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Inside the opioid epidemic

When the opioid crisis began to unfold, Virginia journalist Beth Macy was at its epicenter. As a beat reporter for...

Back to life

Local author Donna Lucey has made it her life’s work to research and write about “badass women.” Her stories often...

A round-up of 2016’s...

There’s something about Charlottesville. Recently included in “The Ultimate 50-State Road Trip for Book Lovers,” this...

Self-published and...

For many artists, the act of promoting their own work can feel counterintuitive, a business that necessitates turning...

Hannah Pittard’s third...

Even under ordinary conditions, a road trip can be the ultimate test of a relationship. But when torrential rain and...

WriterHouse Fiction Contest...

Aim By Claire Rann I see a pale circle of flesh. He is holding me toward the side of her neck, a few inches away. The...

WriterHouse Fiction Contest...

Fans of fiction C-VILLE Weekly and WriterHouse partnered again this year for our fiction contest, in which readers...

Poet Amie Whittemore finds...

For some new readers, poetry feels light years away from reality. It reads like a dense abstraction—the literary...

Patsy Asuncion cuts through...

As American citizens of all races and colors march in protest of police brutality and racial profiling this summer,...

Local author Emma Rathbone...

Writing a novel isn’t easy by most measures, but it’s said that your second novel is where the anxiety really kicks...