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Providing time and space to writers, visual artists, and composers at artist residency programs in Virginia and France. #VCCAFellows

Mt. San Angelo, Amherst, VA

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

1 year

“As you hairpin up the hill, your inner clock begins to slow, and you feel the rare gift this pastoral setting offers artists seeking refuge from the hubbub of daily life." 🧡 Thanks to @VirginiaLiving for this story about VCCA.

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Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

For 50 years, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts has nurtured the world’s most promising artists. Sera Petras Enter the property known as Mt. San Angelo, just outside of Amherst, and a sign...

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

We're so thrilled to announce we're homeowners! After leasing Mt. San Angelo from our wonderful neighbors at @SweetBriaredu for 42 years, we can finally call this beautiful place our own.

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VCCA Purchases Mt. San Angelo Property From Sweet Briar College

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Sweet Briar College are pleased to announce that VCCA has purchased the Mt. San Angelo estate from Sweet Briar College.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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Congratulations to VCCA Fellow @maggiesmithpoet this months guest editor of Poem-A-Day, a daily digital poetry series by the @POETSorg .

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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Happy February! Winter 2023 residency applications are open, and we have news to share: VCCA's "50th Anniversary Fund" will provide free residencies of up to two weeks for at least 50 first-time VCCA Fellows who self-identify as artists of color.

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"50th Anniversary Fund" to Support Free First-Time VCCA Residencies for 50 Artists of Color

VCCA's new 50th Anniversary Fellowships will support at least 50 free artists residencies for first-time VCCA Fellows who self-identify as artists of color.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

Save the date for @nationalbook 's "Secrets of the South" on February 16. VCCA Fellow Tayari Jones @tayari joins Jericho Brown and Deesha Philyaw for this conversation moderated by Kiese Laymon:

NBF Presents: Secrets of the South

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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We're one month out from our next deadline! Applications for Summer 2023 ☀️ residencies at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia are due before midnight on September 15, 2022.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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@ThusTweetsKeats @KarieWrites Thanks for the love, @ThusTweetsKeats . We're big believers in residencies of flexible lengths w/ flexible scheduling. Good resources for writers with children that come right to mind: @SustainableArts @PenParentis

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

Your annual return of the cows video!☀️ Meet Mt. San Angelo's newest cows in residence. #VCCAFellows

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

This week over at @sweetbriaredu : Artist talk and gallery reception with @uzoart

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

6 years

Happy Birthday, VCCA! On May 18, 1971, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts incorporated as a nonprofit organization which makes us 47, only three years shy of the big 5-0!

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

Applications are open for our Fall 2023 residency season (🍂 September - December ❄️) at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia, where we provide writers, visual artists, and composers with lodging, private studios, and three meals a day. Deadline: January 15, 2023.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

VCCA Fellow Sheree Renée Thomas @blackpotmojo joins the board of judges for @grist 's new climate fiction contest #Imagine2200 :

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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We’re delighted to announce that Kelly Luce @lucekel has won VCCA’s 2023 Wachtmeister Award for Fiction! 🎉

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Kelly Luce Named 2023 Wachtmeister Award Winner

The prize acknowledges the vital role of the arts in our world, the importance of artists who exemplify excellence in their field, and the necessity of time and space for the creative phase of all...

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

Congratulations to VCCA Fellow Sheree Renée Thomas @blackpotmojo who has been named the new editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction @fandsf ! #VCCAFellow #VCCAFellows

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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#Writers in any genre who self-identify as #LGBTQ + are eligible to apply for the @StevenPetrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship at VCCA. Application Deadline: January 15, 2024 Photo of Julie and Steven by Frankie Alduino.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

Sejal Shah @fictionalsejal is the author of the debut #essay collection THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE ( @UGAPress 2020). Her stories and essays have appeared in @brevitymag , @_conjunctions , @GuernicaMag , @kenyonreview Online, @lithub , @Longreads , and @The_Rumpus . #VCCAFireplaceSeries

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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"I find it helpful to keep shifting the way I see my words, to try to see them as a stranger would." Congratulations to VCCA Fellow @tseringylama on her debut novel, WE MEASURE THE EARTH WITH OUR BODIES ( @BloomsburyPub )! #VCCAFellows

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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Congrats to our neighbors, named among the nation’s Most Innovative Schools for the second time in three years. @SweetBriaredu @sbcalumnae

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Happy birthday to VCCA Executive Dog Asta! This little guy turns 7 today.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

One week left, y'all. Apply before midnight on September 15. This is the deadline for Summer 2023 residencies at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia + our annual deadline for #VCCAFellows to apply to international programs.

