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THE DOOMER ANTHOLOGY, accepting new and previously published poems, short stories, plays, and essays. Any length. Also, color or b/w images. Surprise us. Coping, or not coping, with decline, collapse, hopelessness, looming extinction? Send to: Dana Stamps II, 3990 Reynolds Rd., Unit #422, Riverside, CA. 92503. Or e-mail to Jeff Green at: submit@doomeranthology.com. 

LOVE READING extraordinarily interesting short stories? Want to be published in the anthology that readers worldwide rank higher than Best American and O. Henry? Then read COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2025—https://amzn.to/4958AFN—and let its stories inspire you to write a terrific story to submit to us!

PROPOSALS FOR the Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship will be accepted March 1 through June 30. The fellowship awards $2,500 and publication of an anthology that the recipient edits under the guidance of Green Linden Press. The Essential Voices Anthology Series has at its heart the ancient idea that poetry can reveal our shared humanity. It intends to make less insular the various poetries of the world and to correct misrepresentations and misunderstandings in the broader culture. In other words, to go where the silence is and let the poets speak. Visit greenlindenpress.com/submit for details.

WHISPERING ANGEL BOOKS is accepting submissions of true stories and poetry for our next anthology celebrating real-life heroes who have provided inspiration, guidance, love, and comfort in our lives. 1,500 words max. Deadline: June 30. Website: www.whisperingangelbooks.com for full details.

ATMOSPHERE PRESS is currently seeking submissions of full-length book manuscripts in all genres—from poetry to fiction to memoir and beyond—with no reading fee. Atmosphere Press is an independent publisher dedicated to honesty, transparency, professionalism, kindness, and making your book awesome. Learn more at atmospherepress.com. 

FAW (FRIENDS OF AMERICAN WRITERS) seeks book submissions for its annual 103-year-old literary awards in 2 categories: Literature for adults and literature for children and young adults. Publishers and/or authors are invited to submit books published in 2025. Generous monetary prizes awarded. Guidelines: Authors must reside (or have resided) in the American Midwest. Books set in the region (even if the author is non-resident) also qualify. Fiction or creative nonfiction, please. No self-published or e-books, poetry, genres, or series books. Authors of more than 3 published books are ineligible. (If an author has multiple books published in 2025, all are eligible.) Books nominated for the award must be received by December 13 but we appreciate entries ASAP. No application forms! Please send 2 copies of books for the Adult Literature Award and author info as early as possible to: Carrie Brenner, Literature Awards Chair, 2616 Blackhawk Rd., Wilmette, IL 60091. E-mail: carriebrenner123@gmail.com. For info on previous awards, please visit www.fawchicago.org/awards.php. 

OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. Chesapeake Press publishes fiction and nonfiction books for children about American democracy. We are looking for original fiction manuscripts and nonfiction book proposals related to civics education for readers in grades K-8. More information: www.chesapeakepress.org/submissions. 

2025 BURNSIDE REVIEW Chapbook Contest. Winner receives $200 and 10 copies. Chapbooks are elegantly designed with letterpressed covers. Runs May 1–June 30. Submit 18–24 pages of poetry. $15 entry fee. All submissions must be made through our submission manager, www.burnsidereview.org.

THE 2025 SPRING THEMES at Sequestrum are 1. “Nature” and 2. “Optimism!” Accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Standard pay rates and publication applies. Submit via our online submission system. E-mail: sequr.info@gmail.com. Deadline: July 15. Full guidelines: www.sequestrum.org. 

ABANDONED MINE is a poetry journal (triannually online, selected annual print) accepting and reading submissions late summer through late spring. We are seeking poems people will be inspired to re-read and share with family and friends. Please visit www.abandonedmine.org for examples, past issues, and complete guidelines. 

THE AWAKENINGS REVIEW is seeking submissions from writers and poets who have experience with mental illness, either in themselves, family members, or as caregivers. Published twice a year. Prefer submissions about taking positive steps in life. Also, we look for experience with mental illness that is not demoralizing. Submission guidelines at www.awakeningsproject.org. 

BLUELINE: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks seeks poems, stories, and nonfiction about the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit, focusing on nature’s shaping influence. Submission period July 1 through November 30. Decisions mid-February. Payment in copies. Please identify simultaneous submissions; notify immediately if your submission is placed elsewhere. Electronic submissions encouraged, as Word files, to blueline@potsdam.edu. Please identify the genre in the subject line. Website: www.bluelineadkmagazine.org. 

CÆSURA requests submissions of poetry, fiction (sci-fi/non/flash), and all visual art forms, submission window March 1, 2025, to June 1, 2025. We need content for 2 unique volumes, print and online. No fees. Call will post by February 28, 2025. Scroll on www.pcsj.org/caesura to read the call/guidelines, view online editions, and order print editions.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Unruly Catholic Women Respond to Dobbs. Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, and Ana Kothe seek creative work—short stories, poems, prose, personal essays—on current and former Catholic women’s responses to Dobbs for fifth volume in Unruly Catholic Women Writers series. Submissions in English: anam.kothe@upr.edu by June 22.

