Essays

Short stories, poems, and essays written by Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans in MFA workshops.

The author and the young magazine were a perfect fit—a writer known for his insistence on challenging convention and a publication establishing itself as a progressive voice of the South.

Even a bad novel should be treated with a kind of respect.

Losing print books means losing the personal touches that accompany them.

Four months ago, I was hopeful about it. How does the 2010 edition fare?

One writer’s take on the annual writing conference.

A brief look at Sherwood Anderson’s contributions to VQR, featuring his original manuscripts and VQR’s correspondence with him.

The website devoted to “correspondence deserving of a wider audience” is fascinating.

Dissolution is not a new theme for Edwin An lington Robinson, for it was in “Merlin” that he told of a noble civilization falling back into violence and barbarism. It was the war that made Robinson feel so. In his latest and last book,...

As I bend over the desk about my writing I am crouched before Aesred in something like an attitude of supplication: whensoever I look up from the typewriter keys, and over the top of my reading glasses so that I may quite clearly see my...