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CALLING ALL AFRICAN-THEMED POETRY, PROSE, & ART! Pan Writers Caravan is currently seeking poetry, prose, & artwork of all genres for publication into African Literary Arts: One Contemporaneous Anthology Celebrating the Global Diaspora. Extended deadline: April 15th, 2024, $5 fee per entry. Must be previously unpublished &/or anthologized work. Minimally $50 in compensation & international publicity for contributors; coeditors & curators Mbizo Chirasha & Anthony Ramstetter, Jr. (www.panwriterscaravan.wordpress.com). Submittable link with guidelines here: panwriterscaravan.submittable.com/submit.

WANT YOUR FICTION IN COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2025? Read COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2024 to absorb the kinds of storytelling we publish. www.amzn.to/48UZ5IH. Or read CAS founding editor Mark Wish’s widely acclaimed novel Necessary Deeds (e.g., “irresistible and addictive...a necessary read”—Tim Johnston) to see how Wish himself renders engaging tension, sharp dialogue, and other hallmarks of COOLEST stories: www.amzn.to/45x0gvc. In any case, submit starting on February 1, 2024!

WISING UP PRESS: Wising Up Anthology: Out of Line—Who Defines? Steps, In-Laws & Belonging. Stories, creative nonfiction, memoirs, and poetry exploring the intricacies of in-law and step relationships from any position—parent, child, siblings, grandchildren, grandparents—often in more than 1 family constellation. Deadline: March 15, 2024. Guidelines: www.universaltable.org/wisingup.html.

ATMOSPHERE PRESS is currently seeking submissions of full-length book manuscripts in all genres—from poetry to fiction to memoir and beyond—with no reading fee. Atmosphere Press is an independent publisher dedicated to honesty, transparency, professionalism, kindness, and making your book awesome. Learn more at www.atmospherepress.com.

ANNUAL RATTLE CHAPBOOK PRIZE offers 3 winners $5,000 for a chapbook (up to 36 pages), plus 500 author copies and distribution to Rattle’s 8,000+ subscribers. Entry fee of $25 includes a 1-year subscription to the magazine. Deadline: January 15, 2024. For guidelines and to read past winners, visit our website: www.rattle.com/chapbooks.

CHOEOFPLEIRN PRESS seeks poetry chapbooks of 25–40 pages from poets who have not yet published a chapbook or a full-length collection. Entry fee is $20. Winner receives $250 and 10 copies of the printed chapbook. Submission deadline is April 28, 2024. For more information, refer to www.choeofpleirnpress.com/poetry-chapbook-contest.

GREEN LINDEN PRESS—named by Entropy Magazine as one of the best small presses—invites you to submit poetry chapbook manuscripts for our open reading period, now until March 21, 2024. One or more manuscripts will be selected for publication. Authors will receive 25 copies and publicity. For details see www.greenlindenpress.com/submit.

THE POETS CORNER 2024 Chapbook Competition, judged by Marie Howe, opens for submissions January 1–February 20, 2024. Winner receives a prize of $1,000, plus publication by Toad Hall Editions. Winner will be announced at the Camden Festival of Poetry on May 18, 2024. Website: www.thepoetscorner.org/chapbook-competition.

THE 2024 JANUARY THEMES at Sequestrum are 1. “Optimism” and 2. “Slipstream!” Accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Standard pay rates and publication applies. Submit via our online submission system. Deadline: March 15, 2024. E-mail: sequr.info@gmail.com. Full guidelines: www.sequestrum.org. 

ABANDONED MINE is a poetry journal (triannually online, selected annual print) accepting submissions August 15 through May 15, 2024. We are seeking poems people will be inspired to re-read and share with family and friends. Please visit www.abandonedmine.org for examples, past issues, and complete guidelines.

AJN, THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING, seeks personal essays (850-word limit) describing experiences related to health and healthcare for its monthly Reflections department. Authors do not have to be healthcare professionals. We prefer clear writing with strong details and vivid characterization; $150 honorarium paid upon publication. For author guidelines and examples of articles published in this column, please go to www.editorialmanager.com/ajn/default.aspx and click on “Reflections” under “Author Guidelines,” or query the Reflections coordinator Christine Moffa: christine.moffa@wolterskluwer.com.

AJN, THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING, seeks poems, “flash” fiction, and visual art related to health or healthcare for its Art of Nursing department. Authors need not be healthcare professionals. Original perspectives and clear, unsentimental writing are preferred. $150 honorarium paid upon publication. Query Art of Nursing coordinator before submitting (use “Art of Nursing” in subject line): diane.szulecki@wolterskluwer.com.

ALLIUM, A JOURNAL OF POETRY & PROSE accepts simultaneous submissions, requests a maximum page length of 5 pages for poetry; 3,750 words for craft essays, fiction, hybrid, and nonfiction. No previously published work. Our submission period closes January 31, 2024. Visit Submittable at: www.allium.submittable.com/submit.

