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ALLPOETRY COMMUNITY ANTHOLOGY —Allpoetry.com, the world’s largest poetry site, seeks poems for its annual anthology. Monthly free contests to enter, pays a free copy. Sick of rejection slips? Get the critical feedback to improve! Classes, contests, friends, and smallwriting groups. For short stories, visit http://allpoetry.com/pw or http://storywrite.com/pw.

GREAT WEATHER FOR MEDIA seeks poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, and creative nonfiction for our next anthology. Our focus is on edgy and experimental themes and styles. Deadline: January 15, 2015. Submission guidelines: www.greatweatherformedia.com.

MUTABILIS PRESS is seeking well-crafted and imaginative poems about Houston, TX’s unique nature—both the persistence of the natural world in spite of its growing, urban sprawl and poems about the nature of Houston itself as a bustling modern city of landscapes: poems that define a complex city. For submission guidelines see www.mutabilispress.org.

NEGATIVE CAPABILITY PRESS is seeking quality submissions for its Health & Wellness anthology. We are accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrids. The theme can be taken literally or abstractly. For more information visit negativecapabilitypress.org.

RATTLE SEEKS submissions by children for our annual Young Poets Anthology. Poets must be age 15 or younger. Deadline: June 15, 2015. Parents or teachers (with parents’ permission and contact information) may send up to 4 poems by e-mail to:children@rattle.com. Website: www.rattle.com/children.

RESUMED PROJECT: Pessoa Anthology seeking submissions for an anthology of North American poets and writers’ responses to Fernando Pessoa. Tentative title of book: Under Our Skin: North American Poetic Responses to Fernando Pessoa. All correspondence to Charles Cutler (Emeritus, Smith College), 22 Savoy Rd., W. Hawley, MA 01339. E-mail: ccutler@smith.edu.

THE TEACHER’S VOICE is still independent and free. Please see our Race in U.S. Education anthology in progress online (a hard- copy forthcoming). We need strong work from established and emerging poets and writers. Carefully examine the needs of the anthology before sending work. Guidelines available online. Visit: www.the-teachers-voice.org. Mail: The Teacher’s Voice, P.O. Box 150384, Kew Gardens, NY 11415.

THOMAS WOLFE POEMS. The Thomas Wolfe Society seeks poems about Thomas Wolfe for an anthology. No entry fee; membership in the Wolfe Society advantageous. Payment: 2 copies of anthology. Deadline: January 31, 2015. Submit to: David Radavich, editor, daradavich@gmail.com; or 6216 Glenridge Rd., Charlotte, NC 28211. Website: www.thomaswolfe.org.

YOUNG WRITERS ANTHOLOGY. VerbalEyze is accepting submissions from writers ages 13-22 for its 2014-15 Young Writers Anthology series. Writers selected will earn royalties toward scholarships for higher education. VerbalEyze is a nonprofit that fosters, promotes and supports the development and professional growth of young writers. For submission details visit www.verbaleyze.org.

FAIRHAVEN PRESS is an academic press currently putting together new literature and journalism textbook projects for 2015. We need authors with existing chapters or complete book manuscripts in several areas. There is never a fee to submit or publish with us. We offer competitive royalty rates for all authors. Website: www.fairhavenpress.com.

FIG TREE BOOKS is accepting literary and mainstream novels that speak specifically to the American Jewish experience. Agents, established authors, and emerging writers with no prior publishing credits welcome. All novels will be available in print and e-format, backed by a major distributor. For guidelines, visit our website: www.figtreebooks.net.

HUDSON WHITMAN/EXCELSIOR COLLEGE PRESS: We’re not your father’s college press! No tomes, no scholarship, only great nonfiction. Acquisitions: health/nursing, military, alt education, biz & tech. Electronic submissions via Submittable. Look us over! www.hudsonwhitman.com. Twitter: @ExcelsiorPress.

NEW RIVERS PRESS Many Voices Project Competition. Two prizes of $1,000 each for book-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging writers. Winning works are published by New Rivers Press and distributed nationally. Submit a poetry manuscript of 50–90 pages; a collection of short stories, novellas, or personal essays of 100–200 pages; or a novel or memoir of up to 400 pages; $25 entry fee. Submissions accepted September 15–November 1 online at https://newriverspress.submittable.com/submit or print entry form from www.newriverspress.com and mail to New Rivers Press, MVP Competition, 1104 Seventh Ave. S., Moorhead, MN 56563.

OMONOMANY PUBLISHING. We publish poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Send SASE, sample chapter and outline to 5501 Murray Ave., Memphis, TN 38119.

PROLIFIC PRESS is accepting full-length poetry and fiction manuscripts. Submissions are free. Only full manuscripts are accepted (no sample chapters, please). You may submit online or by snail mail. For details about the press, and how to submit, please visit us online at http://prolificpress.com.

RACING FORM PRESS is a publisher of simply and elegantly designed books of poetry. We are now reading manuscripts. Our model slightly differs from most; instead of charging a reading fee, we just ask that you purchase 1 of our titles. For more information, please visit our website, www.racingformpress.com.

SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS seeks manuscripts from San Francisco Bay Area poets for our open submission period, November 1, 2014–February 1, 2015. Authors join the press for 3 years and share in the work of the press. No fee; all styles and forms welcome. For complete guidelines, go to sixteenrivers.org.

WEB-E-BOOKS (www.web-e-books.com) publishes bold, contemporary and classic novels and creative nonfiction within the parameters of our slogan: Where Reality and Fiction Collide. We seek works offering compelling social messages, strong character development, and captivating narrative (w/illustration options)...literature of excellence, originality, and authenticity. Ask about our Book Backer program. Submissions: info@tri-screenconnection.com.

WORDTECH COMMUNICATIONS LLC is holding a reading period for full-length poetry manuscripts. Dates: November 1–December 31 (postmark). We have published Rachel Hadas, Mary Crow, Colette Inez, Lester Lennon, John Gery, Mary Swander, Nick Carbo. Publication in 2016. Guidelines: http://www.wordtechcommunications.com/deadline-list.htm.

WROLSTAD CONTEMPORARY POETRY SERIES. Tavern Books seeks submissions of new, full-length poetry manuscripts. Open to female poets 40 years of age and younger, regardless of publication history, $1,000 book sales advance, paperback and hardcover publication in the Tavern Books catalog, national distribution. Postmark deadline: January 15, 2015; $25 reading fee. Submission guidelines: tavernbooks.com/wrolstad-series.

