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NEW VIRGINIA REVIEW, INC.
About New Virginia Review
New Virginia Review, Inc., founded in Norfolk, Virginia,
in 1978, is a state-wide, not for profit, literary arts organization
based in Richmond. Its mission is the cultivation and development of
informed and passionate audiences for literature through publication,
education, and promotion. For twenty-five years, New Virginia Review has
published new writers and sought ways for literature to reach new readers.
We are Virginia’s only organization devoted solely to
serving serious literature, and we have benefited from the support of
Virginius Dabney, Tom Wolfe, Peter Taylor, Charles Wright, Lee Smith,
and other noted Virginia writers.
New Virginia Review Programs
New fiction and poetry:
New Virginia Review has long been respected for publishing writers
as diverse as Toni Morrison, Jill
McCorkle, and Philip Levine. Our major venue for new fiction and poetry
is Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts,
which is published in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University’s
Department of English and in which we are setting a standard for online
literary publication. (Blackbird launched on April 15, 2002.)
We will also occasionally publish a redesigned New Virginia Review,
which will appear periodically to address special
themes.
Platform:
These essays of introduction feature
writers who are visiting Richmond under our aegis. They are designed
to provide a general reader
with a context for approaching contemporary writing. An expanded version
of the pamphlet serves as a teachers' guide for author visits with
Virginia high school students.
Public readings:
Poetic Principles at the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond’s only reading series designed
with the community in mind, presents noted writers for readings and
residencies.
Previous and Current Education Programs
Go Read:
New Virginia Review is a sponsor of
Richmond's "one city,
one book" program and will ensure that it continues beyond 2004.
As a part of the program (reading White People by Allan Gurganus in
2004), we take a significant poet whose work is complementary to the
Go Read novel into area high schools. The Go Read novelist also visits
with high school students, and the work of both authors is tied to SOL
studies. In 2003, 50,000 area readers participated in the program.
Writers in the classroom:
These programs take visiting writers and their
books into Richmond area classrooms for discussion about their work and
literature in general. We also send young writers to Richmond schools
for short residencies designed to support teachers in their efforts
to create effective readers and writers.
Blackbird Education:
Under production is a parallel Blackbird site
that will serve as a resource for high school teachers of English by
providing lesson plans, media, and poems and stories for use in supplementing
curricula for S.O.L. preparation and for general curriculum enrichment.
Authors will also be available for online student interviews.
Contact
New Virginia Review
1312 East Cary Street
Richmond, VA 23219
804.782.1043
newvareview@earthlink.net 
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