THE AWAKENINGS REVIEW, published twice a year, is seeking submissions from writers and poets who have experience with mental illnesses, either in themselves, family members, or friends. Looking for submissions that inspire hope and embrace recovery. Please read our submission guidelines at www.awakeningsproject.org. 

THE BLUEBIRD WORD, an online literary journal for poetry and flash, seeks new writing from all experience levels. We publish frequently throughout the month and are open for submissions year-round. Send us your crisp flash (nonfiction and fiction) and poignant poetry. Full guidelines at www.thebluebirdword.com/submit.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Creosote: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. Please submit hard copies of 3–5 poems or prose up to 5,000 words. Submission deadline: March 1, 2024. Simultaneous submissions OK with notice. Mail to: Creosote, Ken Raines, editor, Eastern Arizona College, 615 N. Stadium Ave., Thatcher, AZ 85552.

CALLING ALL BABY BOOMER WRITERS! BoomSpeak e-zine is looking for fresh baby boomer voices. Essays, fiction, travel, arts—we publish writing that is about the possibilities and energizing things you can do with the rest of your life. 400-word limit, must be age 50 or over. Click “About Us” for details. Website: www.boomspeak.com.

CALLIOPE IS AN APP for interactive and illustrated stories. We’re looking for short stories and flash fiction of any type of genre-fiction (fantasy, crime, romance, sci-fi, you name it)! We take rolling submissions with rates of $0.05/word. For submission guidelines, or if you’re interested in downloading our app, please visit www.calliopeinteractive.com.

COLLATERAL PUBLISHES LITERARY AND VISUAL ART concerned with the impact of violent conflict and military service beyond the combat zone. We read year round, charge no fees, and publish each May and November. Submit through our website: www.collateraljournal.com.

COMSTOCK REVIEW opens its reading period (no fee) January 1, 2024. Throughout 38 years of independent publishing, our editors invite poems of imagination, inspiration, distinctive metaphor, and refreshing themes from new and experienced writers. Deadline: March 31 through Submittable or snail mail. Check website for details. Address: Comstock Review, 4956 St. John Dr., Syracuse, NY 13215. Website: www.comstockreview.org; www.facebook.com/comstock-review-186488898068352.

EARTH’S DAUGHTERS FEMINIST LITERARY MAGAZINE, Issue #99 “Take Turns” (trade-offs, directions, changes, or new pathways). Submissions accepted until March 15, 2024. No more than 3 poems and/or 500 words of prose. Guidelines at www.earthsdaughters.org. Address: Earth’s Daughters, P.O. Box 41, Central Park Station, Buffalo, NY 14215 or e-mail Word (.doc/.docx) to earthsdaughters@gmail.com.

HAWAII PACIFIC REVIEW seeks fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Based at Hawaii Pacific University, HPR charges no fees and reads submissions from late summer to early spring. Our work has been featured in the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Details can be found at www.hawaiipacificreview.org. 

MISTAKE HOUSE MAGAZINE invites submissions of fiction and poetry by students currently enrolled in graduate or undergraduate colleges and universities worldwide. We seek thoughtful work that speaks to the heart in a complex global context. Submission window: October 15, 2023 to March 20, 2024. Submission fee: $5. Guidelines at www.mistakehouse.org/submit.

RATTLE SEEKS SUBMISSIONS of ghazals for the Summer 2024 issue: Poems may be any style or subject, but must use the ghazal form and be previously uncurated. Deadline: January 15, 2024. Online submissions accepted. For more information, visit our website: www.rattle.com.

RIVERSEDGE SEEKS SUBMISSIONS of poetry, prose (fiction, nonfiction, plays), and graphic lit in English, Spanish, and anything in between. Poetry and prose submissions eligible for annual contests. Previous contributors include Sandra Cisneros, Naomi Shihab Nye, Denise Duhamel, Esteban Rodriguez, among others. Submissions accepted October 1, 2023 to March 1, 2024. For guidelines visit www.riversedgejournal.com.

SAN PEDRO RIVER REVIEW. No submission fee. Open January 1 to 31, 2024. See more at www.bluehorsepress.com.

STEAM TICKET, the nationally circulated journal published by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Department of English, invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for the 2024 issue, Volume 27. Deadline: March 15, 2024. For guidelines: www.uwlax.edu/english/publications/steam-ticket.

SUBMISSIONS TO RIVER TEETH (narrative nonfiction) and Beautiful Things (micro-essays) are open January 1–April 1, 2024 & September 1–December 1, 2024. Read complete guidelines/connect at www.riverteethjournal.com, Instagram @riverteeth_, and Twitter @riverteeth. We encourage underrepresented voices to submit work, including but not limited to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and disabled writers.

TAHOMA LITERARY REVIEW pays writers! $55 for poetry & flash prose, $135 for longer pieces. Everything we accept comes from the open submission queue. We are reading poetry, fiction, and nonfiction submissions January 15 to March 31, 2024. Submission guidelines and our latest issue are at www.tahomaliteraryreview.com.