FOLDED WORD seeks writing from/about New England and 4,500-word short stories to publish as stand-alone chapbooks, although we are open to other submissions. Manuscripts must conform to our guidelines at foldedword.com/submit.html to be considered. As they arise, special editorial needs are posted at folded.wordpress.com.

THE JEANNE M. LEIBY Chapbook Award in fiction, essay, or graphic narrative. Deadline: December 30. Winner receives $1,000, chapbook and publication. All submissions considered for publication in the Florida Review. Submit up to 40 pages with $25 entry fee. For guidelines and to submit online, visit http://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu.

WORDRUNNER ECHAPBOOKS publishes online collections of fiction or memoir, each featuring 1 author, and an annual themed anthology. No fee to submit. Authors are paid. For our Winter 2015 anthology issue, submit poetry, short stories, novel or memoir excerpts about “strange encounters.” November 1–December 31. Details, guidelines: www.echapbook.com.

ANNOUNCING FRESHWATER’s 16th annual issue. We seek only original poetry. Poets may submit up to 5 unpublished poems by December 15; please note if sending simultaneous submissions. Payment: 2 copies. Please visit our website for full details: www.asnuntuck.edu/about/submit-freshwater, or contact us at freshwater@acc.commnet.edu.

ARROYO LITERARY REVIEW is an award-winning national magazine with a West Coast orientation. We are seeking fiction, flash fiction, poetry, essays, and translation for our eighth issue. Open reading period from December 1 to May 31. No e-mail submissions. Please see our website for submission guidelines: http://www.arroyoliteraryreview.com.

BASEBALL BARD. Online literary magazine with annual printed book seeks poems up to 32 lines on subject of baseball. All properly submitted poems are published. Poets new to Baseball Bard are invited to submit on free trial basis. For guidelines, see “Poem Submit” at baseballbard.com. E-mail: baseballbard@yahoo.com.

BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW seeks submissions for theme issue: “Embattled: The Ramifications of War.” War can be humanity at its worst, but it can also bring out strength, love, sacrifice, and the will to survive. Fiction & nonfiction (5,000 words max). Poetry (3 poems max). Deadline February 1, 2015. www.blreview.org.

THE BERKELEY POETRY REVIEW, publishing at UC Berkeley since 1974, seeks submissions of poetry for its 45th issue until February 1, 2015. While we accept great poetry of any kind, we are particularly interested in work that complicates prevailing conceptions of race, gender, sexuality, and poetic form itself. http://ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr.

BRYANT LITERARY REVIEW, a journal of poetry and fiction, seeks quality submissions for its May 2015 issue. Work may be of any style or subject matter. See poetry samples at www.bryantliteraryreview.org. Deadline: December 1. Send submission with cover letter, brief bio, and SASE to: Bryant Literary Review, Faculty Suite F, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI 02917.

CALIFORNIA STATE POETRY SOCIETY seeks poems year-round for its California Quarterly, its monthly contests and its Poetry Letter. Poems are accepted for CSPS annual contests March 1–June 30. Send SASE for submission requirements, contest rules, sample CQ ($10) and/or Poetry Letter ($1) to: CSPS, P.O. Box 7126, Orange, CA 92863.

CHANGES IN LIFE monthly online newsletter is seeking personal essays from women of all ages. New writers are encouraged to submit their work. For details and submission guidelines, see www.changesinlife.com.

COE REVIEW,established in 1971 and run by an entirely undergraduate editorial staff, wants to read your poetry and fiction. From our hundreds of submissions, we choose those with refreshing perspectives, forms, styles, and messages. The best issues are created from a passionate staff and writers to be passionate about, and we love being able to fight for your work. Details at coereview.org/about-us/submissions.

COLERE, an annual journal celebrating cultural exploration, welcomes thought-provoking fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork for its 14th issue. Please limit submissions to 8 poems or 20 pages on experiences abroad or at home. Deadline: January 15, 2015. Mail to Colere, Coe College, 1220 1st Ave. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402.

DASH, an annual journal published by California State University Fullerton, seeks works of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and criticism that are short and emphatic. Poems: 33 lines max. Prose: 2,015 words max. Deadline: March 1, 2015. Waste not. Want not. Submit. E-mail: dashliteraryjournal@gmail.com. See website for complete guidelines: www.dashliteraryjournal.com.

THE DERONDA REVIEW (www.derondareview.org) seeks poems about healing. Formal poetry welcome. P.O. Box 1299, Efrat, Israel; e-mail: derondareview@att.net, maber4kids@yahoo.com.

DIGITAL AMERICANA MAGAZINE publishes classic and modern Americana in all forms: fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and spoken word. Our Winter 2015 reading period is now open. Seeking stories from 400–5,000+ words in length. Our issues are available seasonally in print, and in our custom iPad and iPhone Newsstand apps. Some of our recent issues have included such pieces as original nonfiction from Pulitzer Prize winner, Megan Marshall; original fiction from Kevin Moffett; and visual poetry from Richard Kostelanetz. We are happy to entertain literary submissions that have interactive elements. For more information about submission guidelines and available contests please visit: http://thedigitalamericana.com.

EAST END ELEMENTS, the annual literary magazine of Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus, seeks submissions of poetry, short fiction, dramatic writing (one acts, scenes, and monologues), and creative nonfiction. Submissions accepted August 1–May 1. For guidelines and the online submission manager, please visit www.eastendelements.wordpress.com.

ELSEWHERE CARES only about the line/no line. We want short prose works (flash fiction, prose poetry) that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre. We publish 6 writers and 1 photo every 2 months. Give us your homeless, your animals, your lunch money: we’re hungry. For more details, see elsewheremag.org.

THE EVENING STREET REVIEW is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal. Reads poetry/prose submissions year-round. Replies in 3 months or less. Sometimes includes comments. Send 4–6 poems or 1–2 prose pieces. 7652 Sawmill Rd., #352, Dublin, OH 43016 or editor@eveningstreetpress.com. For contests and guidelines: www.eveningstreetpress.com.

EXIT 13 MAGAZINE seeks travel/geography poems for annual spring issue. Photos of Exit 13 road signs also needed. Founded in 1988. Sample copy $10. Payment: 1 contributor’s copy. Send 3–5 poems to exit13magazine@yahoo.com (no attachments) or P.O. Box 423, Fanwood, NJ 07023 (with SASE for reply).

FEILE-FESTA, an online literary journal, needs poetry or microfiction, somehow evoking cultures of Mediterranean and Celtic societies, especially Irish and Italian/Sicilian, whether found in the native country of origin or the diasporas to America or Canada. We are also interested in any writing about life in New York City.  Deadline: January 1, 2015. Send submissions only by e-mail to fpolizzi@medcelt.org. For complete guidelines, visit www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/index.html.

