S. Preston Duncan

S. Preston Duncan is a poet, death doula, BBQist, and leatherworker in Richmond's East End. He is the sole proprietor of Dreamwell Studio, a small leathercraft business specializing in hand-carved and pyrographed journals and grow journals. Author of the short poetry collection, The Sound in This Time of Being (BIG WRK, 2020), his writing has appeared in [PANK], Wrongdoing, Witches Magazine, and other fine publications. He has been contributing to RVA Magazine with remarkable inconsistency since 2009.

stories by S. Preston Duncan

10,000 Years In Virginia

10,000 Years In Virginia

Through English settlers, Jim Crow, and the road to federal recognition, Virginia’s Pamunkey Indian Tribe stands strong. If you haven’t spent much time in the river country of Virginia’s Tidewater region, you might mistake it for a standard-issue rural community....

Rest Easy With WRIR’s Death Club Radio

Rest Easy With WRIR’s Death Club Radio

RVA Mag #38 is on the streets now! Here’s another article from the issue, in which we explore the ins, outs, ups and downs of death and dying with Death Club Radio, the weekly WRIR show that helps demystify the universal experience of the end of life. Here’s the...

Hit Me When I’m Pretty

Hit Me When I’m Pretty

RVA Mag #38 is on the streets now! Here's the first article, in which Ryan Kent, the author behind Poems for Dead People, talks rock bottom, writing, and redemption with the release of his latest book. You know the tune: boy grows up on dreams of baseball, falling...

RVA No. 11: James Justin & Co.

RVA No. 11: James Justin & Co.

There is a particular and unnamed sensation that accompanies the realization that a band you’ve enjoyed for a while hadn’t really discovered themselves yet, all those times you saw them before. It’s a sharp breath pushing their past performances into the periphery of...




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