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ALLPOETRY.COM— Join the largest poetry community, more than 500,000 poets strong. From beginners to experts, get friendly encouragement and detailed critiques when you’re ready. No-fee contests, $50 cash prizes, active discussion forums, and join our annual anthology. Totally free with optional monthly memberships. http://allpoetry.com/pw.

GREAT WEATHER FOR MEDIA seeks poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, and creative nonfiction for our annual print anthology. Our focus is on the fearless, the unpredictable, and the experimental. We welcome submissions from national and international writers. Deadline: January 15, 2016. Submission guidelines: www.greatweatherformedia.com.

SEEKING THE BEST POEMS about living or working in California’s great Central Valley: landscape, nature, people, agriculture, labor, recreation, spirit. Deadline January 15, 2016. Send up to 5 poems with a bio describing your connection to the Valley: Sugartown Publishing, 1164 Solano Ave. #140, Albany, CA 94706, or e-mail janniedres@att.net.

VETERANS: For medicinthegreentime.com and possible anthology, seeking responses to “Thank you for your service.” Guidelines: 3–5 pages. Include name, unit, MOS, tour/year, photo. Send to silverspartan@gmail.com.

ANNUAL SETTLEMENT HOUSE American Poetry Prize welcomes submission of book-length poetry manuscripts in English by first-generation Americans (“first generation” includes both immigrants and children born of an immigrant to the United States, as well as individuals with DACA and TPS status). No restrictions on content, theme, form, etc. The 2014 winner was Alicia Partnoy. Standard publishing contract with cash advance. Submission guidelines: www.settlementhouse.us or www.americanpoetryprize.com.

AUTHOR-CENTERED PUBLISHER seeks submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry manuscripts for our unique publishing system. Cawing Crow Press offers a fair evaluation process that works with you to take your manuscript from submission to publication. No charge for our publication services. 70% royalties paid on profits. More information: www.cawingcrowpress.com.

BOOK BACKER e-publishing program free to authors of accepted manuscripts at Web-e-Books (www.web-e-books.com). We seek works offering compelling social messages, strong character development, and captivating narrative (w/ illustration options)...literature of excellence, originality, and authenticity within the parameters of our slogan: Where Reality and Fiction Collide. Submissions: info@tri-screenconnection.com.

C&R PRESS. Long live books. Our 2016-17 call for full length books of fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, and cross-genre work is open. Our catalog includes Martin Ott, Anis Shivani, Elizabeth Kadetsky and many more. We want work that’s challenging, surprising and new. Home of the Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Competition. www.crpress.org.

FAW (Friends of American Writers) is seeking submissions for its annual literary award. Publishers and authors are invited to submit books published in 2014 for consideration. Generous monetary prizes are awarded. General guidelines: authors must reside (or previously have resided) in the American Midwest. Books set in the region (even if the author is non-resident) also qualify. Fiction or nonfiction (not poetry). No self-published or e-books. Authors of more than three published books are ineligible. (If an author has more than one book published during that year, we will consider all of them.) Books nominated for the award must be submitted to the FAW Awards Committees by December 10. No application is necessary. Please send 2 copies of each book as early as possible to: Tammie Bob, Adult Literary Chairman, 474 Stagecoach Run, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137. E-mail: bobtam410@gmail.com. For info on previous awards, please visit www.fawchicago.org/awards.php.

HUDSON WHITMAN Excelsior College Press: We’re not your father’s college press! Only great nonfiction. Acquisitions: health/nursing, military, alt education, cyber. Electronic submissions via Submittable + editorial support for first-time authors. Look us over! Website: www.hudsonwhitman.com. Twitter: @ExcelsiorPress.

LEFORA PUBLISHING LLC will be accepting submissions of work by New England authors from January 2 to March 30, 2016. Please follow the submission guidelines on our website at www.leforapublishing.com.

LOOSE MOOSE PUBLISHING is now accepting manuscripts for novels, books of short stories, and books of poetry. Our focus is on experimental, nontraditional literary works, as long as it’s creative, unusual, even a bit crazy. Details at www.loosemoosepublishing.com.

