Calliope

Thank you for visiting the webpage for Calliope, West Virginia University’s undergraduate literary journal!

For more than 30 years, students at WVU have collaborated to create and populate this award-winning journal, a showcase of the exemplary creative efforts of the student body. Submitting to Calliope is exclusive to WVU undergraduate students, regardless of major, and historically has included works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and artwork.

For more information on Calliope,
email calliopelitwvu@gmail.com

Submission Guidelines

Poetry 
500 Words Per Entry 
5 Entries Per Person (1 Document)

Prose 
3000 Words Per Entry 
3 Entries Per Person (1 Document)
Fiction or Nonfiction

Artwork/Photography
3 Entries Per Person
PDF or JPEG Preferred

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• Calliope July 26 – Read the Full Issue
  
  
  In this issue:
• Editors and Readers
• Table of Contents
• A Fawn is [REDACTED], and No One is Stopping Their Car by Destinney Ringer
• Appalachia Unearthed by Destinney Ringer
• As she drives them back from Decker’s Creek by Theresa Appleyard
• Collecting the Shiny Bits - an ars poetica by Sal Barrett
• Corridors by Cole Kemper
• Downstream by Theresa Appleyard
• Eye of the Beholder by Sal Barrett
• Like a Deer in Headlights by Destinney Ringer
• My Dad’s in Doddridge by Katie Lynn Stewart
• Sister, Wife, Mom, Gran by Katie Lynn Stewart
• Van Gogh, Van Gone by Sal Barrett
• Wistful for my Mountain’s Embrace by Katie Lynn Stewart
• Where All I’ve Been With a Harpoon Jutting from my Chest by Catherine Camenga
• Bathroom Trip by Ada Chen
• Drowning in Hereditary by Destinney Ringer
• Forest Offering by Theresa Appleyard
• Swallowed by Rose Spangler
• Obituary by Chloe Hale
• A Trapped Rainbow by Cala E. Palmer
• On the Horizon by Matthew Recker
• Are We Trapped by Ada Chen
• Gazes by Ada Chen
• image01 by Adasia Cousins
• Air to Surface by Laney Eichelberger
• Self Portrait 02 by Jimmie Lane
• We Turn by Ada Chen
• Acknowledgements