REGISTRATION IS OPEN: Post Graduate Writers’ Conference
VCFA’s annual Postgraduate Writers’ Conference is a haven for serious, emerging practitioners seeking to connect, recharge, and lift their process and craft to new levels.
From residencies to readings, exhibitions to activism, concerts to Q&A sessions, the VCFA calendar has events to keep you entertained and inspired.
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VCFA’s annual Postgraduate Writers’ Conference is a haven for serious, emerging practitioners seeking to connect, recharge, and lift their process and craft to new levels.
A query is a writer’s first communication with a potential agent (or sometimes editor) and the sometimes the only piece of writing on which the agent judges your work. Of course, this is a huge source of stress for any writer, no matter how gifted or well-connected, so we are here to de-mystify the process […]
Join Tommy Caamano, MFA in Film alumnx ’20 (documentary) and Director/Partner at The WorkShop for a presentation focused on owning your own production company, the development process, and pitching documentary series to streamer or network executives. Our discussion of the pitching process will also segue to grants and sponsorships. Use the registration link below to […]
With all book tours going remote in 2020, VCFA’s MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults program began our Book Birthday Parties, a virtual series that celebrates recent publications from our WCYA network. Join us once again in celebrating these incredible books and amazing achievements of our beloved community in 2023. Use the links […]
Featuring Barbara Hurd, Robin MacArthur & Philip Metres and hosted by Brian Leung, this event is a great way to get to know our faculty better as writers. Each reader will have 15 minutes to read and we will host Q&A / open conversation after.
In this presentation, Kevin Korsyn will chronicle his quest to compose a convincing ending for Contrapunctus 14, the unfinished quadruple fugue from The Art of Fugue by J.S. Bach. Christoph Wolff believes that Bach may have completed this fugue, or at least sketched its quadruple combinations, in a separate manuscript, now lost, that Wolf calls […]
The virtual Writing Alumnx Reading Series continues this spring with events on Thursday evenings once a month via Zoom. In collaboration with a collection of MFA in Writing alumnx, we designed this series of readings based on the “Student Readings” many graduates of the low-residency Writing program might remember from their time on campus. These […]