For the past 25 years, WVU has proudly supported Calliope, an award-winning student-run literary journal that exclusively features WVU undergraduate writers of poetry and prose from any major. Each year a new editorial staff and readers are chosen to solicit and accept submissions and to design and print the year’s edition.

Editor-in-chief Caleb Milne served as master of ceremonies for the reading

A reading was held on Thursday, April 21, to celebrate the 2016 issue, which had just arrived that afternoon. Mary Ann Samyn, Calliope’s faculty advisor, introduced the event and then handed the evening over to Caleb Milne, this year’s editor-in-chief. Contributing authors in attendance read from their work published in the journal:

Christopher Henry – poetry
Patrick Bayley – poetry
Shana Burleson – prose
Jordan Carter – poetry
J. M. Jarrett – poetry
Lindsay Terlikowski – poetry and prose
Victor Warnock – poetry and prose
Amanda Gaines – poetry and prose
Travis Kent – prose
Caleb Milne – poetry

Some of the readers from the evening

Congratulations to these and all of the contributing Calliope authors.

And a special congratulations to this year’s staff (along with all of their readers) for producing another delightful issue:

Caleb Milne – Editor-in-Chief
Allison Eckman – Fiction Editor
Mitchell Glazier – Poetry Editor
Alexandra Vaughn – Nonfiction Editor
Patrick Bayley – Designer

Calliope’s 2016 editorial staff, from left to right: Patrick Bayley, Mitchell Glazier, Alexandra Vaughn, Caleb Milne, Allison Eckman

To hear a recording of the reading, visit the Creative Readings Podcast, hosted by the Center for Literary Computing.

More information about the journal can be found on Calliope’s WVU webpage or the WVU Calliope Facebook page.