[02/15 deadline] 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, judged by aracelis girmay

Founded in 2020, the CAAPP Book Prize is a publishing partnership between the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press with the goal of publishing and promoting a writer of African descent. The prize is awarded annually to a first or second book by a writer of African descent and is open to the full range of writers embodying African American, African, or African diasporic experiences. The book can be of any genre that is, or intersects with, poetry, including poetry, hybrid work, speculative prose, and/or translation. The winning manuscript will be published by Autumn House Press and its author will be awarded $3,000. Final Judge: aracelis girmay. Full info here: https://www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/caapp-book-prize/


[02/15 deadline] 2024 Sarabande Prizes in Short Fiction, Poetry, and Essay

The prizes include $3,000, publication of a full-length collection, and a standard royalty contract.

The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Lauren Groff. Full details: https://sarabandebooks.submittable.com/submit/283814/the-mary-mccarthy-prize-in-short-fiction-selected-by-lauren-groff

The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Hanif Abdurraqib. Full details: https://sarabandebooks.submittable.com/submit/278880/the-kathryn-a-morton-prize-in-poetry-selected-by-hanif-abdurraqib?previousLoginDate=2023-12-27T18%3a43%3a28.1230000Z

The Sarabande Prize in the Essay, selected by Alexander Chee. Full details: https://sarabandebooks.submittable.com/submit/277967/the-sarabande-prize-in-the-essay-selected-by-alexander-chee


[02/15 deadline] 2024 Ambroggio Prize

The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The winning manuscript will be published by University of Arizona Press in 2025. The 2024 Ambroggio Prize will be judged by Norma Elia Cantú. Learn more here and apply by February 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. ET).


[02/15 deadline] The Yale Nonfiction Book Prize: Submissions Now Open

We are now accepting submissions for the inaugural Yale Nonfiction Book Prize! Sponsored jointly by The Yale Review and Yale University Press, the prize is open to any writer who has not yet published a book of nonfiction. We seek manuscripts that tackle ambitious and under-explored subjects in vivid prose that would appeal to a broad audience.

We welcome submissions in a range of categories, including the following:

• Reported nonfiction
• Cultural and literary criticism for a general audience
• Book-length essays
• Essay collections with a strong throughline
• Memoirs that include research or reportage
• We do not accept scholarly monographs, books intended for an academic audience or a specialized reader, or memoirs that do not take up larger cultural or political questions.

The winner will receive a $15,000 advance, publication by Yale University Press within the Yale Nonfiction Prize Series, and a first-serial excerpt placement in The Yale Review. The inaugural judge is acclaimed nonfiction writer, poet, and TYR editor Meghan O’Rourke. Submissions close on February 15, 2024. Apply here.


[02/19 deadline] Another Chicago Magazine Nonfiction Residency Prize

We at Another Chicago Magazine are pleased to announce our second annual nonfiction contest. The winner will receive up to three weeks at Shannaghe in Belfast, Maine. The contest is open to all nonfiction writers, and we accept submissions from Dec. 1 through Feb. 19. More information is here: https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/acm-residency/



[02/29 deadline] The Cardinal Poetry Prize

For Poets Aged 40 and Over, $1,000 cash prize and publication by Wesleyan University Press

The Cardinal Poetry Prize was conceived by John Murillo, poet and Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University, as a unique opportunity for serious poets who have taken their time and decided not to rush publication, for the studious, rigorous, midnight oil burning, patient ones who are finally satisfied that they have something worthy of readers. The winner will be selected by the guest judge following an initial screening process conducted by coeditors Murillo and Suzanna Tamminen, Director and Editor-in-Chief of Wesleyan University Press.


[02/29 deadline] Blue Mesa Review Spring Contest

Blue Mesa Review, a professional literary magazine out of the MFA at the University of New Mexico, is open for submissions to our spring contest now until February 29th. We accept submissions in creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, and we’re pleased to offer prizes in each category—$500 for first place, $100 for second, and $25 for third. All winners receive publication. We have three incredible judges evaluating the submissions this year—Sarah Gerard in creative nonfiction, Jennifer Givhan in fiction, and Shayla Lawson in poetry. Feel free to reach out to us at bmreditr@unm.edu with any questions, or visit our website to submit: https://bmr.unm.edu/contest/


[02/29 deadline] Hayden’s Ferry Review Poetry & Fiction Contest

Contest details:

-        Open Feb 1-29

-        Guest poetry judge Diana Khoi Nguyen

-        Guest fiction judge Venita Blackburn

-        Two prizes of $1500 + publication

-        Runner-ups receive $250 + publication

-        All submissions considered for publication!


Submission guidelines:

-        Poetry: 1-3 poems totaling up to 10 pages

-        Fiction: a short story or novel excerpt of up to 20 pages

-        $20 entry fee, which includes a 1-year print subscription (US addresses) or a digital subscription (international addresses) with a waived shipping fee.


To find out more details about our contest, our free submissions window, and more, visit our contest web page and submit here!

