Ten Writers on Writing Advice: 2025
Ten authors answer the tenth question in our Ten Questions series: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received?
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Genre: Poetry
Poets of Place & Body: Teresa Dzieglewicz
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In this Beyond Baroque celebration of Teresa Dzieglewicz’s debut collection, Something Small of How to See a River (Tupelo Press, 2025), poets Jessica Abughattas, Meghann Plunkett, and Arumandhira Howard read their work exploring strength, care, and radical joy along with Dzieglewicz, whose collection is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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Neraki International Writers Workshops
The 2026 Neraki International Writers Workshops will be held from June 5 to June 14 at a seaside private home and seminar space in Katigiorgis, Greece. The workshop features craft classes, generative writing sessions, small-group workshops, individual meetings with mentors, unstructured time for writing, and various wellness activities for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poet and fiction writer Paula Closson Buck and fiction and creative nonfiction writer Jim Buck.
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CONFERENCE
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Event Date:
June 5, 2026
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
May 29, 2026
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
May 29, 2026
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Neraki International Writers Workshops, c/o Paula Closson Buck, 145 Jean Boulevard, Lewisburg, PA 17837. (570) 412-2366. Paula Closson Buck, Cofounder.
Paula Closson Buck
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Katigiorgis
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GR
Writeaway in Italy
Writeaways offered a weeklong retreat from April 10 to April 17 to poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers (including creative nonfiction writers) at the 17th century Villa Cinci and Villa Casanova located in the Chianti region of Tuscany, Italy. Residents were provided with time and space to write, writing workshops, private writing consultations, and a cooking class. The faculty includee poet and fiction writer Mimi Herman and fiction and nonfiction writer John Yewell.
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RESIDENCY
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yes
Event Date:
May 29, 2026
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
May 29, 2026
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
May 29, 2026
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Writeaways, Writeaway in Italy, P.O. Box 62012, Durham, NC 27715. Mimi Herman and John Yewell, Codirectors.
Mimi Herman and John Yewell
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Tuscany
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IT
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network: Legacies Reading
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In this Green Apple Books event, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents a night of readings featuring writers François Luong, Aimee Phan, Minnie Phan, and Thien Pham, sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library and San Francisco Arts Commission.
Poetry and Comics
“It was happily free of theoretical ambitions, such as being avant-garde or radical or even funny,” writes Ron Padgett in the foreword to The Complete C Comics (New York Review Books, 2025), which collects the two issues of comic books created by Joe Brainard in collaboration with New York School poets in the 1960s. Brainard created the drawings and poets, such as Padgett, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara, and Peter Schjeldahl, provided text for speech balloons and captions. This week experiment with the energy and humor of this illustrative format. Take inspiration from classic comic book icons and characters and write a poem that channels the childlike playfulness of comics, giving them your own “adult” spin, perhaps incorporating elements of surrealism or parody, or even accompanying your own doodles and sketches.
Balcones Prizes
Austin Community College
Entry Fee:
$25
Deadline:
January 31, 2026
Three prizes of $1,500 each are given annually for a poetry collection, a book of fiction, and a book of creative nonfiction published during the previous year. Authors or publishers may submit three copies of a book published in 2025 (poetry collections must be at least 42 pages in length) by January 31. The entry fee is $25 for poetry and $30 for fiction and creative nonfiction. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.
James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets
Poetry Northwest
Entry Fee:
$0
Deadline:
February 15, 2026
Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Poetry Northwest are given annually for a single poem by an Indigenous poet. The winners also receive an all-expenses-paid trip to read with the judge at Poets House in New York City in the fall. Writers who have published no more than one full-length book and who are community-recognized members of tribal nations within the United States and its territories are eligible. A Native poet of national prominence will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit up to three poems of no more than three pages each, a cover letter specifying any tribal affiliations and ties, and a brief bio by February 15. All entries are considered for publication. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Cardinal Poetry Prize
Wesleyan University Press
Entry Fee:
$25
Deadline:
February 28, 2026
An award of $1,000 and publication by Wesleyan University Press will be given biennially for a poetry collection by a writer 40 years or older. The award will be given for a poet who has “taken their time and decided not to rush publication.” Poets who have yet to publish a collection or have not published a collection within the last ten years will be eligible. Robert Pinsky will judge. Submit a manuscript of 48 to 64 pages with a $25 entry fee by February 28. Financial assistance is available on request based on financial need. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Self-Publishing Literary Awards
Black Caucus of the American Library Association
Entry Fee:
$0
Deadline:
February 28, 2026
Two prizes of $2,500 each are given annually for a poetry e-book and a fiction e-book self-published by an African American writer during the previous year. The awards honor books that depict “cultural, historical, and sociopolitical aspects of the Black Diaspora.” Using only the online submission system, submit an e-book self-published in 2025 by February 28. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
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