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Poets & Writers Magazine
Chip Kidd, whose famous designs have graced over eight hundred book jackets, speaks about the cover he created for this issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
G&A: The Contest Blog
The Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project, a memorial foundation honoring the late poet Lexi Rudnitsky, is once again teaming with New York City indie press Persea Books to hold a poetry book prize.
Grants & Awards
Your trusted source for information on writing contests, award winners, and more.
- DEADLINE: February 15
Cleveland State University
Poetry Center Prizes - DEADLINE: February 15
Passages North
Short and Short Short Fiction Prizes - DEADLINE: February 15
Finishing Line Press
New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition
Articles
Literary MagNet
by Staff
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Mosaic, New Ohio Review, the Massachusetts Review, Monkeybicycle, the LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and Scarab.
The Word Wide Web
by Alex Dimitrov
Before it was possible to read a novel on a Kindle, before there were text messages and Twitter, Gertrude Stein said, "I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do." As innovative as Stein was, it might have been hard for her to imagine today's digital landscape of language and the growing number of online dictionary and language sites, such as Urban Dictionary, Save the Words, and the recently launched Wordnik.
Low-Residency MFA Comes to China
by Stephen Morison Jr.
On January 15, City University of Hong Kong, an English-language school with seventeen thousand students and a campus notable for its urban, contemporary architecture, will begin accepting applications for a new low-residency MFA program in creative writing.
Inside Indie Bookstores: Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi
by Jeremiah Chamberlin
In the inaugural installment of Inside Indie Bookstores, a new series of interviews with the entrepreneurs who represent the last link in the chain that connects writers with their intended audience, Jeremiah Chamberlin talks with Richard Howorth about his initial vision for Square Books, how a bookstore can stay relevant in the twenty-first century, and the future of independent bookselling.
Fifty of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World
by Staff
Fearless, inventive, persistent, beautiful, or just plain badass—here are some of the living authors who shake us awake, challenge our ideas of who we are, embolden our actions, and, above all, inspire us to live life more fully and creatively.
Current Issue
The fifty most inspiring authors, how the winter’s biggest books got started, our fifth annual debut poets roundup, five writers who practice other arts, and the psychology of writer’s block.
Jan/Feb 2010
Slideshow
For the first installment of our new series, Inside Indie Bookstores, Jeremiah Chamberlin travelled to Oxford, Mississippi, to interview Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books.
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Online Exclusives
Five Years of Debut Poets
1.01.10
In 2005 Poets & Writers Magazine started publishing annual roundups of debut poets, and each year we continue to follow the careers of those who have shared their words of inspiration and advice with us. The following is a list of all sixty-six featured poets and their first collections—and, in some instances, their second and even their third.
Literary Journals Associated With MFA Programs
11.01.09
If, as part of your graduate experience, you’re interested in contributing your time or writing to a school-sponsored journal, check out this listing of institutions whose MFA programs produce literary magazines.
A Summer Reading List
7.01.09
In anticipation of our "Summer Reading Issue," we asked which books you, as writers who read deeply year-round, turn to in the warm months ahead. Culled from readers' responses on pw.org and our Facebook page, here are the results.