Founded in 1986, Hayden’s Ferry Review welcomes deftly-crafted work that takes risks and orbits oft-neglected aspects of life. We want work that excites and challenges us in equal measure. All topics, styles, and themes are welcome. Happy submitting!



[03/31 deadline] The 2024 Gatewood Prize

Judge: Emilia Phillips

Dates: January 1, 2024 - March 31, 2024

Contest Fee: $20 (or $25 with a book from the Switchback Catalog)

The submission period for the 2024 Gatewood Prize is open! The Gatewood Prize is Switchback Books’ annual competition for a first or second full-length collection of poems by a woman or non-binary writer. It is named after Emma Gatewood, the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. We're proud to be carrying on the Switchback tradition of publishing exciting work by emerging women and non-binary poets.

Visit our website to read more detailed eligibility and manuscript guidelines. Or, head straight to our Submittable page


[03/01 deadline] Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (no fee)

Now in its 23rd year, this contest seeks today's best humor poems. No fee to enter. Submit published or unpublished work. $3,750 in prizes. Full info: https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/wergle-flomp-humor-poetry-contest-free?utm_source=ffw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wergle-ffw-2024-01


[03/15 deadline] Missouri Review 2024 Perkoff Prize

We're pleased to announce the opening of the 2024 Perkoff Prize. Now in its fourth year, the Perkoff Prize is a tri-genre contest that awards $1000 and publication each to writers of the best story, set of poems, and essays that engage in evocative ways with health and medicine as judged by the editors. It honors the memory of its original benefactor, the late Dr. Gerald Thomas Perkoff, who was Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (learn more about his life here). His love of poetry and the possibilities in treating the vast, rich arena of human experience with health and medicine drove this desire to take note of and reward literary achievement. It is our humble hope that the Perkoff Prize is an opportunity for the artful expression of these infinitely diverse and collectively resonant human experiences. Read all about it here, and we look forward to reading your entries!


[03/31 deadline] Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry, judged by Ilya Kaminsky

Open to submissions January 1 - March 31, 2024.
Judged by Ilya Kaminsky.
Open to all poets writing in English, regardless of publication history.
For submission guidelines, visit https://fourwaybooks.com/site/levis-prize/. (Note: submissions only accepted online.) 

The award:

Publication of a book-length collection of poetry.
$1,000.00 honorarium.
Readings (virtual or in-person depending on safety)

Past award winners include: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Antonio de Jesús López, John Gallaher, James Allen Hall, Matthew Lippman, Monica Rico, Susan Wheeler, and Allison Benis White.


[04/02 deadline] Hurston/Wright College Award 2024

The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is proud to host the annual Hurston/Wright Awards for College Writers, which is the only award of its kind that recognizes Black college writers. The award is the foundation’s first program. It was initiated to support emerging Black artists in fiction and poetry enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate school program anywhere in the United States. The deadline for submission is April 2, 2024

Submissions are judged by distinguished published authors in fiction and poetry who are not employees of the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Selected winners will be notified in July 2024. Only winners will be notified. There is a $1000 prize for the winner in each category. Also, award winners will be invited to attend a summer workshop of their choice for free, as well as attend the Legacy Award ceremony that is hosted in October in Washington, DC. For more information and to apply, click here.


[04/14 deadline] The 2024 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize

We are happy to announce that the 2024 Short Fiction Prize is now accepting submissions. We are open to submissions from anywhere in the word and are welcoming three new judges this year (Samanta Schweblin, Alejandro Zambra, and Megan McDowell) in addition to our perennial judge Ottessa Moshfegh. This year, the winning prize has increased to 2000€. Full info: https://desperateliterature.com/product/prize-submission/


[04/22 deadline] The 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Prize Money: Worth a total of $12,500
Judges: Patrick Flanery, Melinda Harvey and Susan Midalia

Australian Book Review welcomes entries to the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, one of the world's leading prizes for an original short story. The prize – worth a total of AU$12,500 – is open to all writers writing in English. The winner will receive $6,000; second place will receive $4,000 and third place will receive $2,500. All three shortlisted stories will be published in Australian Book Review. We seek original short stories of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject and in any style. This year, the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is judged by Patrick Flanery, Melinda Harvey and Susan Midalia. Click here to enter.


[05/01 deadline] Beautiful Pause Prize

Press Pause Press is an online and print magazine established in 2017. The Press Pause mission is to exist outside of social media (hence the "pause" :) ), creating a space to appreciate writing and art far away from the noise.Press Pause Press is so excited to introduce the Beautiful Pause Prize, our annual full-length manuscript contest, starting this year. :) The inaugural contest is open now through May 1st, 2024 for fiction manuscripts. Novels, novellas, and short story collections are all welcome (25,000 to 100,000 words). (Poetry and nonfiction in the years to follow).

$1,000 and 25 contributor copies (plus royalties) awarded to the winner, and $500 and publication in one of our volumes awarded to the runner-up.

Read the guidelines here.

Submit through Submittable here.