OMONOMANY PUBLISHING. We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Send SASE, sample chapter, and outline to 2095 Exeter Rd., Suite 80-263, Germantown, TN 38138.

PROLIFIC PRESS is accepting full-length poetry and fiction manuscripts (and chapbook submissions) for full publishing. We also publish 8 respected literary journals in various genres. Submissions are now open, and always free. Journal publication comes with a token payment and other rewards. For more details, visit us online at http://prolificpress.com.

RIDDLE BROOK PUBLISHING LLC is now accepting manuscript submissions of narrative nonfiction from new and emerging writers. We provide beginning writers a launching pad for their work, and offer both advances and royalties. Please send query or proposal to query@riddlebrookpublishing.com, or, for guidelines, visit www.riddlebrookpublishing.com.

SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS, a Northern California publishing collective, seeks full-length poetry manuscripts from Greater Bay Area poets. Submission period: November 1, 2015 to February 1, 2016. No fee. All styles welcome. Authors become active members of the press for three years. For detailed guidelines, go to www.sixteenrivers.org.

UPPER HAND PRESS, independent eclectic publisher, seeks manuscripts. Fiction, essay and story collections, general nonfiction, YA, picture books, poetry; for fresh and seasoned writers. Reading until May 1, 2016. Read our website, then see details on submissions page at www.upperhandpress.com.

WEIRD BEARD PRESS publishes the unusual, the offbeat, and the avant-garde in more than 20 popular categories of fiction and nonfiction. Short pieces and poems are welcome. We charge no up-front costs, and editing is available for manuscripts that show promise. Visit our website at www.weirdbeardpress.com.

WORDTECH COMMUNICATIONS LLC is holding a reading period for full-length poetry manuscripts. Dates: November 2015 (postmark). Recent authors: Arlene Biala, Christopher Bursk, Barbara Duffey, Diana Raab, James Reiss, Aimee Suzara. Publication in 2017. Must review guidelines at 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, 2016; $25 reading fee. Submission guidelines: tavernbooks.com/wrolstad-series.

INDIAN PAINTBRUSH POETS: Chapbook Prize: $300, and author’s copies, submit 24–30 pages, acknowledgments, bio, cover letter with contact information, SASE, $15 fee. Deadline: December 15. Send check and manuscript to Pearn and Associates, Inc., 1315 Kirkwood Dr. #905, Fort Collins, CO 80525-1984.

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.   

LAMBEY PRESS is an independent literary press aiming to publish queer women of color voices from “back home.” Submit fiction or nonfiction manuscripts of short stories, novellas, personal narratives, and other types of storytelling on spiritualism, sexuality, or gender. Seeking editors and manuscripts. No fee to submit. Rolling deadline. http://lambeypress.com.   

SUBMISSIONS TO WORDRUNNER eChapbooks annual themed anthology are open November 15, 2015 through January 31, 2016. No fee to submit. Authors are paid. For our Winter 2016 anthology issue, send us poetry, flash or short stories, novel or memoir excerpts about “Devices” (technology’s impact on our lives and relationships). Details, guidelines: www.echapbook.com.

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 ninth issue. Open reading period from December 1 to May 31. No e-mail submissions. Please see our website for submission guidelines: 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.

BLUELINE: A LITERARY MAGAZINE Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks seeks poems, stories, and essays about the Adirondacks and regions similar in geography and spirit, focusing on nature’s shaping influence. We also welcome nonfiction about the region’s literature or culture. Submission period July 1 through November 30. Decisions mid-February. Payment in copies. Simultaneous submissions accepted if identified as such. Please notify immediately if your submission is placed elsewhere. Electronic submissions encouraged, as Word files, to blueline@potsdam.edu. Please identify the genre’s work in the subject line. Further information at www.bluelinemagadk.com.

BRYANT LITERARY REVIEW, a journal of poetry and fiction, seeks quality submissions for its May 2016 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 Ste. F, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI 02917.

