Portsmouth Book & Bar is a full service restaurant, bar, and live entertainment venue tucked inside a bookstore in the heart of downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The kitchen offers a full menu and the bar has a wide selection of signature cocktails, beer, wine, coffee, and tea. Live entertainment includes regional music acts, poetry readings, comedy, open mic nights, and a variety of community events. Located in Portsmouth’s stately one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old customs house, Book & Bar also carries more than ten thousand new and used books, including best-sellers and hidden gems.
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.