FRONT RANGE REVIEW seeks literary short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for its 15th annual issue. Our reading period is August 15–December 1. Send all correspondence to: Blair Oliver, Faculty Advisor, Front Range Review, FRCC, 4616 S. Shields, Fort Collins, CO 80526. For guidelines, see www.frontrange.edu/frontrangereview.

GLASSWORKS MAGAZINE, a journal of literature and art publishing digitally and in print, seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, craft essays, art/photography, and new media (video, audio, multimodal, etc.) for upcoming issues. Reading period open until December 15. Contributor copies provided. Read guidelines at www.rowanglassworks.org.

GOT POEM? The odds are 999 to 1 against you that you can write a poem worth reading and remembering. Prove the odds wrong. Submit your poems by e-mail to the Great American Poetry Show. Simultaneous submissions and previously published are welcome. E-mail: larry@tgaps.com, website: www.tgaps.net.

HAWAII PACIFIC REVIEW seeks submissions of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Based at Hawaii Pacific University, HPR often features work from Hawaii and the Pacific region, but is interested in great writing from any place and on any subject. Details and links to our online submissions manager at hawaiipacificreview.org.

HOSPITAL DRIVE (www.hospitaldrive.med.virginia.edu), an online journal of literature and the arts at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, publishes original creative work that examines themes of health, illness, and healing. The journal welcomes new voices. Poems, short fiction, personal essays, reviews, and photography and visual art (painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media) will be considered. To submit:  http://hospitaldrive.med.virginia.edu/submit.html.

IRON HORSE accepts submissions for 5 issues as well as the IHLR Trifecta (featuring longer works, due November 28, 2015, $250 prize in all categories), a prose chapbook (due February 28, 2015, $1,000 prize), and our annual video literature competition (due March 30, 2015, $450 prize). Guidelines for all issues and contests: www.ironhorsereview.com.

LITTLE PATUXENT REVIEW is reading for our Food issue, exploring poems, stories, and essays on that theme and featuring interviews with Jane Hirshfield and Grace Cavalieri. Deadline is November 1. The reading period for this summer’s unthemed issue is December 1, 2014 through March 1, 2015. For details, visit http://littlepatuxentreview.org.

MOUNT HOPE, a literary magazine publishing fiction, photography, nonfiction, graphic storytelling and poetry, welcomes submissions of original work for upcoming issues. We seek short stories or nonfiction up to 5,000 words, up to 4 poems per author, and graphic novel and photo portfolios of 5–12 images. We publish emerging authors side-by-side with such established writers as Margot Livesey, Steve Almond, Hester Kaplan, Howard Norman, Steven Church and Moira Egan. See us online: www.mounthopemagazine.com.

OFF THE COAST— now in its 20th year! Seeks poetry, any subject/style & photography/artwork. Deadlines: March 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15. Send 1–3 poems, previously unpublished, via Submittable: https://offthecoast.submittable.com/submit. Pays contributor copy, half off additional copies. Subscriptions $35. For guidelines and examples from the magazine, visit our website: www.off-the-coast.com.

ONLINE LIT MAG the prompt is seeking submissions of poetry, fiction, CNF, and more. All writing must be based on prompts or exercises; submissions must include the prompt they are based on. Each issue also highlights a new Editor’s Challenge. Accepts submissions year-round. See guidelines at www.promptlitmag.org.

PENTIMENTO, a literary magazine for the disability community, is seeking submissions of essays, poetry, short stories, art, and photography for the June 2015 issue. Submissions must be by an individual with a disability or a member of the disability community. For more information and to request a free issue, please visit www.pentimentomag.org.

PMS, poemmemoirstory, seeks submissions during our new reading period: January 1–March 31, 2015. While PMS is a journal of exclusively women’s writing, the subject field is wide open. For guidelines, see: http://pms-journal.org/submission-guidelines. We look forward to reading your work. Please note: PMS is going all digital this year on Submittable. Please send all submissions to: https://poemmemoirstory.submittable.com/submit. For any other correspondence: poemmemoirstory@gmail.com.

RATTLE SEEKS submissions by New York poets for the Summer 2015 issue: poets must have lived half their lives in the NYC area. Deadline: January 15, 2015. Send up to 4 unpublished poems and/or a relevant essay to: Rattle, 12411 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604. Online submissions accepted.Website: www.rattle.com.

ROCKHURST REVIEW seeks lively material for 28th edition, Spring 2015. Submissions accepted September 15–January 15. Typed.  SASE for acceptance. Maximum lengths for submissions: fiction/essay: 2,500 words; drama: 10 pages; poetry: 10 pages/5 poems; 5 b/w or color, glossy photographs. No return of materials.  Send name, address, phone, e-mail, and bio to Patricia Cleary Miller, Rockhurst Review, Rockhurst University, 1100 Rockhurst Rd., Kansas City, MO 64110.  Or submit to rockhurstreview@hawks.rockhurst.edu in a Word document attachment or in e-mail body. In subject line put your name and the word Submission. eg., John Smith—Submission.

SAN PEDRO RIVER REVIEW opens January 1, 2015 for Spring issue submissions. The theme will be Fathers. Please see more at: www.sprreview.com.

THE SARANAC REVIEW welcomes submissions from new and established writers for its Fall 2015 issue (#11). We are looking for fiction, including flash fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Our reading period begins August 1 and runs through May 15. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Please go to our website for complete, specific guidelines and to submit: www.saranacreview.com.

SHADOWGRAPH, a biannual print journal and online quarterly, is seeking well-crafted essays, poetry and fiction. We’re especially interested in lyric essays, unconventional fiction, and translations, but we seek to represent a wide variety of fine work, so please check out our website at www.shadowgraphmagazine.com.

SLAB WANTS your funkadelic writing: creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and text/image pieces. We love flash too. Reading period: August until December 1. All submissions read and touched by the human hand, not a bot among us. Samples & more info at www.slablitmag.org.

SMALL PRINT MAGAZINE, a resource and showcase for writers, seeks creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, craft book reviews, and articles on the craft of writing. Interviews and other feature articles also considered. We read year-round. Download the current issue and view submission guidelines at smallprintmagazine.com.

SPANK THE CARP call for submissions. We’re looking for flash fiction, short stories, and poetry, including shape poetry. If your work is thought-provoking, sophisticated, yet not pretentious or obscure, we’re interested. For submission guidelines and more information visit www.spankthecarp.com.

