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Our annual Writing Contests Issue features over 100 contests with no entry fees, a look at the money behind free contests, a special report on extended deadlines, and tips for smart contest entries; interviews with nonfiction writer Leslie Jamison, poet and activist Carmen Giménez Smith, novelist and critic Laila Lalami, and Library of America editorial director John Kulka; plus audiobook options for writers; a defense of quiet books; writing prompts; and more.
For Leslie Jamison, who started out writing fiction and published a novel eight years ago, nonfiction offers a method of exploring the richness of life in all its complexities, as illustrated in her new book, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its...
Poet, publisher, editor, and activist Carmen Giménez Smith, whose fifth book, Cruel Futures, is out from City Lights, has some advice for other hardworking poets: We make art to reach readers, not to win a race.
An investigation into a common, and complicated, practice.
Free contests, grants, and fellowships for poets and writers at any level.
Assess the sponsor, know the rules, judge the judge, and seven other reminders before you submit.
A comparative analysis of the last three years of the magazine’s Deadlines section.
A new graphic novel out from Montreal comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly.
A Missouri-based publisher of poetry and fiction allows authors more creative control over their books.
The iconic Seattle literary arts organization plans for the opening of a new space for writers.
Library of America editorial director John Kulka on the importance of publishing classic American literature.
The first lines of a dozen new books, including The Dream of Reason by Jenny George.
A new anthology from Haymarket Books celebrates Black Girl Magic.
A poet discusses five journals that published poems from his second collection, Pardon My Heart.
With publishers both large and small leading the way, literary vinyl makes a comeback.
A novelist and critic discusses the book reviewing process, the role of social media in literary criticism, and much more.
What a rapidly growing market can mean for writers today.
Connect with nature, delve into dystopia, and reflect on a relationship with a guardian—three prompts to get you writing.
A defense of books that whisper in an increasingly noisy world.
