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 38 (2026)
Full Issue
Front Matter
Poetry
A Fawn is [REDACTED], and No One is Stopping Their Car
Destinney Ringer
Appalachia Unearthed
Destinney Ringer
As she drives them back from Decker’s Creek
Theresa Appleyard
Collecting the Shiny Bits - an ars poetica
Sal Barrett
Downstream
Theresa Appleyard
Eye of the Beholder
Sal Barrett
Like a Deer in Headlights
Destinney Ringer
My Dad’s in Doddridge
Katie Lynn Stewart
Sister, Wife, Mom, Gran
Katie Lynn Stewart
Van Gogh, Van Gone
Sal Barrett
Wistful for my Mountain’s Embrace
Katie Lynn Stewart
Where All I’ve Been With a Harpoon Jutting from my Chest
Catherine Camenga
Fiction
Bathroom Trip
Ada Chen
Drowning in Hereditary
Destinney Ringer
Forest Offering
Theresa Appleyard
Nonfiction
A Trapped Rainbow
Cala E. Palmer
On the Horizon
Matthew Recker
Artwork
Are We Trapped
Ada Chen
Air to Surface
Laney Eichelberger
Self Portrait 02
Jimmie Lane
Acknowledgements
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Amiah Stewart
- Assistant-Editor-in-Chief
- Colin O'Kelley
- Poetry Editors
- Elena Brunty and Cala Palmerr
- Fiction Editors
- Carina Haines, Lillian Forget, and Isabella Emigh
- Nonfiction Editosr
- Camryn Morgan and Elena Brunty
- Visual Arts Editors
- Camryn Morgan and Trinity Huntz
- Cover Art
- you can't outrun it by Ada Chen