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Apply for an Artist Residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Visual artists, writers, and composers are invited to apply for an artist residency with VCCA. Online applications are accepted three times a year.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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Dog days ☀️

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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Thx to #VCCA Fellow Steven Petrow, we are now offering this! @LGBTQWriters @StevenPetrow @BosLGBTQIA_Arts @LeslieLohman @PassthePepperAC

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

👋 Dear established fiction writers who have not had a VCCA residency: This Sunday is the deadline to apply (no application fee) to the Wachtmeister Award, a fully-funded 30-day residency with $1,000 honorarium and travel expenses reimbursed up to $750.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

We spy nine VCCA Fellows among the 2022 Guggenheim recipients! Big congratulations to @MaazaMengiste , @AlexKleeman , @melissafebos , David Dominique, @DeKomponist , Leah Reid, @Palessandrini , @EduardoCCorral , @yonaharvey , and all! 🧡 #VCCAFellows @GuggFellows

@GuggFellows

GuggenheimFoundation

2 years

Today's the day! Congratulations to our new class of Fellows. These 180 individuals represent 51 fields of study. We're honored to give them the opportunity to pursue their passions under the freest possible conditions. #guggenheimfellowship2022 Read more:

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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Currently open for our Fall 2023 scheduling period, applications for VCCA's next round of 50th Anniversary Fellowships for Artists of Color are due at the end of the day this Sunday, January 15!

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

Katy Murray, VCCA’s beloved Director of Dining Services from Meriwether Godsey, has always wanted to “cook” a cookbook from cover to cover (à la the girl from JULIE & JULIA). #katysyearofcake

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Happy October! Applications are now open for Fall 2022 🍂 residencies at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia. Deadline: January 15, 2022.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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Congratulations to visual artist Helina Meteferia and writer Natasha Oladokun, recipients of the VCCA 2018 Alonzo Davis Fellowship. Read more about the artists and the fellowship at

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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Happy book birthday to TROUBLE THE WATERS! VCCA Fellow @EmChoate_Writer reviews this new anthology that includes work by Fellow @jaquiradiaz and is co-edited "with an abundant, generous vision" by Fellow @blackpotmojo . Congrats all! #VCCAFellows

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

⏲️ We're one month away from the January 15 application deadline for Fall 2022 residencies. A residency at VCCA gives artists across disciplines the time and space to explore their work away from the constraints of “the real world.” #VCCAFellows

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

3/18 - VCCA Fellow @NatashiaDeon will discuss her historical fantasy novel THE PERISHING along with @nicole0glover and @shelleypchan in this virtual event. @VABookFest #VaBook2022

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Conceived during VCCA’s 50th anniversary year in 2021 and established in 2022, the 50th Anniversary Fund aims to provide free residencies for at least 50 artists of color who are new to VCCA:

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

6 years

🙌to the 19 VCCA Fellows participating in the 25th Virginia Festival of the Book! @johncopenhaver @bridgettmdavis @caiemmons @poetmorgan @cliffgarstang @hanklatome @Eugenia_Kim @papergirlmacy @ajmwrites @BettyJoyceN @ElaineNeilOrr @CarolinePresto1 @melissa_stein @dataylor1

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

After careful consideration and with cautious optimism, we're pleased to announce plans to welcome Fellows back to Mt. San Angelo in the summer of 2021. Applications are open! #VCCAFellows #artistresidency #writers #visualartists #composers #apply

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

Wishing everyone a creative new year from VCCA! Our Winter 2023 residency season at Mt. San Angelo began yesterday with the arrival of the year's first #VCCAFellows . We're excited to keep welcoming writers, visual artists, and composers the whole year through!