CALAMARO, a print poetry magazine, seeks submissions of formal as well as free verse poems of between 2 and 30 lines. Submissions accepted year-round. See website for guidelines. www.calamaromagazine.com.

CALIFORNIA STATE POETRY SOCIETY seeks poems year-round for its California Quarterly, its Poetry Letter, and monthly contests. Poems are accepted for CSPS Annual Contest March 1–June 30. See californiastatepoetrysociety.org for publications, membership, submission requirements, contest rules, etc., or mail inquiry 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.

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, 2016. Mail to Colere, Coe College, 1220 1st Ave. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402.

CREATIVE NONFICTION MAGAZINE is seeking new work for an upcoming issue dedicated to “Learning from Nature.” Send your best work, 4,000 words or fewer. Deadline: February 1, 2016. $1,000 for best essay; $500 for runner-up. Guidelines at www.creativenonfiction.org/submit.

DALI’S LOVECHILD. Transcend reality. Ever suspect the world isn’t what it seems? So do we. Dali’s Lovechild, a place where reality is relative and time stands still. Publishing the unflinchingly human and the obscurity of reality. We stand in the way of those saying what’s real, for you! dalislovechild.com.

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: 2,016 words max. Deadline: March 1, 2016. Waste not. Want not. Submit. E-mail: dashliteraryjournal@gmail.com. See website for complete guidelines: www.dashliteraryjournal.com. DE LA MANCHA seeks quality submissions for upcoming print issue: poetry (1–6), short stories (2,000–3,500 words), photography, and artwork. DLM is a literary arts publication. Past issues can be viewed at magcloud.com. Please send your best work! Response time can be slow. Send to Editor Teresa Amelia at tvamelia019@gmail.com.

THE DERONDA REVIEW seeks poems and short prose for an issue with a theme of coincidence/synchronicity/providence. Please look at our site (www.derondareview.org) before submitting. Formal poems welcome. Send up to 5 poems to derondareview@att.net,  maber4kids@yahoo.com, or P.O. Box 6709 Efrat, 90435.

ESME (Empowering Solo Moms Everywhere) is a new website that welcomes poetry, essays, and short fiction written by mothers who’ve parented alone.  We are especially interested in writing that is inspired by the experience of being a Solo Mom. For details and submission guidelines, please visit our website, www.esme.com.

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, 2016. Send submissions only by e-mail to fpolizzi@medcelt.org. For complete guidelines, visit www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/index.html (Submissions).

FICTION SOUTHEAST is interested in short fiction (1,500 words or less). We are also interested in interviews with authors of short fiction, articles concerning fiction craft, and reviews of short story collections (preferably collections of flash or micro shorts). www.fictionsoutheast.com.

FROM MARCEL PROUST to Oliver Sacks, memory has been both a muse and a source of endless literary and scientific inquiry. Bellevue Literary Review seeks fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for a theme issue on how memory entwines in our lives, affecting the body, mind, and relationships. Deadline: February 1, 2016. Guidelines: www.blreview.org.

FRONT RANGE REVIEW seeks literary short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for its 14th 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 our website: www.frontrange.edu/frontrangereview.  

GLASSWORKS MAGAZINE seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, craft essays, and art/photography for upcoming print issues. Contributor copies provided. Reading period open until December 15. Also seeking flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays for publication in Flash Glass, our online short work feature. Read guidelines at www.rowanglassworks.org.

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.

JOIN THE Comstock Review for its 30th anniversary. Annual open reading period January 1–March 31, 2016, up to 5 poems, 40 lines max. No simultaneous, e-mail, or previously published submissions. We’re on Facebook. Visit www.comstockreview.org for guidelines, deadlines, and subscription info. 4956 St. John Dr., Syracuse, NY 13215.

THE LONGLEAF PINE, a Southern journal of the arts, is accepting submissions for the March 2016 issue. We accept fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and photography grounded in the American South. The theme for this issue is Truth or Dare. Deadline for Submissions is February 5. All submissions and questions: submissions@themidwoodpress.com.   