EARTH’S DAUGHTERS feminist literary magazine Issue #101 “Root & Flame” (intersections of grounding/stability—the root, with passionate energy, creativity, and life force—the flame, poems of hope, resilience, & rebuilding) will be accepted until July 15. No more than 3 poems and/or 500 words of prose. Guidelines: www.earthsdaughters.org.

FOR PEDESTAL 96 (content posting in June 2025), editors will be accepting submissions of poetry. No restrictions on theme, style, length, or genre. Please submit up to 5 poems and include all work in a single file. Visit the website for specific guidelines and to read published work. Website: https://thepedestalmagazine.com/. 

HAWAII PACIFIC REVIEW seeks fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Based at Hawaii Pacific University, HPR charges no fees and reads submissions from August to January. Our work has been featured in the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Details can be found at www.hawaiipacificreview.org. 

JOIN THE 158-YEAR LEGACY of Reed Magazine, Pushcart Prize-winner ranked among “Best Writing Contests” for literary journals, annually awarding winners $1,000 and more. We welcome fiction and poetry and especially encourage submissions of nonfiction and visual art. Submissions open June 1–November 1. Visit: www.reedmag.org/submit. 

THE MEDICAL LITERARY MESSENGER seeks thought-provoking poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art related to medicine, illness, and the body. Online submissions are free and accepted on a rolling basis. Visit us at www.med-lit.vcu.edu for more information. 

MILITANT HUMANIST: a space for poets, writers, and artists in the struggle for universal human rights and joy, facing fascism, oligarchy, corporate power, and militarization. Volunteer or submit your work for our founding issue, Palestine & Israel: Edge of Humanity. Visit: www.militanthumanist.org. Query: info@militanthumanist.org. 

MOM EGG REVIEW/MER seeks poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for our annual print issue. We publish work about mothers, mothering, and motherhood. Submissions open April 23 through July 15. For full guidelines, please visit https://themomegg.submittable.com/submit. 

NOMINEE: Ranked sixth among Top 25 Literary Magazines & Publications in 2022–2024 (Feedspot). The RavensPerch Literary Magazine seeks submissions of well-groomed poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. For submission guidelines, visit us at www.theravensperch.com. 

RATTLE SEEKS SUBMISSIONS from Rebel Poets for the Spring 2025 issue: Poems may be any style or subject but must be written by poets who rebel against the literary establishment in some way. Explain with a note. Deadline: October 15. Online submissions accepted. For more information, visit our website: www.rattle.com. 

STONE CANOE, the award-winning annual journal of art, writing, and ideas, is now reading submissions for its 2026 issue. The journal is open to work by poets, writers, and artists who are either current or former residents of Upstate New York. For complete submission guidelines, visit stonecanoe.submittable.com/submit or e-mail stonecanoe@ymcacny.org. 

SUBMISSIONS TO River Teeth (narrative nonfiction) and Beautiful Things (micro-essays) are open January 1–April 1 & September 1–December 1. River Teeth encourages underrepresented writers to submit work for consideration, including but not limited to: BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and disabled writers. Read complete guidelines for all submissions at riverteethjournal.com/submission-guidelines/. 

THIRD STREET REVIEW is an online literary journal for flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography. We are a paying market, and we welcome work from writers and artists from all cultural backgrounds and experience levels. For complete submission guidelines, please visit www.third-street-review.org/submissions. Looking forward to seeing your work! 

TINT JOURNAL, the literary magazine for non-native English creative writing, publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by writers who compose their work in English as their second or foreign language. See our homepage for our open calls and our guidelines, and submit via www.tintjournal.com/submit (no fee). #showyourtint.

TWO HAWKS QUARTERLY is a digital journal affiliated with Antioch University Los Angeles’ BA Program in Creative Writing and is setting the bar for contemporary literature with bold and illuminating poetry, fiction, CNF, art, and quality experimental work. Submissions open September 9, 2024. For guidelines, see www.twohawksquarterly.com. 

WE’MOON—The best-selling astrological datebook and moon phase calendar filled with art and writing by women from around the world, is accepting submissions of art and writing for We’Moon 2027. Due date: August 1. No jury fees! Learn more about how to submit on our website: bit.ly/wemoonSubmission. 

WILLOW REVIEW is a nonprofit international creative writing journal (est. 1969) accepting general submissions year-round. Send a maximum of 5 poems or short fiction and creative nonfiction up to 7,000 words. All work should be unpublished and accompanied by SASE. Manuscripts will not be returned unless requested. We will accept simultaneous submissions if indicated in the cover letter. Submissions should be sent to Willow Review, College of Lake County, 19351 West Washington St., Grayslake, IL 60030-1198. Willow Review can be found on EBSCOhost databases. Website: www.clcillinois.edu/willowreview. 

