Calliope
Calliope is West Virginia University’s undergraduate literary journal. For more than 40 years, students at WVU have collaborated to create this award-winning journal, a showcase of the exemplary creative efforts of the student body. Submitting to Calliope is exclusive to WVU students, regardless of major, and historically has included works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and artwork.
Current Volume: Volume 37 (2025)
Full Issue
Front Matter
Poetry
a moment in bed
Logan Annett
Echoes of Love
Logan Annett
Colors I Hate
Theresa Appleyard
Unlike Father, Like Son
Sal Barrett
Things That Make Me Ache
Alice Cruz
Morning Mourning Prayer
Lauren Dean
The Highway Home
Lauren Dean
Empty Charades
Calder Funk
Heavenly Bodies
Faithlyn Graham
Seoul Diptych
Abby MacNeil
Laika's Dream
Maia Paternostro
Feed Me Fruits
Dylan Unger
Her Taste of Maple
Sophia Weihman
My Prayers to the Month of May
Sophia Weihman
Fiction
A Field Of Petunias
Hayden Bradley
Shadow Wizard Money Raid
Ethan Groome
SEX ROBOT MARKETING NOTES AND USER REVIEW
Ayden Norcross
The Cadaver
Bailey Smith
Sestri Levante
William Thompson
Nonfiction
The Unshot Deer
Theresa Appleyard
Two Blue Lines
Elizabeth Foreback
That One Time I Got 'Em Good
Talia Jordan
The Eye of The Madness
Alexis Sook
Rest Stop: A Parable
Lily Williams
We All Do Things You Don't Have To Understand
Lily Williams
Artwork
Nous Sommes Faits Du Même Bois
Willow Mason
Lost Signal
Logan Annett
People Biking on the Ohiopyle Trail in Late October
Faithlyn Graham
Untitled Two
Alexis Berry
The Old Watcher
Eddie Weese
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Hannah Woods
- Assistant-Editor-in-Chief
- Abigail Stout
- Poetry Editors
- Hayden Bradley and Destinney Ringer
- Fiction Editors
- Cole Kemper and Colin O'Kelley
- Nonfiction Editor
- Nathan Powell
- Visual Arts Editors
- Amiah Stewart and Lily Williams
- Cover Art
- Nous Sommes Faits Du Même Bois by Willow Mason