SUKOON is an Arab-themed, English-language, online literary magazine reflecting the diversity of the Arab world. Writers/artists are not necessarily of Arab origin; in such cases the published work must link to the cultures of the Arab world. Sukoon is biannual and accepts submissions on a rolling basis. www.sukoonmag.com.

THIRD WEDNESDAY literary arts journal seeks unpublished poems no more than 2 pages each, fiction to 1,500 words, and b&w artwork from experienced writers and artists. See: third

wednesday.org. Send up to 5 poems, any form, any subject. We pay $3 per poem, story, and artwork/photography. Details of our annual poetry contest, deadline January 31, 2015, are available by e-mailing us. E-mail submissions only (no snail mail, please) to: submisions@thirdwednesday.org.

TIFERET JOURNAL seeks high-quality poetry and prose. Deadline December 31. https://tiferet.submittable.com/submit.

TRANSFERENCE invites submissions of poetry translated into English from Arabic, Chinese, French, Old French, German, Classical Greek, Latin, or Japanese. Along with your translations, please submit a commentary on the translation process, addressing particular challenges posed by the text or specific translation choices. Submission period: September 1, 2014–February 28, 2015. Read Transference and submit up to 4 poems at http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/transference. For more information write to lang_trans@wmich.edu.

TRUE STORIES WANTED. Creative Nonfiction seeks true stories, well told, on any subject or theme. Submissions should be 4,000 words or less, written in narrative form, with compelling scenes, descriptive characters and dialogue. Or, pitch a magazine column idea. We read year-round. For complete guidelines, visit https://www.creativenonfiction.org/submissions.

TWO HAWKS QUARTERLY is an online journal affiliated with Antioch University Los Angeles’ BA program in Creative Writing and is setting the bar for contemporary literature with bold and illuminating poetry, fiction, cnf, and experimental work. Read us. Write for us. Submissions accepted year-round. For guidelines see www.twohawksquarterly.com.

UNDER THE SUN is reading for its third online issue, beginning August 15–January 2. Creative nonfiction and single submissions only. Website: uts2013.com. New website beginning September: www.underthesunonline.com. E-mail: hzweidner@gmail.com. Address: Heidemarie Weidner, English 5053, TTU, Cookeville, TN 38505.

6TH ANNUAL Blue Flower Arts Winter Writers’ Conference, January 4-10, 2015 hosted by Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL. Join master writers Benjamin Percy (Fiction), Nick Flynn (Memoir), and Carolyn  Forché (Poetry), for an intense week of writing that will push your creative borders. Class sizes are limited to just 13 participants with on-site housing available. For more information visit www.blueflowerarts.com/wwc or telephone (800) 393-6975 x16.

11TH ANNUAL Palm Beach Poetry Festival in Delray Beach, FL, January 19–24, 2015. Focus on your work with 8 of America’s most celebrated poets: Linda Gregerson, Thomas Lux, Chard deNiord, Maurice Manning, Molly Peacock, Brenda Shaughnessy, Patricia  Smith and Robert Wrigley. Six days of workshops, readings, craft talks, manuscript conferences, panel discussions, social events and so much more. Special guest: Dana Gioia. Apply online to attend a workshop, or join our mailing list. Visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org.

22ND ANNUAL Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, January 16–19, 2015, Atlantic City area featuring Kim Addonizio and Stephen Dunn. Join us for small, intensive workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir, screenwriting, and more. Enjoy challenging and supportive sessions, insightful feedback, and an encouraging community. Scholarships available. Register by November 20 and save: www.wintergetaway.com.

THE 2015 Las Vegas Writer’s Conference, hosted by Henderson Writers’ Group, is scheduled for April 23–25 at Sam’s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall. Join fellow writers, agents, publishers and marketing experts for a weekend of workshops on the publishing industry. Registration is limited to 150 attendees. Sign up now! www.lasvegaswritersconference.com.

2015 SAN FRANCISCO Writers Conference.  February 12–16 at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. This “Celebration of Craft, Commerce and Community” offers interaction with 100+ literary agents, editors, publishers and bestselling authors. SFWC Writing Contest and master workshops are open to non-attendees. Get details, registration, and opt-in for the SFWC newsletter: www.sfwriters.org.

2015 SAN MIGUEL Writers’ Conference & Literary Festival (February 11–15, 2015). 10th anniversary keynote speakers: Alice Walker, Scott Turow, Gloria Steinem, Tracy Chevalier, Richard Blanco, Jane Urquhart, and Ángeles Mastretta. Choose from 56 workshops in all genres. Barbara Kingsolver: “San Miguel is full of unexpected riches...” Details and registration: www.sanmiguelwritersconference.org.

GREAT LAKES Writers Festival, November 6–7 at Lakeland College, near Sheboygan, WI. Featured writers: Karla Huston and David Jauss. No fee. For details and registration form go to www.greatlakeswritersfestival.org or contact Karl Elder, elderk@lakeland.edu or (920) 565-1276.

LIT CAMP Writers Conference held at Mayacamas Ranch in the rolling hills of Calistoga, CA. Thursday, May 14–Sunday, May 17, 2015. Presented by the SF Writers Grotto. Only 40 participants, more than a dozen world-class & Pulitzer Prize–winning faculty members. Workshops, editor & agent panels, yoga. Submission deadline: January 31, 2015. litcampwriters.org.

7 BEST REASONS to enter New Millennium Awards’ contest by November 17—Best Poetry $1,000; Fiction $1,000; Nonfiction $1,000; Short-short Fiction $1,000. All submitters receive our 2016 anthology. All winners are published in our anthology and online. We have launched careers! Visit www.newmillenniumwritings.com. “Highly recommended. NMW is one of our favorite journals,”—Winning Writers.

9TH ANNUAL Smith College Poetry Prize for New England high school girls in 10th and 11th grades. Award: $500 and opportunity to read poem at Smith. Judge: Natalie Diaz. No entry fee. Submissions: September 1–December 1. Sponsored by Poetry Center at Smith College. Guidelines, eligibility, required entry form: www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/highschoolprize.html.

$1,000 PRIZE for best poem. DASH Journal welcomes submissions to its third annual poetry contest. Send up to 3 unpublished poems per entry (max 33 lines each). Include name and contact information on cover sheet only. Fee: $10 for contest, or $15 for contest plus 1-year subscription. Check payable to DASH Journal. Deadline: Feb. 15, 2015. All poems blind-reviewed by panel of editors. Finalists published in 2015 issue. DASH Journal, Department of English and Comparative Literature, California State University Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, CA 92831. Details: www.dashliteraryjournal.com.