[Rolling until 6/30/24] Dynamo Verlag Book Contest

THE DYNAMO VERLAG BOOK CONTEST invites book-length manuscript submissions in poetry, prose, or any textual combination or reinterpretation of the aforementioned genres. The winning manuscript will be published by Dynamo Verlag in 2025 and its author will receive a $500 advance against book royalties (paid upon and at time of publication), as well as our professional in-house editorial, design, and publicity services (an estimated $3,000 value).


Submissions are $18 and include a copy of the winning book OR a title from our back catalog. Submissions will be accepted until June 30, 2024, or upon receiving 300 submissions, whichever happens first. We may extend the deadline as needed. Full info: https://www.dynamoverlag.com/guidelines-and-contest

[Rolling] Pacifica Literary Review

Pacifica Literary Review is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Prose submissions must be under 5,000 words. Flash fiction submissions must be no more than 1000 words individually. Novel excerpts are acceptable, but must be able to stand alone. For poetry, please submit no more than three poems in a single document. For flash fiction, please submit no more than three pieces in a single document. Full info: http://www.pacificareview.com/submissions/


[Rolling] Press Pause Press Open for Submissions

We aim to publish art and words for the future by artists and writers who believe they're carrying, on their hunched-over-computer shoulders, a pretty heavy yet very pretty burden—to offer us all a way into ourselves so that we may come back out with the wisdom required for positive change as individuals, and as a society. for more info on what we’re about, view our BASIC TENETS. All accepted work for our volumes will appear both online and in print.


[Rolling] Volume Poetry submissions

Online publishing journal, Volume, is open for submissions! Send up to 6 poems to  submissions@volumepoetry.com. Please include a short bio that can be published alongside your work. We are wide open in terms of the kind of poem we are looking for, so please don’t set parameters on what you might submit to Volume. However we won’t consider work that is discriminatory or defamatory or that advocates for such positions. Rolling deadline. https://volumepoetry.com/


[Rolling] The Margins Call for Submissions: Translation Column

A monthly column on Asian language, culture, and translation.

The Margins seeks work from writers for an ongoing monthly column on language, culture, and translation from Asia. We consider Asia as an umbrella term that encompasses all of its regions (South, Southeast, East, Central, and North Asia, and SWANA) and the many diaspora communities of Asians all over the world.

We welcome essays, hybrid works, translations, and translator’s notes that engage with Asia’s literature, cultures, subcultures, languages, and diasporas. We are also interested in works that grapple with the concept of the Transpacific, colonialism, history, and empire, especially as they relate to language and translation. Full info: https://aaww.org/submissions-translation-column/


[Rolling] Barbara J. Zitwer Agency Is Looking for New, Unpublished Authors

The Barbara J. Zitwer Agency is now open for submissions by unpublished authors. BJZ Agency is a global literary agency that has been based in New York City for over 22 years. Barbara J. Zitwer’s strength and expertise is in her ability to discover new writers and launch their international careers.  She also works with established authors in their home countries like Korea, who want to break out into the world. In the beginning, Zitwer discovered Jerry Stahl, Eric Garcia, Sharon Krum, and The Friday Night Knitting Club which was a NYTimes Bestseller for over a year, and Jeff Noon, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award for his debut Vurt among others. She is responsible for the Korean New Wave in global publishing which won her the 2016 International Literary Agent of the Year Award and launched the careers of Shirley Jackson Prize winner Hye young Pyun’s The Hole, Booker International Prize winner Han Kang’s THE VEGETARIAN and Kyung sook Shin’s Please Look After Mom, Man Asian Prize winner and also became a NY TIMES Bestseller., Un su Kim’s international sensation The Plotters, You Jeong Jeong’s The Good Son, Seo mi-Ae’s The Only Child among many others. From Poland, our authors include Man Booker International and prize-winning poet and novelist Wioletta Greg and bestselling, award-winning, Kaja Malanowska, with her literary thriller FOG.


[02/11 deadline] The Yale Review open for prose submissions

As an AWP24 special, we are open for prose submissions! For one week only, send us your fiction, essays, and criticism. Plus: with your submission, you can access our AWP-exclusive discounts on print subscriptions. Guidelines and submission: https://theyalereview.submittable.com/submit


[02/12 deadline] EcoTheo Review Spring 2024 issue

We consider submissions of poetry, prose, and visual art that explore questions of ecology and spirituality from within and outside all religious traditions. We are delighted by thoughtful art, compelling stories, and bewitching poems that reflect our values of curiosity, justice, and community. We consider all submissions for publication on our website and/or in our quarterly print issues. To submit: https://www.ecotheo.org/submit


[02/15 deadline] Rescue Press: Open Reading Period

See how to submit your manuscript here. Deadline: February 15


[02/15 deadline] no, dear magazine issue 31

Send 1-3 pages as a .pdf or .docx to nodearmagazine@gmail.com by February 15 on issue 31 theme: DESCENT. Include neighborhood of residence.


[02/15 deadline] Jewish Book Council Paper Brigade accepting submissions

JBC is once again accepting submissions of short fiction to Paper Brigade, our annual literary journal. Paper Brigade celebrates the breadth and diver­si­ty of today’s Jew­ish literary land­scape through a mix of articles, inter­views, fic­tion, poet­ry, and artwork. Our past contributors include Joshua Cohen, Allegra Goodman, T Kira Madden, Dani Shapiro, Sabrina Orah Mark, Idra Novey, and Colum McCann.

