PEN America has announced the opening of the 2020 Emerging Voices Fellowship application. The Emerging Voices Fellowship is a literary mentorship that aims to provide underrepresented writers who are isolated from the literary establishment with the tools, skills, and knowledge they need to launch a professional writing career…. read more
One prize of $1,000 and book publication is given by Howling Bird Press annually in alternating genres; this year the category is creative nonfiction… read more
Madwomen in the Attic is seeking featured writers for The Featured Writer Project’s 2020-2021 writing year, which will begin in January 2020 and end in January 2021…. read more
Astral Waters Review, a new sci-fi/fantasy magazine for LGBTQ+ and POC writers, is seeking submissions for our second issue!… read more
In honor of longtime member Jane Hoppen, Paragraph: Workspace for Writers is offering a six month residency to an emerging writer who represents the LGBTQ+ community… read more
The call for poems “that best describe LGBTQ life” is now open for submissions… read more
For Arch Street Press’s second writing competition of 2019, we’re seeking that first chapter of your memoir… read more
PEN America celebrates writers at every stage of their career and we take great pride in our Grants & Fellowships program… read more
The Broken River Prize is an annual poetry chapbook contest from Platypus Press. Each year a different poet will judge the contest this year’s judge is poet and teacher Airea D. Matthews…. read more
“We publish short poems, and long poems, and have a soft spot for form, but equally, are open to anything.”… read more