$1,500 AND PUBLICATION is offered for a poetry collection, to be released in hardcover and paperback. Judge: C. Dale Young. Submit a manuscript of 60–100 pages with a $25 entry fee by Feb. 15, 2015. For complete guidelines visit www.orisonbooks.com/submission-guidelines.  The Orison Poetry Prize, P.O. Box 8385, Asheville, NC 28814.

16TH ANNUAL Gival Press Poetry Award for best MS of original poetry in English, 45 pages or more in any style or form. Prize: $1,000 plus publication. Deadline: December 15; entry fee $20. E-mail for complete guidelines: givalpress@yahoo.com. Website: www.givalpress.com.  Call (703) 351-0079, or SASE. Gival Press, Robert L. Giron, Editor, P.O. Box 3812, Arlington, VA 22203.

2015 GREAT LAKES Poetry Prize: $500, $250, and $100 awards along with publication in Great Lakes Review. Final judge: Robert Archambeau. Deadline: December 31. Reading fee: $10. All submissions are considered for publication. To submit, please visit: https://greatlakesculturalreview.submittable.com/submit.

2015 JACKSON DAUGHTRY Literary Honor. We are proud to present this year’s guest judge, Ari Berk, who is a world-renowned author and best known for The Undertaken Trilogy. We are looking for a novel of fiction or creative nonfiction. Grand prize $1,000, publication and marketing deal. The deadline for submission is January 31, 2015. For details and submission guidelines, please visit us at www.jdlh.org.

2015 MAIN STREET Rag Poetry Book Award. Deadline: January 31, 2015. Length: 48–84 pages. Reading fee: $25. Prize: $1,200 and publication. All entries considered for publication; multiple manuscripts will be published. Send to: Main Street Rag, P.O. Box 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001 or enter via e-mail. Detailed guidelines available on website: www.mainstreetrag.com.

2015 NEW AMERICAN Poetry Prize: $1,000 award and book publication. Final judge: Maggie Smith. Deadline: December 31. Manuscript: 48–100 pages. Reading fee: $22.50. Paper submissions no longer accepted. For convenient online submission, please visit: www.newamericanpress.com/contests/current.php.

2015 WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Award for Excellence in Poetry. One winner receives $500 and publication in Paddlefish. Submission fee $14 (for 2 poems). All poets submitting to the contest receive a copy of the forthcoming journal. All submissions will also be considered for the forthcoming issue of Paddlefish. To read last year’s winning poem and for complete guidelines visit: http://www.mtmc.edu/paddlefish/kloefkorn.aspx.

ANNOUNCING THE Hamlin Garland Award for the Short Story—$2,000 and publication for the top unpublished story on any theme. Novelist David Rhodes to judge. All entrants considered for publication. Maximum 7,000 words. Postmark by December 1. $20 reading fee required. Checks to Beloit Fiction Journal, or pay through Submittable. One story per entry. Send entries (including SASE) to: Chris Fink, Editor, The Beloit Fiction Journal, 700 College St., Beloit, WI 53511. Or enter electronically: https://beloitfictionjournal.submittable.com/submit.

THE ATLANTIS AWARD is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $100, publication, and will be featured in an interview on the Poet’s Billow website. Finalists may be published. We nominate for Pushcart Prize, Best of the Web, and Best New Poets. Deadline: November 1. thepoetsbillow.org.

BALTIMORE REVIEW Winter Contest.Theme: Work. Love it or live for the weekend? Make work play a role in your poem, story, or CNF. All entries considered for publication. Prizes: $500, $200, and $100. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: November 30. For more details and to submit online: www.baltimorereview.org.

BRIGHT HILL PRESS Poetry Book Competition. A prize of $1,000, publication, and distribution by Bright Hill Press, and 30 author copies awarded annually for a poetry collection. Submit a manuscript of 48–64 pages with a $25 entry fee by November 30, electronically (see website for guidelines, www.brighthillpress.org) or via regular mail to BHP Poetry Book Competition, 94 Church St., Treadwell, NY 13846-4607. Phone: (607) 829-5055. Bertha Rogers, Editor. E-mail: wordthur@stny.rr.com. Website: www.brighthillpress.org.

BROADSIDE CONTEST. hit & run press is establishing an annual poetry broadside contest in honor of poet and teacher William Dickey. First prize is $1,000 plus a limited- edition letterpress broadside of the winning poem. Deadline is November 30. Award ceremony will be held at Housing Works Bookstore in NYC on April 13, 2015. The judge will be Tony Hoagland. For application form and complete information go to: www.mrbebop.com.

CALL FOR UNPUBLISHED WORK: Submit your writing to 12 categories for PNWA’s Literary Contest. Every qualified entry receives two written critiques, winners selected by agents and editors actively acquiring new authors. Entries per category ($35/PNWA members, $50/nonmembers) must be received by February 20, 2015. Over $12,000 in prize monies. pnwa.org. E-mail: pnwa@pnwa.org. Phone: (425) 673-BOOK.

CIDER PRESS REVIEW Book Award. Prize: $1,500 and publication of full-length poetry collection. All entrants will receive the winning book. Reading period: September 1–November 30. Reading fee: $25. Judge: Jeffrey Harrison. Submit a 48–80 page manuscript to www.ciderpressreview.com or mail to CPR, P.O. Box 33384, San Diego, CA 92163. Guidelines: www.ciderpressreview.com/bookaward.

CODHILL POETRY AWARD: $1,000 plus 25 copies. Distribution by SUNY Press. Deadline: December 10. Submit book-length manuscript (48–72 pages), acknowledgments, table of contents, and cover page (name, address, phone, e-mail) clip-bound plus SASE for contest results and $30 reading fee: Codhill Poetry Award, P.O. Box 280, Bloomington, NY 12411. Electronic submissions: http://codhillpoetryaward.submittable.com/submit. For complete guidelines: www.codhill.com.

COLORADO PRIZE for poetry: $2,000 honorarium and book publication. Submit book-length collection of poems by January 14, 2015. Final judge is Laura Kasischke. A $25 entry fee includes subscription to Colorado Review. Complete guidelines at http://coloradoprize.colostate.edu or Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 9105 Campus Delivery,Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105.

COMMON GROUND Review Poetry Contest! Publication & $500 first prize, $200 second, $100 third. We publish honorable mentions. Judge TBA, $15 entry fee. Check details at www.cgreview.org. Short fiction, non-contest poems welcome without fee. Send to Janet Bowdan, Editor, H-5132, Western New England University, 1215 Wilbraham Rd., Springfield, MA 01119.