THE WRITER’S WORKSHOP REVIEW publishes the best in creative nonfiction, fiction, and interviews and pays for published stories. Send us narrative nonfiction, personal essays, short stories, and short shorts as well as travel, food and wine, and writing with a strong narrative element. Submissions: Kathleen Glassburn at glassburnkathleen03@gmail.com. For more, contact nick@thewritersworkshop.net. Websites: www.thewritersworkshop.net or www.thewritersworkshopreview.net.

JOIN US FOR SOMOS’ ninth Annual Taos Writers Conference in beautiful Taos, New Mexico, July 25–27, 2025, featuring keynote speaker, poet, memoirist, & playwright Nick Flynn. Over 20 workshops in every genre, including poetry, fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, YA, & essays. FYI: somos@somostaos.org, call (575) 758-0081, or e-mail somos@somostaos.org.

$4,000 IN AWARDS. Enter New Millennium Writing Awards by June 30—best poetry $1,000; fiction $1,000; nonfiction $1,000; flash fiction $1,000. All winners are published in our anthology and online. “I keep a dream list of journals that I hope to be published in, and it is a thrill to add New Millennium Writings to my professional biography. Thanks for making another writer’s dream come true!”—Pamela Dillon, 58th NMW Nonfiction Award Winner. Visit www.newmillenniumwritings.org. 

​​2025 MORTON MARCUS Poetry Prize. The Hive Poetry Collective announces the 2025 Morton Marcus Poetry Prize. Submit 1 poem, $18/entry. Judge: Nancy Miller Gomez. Winner receives $1,000 and invitation to read at the 16th Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading November 20. Full details at hivepoetry.org/morton-marcus-prize/. Deadline: September 30.

2025 NEW AMERICAN Fiction Prize. $1,500 and book publication. Deadline: June 15. Minimum length: 100 pages (no maximum). Final judge: Clancy Martin, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Bad Sex and How to Sell. Reading fee: $25. Online submissions only, please. Complete guidelines: https://newamericanpress.com/2025-new-american-fiction-prize. 

THE 2025 ORISON CHAPBOOK PRIZE will award $300 and publication by Orison Books for a manuscript of 20–45 pages in any literary genre (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, or hybrid). Orison Books founder and editor Luke Hankins will judge. Submission period: April 1–July 1. Entry fee: $15. For complete guidelines, see www.orisonbooks.com/submissions. 

2026 PRESS 53 Award for Poetry. $1,000 advance, publication and 53 copies awarded to an outstanding, unpublished poetry manuscript. If runner-up is also selected: $500 advance, publication, and 25 copies. Tom Lombardo will judge. Prizes awarded upon publication. Deadline: July 31. Winner and finalists announced by November 1. Reading fee: $30. Complete information at https://www.press53.com/award-for-poetry/. 

24TH ANNUAL GIVAL PRESS Oscar Wilde Award for best previously unpublished poem in English that best relates GLBTQ life. Prize: $500, publication on website. Reading fee: $20 per 3 poems submitted, any form, style, length. Deadline: June 27. Details: givalpress.submittable.com or www.givalpress.com. Address: Gival Press, P.O. Box 3812, Arlington, VA 22203.

ACTIVE AND RETIRED EDUCATORS, full- or part-time, are encouraged to submit a full-length poetry manuscript for the Dryden/Vreeland Poetry Prize. Publication, $1,000 and 10 author copies. Your poems need not focus on schools or teaching. Deadline is September 1. Final judge is Marsha de la O. Visit gunpowderpress.com for details.

THE ANNUAL RATTLE POETRY PRIZE offers $15,000 for a single poem, plus a $5,000 Readers’ Choice Award. Entry fee of $30 includes a 1-year subscription to the magazine. Deadline: July 15. Submit up to 4 uncurated poems per entry. For guidelines and to read past winners, visit our website: www.rattle.com/prize. 

BAUHAN PUBLISHING’S May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize is open! Now in its 15th year, the prize is for a book-length collection, $1,000, and book publication with Spring 2025 titles. Judge: Anthony Walton. Entry fee: $30. Submission deadline: June 30, 2025. For guidelines: www.bauhanpublishing.com/may-sarton-prize. Submit through Submittable.com.

BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW’S annual prizes recognize exceptional writing about health, healing, illness, the body, and the mind. $1,000 Fiction Prize (judge: Joan Silber), $1,000 Nonfiction Prize (judge: Nicole Chung), $1,000 Poetry Prize (judge: Patricia Spears Jones). Submissions open March 1–July 1. Entry fee: $20. Website: www.blreview.org. 