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

We're also happy to share that we have reduced our standard application fee and will no longer require letters of recommendation as part of the application process. 🧡

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

VCCA Fellow @marthaannetoll 's debut novel THREE MUSES has found a home with @RegalHouse1 as the winner of the 2020 Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction: #VCCAFellow #VCCAFellows

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

VCCA’s artist residency program at Mt. San Angelo reopens next week! The pool and the frogs are ready for the company of Fellows.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

👋 Calling all writers, visual artists, and composers in West Virginia! Fully-funded two-week or one-month residencies supported by @MidAtlanticArts are available this Fall at VCCA. Application deadline: January 15.

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Mid Atlantic Arts Creative Fellowships | VCCA

Writers, visual artists, and composers living in Delaware, Maryland, New York, and West Virginia are eligible for fully-funded residencies at VCCA.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

Happy Solstice from Mt. San Angelo. Credit goes to Mayalin for the photographic evidence of this spectacularly sunny, short and sweet day. ☀️✨

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

5 years

VCCA and @SweetBriaredu are seeking an artist to teach "Site Specific Art in the Sweet Briar Landscape" from August 22 - September 12, 2019. Compensation includes a four-week residency at VCCA and a $5,000 stipend. Apply online at . Deadline is June 15.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

We're lucky to have views like these and a photographer like Paige Critcher around to capture them. 🌙 #mtsanangelo #virginiacenterforthecreativearts

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

5 years

Please join us in welcoming and congratulating Kevin O’Halloran as our next Executive Director! Staff and board members have loved working with Kevin since he arrived on the VCCA scene as Treasurer in 2018 and Interim Executive Director last summer. Onward!

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Kevin O’Halloran Named VCCA Executive Director

VCCA President Quinn Feldmann Graeff has announced that Kevin O’Halloran will serve as the organization's next Executive Director.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

"I’m grateful this story haunted me, forced me to become a better writer, helped me live a life that informed me as a human so I could rise to a level worthy of being its creator." VCCA Fellow @CleyvisNatera on NERUDA ON THE PARK #VCCAFellows @ElectricLit

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Look what came out of our Meriwether Godsey-run kitchen at Mt. San Angelo last month! In addition to three nutritious meals served each day, Katy and the MG team have been treating Fellows in residence to such special creations as these.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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3/19 - Join VCCA Fellow @TheLincoln (THE BODY SCOUT) for "Bodies in Space & Time: Identity in Sci-Fi & Speculative Fiction," a virtual event with @micaiah_johnson and @ryka_aoki . @VABookFest #VaBook2022

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Good news! Writers, visual artists, and composers living in Delaware, Maryland, New York, and West Virginia are eligible for fully-funded two-week or one-month VCCA residencies supported by @MidAtlanticArts .

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

Congratulations to VCCA Fellow Gary Eldon Peter on the publication of his award-winning #YA novel, THE COMPLICATED CALCULUS (AND COWS) OF CARL PAULSEN ( @Fitzroy_Books / @RegalHouse1 )! #VCCAFellows

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The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen a book by Gary Eldon Peter

Set on a small and struggling family dairy operation in southern Minnesota, The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen follows fifteen-year-old Carl as he confronts his crush on Andy Olnan,...

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

5 years

As part of the inaugural SBC-VCCA Fellowship, writer Courtney Balestier, visual artist Shea Hembrey and composer Aaron Wyanski just wrapped up their team-taught three-week course @SweetBriaredu . Watch for future calls for more SBC-VCCA Fellows.

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News and Events

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

6 years

At VCCA Jasmine Dreame Wagner is refining “Lovely Guns of Glacial Shifting,” one in a series recently published by @BOMBmagazine “I am grateful for the focus in my studio and the curious spirit of the other Fellows.” - @jasminedreame Photo: Thomas Celan.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

8 months

This news is big and bittersweet. 🧡 Sheila Gulley Pleasants has announced her retirement from VCCA, effective June 30, 2024. We invite you to read about Sheila's incredible 35-year commitment to VCCA's artist community and to join us in celebrating her:

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VCCA’s Sheila Gulley Pleasants Announces Retirement in her 35th Year of Service to the Artist...

