“The systemic structure built to keep me in place is the stage I dance on. Black, and woman.” This short film featuring principal ballerina Misty Copeland is paired with a poem by Saul Williams for Under Armour’s online ad campaign, “Unlike Any,” which highlights women athletes performing to poems.
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.