@wrightallison

Executive editor, @VQR, 2019 National Magazine Award winner, General Excellence. Journalism prof, @UVA & @nyu_oj. PhD, @AmStudies. I love not camping.

 Charlottesville, VA
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Joined October 2009
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Here is my heart & soul lithub.com/allison-wright-di…
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To be clear: the goal is to use them at the same time, e.g. to go for a walk & listen to a podcast or book together.
Allison Wright@wrightallison26 Aug 2023
Is there a solution to the problem of not being able to pair two bluetooth (obvi) headphones to one phone?
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Is there a solution to the problem of not being able to pair two bluetooth (obvi) headphones to one phone?
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Happy Pride! We @VQR are v excited about this cover story—by photog @michaelosnyder & writer @rae_garringer—so excited that we devoted more pages to it than we have to any portfolio ever before. Subscribe now to get THE QUEENS OF QUEEN CITY in your life. mailchi.mp/virginia/coming-s…
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Is every @emmastraub newsletter this perfect? Yes. open.substack.com/pub/emmast…
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Sometimes you're packing for a vacation & you open the latest "What are you reading?" Tuesday Thread on @annehelen's newsletter, see it's at 739 comments & just close that tab.
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‘The world’s largest Black group chat’: Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter 19thnews.org/2023/05/black-t… via @19thnews

‘The world’s largest Black group chat’: Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter

A number of efforts are underway to document not just the content created on the platform but how Black women used it for communication and community — along with the abuse they received.

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Some of the poems in the Pulitzer-winning collection appeared in VQR's Fall 2018 issue. Read "And If I Fall": vqronline.org/poetry/2018/10…
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Congratulations to VQR contributor @CPhillipsPoet for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book THEN THE WAR.
The Pulitzer Prizes@PulitzerPrizes8 May 2023
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Congratulations to @CPhillipsPoet, @fsgbooks and @WUSTL. #Pulitzer
Washington University in St. Louis English professor Carl Phillips has received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for "Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020" (FSG).

ALT Washington University in St. Louis English professor Carl Phillips has received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for "Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020" (FSG).

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Are you curious about publishing but don't subscribe to @KathMSchmidt's newsletter, Publishing Confidential? That seems silly. | Author Advances + P&Ls open.substack.com/pub/kathle…
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Eye-Catching REDress Project Memorializes Indigenous Women news.virginia.edu/content/ey…

Eye-Catching REDress Project Memorializes Indigenous Women

An exhibit to recognize missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and “two-spirit people” is coming to The Fralin Museum of Art and other locations on Grounds.

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Zach Rodvold@zrodvold17 Apr 2023
Eliminating the entire #SNAP program (which helps keep human beings from going hungry) would reduce the national debt by 0.35%. (That's ZERO point three five percent.) This is not a conversation about debt and deficits. #hunger
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Kevin McCarthy, speaking at NYSE, proposes work requirements for government benefits
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“By some estimates” haha, start your week off right with this essay by my former @VQR colleague Theodore Gioia | Straw Ban Arguments tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

Straw Ban Arguments - News - Tablet Magazine

How the environmental dangers of single-use plastic was turned into a great moral cause by a 9-year-old

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Hey y'all. @DinDPodcast is in 1st place in #Webbys People’s Voice & they need your votes: wbby.co/31788N
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My husband today, as we seek a lunch restaurant & pass many closed businesses: “America, you’ve got a Jesus problem.”
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The first issue of our new weekly poetry newsletter features @Dalai_Mama_'s poem "Junker," from our Spring 2020 issue. Read & subscribe: mailchi.mp/virginia/joy-prie…]

Joy Priest's "Junker"

That one smelled like a Bradford pear you said.

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Begins next week!
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VQR's new poetry newsletter draws from nearly 100 years of poetry in the magazine’s pages. Subscribe today! eepurl.com/ilfAh1
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Happy pub day to @_alex_mar’s SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN, literary nonfiction at its finest! Do yourself a favor & add this to your list of books to read asap bookshop.org/a/4212/97805255…

Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

“Alex Mar’s bold yet sensitive account of one of America’s youngest death row inmates—and the people whose lives she forever changed—is intimately reported, deeply moving, and unforgettable.” —Robert...

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I know it's only March & I haven't even finished reading this but it should be a candidate for Best American Essays
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"I love these men, because it’s easier to love people you’ve watched vomit into the hellmouth of a portable toilet at two in the morning while you film it for your friends." #longreads @HarrisonKey @BitterSouth bittersoutherner.com/feature…

St. Patrick's Day in Savannah, Georgia — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

Writer Harrison Scott Key shares the joy, chaos — and, at times, horror — of St. Patrick's Day in Savannah and pens a story of how he and a group of friends laid claim to a precious spot along the...

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