Thanks to a special grant, we can offer $500 for stories published in the journal, and we would warmly welcome submissions from Sarah Lawrence's community of writers. The deadline to submit is February 15, and the submission guidelines can be found here.

We would also like to offer you and your colleagues and students $5 off the journal with the code PBFIC24. 


[03/01 deadline] Chismosa Literary Magazine Open for Submissions and Debut Issue Contest

Chismosa Literary, an online literary magazine dedicated to the people-watchers and eavesdroppers of the world, is accepting submissions for its debut issue. We are founded on the idea that writing is inherently gossipy since so much of what we write is based on our own experiences and the experiences of others, and all writers are chismosas and chismosos whether they like it or not. 

Our mission is to turn gossip into a form of art, so we love pieces that are based on real-life events and people, and we encourage writers to craft work that is both sophisticated and full of chisme. 

In addition to regular submissions, we are also hosting a contest in order to celebrate the start of this new magazine. The theme for the contest is simply CHISMOSA. The author of the piece that best encapsulates what it means for all writers to be chismosa y chismoso will win a prize of $100 along with publication. The current deadline is March 1st, 2024. Link to the website for more info here.


[03/01 deadline] Black Warrior Review open for submissions

Black Warrior Review seeks nonfiction, comics & art, poetry, and fiction submissions for our forthcoming print edition, 51.1. We especially welcome flash creative nonfiction and flash fiction. Simultaneous submissions are always allowed. In the words of Isabelle Joy Stephen, our nonfiction editor:

In today’s economy, writing creative nonfiction is risky, frisky business. At the BWR nonfiction desk this year, we’re seeking experimental work with high stakes, on and off the page. Out: neat/tidy braids; linear thinking; making concessions; colonial structures and forms. In: hot takes & flyaways; literary messiness; RAGE; the erotics of doom. Rip a page out of your diary. Screenshot your texts. Reconstruct receipts. Tell the truth—just tell it slant ;)

To see our calls for fiction/poetry and to submit, click here. Note: We offer a limited number of fee waivers for writers whom the submission fee would present financial hardship, and we offer free submissions for incarcerated writers.  Please email feewaiver.bwr@gmail.com to request a fee waiver.


[03/14 deadline] The Manila Magnolia Call for Submissions

We are The Manila Magnolia, a literary magazine based in Manila, The Philippines. We seek to promote emerging poets and authors and accept submissions in poetry, translation, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Our deadline for our upcoming Spring 2024 issue is fast approaching (March 14). Our website can be found at themanilamagnolia.com for more information.


[03/15 deadline] American Chordata open for submissions

Our open reading period has begun. PIease visit Submittable to send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation through March 15. Art submissions are open year-round.


[03/15 deadline] Sequestrum: Journal of Literature and Arts, Now Reading: Slipstream, Optimism, & General Submissions

We're starting 2024 with two themes: Slipstream and Optimism! You can find details about both below, but in short, we're after your most ambitious, imaginative writing. Bend fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and literary writing together. Leave us with a sense of hope. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or some combination thereof. We’re eager to read your best.

Slipstream details here: https://www.sequestrum.org/themed-submissions-slipstream. (Deadline: March 15)

Optimism details here: https://www.sequestrum.org/themed-submissions-optimism. (Deadline: March 15)

General submissions are open as well, in all their glory: https://www.sequestrum.org/submissions


[03/16 deadline] New Croton Review Call for Submissions for the Spring 2024 Issue

If you have unpublished poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photographs, or visual art that you'd like the New Croton Review to consider, please email it to Review@CrotonArts.org. There are no geographical or age limitations. Click here to read the submission guidelines on our website. If your work is accepted, we'll ask you to grant us the right to publish it in the Review, but you retain the copyright and the right to publish it elsewhere. We'll also publish a short bio.

You can also find links to the current and past issues on our website: Review.CrotonArts.org. Digital copies are free on Apple Books and Google Play, and full-color paperback and Kindle versions can be purchased on Amazon. The Review is published by the Croton Council on the Arts (CCoA) which is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit in Croton-on-Hudson, NY.


[03/31 deadline] Submit to Anthology South Asian Pantheology: Stories from the Spiritual Margins

Do you have stories that go beyond the realms of the physical world? We, the editors, are asking for your spirit-fiction. This volume will explore the theme of Indopantheology, analogous to the Afropantheology of Oghenechovwe Ekpeki’s Between Dystopias: The Road to Afropantheology, published October 2023 by OD Ekpeki Presents, as an installment of the Pantheology projects. For us, South Asian pantheology maps the realm of the spiritual imagination, comprising all soul-matters from the most worldly of dreams to the most numinous of visions. If that is what you wish to explore, then this call is for you. We want stories from the wilder thickets of the spiritual world, the old places, the cultures and peoples that have been looted, disrespected and forgotten. Full info: https://odekpeki.com/2023/11/22/indopantheology-stories-from-the-spiritual-margins/

[Rolling] Callaloo seeking Referees

Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters is currently seeking volunteer, part-time Referees to contribute to Callaloo’s longstanding heritage and to ensure the quality and diversity of the journal.Referees are responsible for reviewing submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or scholarship, depending on their expertise. Scholarly Referees should be a PhD or PhD candidate with expertise in the field. Poetry/Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Referees should have an MFA, and a record of publication is preferred. These positions are remote, volunteer, and require two to five hours of work per week. Interested applicants should send a resume as well as a cover letter expressing their interest in and qualifications for the position to info@callalooliteraryjournal.com.


