Blackbird (an online journal of literature and the arts) is an internet journal publishing fiction, poetry, plays, interviews, and reviews by Pulitzer winners as well as promising young artists, including audio and video features, always presented free of charge. Its founding editors include Gregory Donovan, Mary Flinn, Michael Keller and Jeff Lodge. Blackbird is published jointly by the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in partnership with New Virginia Review, Inc., a nonprofit literary arts organization based in Richmond, Virginia.