BIRDY POETRY PRIZE, by Meadowlark Press. $1,000 cash prize, publication, and 50 copies. Submit 1 full-length poetry book manuscript (55–150 pages). Entry fee: $25. Submissions open: September 1 to December 1. Learn more: www.birdypoetryprize.com. 

BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE Writing Contest: Short story; narrative essay; poetry. $3,800 awarded in 2024, including $1,000 Jones Best of the West Award. Deadline: September 22. Conference: Fall. Clifton, TX. Fees: $15/entry. Guidelines: www.bosqueartscenter.org; phone: (254) 675-3724. 2024 winners: Michael Mayes (Jones), Kathryn Howd Machan (nonfiction), Carol Thompson (poetry), Miles Wilson (fiction).

CALIFORNIA STATE POETRY SOCIETY seeks unpublished poems for its California Quarterly (year-round, via Submittable.com) and its Annual Contest (accepted March 1–June 30). Poems invited for CSPS Poetry Letter and monthly contests. See www.californiastatepoetrysociety.com for publications, membership, submission requirements, and details. Write to CSPS, P.O. Box 4288, Sunland, CA 91041-4288. 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 2025 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize—winner receives $300 and publication in CALYX Journal. Open to women+ poets of all backgrounds. Entry: $15. Deadline: June 30. Website: calyxpress.org. 

CANTOR PRIZE 2025: $1,000, five $250 finalist prizes. Eighth Year. Open to Colorado poets any topic, or any poet writing in English about Colorado. $12 fee per poem, 3 for $30. Starts: April 1. Deadline: August 31. Judge: José A. Alcántara. Feedback: $8 per poem. Info at: www.tellurideinstitute.org/talking-gourds. 

CHAPBOOK CONTEST with Nine Syllables Press. Open to all who identify as female. Winner receives a $500 prize and publication. This year’s judge is Eugenia Leigh. Open for submissions June 1–August 31. For more guidelines and information, visit www.ninesyllablespress.com. 

CIDER PRESS REVIEW Editors’ Prize for a book-length poetry collection in English. Prize: $1,000 and publication. All entrants will receive the winning book. Reading period: April 1–June 30. Reading fee: $27. Judges: CPR editors. Submit 48– to 80–page manuscript: www.ciderpressreview.com/submit. Guidelines: www.ciderpressreview.com/bookaward. 

CODHILL PRESS Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award: $1,000 plus 25 copies. Distribution by SUNY Press. Deadline: December 30. Submit book-length manuscript (48–72 pages), acknow-ledgments, table of contents, and cover page (name, address, phone, e-mail) to: https://codhillpoetryaward.submittable.com/submit. $30 entry fee. For complete guidelines: www.codhill.com. 

THE CONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY’S Experimental Poetry Contest kicks off June 15 and runs until July 31. One $1,000 prize, $15 reading fee. The Vivian Shipley Award runs from August 1 to September 30. Prizes: $1,000, $100, $50. $15 reading fee. Visit www.ctpoetry.net/contests.html for more information.

DARREL ALEJANDRO HOLNES judges POET HUNT 30 hosted by The MacGuffin. First prize will receive $500 and publication. Send up to 5 poems per $15 entry fee via Submittable or post. Entries accepted from April 1 through June 16. Entry fee includes 1 free issue. Full guidelines: https://schoolcraft.edu/macguffin.

DZANC BOOKS seeks innovative novels, poetry collections, and story collections for its annual contests. Contest winners receive publication and advances: $5,000 for the Prize for Fiction, $2,500 for the Short Story Collection, and $1,500 for the Nonfiction Prize. $25 reading fee per submission. Contests close September 30. Details at www.dzancbooks.org. 

EMERGING WRITER? Apply for the 2025 Storozynski Fellowship! A $10,000 stipend plus housing awaits the selected writer for a monthlong residency at the University of Notre Dame. Authors with 1 book (or fewer) published, exploring health, medicine, disability, or related themes, are encouraged to apply. Visit reilly.nd.edu for details and deadlines!

ENTER –1000 BELOW, Midway Journal’s annual flash prose and poetry contest. The contest runs from March 1–June 1. $500 grand prize. $250 second prize. $50 third prize. $10 entry fee. Unlimited entries. For more details go to https://midwayjournal.com/contest/. 

THE ENTRY PERIOD for the 2025 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest is January 1–June 1. U.S. and international sonneteers compete for prizes totaling $3,500. Categories: Top Four, Regional (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa), Youth, and Laureates’ Choice. Up to 3 sonnets: $5 fee through April, $10 fee in May. Free for youth and undergraduate. Website: sonnetcontest.org; e-mail: entries@sonnetcontest.org. 

EVENT MAGAZINE’S Nonfiction Contest: $3,000 in prizes, plus publication. Enter by October 15. We especially encourage BIPOC writers and writers of diverse backgrounds and experiences to explore the form and submit their work. 5,000-word limit. $34.95 entry fee includes a 1-year subscription. Full contest details: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf. 

