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ANTHOLOGY: FOR POETS: Accepting essays and poetry that discuss how mental illness and/or medication has affected your poetry. Deadline: November 30 or when full. Payment: 1 copy. No reading fee. Please send to: sherrihope68@gmail.com. 

LOOKING FOR VINDICATION? Perhaps a spot of character assassination? The upcoming anthology Casting Aspersions seeks short pieces of any genre that skewer a real or imagined antagonist. Send us your pungent repartée, pithy epitaphs, scathing yet funny or revelatory ripostes. Didn’t manage a squelching response at the critical moment? Now’s your chance. Guidelines at longshippress.com or littoralpress.com. $10 submission fee. Deadline: January 15, 2025.

LOVE IN THE LATER YEARS: Eclectic Books is compiling an anthology of senior-oriented erotic poetry of the highest literary quality. Venerable or not-so-venerable lovers, send up to 3 poems to eclecticbooksla@gmail.com. Payment: 1 copy. No reading fee.

LOVE READING AND WRITING short stories that are enjoyed and respected worldwide? Then you’ll love COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2025. Order today for “unputdownable” 5-star holiday reading—or for a thoughtful gift costing less than $20: https://www.coolestamericanstories.com/.  And after these stories inspire you, write a new story and submit!

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.  

BLUE LIGHT PRESS Book Award—imagistic, inventive, honest poems that push the edge. Send 40-75 page manuscript, SASE, $20 reading fee to Blue Light Press, P.O. Box 150300, San Rafael, CA 94915 by January 31, 2025. For guidelines, bluelightpress@aol.com. Website: www.bluelightpress.com. 

LEGACY BOOK PRESS LLC is a traditional publisher of personal stories accepting book-length manuscripts in non-fiction (like memoir), autobiographical fiction, and/or poetry formats. Based in Iowa, U.S.A., LBP traditionally publishes books by authors throughout the entire country and Canada. Visit www.legacybookpressllc.com for details. Tip: Follow submission guidelines exactly. 

SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS, a regional publishing collective, seeks full-length poetry manuscripts from Northern California poets. Submission period: November 1, 2024, to February 1, 2025. No fee. All styles welcome. Authors become active members of the press for 3 years. For complete guidelines, go to www.sixteenrivers.org. 

TERTULIA PRESS. New micropublisher seeks prose, poetry, and genre-bending experiments. Send your unresolved, fragmentary manuscripts for first- edition publication. Authors retain all rights for future publication. We hope to follow in the tradition of New Directions, Dalkey Archive, Burning Deck Press. No reading fees. Tertulia Press, P.O. Box 986, Miami, FL 33233. 

THE 2024 September–December call at Sequestrum is for reprints! We’re accepting previously published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Standard pay rates and publication applies. Submit via our online submission system. Deadline: December 15. E-mail: sequr.info@gmail.com. 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.

ALLIUM, A JOURNAL of Poetry & Prose accepts simultaneous submissions, requests a maximum page length of 5 pages for poetry; 3,750 words for craft essays, fiction, hybrid, and nonfiction. No previously published or AI-generated work. Our submission period opens November 15, 2024, and closes January 31, 2025. Visit Submittable at: www.allium.submittable.com/submit. 

APPLE IN THE DARK publishes works of fiction and creative nonfiction up to 1,500 words apiece. Submissions for the winter 2024 issue are open until December 15. More info: http://appleinthedark.com. Free submissions; donations through the “Tip Jar” appreciated.

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

BELLETRIST 7 invites stories of the unspoken, unwritten, unheard. We are looking for fiction, poems, essays, and miscellany (eavesdroppings, secrets, found objects, crumpled notes, etc.) soaked in absence. Give us the unsaid, the words hidden, not to be revealed, unlikely to be unearthed. Belletrist 7 will be published as a secret text, locked, stashed on a shelf, a place to stow away these unspoken messages. For submission guidelines: www.belletristmagazine.com. 

BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW seeks poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for “Genus and Species,” a special issue exploring how animals figure into our lives, how health and healing both transcend and interconnect species, and what this can teach us about being human. Submit: September 1–December 31; fee: $5. Website: www.blreview.org. 

