The New River, founded by Edward Falco with assistance from Len Hatfield in 1996, was the first journal devoted exclusively to the publication of digital art and literature. Starting in the fall of 2023, The New River will also begin publishing innovative prose and poetry.
Housed in Virginia Tech’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, The New River posts new issues twice per year. For nearly three decades, we have published a variety of works in genres such as computational poetry, interactive fiction, augmented reality, video art, playable media, literary Twitter bots, web-based sound art, and innovations in between. We have published leading digital artists and writers from around the globe, including Stephanie Strickland, Tina Escaja, Nick Montfort, J.R. Carpenter, Kristen Gallerneaux, Winnie Soon, John Cayley, Mez Breeze, and Steve Tomasula.
To learn more about the history of The New River, listen to Sylvester Johnston, founding director of the Virginia Tech Center for the Humanities, interview Ed Falco, our founding editor, and Amanda Hodes, our former managing editor and electronic literature editor, in the Vox Humanities Podcast.
Founding Editor: Ed Falco
Editor-in-Chief: Evan Lavender-Smith
Managing Editors: Elisha Brewer & Dante Fuoco
Electronic Literature Editor: Emelia Kamadulski
Poetry Editors: Jesus Govea & Kapreece Dorrah
Prose Editors: Ifreen Raveen & Kirk Reilly
Interviews Editor: Shannon Pratson
Book Reviews Editor: Emilia Borjas
Social Media Managers: Kirk Reilly & Eric Yoo
Associate Editor: Karan Kapoor
Web Designer: Raegan Bird
Questions? Contact us at info@thenewriver.us.