[Rolling] Brooklyn Writers Space Accepting Members

Looking for a quiet space to write in New York City? The Brooklyn Writers Space, a community of emerging and established writers who share a quiet writing space and have monthly readings, is offering a special rate of $120/month for current students or recent graduates (within 2 years) with no initiation fee. We’re located in Gowanus and access is 24/7 so you can work during your best hours. Keep the momentum going in our meditative space amongst writers and scholars all finding their inspiration and working towards a deadline. For more details, visit brooklynwriters.com or contact bailey@brooklynwriters.com.


[02/09 deadline] Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Publicity Incubator

Get the Word Out is a publicity incubator for early career authors. Under the mentorship of an accomplished book publicist, writers will develop and execute publicity strategies to maximize the exposure of their first or second book, reach readers, and create a platform to propel their literary careers. Now accepting applications for the 2024 Poetry Cohort! Deadline: February 9. Full info: https://www.pw.org/content/get_the_word_out


[02/15 deadline] Emory Fiction Fellowship - now accepting applications

The Creative Writing Program is seeking applicants for two-year Fellowship in Fiction at Emory University in Atlanta, GA

Fiction Fellowship 2024-26

Interfolio link to apply: http://apply.interfolio.com/138251

Application Deadline: February 15, 2024

Two-year fellowship in fiction in lively undergraduate English/Creative Writing Program, beginning Fall 2024. A two-year commitment is assumed but the contract renewal for the second year is contingent on a positive review of the first year. Load 2-1, all workshops; $45,000 and health benefits. Fellow will give a public reading. Required: MFA or PhD in last five years, with Creative Writing teaching experience; record of publication, but no full-length book published or under contract. Desirable: interest in secondary genre, creative nonfiction, and/or screenwriting.

Submit electronic dossier, including cover letter discussing teaching experience and philosophy, CV, name and contact information of two references, and a 25-page writing sample. In a separate statement, please describe your vision and experience teaching and mentoring students from diverse backgrounds. Submit all materials to http://apply.interfolio.com/138251 by 11:59pm on February 15, 2024. This deadline is firm and late applications will not be considered. The search committee will begin reviewing applications as they arrive. Applicants who make the longlist will be asked to submit recommendation letters from their two references as soon as possible, to be received no later than March 1.

Emory University is committed to student and faculty diversity, equality, and inclusion. Emory University is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.


[02/15 deadline] The Editorial Fellowship at A Public Space

Since 2019, the Editorial Fellowship at A Public Space has been an opportunity for early-career editors to: "Ask questions. Notice what you notice." Learn "to trust my instincts while remaining open to surprise," "how you deal with issues of context, historical or otherwise," "what it means to curate and edit... thinking about those contained texts as if they were the infrastructure of a beautiful city plan." Apply to the 2024 Editorial Fellowship to join us this summer and be a part of our ongoing conversation about editing and literature—and imagine new possibilities for the future. "These narratives, and the relationships I've made with their authors, have been so important to me. I realize as an editor I have the ability to move literature forward." Details, and a link to the application, are available here.


[02/18 deadline] Far Out: The Poets Mixed-Tape, with Anastacia-Renee (A Cave Canem Regional Workshop in Brooklyn NY)

We’re back with another NYC Regional Workshop! Under the guidance of Cave Canem fellow Anastacia-Renee, participants will look to the mixtape as inspiration to create new forms and elevate classics. Taking place over 10 meetings, the workshop culminates in a public poetry reading. Tuition is free for all accepted into the course. Full info: https://cavecanem.submittable.com/submit/282927/regional-workshop-nyc-far-out-the-poets-mixed-tape-with-anastacia-renee


[02/29 deadline] The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency in Costa Rica

Atmosphere Press is offering a five-day writing residency each summer at an oceanside condo in Playa Flamingo! Included: two-bedroom condo with private beach access (+1 welcome); editorial coaching with an Atmosphere Press editor; parrot sounds. Free to apply and free to stay if accepted. Application and full info here.


[03/1 deadline] The Starlings Collective Fellowship for BIPOC Adoptee Writers

The Starlings Collective fellowship will offer support and community, both creative and personal, to emerging BIPOC adoptee writers. Designed to elevate adoptee writers telling adoptee stories, this fellowship imagines a literary future in which BIPOC adoptees have the agency and autonomy to advance and deepen their own narratives. More info: https://www.thestarlingscollective.com/fellowship. Email questions: thestarlingscollective@gmail.com


[03/10 deadline] Community of Writers 2024 Summer Writing Workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Memoir, and Narrative Nonfiction (Lake Tahoe, CA)

For over 50 summers, the Community of Writers has brought together poets and prose writers for two separate weeks of summer writing workshops, individual conferences, lectures, panels, readings, and discussions of the craft and the business of writing. Our aim is to assist writers to improve their craft and thus move them closer to achieving their goals.