BLACK MOUNTAIN PRESS accepting submissions for literary magazines Herwords (women) and Januswords (LGBTQ+). Submit for reading now for chapbook competitions and short story collections and novels. Website: www.theblackmountainpress.com. 

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.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Creosote: a Journal of Poetry and Prose. Please submit hard copies of 3–5 poems, or prose up to 5,000 words. Submission deadline: March 1, 2025. Simultaneous submissions OK with notice. Mail to: Creosote, Ken Raines, Editor, Eastern Arizona College, 615 N. Stadium Ave., Thatcher, AZ 85552.

CALLING ALL BABY BOOMER writers! BoomSpeak e-zine is looking for fresh baby boomer voices. Essays, fiction, travel, arts—we publish writing that is about the possibilities and energizing things you can do with the rest of your life. 400-word limit, must be age 50 or over. Click “About Us” for details. Website: www.boomspeak.com. 

CLOCKHOUSE, published by Clockhouse Writers’ Conference, seeks submissions from emerging and established writers for its 2025 volume. We’re looking for poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, and dramatic work that beckons us to listen, share, and engage. Submissions: September 1 through November 15. Guidelines at clockhouse.net. 

COMSTOCK REVIEW opens its reading period (no fee) January 1, 2024–March 31, 2025. Our editors invite poems of imagination, inspiration, distinctive metaphor, and refreshing themes from new and experienced writers. Submit poems through Submittable, www.comstockreview.submittable.com/submit or mail to: Comstock Review, 4956 St. John Dr., Syracuse, NY 13215. **NEW GUIDELINES!** Poem length 60 lines maximum (includes stanza breaks). Maximum line length 70 characters. No previously published or AI-assisted poems. Complete rules at www.comstockreview.org or www.comstockreview.submittable.com/submit. 

DEEP WILD: Writing from the Backcountry, home for creative work inspired by journeys to places where there are no roads, wants wild words, all genres. September 1–December 1. Also seeking entries for our Undergraduate Student Prose Contest, NF/F, deadline: March 1. No fees! Read guidelines/order a copy at www.deepwildjournal.com. 

FOUNDED IN 2000, The Bryant Literary Review is an international journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction housed at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. Authors can submit work to: bryantliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit. For past issues, see digitalcommons.bryant.edu/blr. Work to be considered for Vol. 26, which will be published in Spring 2025, must be submitted between September 1 and December 1.

FRONT RANGE REVIEW is now accepting online submissions of literary short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for its 25th annual issue. Our reading period is August 15–December 1. To see guidelines and submit, visit www.frontrange.edu/frontrangereview.

GIRLS RIGHT THE WORLD is a journal inviting girls and young, gender-expansive writers and artists, ages 14–21, to submit work for consideration for the tenth annual issue. We ask to be the first to publish your work in North America; after publication, the rights return to you. Send your best work, in English or English translation, to girlsrighttheworld@gmail.com by December 31. Please include a note mentioning your age, where you’re from, and a bit about your submission.

GLIMPSE SEEKS POEMS for Issue #58. For guidelines, please send SASE to George J. Searles, Editor, P.O. Box 51, Clinton, NY 13323 or see website: www.glimpsepoetrymagazine.com. 

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

IRIDESCENCE AWARD 2025.BIPOC and underrepresented storytellers wanted to submit supernatural, extraterrestrial, or paranormal stories (500 to 5,000 words). Speculative fiction themes can be fantasy, science fiction, Afro-futurism, mythology, paranormal thrillers, etc. Prizes up to $1,000 USD and publication. Deadline April 30, 2025. $20 entry fee required. Details: www.kinsmanquarterly.org/contests. 

I-70 REVIEW IS now accepting submissions of poetry or short fiction until December 31, 2024, for its 2025 issue. Please check our website (http://i70review.fieldinfoserv.com/) for submission guidelines and also consider entering the Bill Hickok Humor Award for Poetry from January 1 through February 28, 2025.

LITTLE PATUXENT REVIEW (LPR) is seeking submissions of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for its un-themed Summer 2025 issue. Submissions will open and be accepted from December 1, 2024 through March 1, 2025. LPR publishes diverse voices and aesthetics and encourages both emerging and established authors to submit. Review our guidelines at www.littlepatuxentreview.org. 

THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES, America's premier publication on antiques and visual arts, is accepting poetry submissions for a creative new feature which pairs a poem with a crossword puzzle on the same theme. The poem must consider antiques, art, or collecting and, ideally, reflect subject knowledge. No submission fee. $50 paid for accepted poems. Send 1-3  unpublished poems, 30-50 lines each. It may take six months to hear back. Notify us if a submission is accepted elsewhere. Send submissions in a single document with your name as the title to evegrubinantiques@gmail.com, with a brief cover letter. Use this address for questions.

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. 

THE MEMOIR PRIZE FOR BOOKS awards up to $5,000 for full-length memoir, essay collection, graphic memoir, 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. Deadline: February 28, 2025. Find out more at: https://memoirmag.com/literature/the-memoir-prize-for-books/.

MILITANT HUMANIST is a space for poets, writers, and artists in the struggle for universal human rights and happiness in the face of fascist, oligarchical, corporate, and militarized oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Seeking submissions from pro-Palestinian activists & allies for founding issue. Visit: militanthumanist.org. Query: info@militanthumanist.org. 

MISTAKE HOUSE MAGAZINE invites submissions of fiction and poetry by students currently enrolled in graduate or undergraduate colleges and universities worldwide. We seek inventive writing that plays with process, craft, and form. Submission window: October 15, 2024, to March 20, 2025. Submission fee: $5. Guidelines at www.mistakehouse.org/submit. 

NOMINEE: Ranked 6th 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. 

OAKWOOD, South Dakota State University’s literary journal since 1975, seeks new work from writers living in or affiliated with the Northern Great Plains region. Recent contributors include Ted Kooser, Kent Meyers, Linda Hasselstrom, and Terese Svoboda. No submission fee. Submit from September 1–December 31; see www.sdsuoakwood.com/submission-guidelines. 

OPEN CALL FOR Black, Afro/Indigenous-POC to submit to theredwoodreview.org. The Redwood Review is a tri-annual international literary-arts journal publishing language and art that interrogates the anatomy of customary cogitations on class strata, racialized bodies, and queer identities. All genres are welcome. Make it strange, poignant, conniving—we love it all.

PEDESTAL MAGAZINE will accept submissions of poetry for its December 2024 issue. No restrictions on theme, style, length, or genre. Please visit the website for details and to view current/archived work: www.thepedestalmagazine.com. 

PENSIVE: A GLOBAL JOURNAL of Spirituality & the Arts, biannual online publication from Northeastern University, welcomes the most exciting unpublished poetry, prose, art, translations you submit. Please explore first at www.pensivejournal.com; submit via Submittable; 2 annual submission periods. Submit once per year. No fee. Historically underrepresented and international voices encouraged.

RATTLE SEEKS SUBMISSIONS of food poems for the Summer 2025 issue: Poems may be written in any style on the topic of food. Deadline: January 15, 2025. Online submissions accepted. For more information, visit our website: www.rattle.com. 

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN for The Waiting Room, vol. 2. $0 submission fee, rolling deadline, decisions made by the editors. The Waiting Room captures our most ugly and most beautiful, send us yours. All genres of art and literature considered. For more information and submission guidelines, visit www.nervousghostpress.org. Write on.

SUBMISSIONS TO RIVER TEETH (narrative nonfiction) and Beautiful Things (micro-essays) are open September 1–December 1, 2024, & January 1–April 1, 2025. Read complete guidelines/connect at riverteethjournal.com, Instagram @riverteeth_, and X @riverteeth. We encourage underrepresented voices to submit work, including but not limited to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and disabled writers.

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. 

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. 

WRITE, DRAW, PAINT, PHOTOGRAPH, compose for Persimmon Tree—the magazine of literature and the arts by women over 60. Windows for submitting prose, poetry, artwork for the Winter 2024–25 issue opening soon. What, when, and how to submit: https://persimmontree.org/submissions/. 

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, 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 information, contact nick@thewritersworkshop.net. Websites: www.thewritersworkshop.net or www.thewritersworkshopreview.net.

