UVA’s Creative Writing Program offers a top MFA, plus undergraduate concentrations in poetry and prose and a range of elective courses.
Have you, your colleagues, your lab, or your collaborators created a striking image, schematic, model or other visual element in relation to produced research? Do you ever wish you had a wider audience for a compelling visualization within an article, chapter, or book?
The Virginia Center for the Book is hosting the 2026 Virginia Festival of the Book. Programming begins this Thursday with preview events, and will continue from this Friday, March 20th, through this Sunday, March 22nd. For Arts This Week, we spoke with the director of the Center, Kalela Williams.
For Women’s History Month this year, librarians at UVA recommend a variety of books written by women, ranging from science fiction to memoir to Greek myths. “Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia Butler” by Susana M. Morris (Amistad, 2025) In tracing the interior world of science fiction legend Octavia E. Butler through her writing, journals, archives, and interviews, Susana M. Morris generates a fascinating character study as well as a gripping story of struggle and persistence set against late-20th-century U.S. cultural history.
