Press, Awards, & Features
Press
VCU News, "Blackbird literary journal team launches multidimensional podcast"
Something Out of Nothing, No. 22
Style Weekly, “Drawing Parallels”
Greasy Kulture Magazine Issue 102 (Wickline Speed Shop)
Style Weekly, “A Vocal Community”
WEKU, “The Sound Quilt Project Weaves Sonic Fibers To Tell A Story Of Issues Faced By People In Appalachia”
The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Voice, “Trey Burnart Hall, The Sound Quilt Project, and Quilting the Old and the New”
Style Weekly, “‘Striking Gold”
VCU News, “‘You have to tell a good story’: Students in sound studies class hone their podcasting skills”
Awards
2026 VCU English Writing Award for Graduate Poetry for poems from Choir of Inherited Voices
2026 VCU Claudia Emerson Scholarship
2025 Folk Alliance International Album of the Year Nominee (Justin Golden with Devil's Coattails - Golden Country Vol. 1 & 2)
2023 Newlin Music Prize Short List (Producer of Cassidy Snider & Mackenzie Roark)
Runner-Up of FloydFest 2017 “On the Rise” Music Competition (Dharma Bombs)
Features
Featured in the Literary Podcasting: A New Sonic Space panel at the 2026 AWP Conference alongside Carvell Wallace, Dawnie Walton, and Jessica Hendry Nelson
Featured in AWP Off-site event: Triptych: Video, Sound, & Live Readers (Presented by Blackbird, TriQuarterly, & Brink Magazines), featuring readings from Tremaine Suubi, Ira Sukrungruang, and Harrison Hamm and showcasing work by Ashley Dailey, Hannah Bonner, Carolina Ebeid, Sarah Minor, Esé Emmanuel, and Troels Hierdal
Featured in NPR Live Sessions, Bandcamp Daily, & more (Justin Golden with Devil's Coattails)
Archived Recording for Library of Congress and Virginia Folklife Archive (Justin Golden with Devil’s Coattails at 20th Richmond Folk Festival for Center for Cultural Vibrancy)
Guest Artist for 2020 Series, “The Writer’s Block”
Guest Artist for Appalachian Heritage Week at Lees-McRae College
Guest Artist for 2019 A Song Catcher Series
Presenter for 2019 MATX 690: Sound Studies Podcast Showcase