Genre: Creative Nonfiction

Financial Matters

The Time Is Now
10.9.25

The Gilded Age, the HBO television series created by Julian Fellowes, chronicles the lives of a cast of characters living in 1880s New York City, including servants and maids living and working in the garden-level quarters of brownstone mansions, wealthy inhabitants of Manhattan from both old and new money, and Black families living in Brooklyn who reach levels of affluence in the post-Reconstruction period. Together, the characters create a layered portrait of a city where diverse classes come into often conflicted interaction. Write a personal essay that examines your own class status, reflecting on how it manifests in your encounters in society with friends, coworkers, family, and others. How have financial matters evolved through past generations in your family to bring you to where you are today?

Alaska Pacific University

MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Anchorage, AK
Application Deadline: 
Thu, 04/01/2027
Application Fee: 
$35

O‘ahu Writers Mini-Retreat

November/December 2025

The O‘ahu Writers Mini-Retreat was held on November 29 and November 30 at a historic vacation property in the town of Waialua, on the North Shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. The retreat featured generative writing workshops, critiques, and arts and crafts breaks for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet Tamara Leiokanoe Moan, fiction writer Tom Gammarino, and creative nonfiction writer Constance Hale. Tuition was $120 for one day and $200 for both days; lodging was not included, but lunch was.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
May 21, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
May 21, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 21, 2026
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

O‘ahu Writers Mini-Retreat, 1040 56th Street, Oakland, CA 94608. (617) 909-1439. Constance Hale, Director.

Constance Hale
Director
Contact City: 
Waialua
Contact State: 
HI
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Prose & Poetry Chapbook Contest

Action, Spectacle
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
December 31, 2025
A prize of $1,000, publication by Action, Spectacle, and 25 author copies is given annually for a chapbook of poetry, prose, or hybrid-genre work. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 20 to 32 pages with a $25 entry fee by December 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Pushcart Prizes

Pushcart Press
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
December 1, 2025

Publication in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses is awarded annually for works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction published by literary magazines or small presses during the current year. Editors may nominate up to six poems, short stories, novel chapters, or essays published, or scheduled to be published, in 2025; submit one copy of each work by December 1. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Tags: 
essays | short stories | small press | literary magazines

Amity Literary Prize

Anamcara Press
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
December 31, 2025

A prize of $1,000, publication by Anamcara Press, and 50 author copies will be given annually for a poetry collection, story collection, essay collection, novel, or memoir. Using only the online submission system, submit a poetry manuscript of 60 to 120 pages, a fiction manuscript of at least 70,000 words, or a nonfiction manuscript of 80,000 to 100,000 words (plus a summary of 500 to 750 words) with a $25 entry fee by December 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest

Quarter After Eight
Entry Fee: 
$15
Deadline: 
November 30, 2025

A prize of $1,008.15 and publication in Quarter After Eight is given annually for a prose poem, a short short story, a micro essay, or other work of short prose. Steven Dunn will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit up to three pieces of no more than 500 words, each with a $15 entry fee, by November 30. All entries are considered for publication. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Literary Award

Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
December 1, 2025

Up to two prizes of $1,000 each and an invitation to give a public lecture at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia is given annually for books of fiction and/or nonfiction published in the current year that are by a writer from Philadelphia or examine and reflect life in the greater Philadelphia area. Members of the award committee will judge. Authors or publishers may submit two hard copies (or advance reader’s copies) of books published in 2025 by December 1. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

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