Sheila Gulley Pleasants, Director of Artists Services at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), has announced her retirement, marking the culmination of a remarkable 35-year journey...

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

We're pleased to share that VCCA is one of 14 organizations in Virginia to receive CARES Act funding from @NEAarts !

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Much love from the VCCA office, where you can count on Office Manager Mayalin Quiñones to note an occasion for flowers and to arrange them just so.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

2022 Alonzo Davis Fellow @jaquiradiaz joined us for a writing residency last fall to focus on finishing her debut novel, I AM DELIBERATE, under contract with @AlgonquinBooks . Read more about her work, her residency, and the Alonzo Davis Fellowship.

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Jaquira Díaz Awarded 2022 Alonzo Davis Fellowship

During her latest residency, Díaz was primarily focused on finishing her debut novel, I am Deliberate, under contract with Algonquin Books.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

6 years

At VCCA, @LydiaConklin , 2018 recipient of the @StevenPetrow Fellowship, has been working on a draft of her novel, "Cat Monkey Horse," which deals with themes of queerness, white terrorism, animal rights, and post-9/11 green scare legislation. Visit

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

"Dissatisfaction with the work is allowable. The kind of despair that leads to quitting is not." VCCA Fellow @scoutandhuck via @brevitymag with a reminder to be kind to your writerly self #VCCAFellows

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By N. West Moss My first rule of writing is to never beat myself up about the work, and I don’t. I don’t beat myself up if I sit down and write something lurid, crappy, sentimental, or incomp…

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Yesterday’s nearly first quarter moon over the Studio Barn at Mt. San Angelo.🌛

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

Today's view from E4. 📷 by Bea who's been busy organizing books in the bedrooms and capturing the views.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

5 years

Final work from the interdisciplinary course “A Multiplicity of Narratives: The Immersive Art of Identity,” taught by VCCA Fellows Courtney Balestier, Shea Hembrey, and Aaron Wyanski will be presented on Sunday, May 12 at 2:00 p.m @SweetBriaredu . The public is invited.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

This Wednesday, September 14, over at @SweetBriaredu ! Come out to enjoy the first VCCA Salon of the semester with #VCCAFellows @jabalingit and Reece Camp Carter. 🧡 🧡

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

We're grateful to have Meriwether Godsey as our food service partner taking good care of Fellows in residence at Mt. San Angelo. Here are a few photos from last week's food festivities in honor of Thanksgiving and the first night of Hanukkah. Thanks to Katy and the MG team!

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

We're ready to fast-forward to Thursday and our next #VCCAFireplaceSeries event. Looking forward to welcoming @mwektaehtabr (WHY VISIT AMERICA) and @blackpotmojo (NINE BAR BLUES) along with our host @debenbach . January 21 at 7:30 p.m. ET.

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VCCA Fireplace Series 18: Matthew Baker and Sheree Renée Thomas

David Ebenbach hosts this virtual event featuring writers Matthew Baker (WHY VISIT AMERICA) and Sheree Renée Thomas (NINE BAR BLUES).

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

6 years

Happy to announce a new partnership between Sweet Briar College and VCCA! #sweetbriar #VCCA

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Happy belated pub day to #VCCAFellow @carablueadams ! "Cara Blue Adams’s evocative first book is described as a collection of interlinked short stories, though it could easily be classified as a novel without the padding."

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Please join us in welcoming these beauties to Mt. San Angelo! After nearly 20 years without cows, we’re happy to have these nine mothers and nine babies at VCCA. 🧡

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

6 years

At VCCA, Dr. Tamara MC worked on her memoir, HOUSE OF FAITH, about growing up in the first and possibly only Sufi Shi’ate Muslim commune in America. When not writing, she photographed adorable spotted deer, ran the track at Sweet Briar, and floated the lake on an orange noodle.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

We're looking forward to another #VCCAFireplaceSeries event. This Thursday, we welcome author @KHill0 (A SHORT MOVE, @Igpublishing ) and composer @james_primosch . Our host for this evening of reading, music, and conversation is @JudithShatin : #VCCAFellows

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

TROUBLE THE WATERS, a forthcoming collection of speculative fiction and poetry, is edited by VCCA Fellow @blackpotmojo and includes work by VCCA Fellow @jaquiradiaz . 🌊🌊 @thirdmanbooks #VCCAFellows

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

There's still time to apply to VCCA's inaugural Marian Treger Fellowship — open to women fiction writers/ screenwriters/visual artists, emerging in mid-life and beyond, whose creative paths have been detoured by chronic health conditions or disabilities.