A CONTEST FOR PUBLISHED WORK. The Nancy Pearl Book Award is our new writing contest for completed, published books. Every qualified book receives two reads by librarians. Finalists’ books are placed prominently in the bookstore during our summer conference (July 16–19, 2015). Winners (one per category) receive $1,000 cash prize. Deadline January 23, 2015. pnwa.org. E-mail: pnwa@pnwa.org. Phone: (425) 673-BOOK.

CUTBANK LITERARY Magazine announces the 2015 Montana Prize for Fiction, Montana Prize for Nonfiction, and Patricia Goedicke Prize for Poetry are open to submissions November 1, 2014–January 15, 2015. There is a $20 submission fee and each genre is awarded one $500 prize in addition to publication in CutBank. For more information, please go to cutbankonline.org/submit/contests.

ENGINE BOOKS Fiction Prize: $1,000 advance plus publication by Engine Books in 2016. Submit your novel or story collection manuscript and $30 entry fee at enginebooks.org.

THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY Flash Fiction Prize. Winner receives $200 and publication in Fiction Southeast. Word limit 1,500. Submission deadline December 1; entry fee $10. Though we hope for creative and innovative writing, we don’t prefer one particular style or genre of writing. For more information, visit fictionsoutheast.com.

FROM JANUARY 1 to JANUARY 31, Crazyhorse will be accepting entries for prizes in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Winners receive $2,000 and publication. $20 entry fee includes a 1-year subscription to Crazyhorse; all manuscripts entered will be considered for publication. For more information, please visit our website: crazyhorse.cofc.edu.

GRAYSON BOOKS Chapbook Competition—$500 and 50 gorgeous copies to winner. Submit 16-24 pages of poetry by January 31, 2015. $18 reading fee. John Stanizzi to judge. www.graysonbooks.com. If submitting electronically, do not include contact information on the manuscript. https://graysonbooks.submittable.com/submit. If submitting by mail, include 2 cover sheets (1 with contact information and one anonymous) and SASE. Grayson Books, P.O. Box 270549, West Hartford, CT 06127-0549.

THE GREAT NOVEL Contests 2015: $1,000 grand prize, plus priority consideration from multiple publishers; $25 entry fee. Submissions open January 1–31, 2015. Unpublished manuscripts only, all genres of fiction and narrative nonfiction accepted. Contest offered by Columbus Creative Cooperative, an independent arts organization. Learn more at greatnovelcontest.com.

THE GREAT PLAINS Emerging Writer Prize recognizes regional writers who have not yet published a book. Winner will receive $1,000 and a featured reading at the Great Plains Writers’ Conference. Submission fee $15. All genres accepted. Deadline December 1. For details, visit http://greatplainswritersconference.wordpress.com/awards.

HEART POETRY AWARD $300 and publication: $10 covers 3 unpublished poems, reserves copy of HEART #10. Visit website, view past issues for poems preferred, guidelines and judge.  Deadline December 31. May submit online www.nostalgiapress.com or by mail: Nostalgia Press, 115 Randazzo Ct., Elloree, SC 29047.

IMAGINARY FRIEND PRESS is holding a poetry chapbook competition. The reading period is from October 15–December 15. There is a $10 entry fee and all entrants get a copy of the winning book. Winning book gets $100 and 20 copies of the book. For complete guidelines, visit www.imaginaryfriendpress.com.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY South Bend’s 42 Miles Press Poetry Award will be awarded to an emerging or established poet for a book-length manuscript of at least 48 pages. Winner receives $1,000, 50 copies, and will be invited to give a reading in South Bend. Deadline is March 1, 2015. David Dodd Lee, Series Editor, will judge. Entry fee: $25. For complete guidelines go to www.42milespress.com.

JMWW invites manuscripts for its second annual poetry chapbook contest, judged by Pulitzer Prize –winning poet Claudia Emerson. Winner receives $500 plus 5 copies of letterpress-cover chapbook (edition of 100). Entry fee $15. Please submit 20–24 manuscript pages by December 15, and follow the full guidelines found at https://jmww.submittable.com/submit.

THE LEAPFROG 2015 Fiction Contest is open to submissions from January 15–May 1. Entry fee: $30. Adult and children’s (MG and YA) novels, novellas, and story collections. First prize: Publication contract with advance, plus finalist awards: $150 and manuscript critique by finalist judge Mark Brazaitis. Details: www.leapfrogpress.com. E-mail: fictioncontest@leapfrogpress.com.

THE LENA-MILES Wever Todd Poetry Book Competition is now open for submissions. The judge for 2014 will be Adrian Matejka. The winning collection will be published by Pleiades Press and distributed by Louisiana State University Press. Entry fee: $25. Prize: $2,000. Deadline: November 15. Find our guidelines online at www.ucmo.edu/pleiades/submit/index.html#lenamiles.

LITERAL LATTE Food Verse Contest. Seeking poems with food as an ingredient. First prize $500 and publication. Postmark deadline January 30, 2015.  All styles and subjects welcome, up to 2,000 words per poem, entry fee for 10 poems is $10. Send to: Literal Latte Food Verse Kitchen, 200 E. 10th St., Ste. 240, New York, NY 10003. For tastes, see www.literal-latte.com.

MERIDIAN, the semiannual from the University of Virginia, is accepting online entries for its Editors’ Prize Contests in fiction and poetry. Deadline: midnight, January 7, 2015. Winners receive a $1,000 prize and 2015 publication; all entries receive a 1-year electronic subscription. Entry fee: $8.00. For full details, visit www.readmeridian.org.

OMNIDAWN offers $3,000 prize for our annual Open Book Poetry Contest. Mary Jo Bang will judge. Electronic and postal submissions November 1–December 31. Winner receives cash prize, publication, 100 copies. Entry fee: $27. Entrants who add $3 shipping receive Omnidawn book of their choice. For guidelines, see www.omnidawn.com/contest.

PASSAGER POETRY CONTEST. Writers over 50. Deadline: April 15, 2015 postmark. Reading fee: $20, check or money order payable to Passager/UB, includes 1-year subscription. Winner receives $500 and publication. Honorable mentions will be published. Submit 5 poems, 40 lines max per poem. Cover letter, bio. SASE for results. No previously published work. No e-mail submissions. Send to: Passager Poetry Contest, University of Baltimore, 1420 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201. Questions? editors@passagerbooks.com.  Website: www.passagerbooks.com.

THE PERMAFROST BOOK Prize in Fiction offers publication of a novel or collection of short stories, $1,000, and distribution through University of Alaska Press. Final judge, Benjamin Percy. Deadline: December 1. Entry fee: $20. For complete guidelines, please visit: http://permafrostmag.com/contests/1st-annual-book-prize-in-fiction.