TEXT POWER TELLING MAGAZINE’S mission is to create a supportive and healing community for survivors to use their writing, art, and creativity to take back power from sexual trauma. We are seeking submissions of all writing genres and most art mediums. Learn about submission guidelines and other info: www.textpowertelling.org/magazine. 

THIRD STREET REVIEW is an online literary journal for flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography. We are a paying market, and we welcome work from writers and artists from all cultural backgrounds and experience levels. For complete submission guidelines, please visit www.third-street-review.org/submissions. Looking forward to seeing your work! 

TINT JOURNAL, the literary magazine for non-native English creative writing, publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by writers who compose their work in English as their second or foreign language. See our homepage for our open calls and our guidelines, and submit via www.tintjournal.com/submit (no fee). #showyourtint. 

TWO HAWKS QUARTERLY is a digital 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, art, and quality experimental work. Submissions accepted October 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024. For guidelines, see www.twohawksquarterly.com. 

WATERWHEEL REVIEW is reading for 2024. We publish 3 pieces of writing per month, without labeling by genre, and surround each piece with art (photo, painting, film, dance, music). We celebrate our authors via social media, our newsletter, interviews, and prize nominations. Visit us here: www.waterwheelreview.com. 

THE WOVEN TALE PRESS MAGAZINE, both online and print, features the finest literature and art from around the world. Submit (free!) poetry, flash fiction, memoir, short stories, novel excerpts. Go to our “submit” page at www.thewoventalepress.net.  

THE WRITER’S WORKSHOP REVIEW publishes the best in creative nonfiction, fiction, and interviews and pays for published stories. Send us narrative nonfiction, personal essays, short stories, short shorts, as well as travel, food and wine, and writing with a strong narrative element. Submissions: Kathleen Glassburn at glassburnkathleen03@gmail.com. For more, contact nick@thewritersworkshop.net. Websites: www.thewritersworkshop.net or www.thewritersworkshopreview.net.

LIT YOUNGSTOWN FALL LITERARY FESTIVAL. October 17–19, 2024, in Northeast Ohio, featuring poet, essayist, & cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, poet Ama Codjoe, & fiction writer Rachel Swearingen. Submit proposals in February for readings, workshops, or talks on writing, reading, translating, interpreting, teaching, editing, publishing. Registration opens April 1, 2024. Website: www.lityoungstown.org.

MANZANITA WRITERS PRESS presents the 17th Annual Gold Rush Writers Conference at Hotel Leger in historic Mokelumne Hill, CA, May 3–5, 2024. Meet authors and agents. Register at www.goldrushwriters.com beginning January 1, 2024. Friday: Workshops, picnic supper speaker. Saturday: Workshops, dinner speaker, and reading. Sunday: Workshops, brunch speaker, author roundtable. Contact: goldrushwritersconference@gmail.com.

SAINTS & SINNERS LGBTQ+ LITERARY FESTIVAL celebrates its 21st year in New Orleans March 22–24, 2024. SASFest hosts writing workshops, panel discussions, author readings, and social gatherings for LGBTQ+ readers, writers, editors, publishers, and other literary professionals. Visit www.sasfest.org for more info. Follow @sasfest.

THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS & New Orleans Literary Festival’s 38th annual gathering for readers, writers, and theatre lovers will include 100+ events: Literary panels, writing workshops, theatre events, music, culinary and cocktail events, author interviews, special events, and more! March 20–24, 2024. Visit www.tennesseewilliams.net for more info. Follow @twfestnola.

$200 PRIZE IS AWARDED for 1 poem or flash fiction (500 words or less) in each issue of Cloudbank. Deadline for submissions to the Cloudbank 18 Contest is February 29, 2024. Non-contest submissions are accepted through April 15, 2024. Guidelines, details—and more—at www.cloudbankbooks.com. Revive us with your fire!

$4,000 IN AWARDS. Enter New Millennium Writing Awards by November 30—Best Poetry: $1,000; Fiction: $1,000; Nonfiction: $1,000; Flash Fiction: $1,000. All winners are published in our anthology and online. “I’m always grateful when a literary journal, especially one as prestigious as NMW, recognizes that some stories simply can’t be told in under 5,000 words. And NMW accepting reprints is an encouraging reminder that some pieces deserve to have a lifespan longer than a single publication. Thank you!”—Alida Winternheimer, recent submitter. Visit www.newmillenniumwritings.org.

THE 2024 ORISON PRIZES in Poetry & Fiction offer $1,500 and publication by Orison Books for a full-length manuscript in each genre. Judges: Ellen Bass (poetry), Kaveh Akbar (fiction). Entry fee: $25. Entry period: December 1, 2023–April 1, 2024. For guidelines visit www.orisonbooks.com/submissions. 

2024 PRIME NUMBER MAGAZINE AWARDS for Poetry and Short Fiction. $1,000 first prize in each category plus publication. Two runners-up in each category also published. Reading fee: $15. Poetry judge: Maya J. Sorini; short fiction judge: Dennis McFadden. Open January through March 2024. Submit online through Submittable. Details at www.press53.com/prime-number-magazine-awards.