$4,000 IN AWARDS. Enter New Millennium Writing Awards by November 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 hate entering writing contests. New Millennium Writings, however, is different. It’s run by people who actually respect writers, read with competence, and are genuinely open to works of any style, and writers of any background. It is an honor to participate in NMW competitions.”— Paula Friedman, recent submitter. Visit www.newmillenniumwritings.org. 

2025 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE. $1,500 and book publication. Final judge: Sara Eliza Johnson. Deadline: January 15, 2025. Minimum length: 48 pages (no maximum). Reading fee: $25. Online submissions only, please. Complete guidelines: https://newamericanpress.com/2025-new-american-poetry-prize-final-judge-sara-eliza-johnson. 

2025 PRESS 53 AWARD for Short Fiction. $1,000, publication, and 53 copies awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of short stories. If runner-up is also selected: $500 advance, publication, and 25 copies. Claire V. Foxx will judge. Prizes awarded upon publication. Deadline: December 31. Winner and finalists announced by May 3. Reading fee $30. Information at www.press53.com/award-for-short-fiction. 

18TH ANNUAL SMITH COLLEGE Poetry Prize for New England & New York High School Girls in 10th & 11th grades. Award: $500 & opportunity to present poem. Judge: Tiana Clark. No entry fee. Submissions: September 1–December 1. Sponsored by the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College. Guidelines, eligibility, required entry form: www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/wp/outreach/hs-poetry-prize. 

28Th ANNUAL BLUE LYNX PRIZE, $2,000 plus publication, is awarded for an unpublished, full-length volume of poems. Submit manuscripts and $28 reading fee to lynxhousepress.submittable.com, or P.O. Box 96, Spokane, WA 99210. Recent winners include Martha Silano, Sara Moore Wagner, Jim Daniels, Flower Conroy, Heather Sellers, Kirsten Kaschock, Joe Wilkins, Carolyne Wright, and Lue Lipsitz. Judges have included Yusef Komunyakaa, Melissa Kwasny, James Tate, Christopher Buckley, Dara Wier, Dorianne Laux, and Robert Wrigley. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

ANNUAL RATTLE CHAPBOOK PRIZE offers 3 winners $5,000 for a chapbook (up to 36 pages), plus 500 author copies and distribution to Rattle’s 8,000+ subscribers. Entry fee of $30 includes a 1-year subscription to the magazine. Deadline: January 15, 2025. For guidelines and to read past winners, visit our website: www.rattle.com/chapbooks. 

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: Teachers & Writers Magazine seeks submissions for the Bechtel Prize, a $1,000 cash prize to be awarded to a classroom teacher or teaching artist for an essay describing an innovative creative writing classroom project that engaged and inspired budding writers. Visit www.teachersandwritersmagazine.org/bechtel-prize for submission guidelines. Deadline: January 12, 2025. Winners announced Spring 2025.

CHOEOFPLEIRN PRESS is accepting book- length manuscripts for the Kenneth Johnston Nonfiction Book Prize from September 1–December 31. Fee $30; every entrant receives a digital copy of the winning book. Prizes incl. $300, 5 print and 1 digital copies, plus free marketing. See our submission guidelines at www.choeofpleirnpress.com/nonfiction-book-contest. 

CHOEOFPLEIRN PRESS is accepting chapbook-length poetry manuscripts for the Jonathan Holden Poetry Chapbook Prize from January 1–April 30, 2025. Fee $25; every entrant receives a digital copy of the winning book. First prize incl. $200, 5 print and 1 digital copies, plus free marketing. See our submission guidelines at www.choeofpleirnpress.com/poetry-chapbook-contest. 

CIDER PRESS REVIEW Book Award. Prize: $1,500 and publication of full-length poetry collection. All entrants will receive the winning book. Reading period: September 1–November 30. Reading fee: $27. Submit 48–80 page manuscript to 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), acknowledgements, 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. 

COLORADO PRIZE for Poetry. $2,500 honorarium and book publication. Submit book-length collection of poems by January 14, 2025. Final judge is Craig Morgan Teicher. $25 entry fee includes subscription to Colorado Review. Complete guidelines at www.coloradoprize.colostate.edu or Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 9105 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105.

