About a year ago Dean Young read his poem "Your Super Bookstore Recommends" for Teleportal Readings in Austin, Texas. Earlier this month Young underwent a successful heart transplant, some of the costs of which were offset by the ongoing fundraising efforts of the poetry community.
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.