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Marian Treger Fellowship for Enduring Creativity | VCCA

This VCCA fellowship is intended to support women artists (fiction writers, screenwriters, or visual artists) emerging in mid-life and beyond, whose creative paths may have been detoured or hindered...

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Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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Happy cow homecoming day! These newly arrived cows will be in residence at #MtSanAngelo through the fall. 🧡 #VCCAFellows

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

In case you need it, Dana captured the bluest of Mt. San Angelo skies.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

5 years

Over the weekend, family and friends of Bill Smart paid tribute to his legacy as the first director of VCCA. "Ascending Moons" by VCCA Fellow Lorca Morello was placed by the Pasternak Bench in honor of Bill Smart's development of our international exchange program. #lorcamorello

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

5 years

VCCA is currently accepting applications for Summer 2020. Application Deadline: January 15, 2020. For more information:

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

7 years

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?" -Percy Bysshe Shelley

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Last call for these fully-funded fellowships available for VCCA's Fall 2022 residency season (flexible scheduling September through December) at Mt. San Angelo — our home in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Deadline: January 15

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

Thanks to 2022 Anne Spencer Fellow Jared Smith for sharing his work with the community last week — and to everyone who came out to enjoy! Afterward, #VCCAFellows and staff had the opportunity to tour the Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum — always a treat.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

5 years

Join #VCCAFellows Tom Stanley and Lenore Hart at @SweetBriaredu this Thursday!

VCCA Salon at Sweet Briar College

Two VCCA Fellows — visual artist Tom Stanley and novelist Lenore Hart — will present their work to the community as part of an ongoing VCCA Salon series in partnership with Sweet Briar College.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

1 year

We spy books by three #VCCAFellows — Ilya Kaminsky, Stephen Kuusisto, and @oliviamuenz — on @CLMPorg 's reading list in honor of #DisabilityPrideMonth :

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A Reading List for Disability Pride Month 2023 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

We asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in honor of Disability Pride Month, observed...

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

"Nothing could have prepared me for the serenity and beauty of the VCCA. I’ve had opportunities to meet exceptional artists from all walks of life from all over the world." Bea Booker announces plans to move on from VCCA (after 17 years!):

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Pleased to share that @CarterSickels , author of the novels THE PRETTIEST STAR ( @HubCityPress ) and THE EVENING HOUR ( @BloomsburyPub ), is the 2021 recipient of the Steven Petrow LGBTQ Fellowship, a fully-funded residency made possible by VCCA Board member and Fellow @StevenPetrow .

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

So much gratitude to our favorite folks from Meriwether Godsey for preparing a proper feast for the #VCCAFellows in residence at Mt. San Angelo during the Thanksgiving holiday. 🧡 💚 #artistresidency #mtsanangelo #vcca #meriwethergodsey

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Happy start to the 2022 residency season at le Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France! Today's arrival of the first #VCCAFellows in Auvillar kicks off a busy season with residencies scheduled through mid December. Photo by VCCA Fellow Paige Critcher from a 2017 residency.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Happy to see SILVERFISH by VCCA Fellow and Board member @roneshavers and THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE by Fellow @SejalShahWrites as finalists for @CLMPorg 's Firecracker Awards! Congrats to all: #VCCAFellow #VCCAFellows

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CLMP Announces the 2021 Firecracker Awards Finalists - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

7 years

The first snow of the season is falling at VCCA. Did it snow on Mt. San Angelo during your residency?