Poetry Program (June 17 – 23, 2024) - https://communityofwriters.org/workshops/poetry-program/

Writers Workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Memoir (July 8-15, 2024) - https://communityofwriters.org/workshops/writers-workshops/


[03/15 deadline] Skidmore New York State Summer Writers Institute

Dates: June 23 - July 20, 2024

Since 1987, the Summer Writers Institute has been offering students the opportunity to learn from an extraordinary faculty of distinguished writers led by director Robert Boyers. The program is an offshoot of the New York State Writers Institute created by Albany native and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy. The curriculum is designed for college-aged students and adults and features: creative writing workshops in poetry, fiction and non-fiction; an award-winning faculty of writers such as Amy Hempel, Karan Mahajan, Jenny Offill, Mary Gaitskill, Phillip Lopate, Megan Fernandes, and Henri Cole, among others. Scholarships available. Full info: https://www.skidmore.edu/summerwriters/


[3/31 deadline] BAU INSTITUTE SUMMER ARTS RESIDENCY AWARD IN CASSIS, FRANCE

The BAU Institute residency welcomes multicultural and multidisciplinary artists who have been working independently for over five years to its 2024 summer residency. Hosted at the Camargo Foundation and located in the Mediterranean village of Cassis, France, it offers fellowship awards in visual arts, writing, performance and film.

The BAU Institute Residency provides artists a singular opportunity to devote intense focus on projects within an inspiring campus perched above the Mediterranean Sea. Residents are free to create their own schedule of studio practice combined with group dinners and outings. Film screenings, readings and studio presentations also support a vibrant community among Fellows. The setting enables undisturbed creativity, while still offering interaction with the local village of Cassis and the nearby city of Marseille.

BAU Institute encourages national and international applicants of diverse backgrounds. The residency may accommodate up to 14. Fellowship selections are determined by a rotating panel of discipline-specific professionals. Travel subsidies are available.

Applications will not be considered from full-time students. Fellows in residency must be fully vaccinated against Covid 19.

More Information: http://www.bauinstitute.org/index.php?page=cassis-france

APPLY HERE: https://bauinstitute.submittable.com/submit


[04/01 deadline] 2024 LARB Publishing Workshop Open for Applications

The Los Angeles Review of Books is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2024 LARB Publishing Workshop. As you may already know, each summer we offer an intensive professional development course that trains students from diverse backgrounds in all aspects of book, magazine, and new media publishing in preparation for applying for jobs or internships in the industry or for launching their own small magazine, press, or literary non-profit. Our alumni have gone on in recent years to work at organizations such as Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, Harper’s Magazine, Harvard University Press, The Feminist Press, The Getty Research Institute, and The Pen/Faulkner Foundation, among many others. 

This year’s 8th Publishing Workshop will be held online from June 24 - July 26, 2023. The past four courses were likewise virtual and proved to be both wonderfully productive and a more accessible option for many students who might otherwise not have been able to afford travel and accommodations in Los Angeles for the summer. 

Accessibility has always been a key commitment of ours here at LARB, and since this program’s founding we’ve worked hard to ensure that as many qualified applicants as possible can attend regardless of their ability to pay. Last year, 80% of our Fellows received scholarship aid, either through fellowships via our partnerships with 10 universities, or through LARB’s partial scholarship Reader’s Grants. Approximately 60% of our 2023 Fellows identified as BIPOC.  

The LARB Publishing Workshop accepts Fellows who will graduate with a BA by December 2024, current graduate students, and people who are interested in transitioning to a career in publishing. Because LARB’s staff, editors, and writers include many academics and former academics, we are able to tailor some of our programming for graduate students who are looking to transition to a career outside of the academy that uses their skills in writing, research, and editing. In a typical cohort, a little over 50% of our Fellows are currently enrolled in a graduate program. 

You can find out more about our program on our website: https://larbpublishingworkshop.org/. Applications are now open and close April 1. We will hold online information sessions February 13, March 7, and March 14. 
[04/22 deadline] Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow Telling True Stories Fellowship

Writers of narrative nonfiction are invited to apply for this fellowship. It must be historically accurate, and it must tell a compelling story, but it can take a variety of forms, including memoirs, autobiography, biography, history, journalism, and even drama and poetry. It cannot be “fictionalized,” that is, fully or partially made up. Prior publication is not required. The writing sample must demonstrate good storytelling. The fellowship winner will receive a two-week residency at WCDH to focus completely on their writing. Full info: https://www.writerscolony.org/fellowships

Tuesday, February 6

NYPL: Between the Lines:Redwood Court by DéLana R.A. Dameron
6:30 - 8pm, free with registration
Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its youngest daughter as she comes of age in the 1990s. Join us for the book launch of Redwood Court by DéLana R.A. Dameron.