2024 SHORT STORIES. $1,000 first prize, $500 second, $250 third, plus anthology publication for 30 best original short stories on the human impact of climate change. Deadline: March 1, 2024. $10 entry. Complete rules at www.secantpublishing.com/blogs/news/best-stories-on-human-impact-of-climate-change-a-contest-announcement. Sponsored by the Book Bin, an indie bookseller, and Secant Publishing, an indie press.

26TH ANNUAL BLUE LYNX PRIZE, $2,000 plus publication, is awarded for an unpublished, full-length volume of poems. Submit manuscripts and $28 reading fee to www.lynxhousepress.submittable.com or P.O. Box 96, Spokane, WA 99210. Former winners include Sara Moore Wagner, Jim Daniels, Flower Conroy, Heather Sellers, Kirsten Kaschock, Joe Wilkins, Carolyne Wright, Suzanne Lummis, and Lue Lipsitz. Judges have included Yusef Komunyakaa, Melissa Kwasny, James Tate, Christopher Buckley, Dara Wier, Dorianne Laux, and Robert Wrigley. Deadline: June 15, 2024.

THE 46TH NIMROD LITERARY AWARDS: The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. First prizes of $2,000 and publication, and second prizes of $1,000 and publication. Finalists and selected semi-finalists will be published and paid $10/page. For poetry, submit 3–10 pages; for fiction, 1 short story, 7,500 words maximum. Each entry requires a $20 entry fee, which includes a 1-year subscription to Nimrod International Journal. Multiple entries accepted. Open internationally. Deadline: April 1, 2024. For complete guidelines: www.artsandsciences.utulsa.edu/nimrod. 

AMERICA MEDIA FOLEY POETRY CONTEST. $1,000 prize. No entrance fee. Submissions accepted: January 1–March 31, 2024. One unpublished poem on any topic. 45 lines or fewer. Submit online: www.americamedia.submittable.com. Mailed submissions: America, Foley Poetry Contest, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 11th floor, New York, NY, 10036.

APPLY NOW. Applications for the 2024 Courage to Write Grants close February 5, 2024. Awarded by the de Groot Foundation, these grants are unrestricted and designed to encourage and support writers to further or complete a project. For information, guidelines, and to apply: www.degrootfoundation.org.

APPLY NOW. Applications for the 2024 LANDO Grants for writers close February 5, 2024. Sponsored in collaboration with the de Groot Foundation, the LANDO Grants are specifically for writers exploring the issues and challenges of immigration, migration, or the refugee experience. For information, guidelines and to apply: www.degrootfoundation.org.

BAUHAN PUBLISHING’S May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize is open again! Now in its 14th year, the prize is for a book-length collection, $1,000, and book publication with Spring 2024 titles. Judge: Dorsey Craft. Entry fee: $30. Submission deadline: June 30, 2024. For submission guidelines: www.bauhanpublishing.com/may-sarton-prize.

BELLINGHAM REVIEW’S annual contests for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction are open December 1, 2023 to March 15, 2024. $1,000 first-place prizes. $15 entry fee. Bellingham Review is dedicated to offering continual support to our authors. General submissions are open September 15 to December 1. See complete submission guidelines at www.bhreview.org.

BLUEGRASS WRITERS COALITION 2024 Visions Short Story Contest. First place: $500, second: $250, third: $100. Guaranteed publication in anthology for all finalists. $20 submission fee. Submission deadline January 31, 2024. 7,500 words max, no minimum. Story or author must have a Kentucky “connection.” For details and/or to submit go to: www.bluegrasswriterscoalition.com.

COMMON GROUND REVIEW (now online) seeks entries for its Annual Poetry Contest!  First prize: $500 and publication, second prize: $200, third: $100. We publish honorable mentions. Judge TBA, $15 entry, no previously published poems. Regular submissions (all genres) are also welcome: No fee, simultaneous submissions. Send via Submittable at www.cgreview.org.

DEEP WILD: WRITING FROM THE BACKCOUNTRY, the home for creative work inspired by journeys to places where there are no roads, announces its Graduate Student Prose Contest for fiction/creative nonfiction, open to students currently enrolled in graduate studies. Deadline: March 1, 2024. No fees. Cash awards. For guidelines, visit www.deepwildjournal.com.

ENTRIES BEING ACCEPTED for the 2024 Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival Poetry and Short Story Contest. $10 for 2 poems or 1 short story. $1,000 total awards. Award winners may read on stage or give permission for another author to read their winning works. Deadline: April 30, 2024. Entry form, fee, and 2 copies of works mailed to: 252 Twin Lakes Rd., Latrobe, PA 15650. Submit by e-mail at info@artsandheritage.com. Digital entry form available: www.artsandheritage.com/the-arts/literary-arts. Phone: (724) 834-7474.

