Below please find a selection of links to more information about Virginia Watts and her writings, including links to interviews, features, and reviews online. More to come.
Awards & Nominations
“Marti’s Father”, Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2017
“Passages”, Nominated for Best of the Net 2019 Nonfiction
“Andromeda”, Nonfiction Meek Award Winner 2019
“Choose a Memory to Keep”, First Place Winner of the Joan Ramseyer Poetry Contest 2019
“Figs and Snaps”, Nominated for Best of the Net 2020 Nonfiction
“Christmas 1938”, Nominated for Best of the Net 2020 Nonfiction
“Figs and Snaps”, Nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize Nonfiction
“Aerial View” , Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2021 Fiction
“The News”, Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2022 Poetry
Echoes from The Hocker House, Selected as a BEST INDIE BOOK OF 2023 by KIRKUS
Echoes from The Hocker House, Third Place Winner of the Feathered Quill Book Award 2024 Short Story/Anthology
Virginia Watts’ first collection of short stories selected as a BEST INDIE BOOK OF 2023 by KIRKUS
& 2024 FEATHERED QUILL BOOK AWARD WINNER (BRONZE)
Available through Amazon.
“Entrancing, edgy, and melodramatic tales with a palpable bite … Watts writes with a profound, confident voice.“
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
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Online Interviews
Haunted Water Press
“I think it is a mistake to ask yourself what you should be writing about. If you feel it, write it and see where it goes.” Read more
Dark Lane Books
“Writing is something that happens to me more than anything else. What I do is when an idea arrives for a story or a poem, I sit down somewhere quiet and start in with immense gratitude and hope. I love every minute of the process from rough draft to critique editing to letting go of something knowing I have done the best I could for the idea that came to me.” Read more
Author Readings
Listen to an excerpt on Oyster River Pages from Virginia’s short story, “Early on Sunday” .
Watch & listen to a reading of “When Christmas Dawns”, published in Moon City Review 2019.
Watch & listen to a reading of “Sometimes the Girl Stank”, published in The Banyan Review, Spring 2023.
Listen to Virginia Watts read her short story, Erma Leonard, first published in Hometown Haunts – A Hollowzine, Peach Velvet Magazine, Oct 2021