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

"VCCA has given me precious moments of possibility." 🧡 Writer, VCCA Board member, and VCCA Fellow @chrischiu13 #AAPIheritagemonth #artistcommunity

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VCCA Board Member Christina Chiu on AAPI Heritage Month

"This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I'm thinking about possibilities for AAPI artists and other artists of color."

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Congratulations to CM Burroughs, VCCA Fellow ('09) and Sweet Briar alumna ('04), whose recent collection MASTER SUFFERING ( @tupelopress ) is on the 2021 #NBAwards Longlist for Poetry! via @sweetbriaredu

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

Our next deadline is just over a week away! Applications for a great collection of VCCA residency and fellowship opportunities are due before midnight on Sunday, May 15:

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Fully-Funded Fellowship Opportunities for VCCA Residencies

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, VCCA is proud to offer a rotating selection of fully-funded fellowships at each of our three annual application deadlines (January 15, May 15, and October...

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Two months left to apply! No application fee. No reference letters. 30-day VCCA residency with $1K honorarium and travel reimbursed up to $750.

@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Happy to share VCCA's 2023 Wachtmeister Award for fiction will be judged by @Sadeqasays @rebeccamakkai and @MuraDavid ! Now accepting applications from established fiction writers who are new to VCCA. Award includes 30-day VCCA residency and $1K honorarium:

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

Happy belated publication day to VCCA Fellow Alyssa Songsiridej @anarasong and her debut novel LITTLE RABBIT, new this month from @BloomsburyPub !!

Little Rabbit a book by Alyssa Songsiridej

CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE SHORTLIST * PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD LONGLIST * NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, THE SAN FRANCISCO...

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Today! Nearby events with poet Joy Harjo at @SweetBriaredu and @MonacanNation Community Center are part of the Big Read series that kicked off yesterday with a program honoring poet Karenne Wood (VCCA Fellow in 2000). @NEAarts @ArtsMidwest @VAHumanities

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

6 years

VCCA welcomes Matthew McLendon ( @SonoFuturista ) and Steven Petrow ( @StevenPetrow ) to the VCCA Board of Directors. Read more about them at

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

Attention writers of D.C., Maryland, and Virginia!

@WWPHPress

WWPH The Washington Writers' Publishing House

3 years

Reminder DMV writers, our annual poetry and fiction manuscript submissions are closing on Monday, November 15th...write on @CafeMFA @mason__cw @JHUArtsSciences @ArtsAtUMBC @VCCA - we offer $1,500+publication+launch support! more at

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

4 years

Join us in celebratory congratulations (!!) for two #VCCAFellows named #PulitzerPrize Finalists: Composer Michael Torke for "Sky: Concerto for Violin" and poet @doriannelaux for "Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems"

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Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

9 months

Poets are eligible for a free three-week residency at Mt. San Angelo! Apply for the Fall 2024 Richard S. and Julia Louise Reynolds Poetry Fellowship by January 15, 2024. #poet #poetry #writingresidency #writingcommunity

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Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

7 years

At VCCA, Rose Marasco is working on her book “Keeping House.” She’s combining photos of objects found in her 1837 home in Portland, Maine, with the Maine landscape while writing about her experiences of rebuilding a spiritual home and her ongoing investigation into daily life.

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

We're looking forward to welcoming @CarterSickels and @StevenPetrow for a special edition of the #VCCAFireplaceSeries ! Join them and our host Iraj Isaac Rahmim on Thursday, August 19, at 7:30 p.m. ET:

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

5 years

Applications for fall residencies (October-January) are due Wednesday, May 15. That is just one week away, ya'll! Apply now at

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

We're thrilled to announce @JoanneDiaz72 as the fourth recipient of the Richard S. and Julia Louise Reynolds Poetry Fellowship! She's headed to Mt. San Angelo this month for her first VCCA residency. #VCCAFellows

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

3 years

We're excited for the return of the VCCA Salon series at @SweetBriaredu !

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@VCCA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2 years

This upcoming virtual event in @VABookFest 's Shelf Life series will feature three #VCCAFellows who "hold ties with Virginia and depict its landscape as well as other locations in their verse" — @KathyDavispoet , Danielle Beazer Dubrasky, and @hanklatome .

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