THE ENTRY PERIOD for the 2024 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest is January 1–June 1, 2024. U.S. and international sonneteers compete for prizes totaling $3,500. Categories: Top Four, Regional (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa), Youth, and Laureates’ Choice. $5 fee for 3 sonnets. Free for youth and undergraduate. Website: www.sonnetcontest.org; e-mail: entries@sonnetcontest.org. 

FELLOWSHIPS 2024. One-week residencies at Prospect Street Writers House. Open to all writers for whom a week of peace and quiet in southwestern Vermont would make a real difference. Apply January 1 to February 15 for 2024. Notification by April 1. Residencies start May 5. Full guidelines at www.prospectstreet.org.

FIRST PAGES PRIZE invites you to enter your first 5 pages of a longer work of fiction or creative nonfiction. Prizes in both fiction & creative nonfiction. Open to un-agented writers worldwide, the prize supports emerging writers with cash awards, developmental mentoring, & agent consultation. Opens March 2024! Visit www.firstpagesprize.com.

GRAYSON BOOKS CHAPBOOK CONTEST. $500 and 50 gorgeous copies will be awarded to the winner. Submit 16–36 pages poetry, $20 reading fee. Deadline: January 31, 2024. Electronic submissions only. Simultaneous submissions accepted if we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. B. Fulton Jennes will judge. See www.graysonbooks.com for complete guidelines.

HAZEL ROWLEY PRIZE FOR FIRST-TIME BIOGRAPHERS: Sponsored by the Biographers International Organization (BIO), the Rowley prize offers $5,000 for the best book proposal from a first-time biographer, plus a careful reading by an established agent. Submissions due February 1, 2024. Guidelines and entry forms are available on the BIO website: www.biographersinternational.org/rowley-prize.

INLANDIA BOOKS. The Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Two annual prizes for a collection of poetry. Submit 48- to 100-page manuscript through Submittable February 1–April 30, 2024. $20 submission fee. One national and 1 regional winner each receive $1,000 plus 20 copies. Judged blind. Website: www.inlandiainstitute.org/books/the-hillary-gravendyk-prize.

THE KATHRYN A. MORTON PRIZE IN POETRY, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and the inaugural Sarabande Prize in Essay are open for submissions January 1 through February 15, 2024. Each awards a prize of $2,000, publication of the manuscript, and a standard royalty contract. $29 entry fee for each. Visit www.sarabandebooks.org for full guidelines and information on our special guest judges. 

NOVELLAS WANTED FROM BIPOC and underrepresented authors (but not limited). Kinsman Quarterly seeks submissions for its ghost collection, Presence and romance collection, Amour. Entries between 15,000–25,000 words. Selected submissions receive $1,000 with publication. $25 fee. Deadline: April 30, 2024. Details: www.kinsmanquarterly.org/contests.

NOW IN ITS FOURTH YEAR, the 2024 Memoir Prize for Books awards up to $5,000 for full-length memoir, creative, and narrative nonfiction works of exceptional merit. There are no restrictions on subject matter, page count, age of the author, type of publisher, or the year of publication. Find out more at: www.memoirmag.com/literature/the-memoir-prize-for-books.

RICHARD-GABRIEL RUMMONDS POETRY PRIZE for book-length manuscripts (48–100 pages). Top prize: $2,000, publication/distribution, 10 author copies, color cover. Reading fee: $25. Enter May 1–August 31, 2024. Entrants must reside in the U.S. Judge: Rebecca Lindenberg. See our guidelines at www.exophidiapress.org. Submit through our Submittable account.

SELECTED SHORTS’ STELLA KUPFERBERG Memorial Short Story Contest judged by author Carmen Maria Machado. Prize includes $1,000; publication on electric
literature.com; a 10-week course with Gotham Writers Workshop; and 2 tickets to a performance of Selected Shorts featuring your winning story. Max: 750 words. Fee: $25. Due: March 1, 2024. For complete guidelines, visit www.selectedshorts.org.

WERGLE FLOMP HUMOR POETRY CONTEST. No fee. 23rd year. Top prize: $2,000. Total prizes: $3,750. Co-sponsor: Duotrope. Winning entries published online. Submit 1 humor poem by April 1, 2024. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Final judge: Jendi Reiter. Enter at www.winningwriters.com/werglepw2401.

DEEP WRITING RETREAT, September 12–17, 2024. Join story coach April Bosshard for a 6-day/5-night all-inclusive writing retreat on beautiful Salt Spring Island in BC, Canada. Delicious, healthy food; comfortable, private rooms; inspiring morning workshops; and peaceful time to work on your project. Website: www.deepstorydesign.com/retreat-sept-2024.

IRELAND WRITING RETREAT on the Ring of Kerry. June 9–13, 2024. A generative writing immersion with acclaimed novelist, memoirist, TEDx speaker Carolyn Flynn and novelist/poet Jona Kottler. For writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry. Active, immersive writing with mentored critique. Find out more at www.carolynflynn.com/ireland-2024.