EX OPHIDIA PRESS Poetry Prize in memory of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds for book-length manuscripts (48–100 pages). Top prize: $2,000, publication/distribution, 10 author copies, color cover. Reading fee: $25. Enter May 1– September 15. Entrants must reside in the U.S. Judge: Felicia Zamora. See our guidelines at www.exophidiapress.org. Submit through our Submittable account.

FISCHER PRIZE 2025: $1,000, five $250 outstanding finalist prizes. 29th year. Open to all topics, all styles, all poets writing in English anywhere in the world. $12 fee per poem, 3 for $30. Start: April 1. Deadline: August 31. Judge: Art Goodtimes. Feedback $8 per poem. Info at: www.tellurideinstitute.org/talking-gourds. 

HEART POETRY AWARD $500, publication HEART #20. $10 covers 3 unpublished poems, reserves your digital copy HEART #20. Entries considered for future publication. Visit website for featured writers, guidelines, bio judge. Deadline: Postmark June 30. Submit, pay online: www.nostalgiapress.com or mail Nostalgia Press, 115 Randazzo Dr., Elloree, SC 29047.

IRIDESCENCE AWARDS 2025. BIPOC authors wanted to submit supernatural, extraterrestrial, or paranormal short stories or poetry by May 31. Themes include fantasy, paranormal, science fiction, Afrofuturism, mythology, etc. Win cash up to $1,000 USD and publication in our anthology. $15 fee. Details here: www.kinsmanquarterly.org/iridescence-award. 

KILLER SHORTS Horror Short Story Competition. Prizes include publication; Chris Hicks Career Mentorship Call; Scrivener Writing Software; and a Killer Trophy, hand-sculpted and designed by celebrity FX artist Tyler Green (Syfy’s Face Off). Multiple entries welcome. Max: 6,000 words. Fee: $25. Due: December 31. For complete guidelines, visit www.killershortscontest.com. 

THE MEMOIR PRIZE for Books awards up to $5,000 for full-length memoir, essay collection, graphic memoir, hybrid, creative, and narrative nonfiction works of exceptional merit. There are no restrictions on subject matter, page count, type of publisher, or the year of publication. Find out more at: https://memoirmag.com/literature/the-memoir-prize-for-books/. 

MURIEL CRAFT BAILEY Poetry Contest April 1–July 15: $1,350 in prizes. Judge: Carolyne Wright. Anonymous judging. **NEW GUIDELINES!** No previously published or AI-assisted poems. Complete rules: www.comstockreview.org/poetry-contest or Submittable. Website: https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit ($25 + fee for up to 5 poems) or USPS (check for $5 per poem): The Comstock Review, 4956 St. John Dr., Syracuse, NY 13215.

NORTH STREET Book Prize. 11th year. Submit self-published and hybrid-published books. Grand prize of $10,000. Top winner in each category will win $1,000. Categories: Mainstream/literary fiction, genre fiction, creative nonfiction & memoir, poetry, children’s picture book, middle grade, graphic novel & memoir, and art book. $22,000 in total cash prizes. Fee: $85 per book. Submit online or by mail by July 1. Guidelines: winningwriters.com/northpw2505. 

THE OFF THE GRID PRIZE recognizes the work of older poets, highlighting important, often overlooked voices in contemporary poetry. We accept book-length manuscripts by poets over age 60 from May 1–August 31. The prize: $1,000 and publication, promotion, and distribution in print and audiobook formats. Submission fee: $25. For guidelines and this year’s judge, visit www.grid-books.org/off-the-grid-press. 

OFF TOPIC CONTEST. First to 10th of every month. Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction. All entries receive feedback from judges. $5 CAD entry fee. Prize 50% of entry fees + publication on our website. Honorable mentions can choose publication. Details at offtopicpublishing.com/contest. 

ONE ROOM. ONE HOUR. One essay on what you encounter. Explore the challenge at www.jackwieland.com. $1,000 for no more than 1,000 words will be awarded to winning entries. Essays will be selected weekly beginning in April. Give it a whirl and see what you see.

ONEPAGEPOETRY.COM—Now accepting entries for our 2025 poetry contest. In celebration of the beautiful art of poetry, as long as it fits on 1 page. Entry fee: $25. Prizes include $2,000 for first place, $1,000 for second, $500 for third, and inclusion of the top 100 poems in our yearly anthology. Website: www.onepagepoetry.com. 

RED WHEELBARROW Poetry Prize 2025: $1,000 for first place and a letterpress broadside, $500 for second, $250 for third. Top 5 published in Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine. Submit up to 3 original unpublished poems. $15 entry fee. Deadline: July 31. For complete guidelines, visit http://redwheelbarrow.submittable.com. 

