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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no
Event Date:
June 5, 2026
Rolling Admissions:
no
Application Deadline:
February 15, 2026
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
February 2, 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 offers 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 are provided with time and space to write, writing workshops, private writing consultations, and a cooking class. The faculty includes poet and fiction writer Mimi Herman and fiction and nonfiction writer John Yewell.
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RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
no
Event Date:
April 10, 2026
Rolling Admissions:
no
Application Deadline:
February 1, 2026
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
February 2, 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
Codirectors
Contact City:
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.
Fiction & Poetry Contest
Hayden’s Ferry Review
Entry Fee:
$15
Deadline:
February 28, 2026
Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Hayden’s Ferry Review are given for a poem or a group of poems and a work of fiction. Sarah Ghazal Ali will judge in poetry and Gina Chung will judge in fiction. Using only the online submission system, submit one to three poems totaling no more than 10 pages or a short story or novel excerpt of up to 20 pages with a $15 or $23 entry fee, which includes a digital or print subscription to Hayden’s Ferry Review, respectively, by February 28. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Poetry Prize
Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation
Entry Fee:
$10
Deadline:
March 14, 2026
A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a single poem. Andrew Schelling will judge. Submit up to three poems of no more than three pages each with a $10 entry fee by March 14. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Academy of American Poets
Entry Fee:
$0
Deadline:
February 15, 2026
A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the United States during the previous year. Collaborations by up to two translators are accepted. Cynthia Hogue will judge. Using only the online submission system, publishers may submit a digital copy of a book of at least 48 pages published in 2025 by February 15. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.
Claire Keyes Poetry Award
Salem State University
Entry Fee:
$10
Deadline:
February 1, 2026
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Soundings East, the annual literary journal of Salem State University, is given annually for a group of poems. Susan Rich will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit 8 to 10 pages of poetry (no more than one poem per page) with a $10 entry fee (or $15, which includes a copy of the latest issue of Soundings East) by February 1. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
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