JOIN TONGASS MIST WRITING for online writing salons, workshop series, and retreats in 2024! Tongass Mist Writing supports creative writers and hopes that some reverence for the Tongass National Forest follows writers in their writing from these events. Visit www.tongassmist.com for our latest BIPOC, LGBTQ+ inclusive offerings. Based in Tenakee, Alaska.

MASS MOCA WRITING THROUGH ART Poetry Retreats in spring and autumn in the Berkshires. Generative, immersive workshops in museum galleries explore exciting ways that art can open the imagination, allowing access to memories, emotions, and observations, while experimenting with new forms of creative expression. Emerging and experienced poets welcome. Website: www.janfreeman.net/workshops-readings; e-mail: janfreemanpoetry@gmail.com.

NURTURE YOUR CREATIVITY at the Hudson Valley Story Cottage, located on 16 wooded acres, 75 miles north of Manhattan. 1,000 square feet open floorplan, 1-bedroom cottage with full kitchen, writing nook and Wi-Fi. See www.thehudsonvalleystorycottage.com for more information or contact thehudsonvalleystorycottage@gmail.com. 

OUTRAGEOUS VOICES LESBIAN WRITER’S RETREAT, May 16–May 19, 2024. Inclusive of self-identified lesbian, bisexual women, trans, nonbinary, queer. Beginners to published authors. Enjoy quiet writing time, fun workshops, supportive readings, storytelling, and spoken word performances. And swimming! Reasonable cost/sliding scale includes lodging, meals, registration. Easy access to Atlanta airport. Website: www.outrageousvoices.com.

PORCHES WRITING RETREAT, an historic farmhouse overlooking the James River in Blue Ridge foothills. Spacious porches, comfortable, high-ceilinged rooms, high-speed Wi-Fi, well-equipped kitchen, also a private cottage. Find peace and inspiration. Availability by day, week, month. Open all year. Website: www.porcheswritingretreat.com. E-mail: trudyhale@gmail.com.

ROMANCING THE STORY, a luxurious Colorado mountain writing retreat with Page Lambert. Writing shouldn’t be about denying ourselves—writing should be about gifting our imaginations with a place that invites the impossible and welcomes the improbable. An hour from Denver, February 29–March 3, 2024. All genres. Website: www.pagelambert.com.

STORIES AND SONGS IN ITALY—September 10–16, 2024, on a Tuscan farm near Siena. For prose storytellers and songwriters. An inspiring generative retreat with novelist/memoirist/essayist Carolyn Flynn, novelist and songwriter Karen Leslie, and the award-winning songwriter Clay Mills of Songtown. Website: www.storiesandsongsretreat.com.

TUCKED IN THE FOOTHILLS of Sequoia National Park, this quiet, comfortable house on the river is the perfect fall retreat. Just 3½ hours north of L.A. For images and details: www.sequoiavacationrentals.com/hidden-gem---4-ppl.html. When inquiring, use “Write by the River” as the subject line.

WRITER’S HOUSE, BRITTANY, FRANCE. 150 years old. Beamed ceilings, original floors, quiet, safe, antique furnishings and all modern conveniences: shower, electricity, dishwasher, washer-dryer, DVD, Wi-Fi; ¾ acre with flowers and fruit trees; facing river/canal. Gorgeous. Contact Mark at mgdonna@aol.com; phone: (510) 866-5496; (510) 290- 9497. 

DORLAND MOUNTAIN ARTS RESIDENCY is nestled in the hills overlooking beautiful Temecula Valley wine country of Southern CA. Five self-contained cottages each with workspace & porch—easily providing social distancing. Hiking trails/ponds/views—oak trees and quail. Peaceful, inspiring. Finish your project. Rolling applications/reserve now! E-mail: info@dorlandartscolony.org; website: www.dorlandartscolony.org; phone: (951) 302-3837.

EZRA RESIDENCIES! Solitary residency (summer), competitive, offered by Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation. Cottage in NH Lakes Region, quiet road, woods, mountain views. View on the Ezra site: www.ezratranslation.com.

LOCATED IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT, Prospect Street provides both tranquility and conviviality to writers of all genres at every stage of their writing life. Applications are accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. The recently renovated Victorian has 12 bedrooms, 8 with en suite bath. The first floor is on grade and contains a bedroom that meets ADA accessibility requirements. Prospect Street’s congenial atmosphere can be conducive to making lifelong friendships as well as professional contacts. One- and 2-week stays are available throughout the year. Consult www.prospectstreet.org for submission details, calendar, pricing, and fellowships. Any questions, reach out to Gary Clark at gclark@prospectstreet.org.

WRITE ON, DOOR COUNTY, WISCONSIN, offers residencies and retreats located on the Door County peninsula surrounded by the waters of Lake Michigan and Green Bay. Often called the Cape Cod of the Midwest, you will be surrounded by nature, beaches, and a thriving artist community. Write On offers a comfortable 3-bedroom residence, writing center, and a 59-acre campus. Applications accepted January 1–April 1, 2024. For details visit www.writeondoorcounty.org.