SENECA REVIEW accepts submissions for the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. $2,000 prize, book publication, HWS reading. Judge: Melissa Febos. Lyric essay includes cross-genre and hybrid work. A group of related pieces or a single work. 48–120pp. Submissions: June 1 to August 1. Website: www.hws.edu/offices/senecareview/bookprize.aspx.

SOLSTICE LITERARY MAGAZINE (Best of the Net 2023 and Best American Essays 2018, and cited in 2022, 2020, 2016, 2015) announces Annual Literary Contest April 1 to June 1: $1,000 Fiction Prize (judge: Helen Elaine Lee); $500 Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize (judge: Sandra Lim); $500 Michael Steinberg Nonfiction Prize (judge: J.D. Scrimgeour); $500 Graphic Lit Prize (judge: Bhanu Pratap). Entry fee: $18. Submit at: www.solsticelitmag.org/contest.

SOUTHWEST WRITERS 2025 Annual Writing Contest is accepting entries June 1–8! Enter your best work in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s writing. Short and book-length categories. Cash prizes and publication in annual anthology for the winners. SouthWest Writers is celebrating 40 years of “Writers Helping Writers.” Website: southwestwriters.com. 

SWAN SCYTHE PRESS announces its 2025 poetry chapbook contest. Entry fee: $18. We are accepting submissions from March 1 to June 15 (postmark deadline). Winner receives $200 and 25 perfect-bound chapbooks. The 2024 winner is Aida Zilelian for Dissonance. For full guidelines, visit www.swanscythepress.com and swanscythepress.submittable.com/submit. 

UNDER THE SUN, a journal of creative nonfiction, announces its sixth annual summer writing contest, July 1–July 31. $500 prize. Entry fee: $15; 5,000 words maximum. All submissions considered for publication. Final judge: Becky Blake, winner of our 2024 Summer Writing Contest. Guidelines on our website and on Submittable.

FREE BOOK. My book of short stories entitled Insatiable and Other Stories has had a good run; however, some books were set aside for promotion and never used for that purpose due to COVID. If you would like a free copy, please send your name and address to: Jack Clubb, 3417 Plata St., Los Angeles, CA 90026-3526. The books are available as long as supplies last. 

THE SPRING 2025 print issue of Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose is now available. Featuring poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from a diverse collection of poets and writers, Allium is available for purchase on our website. Three-year subscriptions are also available. Please visit www.allium.colum.edu for information.

DEVOTION TO WRITING workshops, residencies, retreats. Cultivate and sustain your writing practice with Devotion to Writing, a program for and community of writers and artists devoted to deepening their creative practice. Martha’s Vineyard, Italy, Portugal, and online. Visit devotiontowriting.com or follow @devotiontowriting.com on social media and YouTube.

PORCHES WRITING RETREAT, an historic farmhouse overlooking the James River in Blue Ridge foothills. Spacious porches, comfortable, high-ceilinged rooms, high-speed Wi-Fi, well-equipped kitchen, also a private cottage. Find peace and inspiration. Availability by day, week, month. Open all year. Website: www.porcheswritingretreat.com. E-mail: trudyhale@gmail.com. 

SEEKING INSPIRATION? To be in the presence of other writers is a rare and treasured thing. Join Page Lambert for her 28th annual River Writing Journey for Women, RIVER OF HOPE (6 days/August/Utah). Joining the trip is renowned artist and writer from the Santa Clara Pueblo, Roxanne Swentzell, recipient of the prestigious Living Treasures Award. Sheri Griffith Expeditions’ professional women guides will safely row you through the beautiful canyons of the Southwest while Page and Roxanne offer daily inspiration as you travel the corridors of your own creative journey. Three delicious meals a day. All equipment provided. Prepare to have fun! Website: www.pagelambert.com.

WRITER’S HOUSE, Brittany, France. 150 years old. Beamed ceilings, original floors, quiet, safe, antique furnishings and all modern conveniences: shower, electricity, dishwasher, washer-dryer, DVD, Wi-Fi; ¾ acre with flowers and fruit trees; facing river/canal. Gorgeous. Contact Mark at mgdonna@aol.com; phone: (510) 866-5496; (510) 290-9497.

ZIGBONE FARM RETREAT, near DC/Baltimore in Catoctin Mountains. Creative Writing w/ Diana Friedman (April); Writer’s Hive—We Cook, You Write (June); Novel Writing w/ Tammy Greenwood (July); Inspired Writing w/ Eugenia Kim (September); Poetry/Yoga w/ Ann Quinn (November). Grand ecolodge—artistically, naturally renovated. Timbered ceilings, adobe walls, Moroccan-tiled bathrooms, 100 acres, farm-fresh meals. Website: www.zigbonefarmretreat.com/retreats. E-mail: dena@zigbonefarmretreat.com.

DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING? Domestic hubbub? Prospect Street Writers House offers peace and quiet by the week or by the day. We’ll find a spot for you. Website: www.prospectstreet.org or gclark@prospectstreet.org. 

DORLAND MOUNTAIN Arts Residency is nestled in the hills overlooking beautiful Temecula Valley, wine country of Southern CA. Five self-contained cottages each with workspace & porch—easily providing social distancing. Hiking trails/ponds/views—oak trees and quail. Peaceful, inspiring. Finish your project. Rolling applications/reserve now! E-mail: info@dorlandmountainarts.org; website: www.dorlandmountainarts.org; phone: (951) 302-3837. 

45 YEARS OF PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE, founder/former director of Paris Press, Jan Freeman provides astute manuscript consultations, development, and coaching for writers and poets. “Jan’s ear and her perceptive questions and suggestions were right on the mark as I worked towards the completion of my memoir Beyond This Harbor (Knopf). I highly recommend her.”— Rose Styron. “My decision to work with Jan Freeman was one of the best decisions that I have ever made in preparing a poetry manuscript.”—Glenis Redmond, The Listening Skin (Four Way Books). Website: www.janfreeman.net/editing-services. E-mail: janfreemaneditorial@gmail.com. 

ABLE AND WELL-KNOWN writer, teacher, editor, (Scribner, Random House, Bantam, Dell, Oxford University Press, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Narrative, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The American Scholar, Esquire, GQ, Ploughshares) offers manuscript critique, editing, private tutorials on short stories, novels, and literary nonfiction. Authors edited include Rick Bass, T. C. Boyle, Jennifer Egan, Saidiya Hartman, Min Jin Lee, Anthony Marra, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Joyce Carol Oates, James Salter, Morgan Talty, and many others. Contact: editor@tomjenks.com. Website: tomjenks.com. 

ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE SERVICES: Visit my website for budget-sensitive options. Marcia Trahan, memoirist (Mercy) and editor with 21 years’ experience, offers developmental critiques, copy editing, and help with queries and book proposals. Specializing in memoir; also handles wide range of fiction. Traditional and indie authors welcome. Patient, supportive approach. E-mail: info@marciatrahan.com. Website: www.marciatrahan.com. 

ACCLAIMED POETRY EDITOR, former executive director of Alice James Books, 25+ years’ editing experience. Professional manuscript evaluation, comprehensive editing. Edits for various budgets. Workshops, tutorials, publishing, publicity advice. Author of We (Red Hen Press, 2025), Event Boundaries, Anxious Music (Four Way Books). Former SNU CW MFA faculty. Website: www.aprilossmann.com. E-mail: aprilossmann@hotmail.com. 

AUTHOR, AUTHOR! Professional editor, literary midwife, award-winning author (Bantam, Avon, Scholastic, Berkley/Ace, others) offers extensive critiques, tutorials, revisions, support. Upgrade your writing skills; solve problems with plot, character development, pacing. Specialties include literary and mainstream fiction, mystery/thriller, juvenile/YA, general nonfiction, psychology, spirituality. Carol Gaskin. Phone: (941) 377-7640. E-mail: carol@editorialalchemy.com. Website: www.editorialalchemy.com. 

AWARD-WINNING FICTION WRITER, graduate of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, creative writing teacher of 35 years, provides personalized manuscript editing. I offer detailed editing, honest evaluation, and sensitive critique. I work with new and experienced writers, fiction and nonfiction. Contact Hugh Cook. E-mail: hughcook212@gmail.com. Website: hugh-cook.ca. 

BIRDS & MUSES Mentorship for Women Writers. Realize your vision with a mentor as invested in your story & your growth as you are. Acclaimed novelist, memoirist, editor Kate Moses has been taking writers under her wing for 3 decades with startling insights, attentive generosity, command of craft, acute editorial skill. Website: www.birdsandmuses.com. 

BLOCKED? STRUGGLING? I’ll help you finish that project! Break through blocks with professional writing mentoring from published journalist, poet, playwright, researcher. Skilled editor, experienced teacher, compassionate coach. New genre? Creative transition? Unearthed manuscript? Personal dream?—I can help you write, edit, publish! Carol Burbank, MA, PhD. Free 30-minute consultation. E-mail: cburbank@storyweaving.com. Website: www.storyweaving.com. 

BOOST YOUR POETRY! Poetry Parlor is an online club for poets who want to take their writing to the next level. Each month you meet with other members to discuss an excellent contemporary poem, create your own poem from a stimulating prompt, then get expert help to improve it. Visit www.writebetterpoems.com/poetryparlor. 

DEDICATED, AFFORDABLE EDITOR with professional experience, Eva Pappas offers editorial services and feedback for fiction and nonfiction: meticulous line edits, comprehensive developmental edits. Unburden and uplift your writing; tighten pace, intensify impact, narrow thematic focus. Specializes in narrative-driven novels and essays; welcomes all. “I have worked with editors from large and small presses, trade and academic, and from my experience, Eva stands with the very best of them. Simply exceptional!”—Domnica Radulescu, best-selling author. E-mail: info@eva-edits.com. Website: eva-edits.com. 

