Name for Submissions: The 2025 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Submission Window: Could 1 – June 1Prize: $1,000 + Publication + Journey to Auburn College The Southern Humanities Overview is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, a $1,000 award that celebrates poems of witness and honors the legacy of the late poet…
Homo Vitruvius and American Samizdat function houses for my weekly inventive writing and mental exploration. HV persists as my unique and first Substack in these pursuits; AS arose in resistance to Trumpism and is devoted to its defeat. From memoir and poetry to fiction and drama, largely in HV, to historical past and political philosophy,…
The 2025 Bridgette James Poetry Competitors Theme: “Nature and You” | Submission Deadline: Might 8, 2025 (Midday BST)Entry Price: Free | Open to: Writers from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and their diaspora Prizes 1st Place: $40 USD Runner-Up: $10 USD Prime 3: Revealed within the Penned in Rage Hardcover Journal Ella’s Poems invitations poets to…
Name for Submissions: The 2025 Black Orchid Novella Award Deadline: Might 31, 2025Prize: Publication + Recognition on the Black Orchid Banquet in NYC Thriller writers, take word: the distinguished Black Orchid Novella Award (BONA) is now accepting submissions. Sponsored by The Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock’s Thriller Journal (AHMM), this blind-judged competitors rewards an authentic,…
Earlier than our Open Mic Evening earlier this month, I had each nightmare you’ll be able to think about. I get there however it seems unsuitable. I’m within the basement of a downtown workplace constructing, and a person in a swimsuit is saying I can run the Open Mic, he simply wants 20 minutes to…
How will we construct belief in public well being programs—and the way will we restore it when it’s been fractured? LIGHT Journal invitations creatives worldwide to answer these questions via artwork, letters, tales, and poetry for his or her 2025 Open Name. They’ve centered this yr’s theme on belief as a cornerstone of public well…
Let’s welcome again month-to-month columnist Kelley Means as she shares with us “Can AI Content material Be Copyrighted?” Take pleasure in! *** On January 29, 2025, the Copyright Workplace launched its report on whether or not and when AI-generated content material could be copyrighted. Whereas the outcomes have been in keeping with its earlier holdings…
The anthology The Finest Brief Tales options 20 rigorously chosen and compiled brief tales. The prize takes its title from the American brief story author William Sydney Porter, A.Okay.A, O. Henry greatest identified for the story ‘The Reward of Magi‘. For the 2025 O. Henry Prize, two Nigerian writers had been chosen for The Finest…
Balancing World Constructing Components for the Reader Expertise with Jasper Ezekiel – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 149 *** “I’m at all times actually fascinated by what will get trimmed off the perimeters. And since there’s gold in there typically. And why would a artistic skilled select to incorporate this, however not that?”…
Name for Submissions: 2026 Cave Canem Prize Deadline: Might 8, 2025 | Prize: $10,000 + Publication by College of Georgia Press Cave Canem invitations Black poets to submit their debut full-length poetry manuscripts for the 2026 Cave Canem Prize, an annual award devoted to supporting the careers of rising Black voices in poetry. This prestigious…