ABLE AND EXPERIENCED EDITOR for poetry and prose. Respectful. Thorough. Prize-winning author in multiple genres. As a team, we can raise your work to the next level—poems, flash, short stories, novel, memoir, query, or application letter. Publication advice available. E-mail: dmgordon@comcast.net. Website: www.dmgordoneditorial.com.

ABLE AND WELL-KNOWN WRITER, TEACHER, EDITOR, (Scribner, Random House, Bantam, Dell, Oxford University Press, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Narrative, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The American Scholar, Esquire, GQ, Ploughshares) offers manuscript critique, editing, private tutorials on short stories, novels, and literary nonfiction. Authors edited include Rick Bass, T. C. Boyle, Jennifer Egan, Min Jin Lee, Anthony Marra, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Joyce Carol Oates, James Salter, Robert Stone, Morgan Talty, and many others. Contact: editor@tomjenks.com. Website: tomjenks.com. 

ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE SERVICES: Visit my website for budget-sensitive options. Marcia Trahan, memoirist (Mercy, Barrelhouse Books) and editor with 20 years’ experience, offers critique, copy editing, and help with queries and proposals. Specializing in memoir; also handles wide range of fiction. Traditional and indie authors welcome. Patient, supportive approach. E-mail: info@marciatrahan.com. Website: www.marciatrahan.com. 

ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OFFERS SENSITIVE, personalized coaching and editing. Recipient of Harold Vursell Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, an O’Henry, a Pushcart, publications in the Best American Short Stories. 28 years’ teaching experience, Barnard College, MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, private practice. E-mail: maxine.swann@gmail.com. Website: www.maxineswann.com.

ACCLAIMED POETRY EDITOR, former executive director of Alice James Books, 25+ years’ editing experience. Professional manuscript evaluation, comprehensive editing. Edits for various budgets. Workshops, tutorials, publishing, publicity advice. Author of We (Red Hen Press, 2025), Event Boundaries, Anxious Music (Four Way Books). Former SNU CW MFA faculty. Website: www.aprilossmann.com. E-mail: aprilossmann@hotmail.com. 

ACCOMPLISHED CREATIVE WRITING and legal consultant. Do you require writing or legal guidance? Pushcart-nominated writer, published in such prestigious magazines as Granta, and interdisciplinary law professor Gigi Tewari is scheduling new clients. Expertise: Editing fiction and nonfiction, contract review and drafting, school application support. Contact: gk2422@columbia.edu.

AFFORDABLE, POWERFUL, AND COMPREHENSIVE editorial services can give your manuscript an edge. Helga Schier, PhD, publishing executive, professional editor, and published author offers in-depth evaluation, line editing, revisions. Want to write a good book? Let me help you unlock the potential of your manuscript. Contact me at helga@withpenandpaper.com; website: www.withpenandpaper.com; phone: (310) 828-8421. 

AT PORCHES WRITING RETREAT: An intense, comprehensive 3-day 1-on-1 novel consultation, offering a deep dive into your manuscript with editor Greg Michalson for writers who have a finished or nearly finished draft. This unique experience is not offered anywhere else in this country. Includes 4 nights in an 1854 farmhouse on the James River, VA. Visit: www.porcheswritingretreat.com/workshops-fellowships.

AUTHOR, AUTHOR! Professional editor, literary midwife, award-winning author (Bantam, Avon, Scholastic, Berkley/Ace, others) offers extensive critiques, tutorials, revisions, support. Upgrade your writing skills; solve problems with plot, character development, pacing. Specialties include literary and mainstream fiction, mystery/thriller, juvenile/YA, general nonfiction, psychology, spirituality. Carol Gaskin. Phone: (941) 377-7640. E-mail: carol@editorialalchemy.com. Website: www.editorialalchemy.com. 

AWARD-WINNING FICTION WRITER, graduate of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, creative writing teacher of 35 years, provides personalized manuscript editing. I offer detailed editing, honest evaluation, and sensitive critique. I work with new and experienced writers, fiction and nonfiction. Contact Hugh Cook. E-mail: hughcook212@gmail.com. Website: hugh-cook.ca. 

BLOCKED? STRUGGLING? I’ll help you finish that project! Break through blocks with professional writing mentoring from published journalist, poet, playwright, researcher. Skilled editor, experienced teacher, compassionate coach. New genre? Creative transition? Unearthed manuscript? Personal dream?—I can help you write, edit, publish! Carol Burbank, MA, PhD. Free 30-minute consultation. E-mail: cburbank@storyweaving.com. Website: www.storyweaving.com. 

BOOK HELPLINE EDITING SERVICES. Friendly, personal, and affordable. We offer developmental editing, copy editing, proofreading, and coaching. We also offer support in subsequent steps toward publication. Ask for a no-obligation, free sample edit. Contact Judith (info@bookhelpline.com) or visit www.bookhelpline.com. 

