A Common Place

Come celebrate with us tonight at LCVA from 7-8!! 🥳🥳

Bring your family and friends to enjoy free food, good music, and the published work of Longwood's students 🤩

You will also receive a free copy of our very first issue 😆

We look forward to seeing you there!!

Meet A Common Place’s Editorial Assistant: Emily Steffenhagan!

Emily Steffenhagen is currently studying creative writing at Longwood University. She loves fantasy and sci-fi. She’s excited to be a part of A Common Place’s creation and to help grow the literary community at Longwood.

She is also very excited for your submissions!

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The Sewanee Review is an American literary magazine established in 1892, making it the oldest quarterly in the U.S! It publishes original fiction and poetry, essays, reviews, and literary criticism.

Their latest magazine, Fall 2021 Vol. 4, is now available! Visit thesewaneereview.com for more information on their magazine or to check out some of their published work. (It’s really good 😅)

Meet A Common Place’s Prose Editor: Victoria Thompson!

Victoria Thompson oversees the Fiction and Nonfiction sections for A Common Place. She is a senior English major with a Creative Writing concentration and Communication Studies minor at Longwood University. As a writer who has submitted her work to publications before, she understands the mixed emotions of fear and excitement of giving writing for others to see. She remains hopeful for herself and her fellow writers in the literary community to learn and grow on their path to publication.

If you’re interested in interviews with authors, promotions of new books, or any other literary event, Powell’s Books is the place to go—not literally, since they’re located in Portland, Oregon, but lucky for us, the Powell’s website has a fantastic calendar of events for readers’ perusal.

The variety of events means there’s something for everyone. Some of them require a ticket or book purchase, but most are free. At the moment, events are held on Zoom, so you can attend from anywhere! Click the link in our bio for more information on literary events!

It’s Writer Wednesday yet again, folks!

This week’s spotlight shines brightly on Instagram writer and influencer Caro Claire Burke. Caro is the founder of what she has coined the Cover Stories Project. Within this project, Caro writes stories that are based on songs. Many know her for her stories based on the discography of Taylor Swift. If you like the intertwining of music and literature, then you’ll love this author’s work! If you’d like to give her a follow, her Instagram is .



If you would like to highlight a writer that you know, published or not, please DM us and we will showcase them on our Writer Wednesday posts! It’s a great way to contribute to the greater literary community 🙌🏼

It’s Writer Wednesday!! 🤗

Today’s highlighted writer is J.K Chukwu. She is a writer and an experimental artist. Her work is published in DIAGRAM, New Delta Review, and many other places. If you enjoy embracing different outlooks on life, you would absolutely love her work! So check out more of their literature at jkchukwu.com where you can also find her music recommendations for inspiration ✨



If you would like to highlight a writer that you know, published or not, please DM us and we will showcase them on our Writer Wednesday posts! It’s a great way to contribute to the greater literary community 🙌🏼

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Looking for a new writer to fall in love with? 👀 You may be able to find just that by checking out Bill City Press’s quarterly journal, Inch!

Inch is a micro-chapbook that features the work of a single author. It can rage from poetry, to short fiction, to creative nonfiction.

So if you’re interested in any of those genres of literature, you’d absolutely love checking out each issue of Inch because you never know who the next highlighted literary genius could be!

For more information, go to bullcitypress.com! We look forward to highlighting more from Bull City Press in the future. Until then, enjoy their other published works by visiting their website!

Meet A Common Place’s Poetry Editor: Kyla Brown!

Kyla is an undergraduate student attending Longwood University, majoring in Modern Language with a concentration in Teaching English as a Second Language and an Algebra I Endorsement. She has a burning passion for poetry that began at the young age of 10 and has only grown since. Her favorite collection of poetry is American Negro Poetry, edited by Arna Bontemps, which highlights some of his favorite poets, notably Langston Hughes. In her free time, she writes to her neighbors about proverbs found in the bible. Kyla also enjoys spending time with her friends and family.

Staff at the Greenwood Library at Longwood University host an ongoing reading series known as Southside Reads. Currently the monthly discussions are held online because of the pandemic.

The November theme is Read in One Day, which refers to any sort of writing that can be read in a single day, involving shorter books like novellas and short stories. The date for the book discussion this month has yet to be determined but will most likely be online. For more information and updates on Southside Reads, click the link in our bio or visit https://libguides.longwood.edu/southsidereads

Meet A Common Place’s Poetry Reader: Mallory Davis!

Mallory Davis is a Sociology major with a concentration in Family Studies and a minor in Spanish. She loves to write poetry and short stories. Poetry and fiction, especially fantasy and realistic fiction, intrigues her the most.

Mallory says “Hello!” to all and looks forward to reading your poetry submissions! 😃

Looking for an escape from the stresses of life, may it be nagging parents, professors, or just the never-ending piles of homework🤕?

Take out the time to enjoy the reading of Laura Kolbe, someone who understands. As highlighted on our website by Kyla Brown, A Common Place’s Poetry Editor, Kolbe will be reading from her debut book TONIGHT (7-8pm) at New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville, Va.

You could go with some friends and even grab some dinner afterwards. Keep in mind it’s free 😏

For more info… click on the link in our bio!

If you can’t make it to this event, New Dominion Bookshop has tons more just for you! For those events, visit their website!

We hope everyone enjoys their weekend! 🥳

Meet A Common Place’s Editor-in-Chief: Cuba Carden!

Cuba knows firsthand the overwhelm and nervousness associated with submitting work to a literary journal or audience. She has submitted to many journals and serves as an editor at the literary journal K’in. Recently, she performed original poetry as an Invited Reader at the More Than Concrete: Literature as Monument Symposium Series. Cuba worked for Virginia Magazine publishing company and studied English with a Creative Writing concentration. She enjoys reading pieces that break the traditional mold and strives to do so herself. Cuba is mostly excited to be a part of Longwood’s growing literary community and welcomes all writers!

Wondering what a literary journal even is? Check out Emily Steffenhagen’s post on our website. She explains what literary journals are and how A Common Place fits into that description. The link is in the bio!

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