PRESS 53 AWARD for Short Fiction awarded to an outstanding collection of short fiction: publication plus $1,000 cash advance, travel to Winston-Salem, NC for a book launch party weekend including the 2015 Press 53/Prime Number Magazine Gathering of Writers. Enter September 1–December 31. Complete details at www.press53.com.

PRISM REVIEW’S annual $250 fiction/poetry prizes. Poetry translations welcome! Our outstanding judges: poetry, Jen Hofer (Lead & Tether; Negro Marfil/Ivory Black) and fiction, editor Sean Bernard (Studies in the Hereafter; Desert sonorous). Your $10 entry also gets you a great $10 issue. Deadline: midnight, November 30. More information and submissions at prismreview.submishmash.com/submit.

QUERCUS REVIEW Press Fall Poetry Book Award: $1,000 prize, book publication, generous royalties. Deadline: December 19. Submit online or send manuscript and $25 reading fee to Quercus Review Press, Dept. of English, Modesto Junior College, 425 College Ave., Modesto, CA 95350. New and emerging writers encouraged to submit. Info: quercusreviewpress.com.

RED BERRY EDITIONS announces its 2015 Valentine’s Day Broadside Contest, “All You Need Is Love,” for poems about love. Submit up to 3 poems or 1 short prose, 25 line limit, $15 entry fee, December 31 deadline. Winner receives 35 broadsides beautifully produced. For guidelines see redberryeditions.com.

RIVER STYX Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest. First place receives prize of $1,500 and 1 case of Schlafly beer. Winners published in River Styx; 500 words maximum per story, up to 3 stories per entry. Entry options: $10 includes a copy of the issue in which the winners appear, $20 includes a 1-year subscription to River Styx. Postmarked by December 31 or enter online via Submittable. www.riverstyx.org/contests. Mail to: River Styx Microfiction Contest, 3547 Olive St., Ste. 107, St. Louis, MO 63103. Richard Newman, Editor: bigriver@riverstyx.org.

THE ROBERT REEVES $1,000 Prize in Comic Fiction, judged by distinguished author and editor, Daniel Menaker. First Place: $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2015 issue of TSR: The Southampton Review. Finalist stories will be considered for publication in TSR Online. Entry fee $15 per submission. Winners will be notified by January 15, 2015, and will be honored at the Manhattan launch of TSR’s Spring 2015 issue. Submission Deadline October 31. https://thesouthamptonreview.submittable.com/submit/34301.

SAINTS AND SINNERS LGBT Writing Contest. Fiction— Short story up to 7,000 words, LGBT content on the broad theme of Saints and Sinners. Grand Prize: $500, complimentary weekend registration at 29th annual festival in New Orleans (March 25–29, 2015). Judge: Andrew Holleran. Top stories anthologized by Bold Strokes Books. Deadline: November 15, $15 entry fee. Writing Contest, 938 Lafayette St., Ste. 514, New Orleans, LA 70113. Guidelines and online submission: http://con13.tennesseewilliams.net.

SEE YOUR POEM turned into a film and projected onto the 1,000-foot neoclassical facade of Saint Paul Union Depot in Motionpoems’s latest annual public art installation. Poems accepted on the theme of “arrivals and departures” through Nov. 30. Broad interpretations of the theme encouraged. Complete submission details at motionpoems.com.

SELECTED SHORTS’ Stella Kupferberg Short Story Prize. Prize includes $1,000; publication on electricliterature.com; and 2 tickets to a performance of Selected Shorts featuring your winning story. Judge: Karen Russell. Max: 750 words. Fee: $25. Due: March 15, 2015. For complete guidelines, visit www.selectedshorts.org.

SHAPE & NATURE PRESS is accepting full-length fiction, poetry, and cross-genre submissions for its open reading period through December 31. Our mission is to publish the best contemporary literature we can find with emphasis on work that challenges readers. No submission fees. Option for editor feedback. Visit www.shapeandnature.com.

SLAB’S 2015 Poetry Prize. First place: $600 and a limited-edition, hand-bound chapbook. Runner-up: $400. Judge: Amy Catanzano, author of Multiversal (PEN Award recipient) and Starlight in Two Million: a Neo-Scientific Novella. All winners published in SLAB; all entries considered for publication; $10 reading fee. More details at slablitmag.org.

SLIPSTREAM Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition offers $1,000 prize plus 50 copies for winner. Deadline: December 1. Entrants receive copy of winner and 1-issue subscription. Send up to 40 pages and $20 reading fee to Slipstream, Box 2071, Niagara Falls, NY 14301. For further details or to submit electronically, visit: www.slipstreampress.org.

SUBMISSIONS FOR Indiana Review’s inaugural nonfiction contest are open from November 15, 2014 to January 15, 2015. The winner receives $1,000 and publication. The entry fee is $20, which includes 1 year’s subscription. All entries are considered for publication. For complete guidelines, visit www.indianareview.org.

TALLGRASS WRITERS Guild Literary Anthology/Contest: Prose to 2,500 words and poetry on “Embers and Flames” literal and symbolic. Deadline: February 27, 2015. Prizes: $500 each category. Entry fees: 1–4 poems or each prose entry $16, $12 each for TWG members. No submission limit. For complete guidelines and entry form: outriderpress@sbcglobal.net.

TAMPA REVIEW Prize for poetry: $2,000 plus hardcover and paperback book publication, and portfolio in Tampa Review for unpublished manuscript by a new or established poet; $25 entry includes subscription. Deadline December 31. See guidelines online or send SASE. University of Tampa Press, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33606. Website: www.ut.edu/tampareview.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS/New Orleans Literary Festival—Writing Contests. Fiction/One Act Play Contests. Fiction—Short story up to 7,000 words. One Act—No more than 1 hour in length. Prizes Include: $1,500, VIP Festival pass ($500 value) at 29th annual Festival (March 25–29, 2015). Deadlines: Fiction—November 16, 2014, One Act—November 1, 2014. $20–$25 entry fee. Writing Contests, 938 Lafayette St., Ste. 514, New Orleans, LA 70113. Guidelines and online submission: http://con13.tennesseewilliams.net.

THIRD COAST is open to free submissions of poetry, fiction, essay, & drama. Our 2015 Poetry & Fiction Contests are now open. Prizes: Publication + $1,000 for best poem/$1,000 for best short story + publication in our 20th anniversary issue. Ralph Angel will judge in poetry. Deadline: January 15, 2015. For complete details, visit: www.thirdcoastmagazine.com.   