FREE SESSION WITH WRITER WELLNESS Consultant and Mentor. Have writing begging to get on the page, revised, and moved on to publishing? Want to find out what’s in the way? Give yourself the gift of a free consultation and get started. Contact: Andrea R. Canaan, MSW, MFA. E-mail: andreacanaan@gmail.com; website: www.andreacanaan.blog.

JOSEPHINE CURRICULUM & WRITING offers 1-on-1 poetry mentoring services. Start where you are with www.josephinewriting.com.

PARIS PRESS FOUNDER and former director Jan Freeman provides coaching, manuscript consultations, development, and editing to writers and poets. With 40 years of publishing experience, she will help you map out a new project or tackle a fresh revision to prepare for submissions. She is happy to assist with works in progress, finished manuscripts, chapbooks, and new and selected volumes. E-mail: janfreemaneditorial@gmail.com; website: www.janfreeman.net/editing-services.

POETRY, POETRY MS. Expand your range, syntax, facility with language. Close editing, attention to big picture, phone or Skype conferences—U.S. or international. Experienced poet/teacher, award-winning author of 11 collections, 5 with Godine and Knopf. I founded and taught in the MFA and postgraduate conference at Vermont College. E-mail: rogerweingarten12@gmail.com. For further details, please visit website: www.rogerweingarten.com. 

RESPECTFUL, AFFORDABLE FEEDBACK in fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and poetry. Award-winning writer with over 15 years’ college teaching experience. From line edits to global revisions, character work to creative coaching, brainstorming to final draft, I’m here for what you need. MFA, PhD in CW. Initial consultations are free. Website: adamprinceauthor.com.

FOR OVER 50 SUMMERS, the Community of Writers has held weeklong summer writing workshops in the California Sierras. Poets and writers come to improve their craft with small workshops and individual conferences, craft lectures, panels, readings and more. Poetry: June 17–23; writers workshops in fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction, July 8–15. Scholarships and financial aid available. Application deadlines: March 1, 2024. Website: www.communityofwriters.org.

GET AWAY TO WRITE—FLORIDA. March 19–24, 2024. Escape the cold to write in Florida. Spend an inspiring week writing poetry or memoir. Enjoy plentiful writing time, insightful feedback, homemade meals, and time to relax. Scholarships available. Learn more and register today: www.stockton.edu/murphywriting.

GREATER PHILADELPHIA WORDSHOP STUDIO supports writers in the development of their individual voices and practice of their craft. Workshops in Center City and Delaware County, PA, following the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method. Writers of all ages, levels of experience, and genres welcome. Phone: (610) 853-0296. E-mail: ah@philawordshop.com. Website: www.philawordshop.com. 

KROUNA WRITING WORKSHOP, August 4–10, 2024: Workshop, learn, and write surrounded by the mountain beauty of the village of Papingo in northern Greece. Time to write, small-group workshopping, and guided opportunities to explore. Led by Henriette Lazaridis. Limited to 5 students. Tuition includes accommodations and most meals. Website: www.krounawritingworkshop.com.

QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL: Italy Retreat/Workshop with Kim Addonizio (8 poetry collections, published in The Atlantic, New Yorker, Poetry) & Flower Conroy (2 collections, former Key West Poet Laureate). June 12–22, 2024, at a serene former monastery in Umbria. Included: Generative & critique sessions, meals, lodging, day trips. Info: www.laromita.org; www.kimaddonizio.com.

STORY CATALYST COMMUNITY with monthly and premium virtual classes. Great beginnings, living outlines, dialogue that shimmers, the art of finishing, summary vs. scene. Plus, Tarot as Muse, Fairy Tales and Mythical Frameworks, Your Story Is a Song. Join the network for free. Members get discounts on all classes. Website: www.tinyurl.com/story-catalyst.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO WRITE AN ANTHOLOGY? Join Elizabeth Filippouli’s 4-week online course “How to Create a Successful Anthology.” Elizabeth is a published author, journalist, and social entrepreneur. She’s editor of the Vanity Fair-featured anthology From Women to the World: Letters for a New Century published by Bloomsbury in 2021. E-mail: info@elizabethfilippouli.com.

WRITING FROM NATURE goes to the Alps! May 27–June 2, 2024. Write on trails, draft words with Christine Woodside, author of Going Over the Mountain and Libertarians on the Prairie and editor-in-chief of the mountaineering journal Appalachia. May 27–29, Schwarzwaldalp mountain inn. May 30–31, Zermatt, 3-star hotel. June 1, Zurich, 3-star hotel. Website: www.alpinehikers.com/events/writers-workshop-christine-woodside.

THE YMCA’S DOWNTOWN WRITERS CENTER in Syracuse, NY offers a wide range of online creative writing workshops and literary readings. Workshops and craft courses are available in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and more—all taught by widely published writers who are serious both about craft and community. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced, publishing writer, we have programs that will keep you engaged and learning. For more information, visit www.ymcacny.org/dwc, or e-mail dwcworkshops@ymcacny.org.