ENTER ACTION/WORDS, Midway Journal’s new annual poetry contest. The contest runs from October 1–December 31. $300 grand prize, $150 second prize, $50 third prize. Poems can be of any style and any length. Unlimited entries. For more details go to www.midwayjournal.com/contest. 

GIFTED FICTION WRITERS! Lilith Magazine—independent, Jewish, & frankly feminist—seeks quality short stories with heart, soul, and chutzpah, 3,000 words or under, for our Annual Fiction Contest. Open September 1–December 31. First prize: $300 and publication. We especially like fresh fiction with feminist and Jewish nuance and are eager to read submissions from writers of color and emerging writers of any age. Submit to info@lilith.org with the subject line “Fiction Contest” and your surname. Include full contact information on manuscript. Website: www.lilith.org/contact/writing-for-lilith. And check out FRANKLY FEMINIST: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine, available now wherever you buy books, or at bit.ly/FranklyFeminist. 

GRAYSON BOOKS Chapbook Contest. $500 and 50 gorgeous copies will be awarded to the winner. Submit 16-32 pages poetry, $20 reading fee. January 31, 2025 deadline. Electronic submissions only. Simultaneous submissions accepted if we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Luisa Caycedo-Kimura will judge. See www.graysonbooks.com for complete guidelines.

HAZEL ROWLEY Prize for First-Time Biographers: Sponsored by the Biographers International Organization (BIO), the Rowley prize offers $5,000 for the best book proposal from a first-time biographer, plus a careful reading by an established agent. Submissions due February 1, 2025. Guidelines and entry forms are available on the BIO website: www.biographersinternational.org/rowley-prize.

LEFTY BLONDIE PRESS publishes woman-identifying & non-binary poets. Editor’s Choice Broadside Contest: Any age, any publishing history. Submissions: October 1, 2024–January 15, 2025. 2025 First Chapbook Award: Age 40+, yet to publish a chapbook or book. Submissions: January 1–March 31, 2025. Prize: $250 + 10 author copies & more. Visit for details: www.leftyblondiepress.com. 

LONGLEAF PRESS BOOK AWARD. Beautifully designed publication by Longleaf Press, a $1,000 prize and 25 author copies awarded for a poetry collection in English. Roger Weingarten will judge. Submit at least 50 pages and a $27 entry fee by January 15 via Submittable. See the website for complete guidelines: www.longleafpress.org. 

MONEY FOR WOMEN/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund annually awards grants of $500–$2,000 to women writers whose work reflects feminist values. Projects must be well underway. Genres alternate by year. Poets and nonfiction writers are invited to submit 10-15 pages during the month of January 2025. See demingfund.org for more information.

POETRY OF THE PLAINS & PRAIRIES (POPP) Award. North Dakota State University Press seeks poetry submissions of any style for our 10th Annual Poetry of the Plains & Prairies letterpress chapbook publication. Submissions must deftly capture the feeling of, as well as the reality of, living on the plains and prairies. $400 prize. No entry fee. Details at https://ndsupress.submittable.com/submit. 

POETS 55 YEARS OR OLDER are encouraged to submit their unpublished full-length manuscripts to the John Ridland Poetry Prize. The prize includes $500, 10 author copies, and publication by Gunpowder Press, a 501(c)(3) literary publisher. Open to established and emerging poets. Submissions accepted until December 31. Details at www.gunpowderpress.com. 

PRISM REVIEW Poetry/Story Contests! $250 prizes! Great judges! Poetry: Luivette Resto (Living on Islands Not Found on Maps). Fiction: Mimi Herman (The Kudzu Queen, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and VCU Cabell First Novelist Award longlists). $10 entry gets you a great $10 issue. Deadline: Midnight, November 30. Website: prismreview.submittable.com/submit. 

SELECTED SHORTS’ Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Contest judged by author Ottessa Moshfegh. Prize includes $1,000; publication on electricliterature.com; a 10-week course with Gotham Writers Workshop; and 2 tickets to a performance of Selected Shorts featuring your winning story. Max: 750 words. Fee: $25. Due: March 7, 2025. For complete guidelines, visit www.selectedshorts.org. 

SUBMISSIONS FOR the 2025 Tomaž Šalamun Prize are being accepted until March 15, 2025. The winner receives $1,000, chapbook publication by Factory Hollow Press, and a 1-month residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The prize is open to poets at any stage of their career. To submit: www.verse.submittable.com. 

