This video demonstrates the mechanisms behind the Biblio-Mat, which dispenses a random used book to any customer who inserts two dollars into the vending machine. Craig Small custom-made the machine, as an alternative approach to the discount sidewalk bin, for the Monkey's Paw, an antiquarian bookshop in Toronto.
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.