NYPL: Álvaro Enrigue with Marie Arana: You Dreamed of Empires
7-8pm, in-person and livestream, REGISTER
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium
The author of Sudden Death returns with a new novel that reimagines the destinies of Tenochtitlan. Full info: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2024/02/06/alvaroenrigue



Wednesday, February 7

The Center for Fiction: The International Library: Global Indigenous Stories
4pm, in-person at The Center for Fiction and livestreamed, tickets here
With their innovative new novels, Linnea Axelsson and Alexis Wright explore the legacy of colonialism across the globe.



Thursday, February 8

Books Are Magic: [IN-STORE MONTAGUE] Maggie Millner: Couplets w/ Catherine Barnett
7-8pm, in-person and livestreamed, GET TICKETS



Friday, February 9

Books Are Magic: [IN-STORE MONTAGUE] GennaRose Nethercott: Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart w/ Anna Kaufman
7-8pm, in-person and livestreamed, GET TICKETS
From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us—or go monstrously wrong.



Monday, February 12

NYPL: Between the Lines, Black History Month:The New Brownies' Book
6:30 - 8:30pm, free with registration
Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Join us for an evening exploring The New Brownies' Book with its creators scholar Karida L. Brown and award-winning artist Charly Palmer, and invited guests. The New Brownies’ Book reimagines the very first publication created for African American children in 1920. The conversation will be moderated by M. Scott Johnson, a sculptor and visual arts instructor for the Schomburg Center’s Junior Scholars Program.



Tuesday, February 13


NYPL: Author Talk/Launch Event: Fourteen Days (R.L. Stine, Angie Cruz, Mira Jacob)
6:30-9pm, free with RSVP
Location: 53rd Street Library
Join us here at the 53rd St Library for a special after hours in-person author talk, with multiple award winning authors! On Tuesday, February 13th, R.L. Stine, Angie Cruz and Mira Jacob, will all be in attendance to talk about their contributions to the new Author's guild title, Fourteen Days, edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston. Attendance to the program is free. Books will be available for purchase, and the authors will be holding a booksigning session after the author talk! To attend, please RSVP using the 'Register Now' link below.


Books Are Magic: [IN-STORE MONTAGUE] Kelly Link: The Book of Love w/ Hilary Leichter
7-8pm, in-person and livestreamed, GET TICKETS
In the long-awaited debut novel from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.


Cave Canem: Anti-Oppression Poetics: An Instrument of Liberation
7-9pm, free with registration
Location: POWERHOUSE Arena, 28 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
In the difficult terrain of geopolitics, join four Cave Canem Fellows as they reiterate their position in the Black literary tradition of social justice and commit to free speech as a tenet artistic practice. Featuring readings by Marwa Helal, Raymond Antrobus, makalani bandele, and Aricka Foreman.



Wednesday, February 14

The Center for Fiction: In Translation: Mathias Énard on The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild with Merve Emre
7pm, in-person at The Center for Fiction and livestreamed, tickets here
The Center for Fiction welcomes Mathias Énard (Compass), winner of the Prix Goncourt, to the stage for a discussion on his long awaited new novel: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild.

The Poetry Project: Cecilia Gentili & Macy Rodman
8pm, in-person and livestream, $8 tickets
It’s a red hot Valentine’s climax: two Poetry Project sweethearts kick off our spring 2024 season. Crooning deadpan ballads or podcasting for long-distance truckers, Macy Rodman is a multigenre performance sensation with a wicked mind for satire. Hot off her off-Broadway debut in red ink, writer and performer Cecilia Gentili returns to St. Mark’s—a one-woman phenomenon, equal parts raunch and TS majesty. If these two wrote a book together, it’d get banned before the ink dried. Come and see it while it’s wet. We hope you can join us at 7:30 for a pre-event reception!



Thursday, February 15

Lunar New Year Celebration with Hachette Book Group and Kundiman
6-9pm ET, in-person only, free with registration
Location: Hana House, 345 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
Join Hachette Book Group and Kundiman for this special Lunar New Year party in downtown Brooklyn, hosted by Youngmi Mayer and featuring readings and book signings from renowned authors Curtis Chin, Kat Chow, Janine Joseph, Subhashini Kaligotla, Sahar Muradi, and Matthew Salesses, with food and drinks from local vendors! We’ll celebrate the power of community and storytelling as we gather to ring in the new year. RSVP for the event here.


The Center for Fiction: On America: Maura Cheeks on Acts of Forgiveness and the Future of Reparations with Jennifer Baker
7pm ET, in-person at The Center for Fiction and livestreamed, tickets here


NYU Creative Writing: Poetry Reading: Michael Dumanis, Dorothea Lasky, and Diane Mehta
7pm, Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here
Location: Lillian Vernon Writers House, 58 West 10th St, New York, NY 10011



Friday, February 16

PSA Reading Series: Andrea Cohen & Nick Flynn
7pm, in-person, $10 tickets, register here
Location: Poetry Society of America, 119 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201


The Poetry Project: Ahmad Almallah & India Lena González
8pm ET, in-person and livestream, $8 tickets
In their new books, Border Wisdom and fox woman get out!, Ahmad Almallah and India Lena González, illuminate and blur at the thresholds of history and memory, living and dying, the body and the earth and the air. For future ancestors, holding both loss and return, these poems help us envision the liberation of all occupied homelands. Featuring a guest introduction by Mirene Arsanios.