FICTION WRITING ASSISTANT/COACH will fire your imagination and craft and/or edit your manuscript. Be steered by a veteran literature professor and psychoanalyst who rescued stalled authors and salvaged their fiction projects. Stephen Isaac Ohayon, (212) 300-5971; empathic8@gmail.com. 

FREE SESSION with Writer Wellness Consultant and Mentor. Have writing begging to get on the page, revised, and moved on to publishing? Want to find out what’s in the way? Give yourself the gift of a free consultation and get started. Contact: Andrea R. Canaan, MSW, MFA. E-mail: andreacanaan@gmail.com; website: www.andreacanaan.blog. 

POETRY, POETRY MS. Expand your range, syntax, facility with language. Close editing, attention to big picture, phone or Skype conferences—U.S. or international. Experienced poet/teacher, award-winning author of 11 collections, 5 with Godine and Knopf. I founded and taught in the MFA and postgraduate conference at Vermont College. E-mail: rogerweingarten12@gmail.com. For further details, please visit website: www.rogerweingarten.com. 

PROOFREADING and copy editing service. 10% discount on your first manuscript. See dp-proofreading.com for rates, references, contact information, and additional details.

RESPECTFUL, AFFORDABLE FEEDBACK in fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and poetry. Award-winning writer with over 15 years’ college teaching experience. From line edits to global revisions, character work to creative coaching to ghostwriting, brainstorming to final draft, I’m here for what you need. MFA, PhD in CW. Initial consultations are free. Website: adamprinceauthor.com. 

2025 TWO SYLVIAS PRESS Online Poetry Retreat: Spend July, August, or October writing new poems! Receive daily inspiration of poetry prompts, example poems, and creativity tips—all via e-mail! This self-contained retreat is tailored to fit your schedule, allowing you to engage and create at your own pace. We’ll conclude the experience with a critique of 1 of your poems by an award-winning poet! Learn more here: www.twosylviaspress.com/online-poetry-retreat.html. 

THE 14TH MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreat, fall 2025. Enjoy the restorative beauty of autumn in the Berkshires, writing dozens of drafts in museum galleries of MASS MoCA and the Clark Art Institute. Experiment with new forms of creative expression as art opens your memories, perceptions, and imagination in a supportive community. Emerging and experienced poets welcome. Website: www.janfreeman.net/workshops-readings; e-mail: janfreemanpoetry@gmail.com.  

GRAND MESA WRITERS’ SYMPOSIUM, August 8–10, Cedaredge, CO. Featured writers: Shelley Read, international bestselling novelist, Go as a River. Timothy Winegard, New York Times best-selling author, The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, 2015–17 Western Slope poet laureate. Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry workshops. $125/participant. Questions: deborah.gmaec@gmail.com. 

GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wordshop Studio supports writers in the development of their individual voices and practice of their craft. Workshops in Center City and Delaware County, PA, following the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method. Writers of all ages, levels of experience, and genres welcome. Phone: (610) 853-0296. E-mail: ah@philawordshop.com. Website: www.philawordshop.com.

INTO THE SPRINGS Writers Workshop, August 1–3. Pitches. Queries. Craft. Spend a weekend in shared interactive sessions with Storm Literary Agency owner and agent Victoria Selvaggio and multi-published romance author Juliette Hyland. Mills Park Hotel in the unique village of Yellow Springs, OH. Registration closes July 25. Website: www.intothespringswritersworkshop.com. 

LIVE FREE AND WRITE. August 10–15. Writing retreat in Sunapee, NH. Spend an inspiring week working on your poetry or memoir. Enjoy the refreshing New England summer with plentiful writing time, encouraging workshops, homemade meals, and time to relax. Learn more and register today: www.stockton.edu/murphywriting. 

LOOKING FOR affordable writing classes? HerStry has you covered. Check out our list of writing classes ranging from 10 weeks to one day. See all our classes here: https://herstryblg.com/event-calendar. 

WRITE IN SAN MIGUEL. Write in the heart of stunning San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, January 17–24, 2026, with Lynne Golodner and Christopher Locke. This intimate retreat features engaging workshops, one-on-one mentoring, NYT best-selling authors, luxury accommodations, and unforgettable excursions. All genres welcome. Space is limited—apply now! Website: https://lynnegolodner.com/retreats/san-miguel/. For information: lynne@yourppl.com. 

WRITING CO-LAB provides dynamic online classes to deepen your craft, sharpen your publishing acumen, and ignite your imagination. In July, our summer camp for emerging writers returns! Writing Co-Lab is cooperatively run by artists committed to the joyous power of the written word. Learn more at www.writingco-lab.com/.