Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jane Smiley explains why The Winter’s Tale is her favorite play by William Shakespeare. To commemorate the four hundred year anniversary of his death in April 2016, Folger Shakespeare Library has collected videos of people sharing their favorite Shakespeare stories.
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.