WORD DANCING Instant Poetry (just add words!) volume 3 by Lawrence R. Berger. Winning poet of the Inaugural Books, ETC. Poetry Award 2022. Winner: The 39th annual Pen a Poem award from Featured Media, 2024. Check it out! Website: www.amzn.to/3ulmeF5.

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. 

WINTER IN MAINE? Why not? It may inspire your best work. Come to Oranbega Retreat Center in our quiet coastal village for a week or more. We nurture your body and soul; you sit by the fire and write. Spacious rooms, delicious food, very reasonable rates! See more at https://oranbegacenter.com/. 

WOMEN READING ALOUD hosts USA and international writing retreats. Dedicated to the power of the writer’s voice, we emphasize community and connection. Add us to your writing life in 2025. Visit our website for workshops, special literary events, and retreats: www.womenreadingaloud.org. 

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. 

WRITING RANCH’S 14th annual “Writing Down the Baja” February 15–23, 2025, Todos Santos, Mexico. Seven days of workshops led by Writing Ranch founder Ellen Waterston, award-winning author and Oregon’s Poet Laureate, and prestigious guest faculty. $3,500 USD includes workshops, evening presentations, meals, and lodging at beachfront boutique hotel Serendipity. Day students $820 USD. Website: www.writingranch.com.

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@dorlandartscolony.org; website: www.dorlandartscolony.org; phone: (951) 302-3837.

LOCATED IN THE southwestern Vermont village of North Bennington, Prospect Street provides both tranquility and conviviality to writers of all genres at every stage of their writing life. The recently renovated Victorian has 12 bedrooms configured in 3 suites of 4 bedrooms, 8 with en suite bath. Residents meet for a home-cooked dinner meal but are responsible for breakfast and lunch. One- and 2-week stays are available throughout the year. Submit a writing sample, letter of intent, your choice of dates. The Writers House is easy to get to and hard to leave. Consult www.prospectstreet.org for submission details, calendar, and pricing. Six Yellow Door Fellowships will be available for 2025, more info at www.slideroom.com. Any questions, reach out to Gary Clark at gclark@prospectstreet.org. 

THE SALTONSTALL FOUNDATION in Ithaca, NY, offers residencies to New York State artists and writers with dedicated residencies specifically for artist/writer parents. Our facilities are accessible for artists and writers with disabilities. Free to attend, no cost to apply. We provide private 1-bedroom suites, private baths, chef-prepared dinners, 200 acres of trails, and a need-based stipend. Application deadline will be January 5, 2025, for all 2025 residencies. Low-cost retreat space is available through the winter and spring with no jurying or application necessary. Visit: saltonstall.org. 

THE SUE-JE LEE GAGE RESIDENCY Residency for Social Justice and Human Rights in Ithaca, NY, welcomes applications for year-round and summer '25 residencies: https://www.sunlitresidency.com. Summer '25 fully subsidized residency program deadline is January 10, 2025.

2025: IMPROVE YOUR POETRY LIFE with Two Sylvias Press’ WEEKLY MUSE! Enjoy Zoom poetry classes with renowned poets, weekly poetry prompts & exercises, publishing opportunities, interviews, #ProTips, & more—all included in your paid subscription. Seeking community, expert guidance, & support? Invest in your poetry life with “the best new tool for poets” and for under $20/month. Write & publish more poems this year! Website: https://twosylviaspress.substack.com/subscribe. 

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, Barrelhouse Books) and editor with 20 years’ experience, offers critique, copy editing, and help with queries and 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. 

ACE EDITOR. Editorial rescue from a nurturing but whip-cracking, well-connected, celebrated author (Bang the Keys, Jazzed) who will help you unleash the true fabulosity in your projects and bring them to fruition in the real world before depression or drink destroy your nerve! E-mail: jilldearman@gmail.com; website: www.jilldearman.com. 

AFFORDABLE, POWERFUL,and comprehensive editorial services can give your manuscript an edge. Helga Schier, PhD, publishing executive, professional editor, and published author offers in-depth evaluation, line editing, revisions. Want to write a good book? Let me help you unlock the potential of your manuscript. Contact me at helga@withpenandpaper.com; website: www.withpenandpaper.com; phone: (310) 828-8421. 

