction for THE WRONG END OF THE TELESCOPE, which he discussed w/ @wrightallison at @UVABookstores for #VaBookFest, now available as on-demand video #ICYMI WATCH: vabook.org/2022/03/17/rabih-…
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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin131 Mar 2022
The Department of State has announced that, beginning April 11, all U.S. citizens will be able select an 'X' as their gender marker on their U.S. passport application.
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PEN America@PENamerica24 Mar 2022
Join PEN America president @ayadakhtar in conversation with @NewYorker staff writer @Alex_Lily for a conversation on storytelling, the role of the writer in the face of recent challenges to the freedom to read in the U.S. & more at 1:45PM: awpwriter.org/awp_conference… #AWP22
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Examining the complex racial, civil rights history of Girl Scouts news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto… via @Harvard – at Washington, DC
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Head to @UVABookstores at 12 PM ET to see @rabihalameddine discuss THE WRONG END OF THE TELESCOPE, his transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman’s journey among Syrian refugees; w/ @wrightallison. & livestreaming at facebook.com/VirginiaHumanit… vabook.org/events/2022/03/ra…
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