THIRD WEDNESDAY Annual Poetry Contest: send up to 3 unpublished poems with an entry fee of $10.  Each poem should not exceed 2 pages. The top 3 winners receive $50 each, and their poems appear in Third Wednesday. Deadline: the last week of January each year.  Other entries will be considered for publication. Send poems and check via USPS to: Third Wednesday Poetry Contest, 174 Greenside Up, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.

TWO PRIZES OF $1,000 and publication in the Chattahoochee Review are awarded to a winning story and essay in the Lamar York Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction. Submit October 1, 2014–January 31, 2015. Early submissions are strongly encouraged. An entry fee of $15 includes a subscription. For complete guidelines, visit http://thechattahoocheereview.gpc.edu.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS is accepting submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy Collins. The winner receives $5,000 in cash in addition to publication. Applications are accepted year-round. The deadline for the following year’s prize is September 30. www.uapress.com.

THE WOMEN’S NATIONAL Book Association announces its 2014–15 Writing Contest. Fiction, Poetry & Creative Non-Fiction/Memoir. Award includes publication for top 4 submissions in a national literary journal. $250 paid for first prize winners. Judges TBA. Submission period August 15, 2014–January 15, 2015. All contest fees fund WNBA literacy programs. Contest guidelines, judges’s bios and submission link: www.wnba-books.org/contest.   

WRITERS & BOOKS announces the eighth annual Kenneth and Geraldine Gell Poetry Prize Competition: $1,000, publication with Big Pencil Press, and a week long residency at the rural Gell Center of the Finger Lakes will be awarded each year to the author of an outstanding, unpublished, book-length manuscript of poems. Cornelius Eady will be the finalist judge for the prize to be awarded in April 2015. Reading fee is $25. Manuscripts must be postmarked between December 1, 2014 and January 31, 2015. For guidelines and entry form, click on “Gell Poetry Prize” at www.wab.org.

JOIN THE KARASS! The Daily Vonnegut, (www.thedailyvonnegut.com), a new website devoted to the work of Kurt Vonnegut, is looking for essays (500-1,000 words) on how Kurt Vonnegut has influenced your writing or your life. Paste all text, including author bio, into body of e-mail and send to thedailyvonnegut@gmail.com.

WRITINGCAREER.COM—free online resource to find paying markets for your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Updated daily, we report on editors, publishers, literary agents, and anthologists who are actively seeking submissions from poets, fiction writers, and freelance writers. Website: http://writingcareer.com.

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PORCHES WRITING RETREAT, a historic 1854 farmhouse overlooking the James River in Virginia foothills of the Blue Ridge. Spacious porches, comfortable, high-ceilinged rooms, WiFi, communal kitchen and library. Experience creative solitude in beautiful surroundings. Open year-round, availability by days, week, month. Three hours from D.C. Website: www.porcheswritingretreat.com. E-mail: trudyhale@gmail.com.

WELLSPRING HOUSE Retreat Center for writers and artists in the Massachusetts hills, 35 minutes from Northampton/Amherst. Sheltered by towering spruce, secluded but in town. Private rooms, communal kitchen. Four hours from New York City. Unspoiled village where writers write, painters paint. $220/week, single. $275/week, double. Special winter rates November 15–April 1. Résumé to P.O. Box 2006, Ashfield, MA 01330. Phone: (413) 628-3276. E-mail: browning@wellspringhouse.net. Website: wellspringhouse.net.

WRITING WEEKENDS at Wisdom House in Litchfield, CT, with Davyne Verstandig: 1) New Beginnings January 9–11, 2015— For works-in-progress and writers-in-process, and 2) Who Listens to the Listeners?—July 10–12, 2015— For health care professionals to listen to and honor their own stories. For further information, www.wisdomhouse.org. Phone: (860) 567-3163.

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ATLANTIC CENTER for the Arts Master Artist-in-Residence Program. Since 1982, Atlantic Center for the Arts has provided international masters of the creative arts with spaces to live and work during collaborative interdisciplinary residencies. 2015 Residencies: Residency #156, February 16–March 8 with Dani Shapiro (fiction/memoir); Residency #157, May 18–June 7 with Paul Harding (fiction); Residency #158, June 22–July 12 with Nilo Cruz (playwright). For more information and to see ongoing residency schedule and application deadlines, please visit www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org.

CAMAC, Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre, offers 1- and 2-month residencies, March–December, to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. In the village of Marnay-sur-Seine within the scenic Champagne-Ardenne region of France, on the banks of the river Seine, only 1 hour from Paris. Private rooms and meals provided. Residency fee: 30-40 Euro per day. Financial aid available. No application fee. Rolling admission. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for an application and complete guidelines. Camac, 1 Grande Rue, 10400 Marnay sur Seine. Phone: 00 33 3 25 39 20 61. Jean-Yves Coffre, Director. E-mail: jycoffre@camac.org. Website: www.camac.org.

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MARTHA’S VINEYARD Writer’s Residency. Two-week and month long residencies on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, MA. April 1–May 15 and September 15–October 31. To learn more or to apply, visit www.writersresidency.com, or send manuscript, cover letter, and bio, with $10 application fee to Justen Ahren, P.O. Box 1041, West Tisbury, MA 02575.

WRITERS, COME TO ITHACA! The beautiful and intimate Saltonstall Arts Colony offers residencies for New York State artists and writers from May–September. Free to attend. Private apartment, stipend, prepared vegetarian dinners, stocked kitchen, 200 acres of trails, 7 miles from Ithaca. Application deadline: January 2, 2015. Visit: www.saltonstall.org.

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CREATIVE WRITING CENTER offers online writing classes for aspiring writers. Become the writer you dream you can be!  Inspiring exercises teach how-to while building confidence, eliminating blocks. Supportive community. All genres. 5-week sessions. Take separately or combine into an ongoing course. Waterfront writing retreats also. www.creativewritingcenter.com. Phone: (800) 510-1049. E-mail: eayres@creativewritingcenter.com.

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THE INTERNATIONAL Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association announces the Emerging Writer Program for writers wanting to become travel, food or wine writers by working directly with member mentors. The goal is to qualify as a full-fledged member. Cost: $150. For more information go to www.ifwtwa.org or e-mail suemont@aol.com.  

ONLINE WRITING CLASSES from Creative Nonfiction magazine, the voice of the genre. Our 4-week summer classes in personal essay, magazine writing, and more provide professional guidance, motivating deadlines, and a supportive community of writers. Flexible schedule to suit your needs. Learn more at www.creativenonfiction.org/online-classes.

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