AT PORCHES WRITING RETREAT: A comprehensive 3-day 1-on-1 novel consultation, offering a deep dive into your manuscript with editor Greg Michalson for writers who have a finished or nearly finished draft. This unique experience includes 4 nights in an 1854 farmhouse on the James River, VA. Website: www.porcheswritingretreat.com/workshops-fellowships. 

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. 

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. 

INKBLOSSOM: A Global Community of Writers offers virtual and in-person writing workshops, retreats, and conferences, plus individual mentoring opportunities. For 16 years, acclaimed writer and teacher Connie May Fowler has created small, nurturing spaces designed to help people become the very best writers they can be. Many InkBlossom writers publish widely, while others are just beginning their creative journeys. To join our vibrant writing community and to view our offerings, visit www.inkblossomwriters.com. 

JAN FREEMAN, Paris Press founder and former director, will help you create and/or hone your prose and poetry. Publisher of Muriel Rukeyser, Virginia Woolf, Ruth Stone, Emily Dickinson, she provides editorial services, manuscript reviews, and coaching. Forty years of experience. For details and endorsements, e-mail: janfreemaneditorial@gmail.com and visit www.janfreeman.net/editing-services.

MENTORING AND MANUSCRIPT ASSESSMENT: Providing expert editorial appraisal and help to poets at all levels. Award-winning poet and fiction writer, educator, and mentor to many writers in the United States and abroad now available for intensive manuscript review. Offering line-by-line editing and much more. E-mail me at susansonde@msn.com for in-depth details and testimonials.

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. 

RECORD COMPANY seeking poems, poetry, lyrics to be set to music. Services offered if accepted. We’ve worked with poets on 6 continents. A+ rating BBB. 49 years in business. You own the melody we write for you. Free appraisal! Website: www.majesticrecords1.com; e-mail: majesticrecords1@yahoo.com; phone: (903) 756-7696; address: Majestic Records Corporation, P.O. Box 1140PW, Linden, TX 75563.

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, brainstorming to final draft, I’m here for what you need. MFA, PhD in CW. Initial consultations are free. Website: adamprinceauthor.com. 

SELF-PUBLISHING REVIEW—Professional Book Reviews and Promo Services for Authors since 2008. Get Amazon Verified customer reviews, sales, and best-seller ranking with our proven methods. Star-rated editorial reviews for back covers/websites. Formatting and editing for the self-published writer. Free advice at: www.selfpublishingreview.com. 

TAHOMA LITERARY REVIEW offers detailed critiques of your short stories or essays. Get experienced, professional, and useful commentary on your prose up to 6,000 words. Details and pricing: www.tahomaliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit. 

31ST ANNUAL Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, January 17–20, 2025, Atlantic City, NJ, area. Join us for small, generative workshops in poetry, fiction, memoir, nonfiction, songwriting, and storytelling. Enjoy intensive and supportive sessions, insightful feedback, and an encouraging community. Learn more and register today: www.stockton.edu/wintergetaway. 

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. 

HOW TO PROMOTE Your Book— a free virtual workshop. In this 1-hour workshop, Press Shop PR and Book Publicity School founder Leah Paulos shares tips for promoting your book and getting media attention. Press Shop has worked on #1 NYT bestsellers On Tyranny and March, and named a top publicity firm by the Observer. Website: www.bookpublicityschool.com. 

LOOKING FOR personalized feedback on your manuscript? Canada’s Humber School for Writers has a 28-week online graduate program for those working on book-length projects, plays or screenplays. New for January 2025: mentorship for writers of children’s literature. Explore your options: www.humberschoolforwriters.ca. 

MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreat, October 31–November 6. Balance the tension of the election with a generative poetry workshop in the Berkshires, writing in the galleries of MASS MoCA, the Clark Art Institute, and Williams College Museum of Art. Explore how art opens memories, emotions, and the imagination while experimenting with new forms of expression. Included: Private studio; housing in MASS MoCA apartments. Emerging and experienced poets welcome. Website: www.janfreeman.net/workshops-readings; e-mail: janfreemanpoetry@gmail.com.