Tuesday, February 20

The New School MFA Writing: A Conversation with Abigail Thomas
6pm ET, join waitlist here
Location: 66 West 12th Street
Join us for a reading with author Abigail Thomas as she sits down with Luis Jaramillo to discuss her recent work.

Books Are Magic: [IN-STORE MONTAGUE] Melissa Albert: The Bad Ones w/ Ryan La Sala
7-8pm, in-person and free livestream, GET TICKETS
New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert returns with The Bad Ones, a supernatural horror novel about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history.


The Center for Fiction: The Center for Fiction Presents Leslie Jamison on Splinters with Mary Karr
7pm,  in-person at The Center for Fiction and livestreamed, tickets here



Wednesday, February 21

Books Are Magic: [IN-STORE MONTAGUE] Mariah Stovall: I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both w/ Nabil Ayers
7-8pm, in person and free livestream, GET TICKETS
Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness of sanity.


The Center for Fiction: The Art of the Short Story: Diane Oliver's Neighbors with Jamel Brinkley, Lan Samantha Chang, and Dawnie Walton
7pm,  in-person at The Center for Fiction and livestreamed, tickets here


The Poetry Project: Imogen Binnie & Evan Kennedy
8pm ET, in-person and livestream, $8 tickets
Imogen Binnie and Evan Kennedy drive punk sensibility into queer literature at high speed. Maybe they would each contest that description, if punk is a thing of the past. Binnie’s Nevada (Topside Press, 2013; FSG, 2022) and Kennedy’s Metamorphoses (City Lights, 2023) are books filled with raucous sociality, gay lust for life, comic misapprehension, formal variety, urban dramedy. If it’s not punk, it’s something better.



Thursday, February 22

NYU Creative Writing: The New Salon: Lucy Sante in conversation with Hari Kunzru
7pm, Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here
Location: Lillian Vernon Writers House, 58 West 10th St, New York, NY 10011



Friday, February 23

NYU Creative Writing: Poetry Alumni Reading: A.H. Jerriod Avant, J.D. Debris, and January Gill O’Neil
5pm, Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here
Location: Lillian Vernon Writers House, 58 West 10th St, New York, NY 10011



Saturday, February 24

The Center for Fiction: The Café & Bar Presents Exhibit B in NYC: A Reading
5pm, in-person at The Center for Fiction Cafe & Bar, free
Featuring Henri Seguin, Sally Wen Mao, Daniel Poppick, and Nick Flynn. More info: https://centerforfiction.org/event/the-cafe-bar-presents-exhibit-b-in-nyc-a-reading-3/


Monday, February 26

Books Are Magic: [IN-STORE MONTAGUE] Sloane Crosley: Grief Is for People w/ Sigrid Nunez
7-8pm, in person and free livestream, GET TICKETS
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley’s memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.


Tuesday, February 27

NYPL: Conversations from the Cullman Center: Carson McCullers: Mary Dearborn with Bill Goldstein
6-7pm, in-person and online, REGISTER
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum
The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals.


Books Are Magic: [IN-STORE MONTAGUE] Double Book Launch w/ Aisha Sabatini Sloan & Erica N. Cardwell: Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit & Wrong Is Not My Name
7-8pm, in person and free livestream, GET TICKETS
Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction.

Wrong Is Not My Name: A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art.


Wednesday, February 28

Books Are Magic: [IN-STORE MONTAGUE] Diana Khoi Nguyen & Cindy Juyoung Ok: Root Fractures & Ward Toward w/ Ken Chen
7-8pm, in person and free livestream, GET TICKETS


The Center for Fiction: The Art of the Short Story: Jill McCorkle on Old Crimes with Amy Hempel
7pm,  in-person at The Center for Fiction and livestreamed, tickets here


The Poetry Project: Joris/Peyrafitte — Domopoetics: Karstic Actions/Works
8pm ET, in-person and livestream, $8 tickets
A multimedia soirée with Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte weaving & braiding their individual & shared travails. Domopoetics is the name Joris & Peyrafitte give to 34 years of daily practices in transforming & intertwining their lives & works, be it through writing, painting, video, physical conditioning, cooking & all other shared household activities. Karstic refers to the geological phenomena of dissolution & transformation at work in the formation of superficial or underground limestone topographies. Here it is taken literally & figuratively as nature & cave explorations are an important part of their process.



Thursday, February 29

Books Are Magic: [IN-STORE MONTAGUE] Alex Alberto: Entwined w/ Chloe Caldwell & musical guest Aly Tadros
7-8pm, in person and free livestream, GET TICKETS
In a series of genre-blending essays, Entwined tells the story of Alex Alberto’s decade-long polyamorous journey towards a new kind of famil