MIRAMAR #4 is out! Tribute to Philip Levine + special translation feature. Karen Swenson, Ed Ochester, Suzanne Lummis, Frank Gaspar, Lynne Thompson, Al Young, Bruce Weigl, Juan Felipe Herrera, Ernesto Trejo. New Miramar Editions chapbook series: Gerald Stern, Philip Levine, Gary Young; forthcoming Christine Kitano, Dixie Salazar, Joseph Stroud. miramarmagazine.org.

THE MOCKINGBIRD, a new quarterly of culture, faith, and wit, wants poems that respond to upcoming themes. Winter 2016 theme: Church (submit by November 15); Spring 2016: Food and drink (February 15, 2016); Summer 2016: America (May 15, 2016); Fall 2016: The Bible (August 15, 2016). Diverse voices welcome. One submission (1–5 poems) per theme. E-mail submissions only: submissions@mbird.com. 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.

NOW IN ITS 38th year of publication, Indiana Review is a biannual and nonprofit literary magazine dedicated to showcasing the talents of emerging and established writers. Our mission is to offer the highest quality writing within a wide aesthetic. For full submission guidelines, please visit our website at www.indianareview.org.

NOW ONLINE, riverrun, the literary magazine of Quincy University, published more or less annually since 1975, seeks eclectic submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. By January 15, 2016, please send submissions of no more than 2,500 words of prose or 3 poems to riverrun.qu@gmail.com.

OUTLOOK SPRINGS. For sale: Salad. Like new. Lettuce, croutons, six cherry tomatoes, etc. Moved to a smaller house and no longer have room for salads. Serious inquiries only. Also seeking previously unpublished fiction, poetry, and nonfiction submissions for our Inaugural Issue (Spring 2016). No fees. Visit us at: www.outlooksprings.com. E-mail us at: outlookspringsnh@gmail.com.

PENTIMENTO, a literary magazine for the disability community, is seeking submissions of essays, poetry, short stories, art, and photography for the Winter 2015–2016 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 our website: www.pentimentomag.org. PMS, poemmemoirstory, seeks submissions during our new reading period: January 1 through March 31, 2016. 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.

PRINT-ORIENTED BASTARDS is a quarterly online literary magazine that features emerging writers and artists. All genres are welcome, including literary comics, interviews, reviews, and cross-genre work. Simultaneous submissions accepted year-round. Response time is typically 1 month. For guidelines and the latest issue, visit www.printorientedbastards.com.

{PRONG & POSY} is a monthly online magazine publishing inventive fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, literary criticism, and political commentary. We are currently accepting submissions for our November issue. Reading period now open through November 1. Submission period for December issue will reopen on November 2. Reading period closes December 1. Submission guidelines available on website www.prongposylitmag.com. E-mail: prongposyeditors@gmail.com.

RALEIGH REVIEW is accepting submissions for its fifth year of NC Poetry on the Bus, which places poems by North Carolina poets on the Raleigh R-Line buses during April for National Poetry Month. There are approximately 20,000 riders on the R-Line each month. To submit, visit: www.raleighreview.org/NC_Poetry_on_the_Bus.html.

RATTLE SEEKS submissions by Angelino Poets for the Summer 2016 issue: poets must have lived half their lives in the Greater Los Angeles area. Deadline: January 15, 2016. Send up to 4 unpublished poems to: Rattle, 12411 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604. Online submissions accepted. Website: www.rattle.com.

SAN PEDRO RIVER REVIEW seeks poetry and b&w art for the Spring 2016 issue. The theme is the American Southwest. Submissions window January 1–January 31, 2016. More: www.sprreview.com. SARANAC REVIEW welcomes submissions for its Fall 2016 issue (#12). We are looking for fiction, including flash fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and one-act plays. We read year-round. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Please go to our website for complete, specific guidelines and to submit: www.saranacreview.com.

THE SEVENTH WAVE is a quarterly that provides a platform for disparate voices to interact, discuss, and disagree about issues. Each edition focuses on a single social issue and examines it across a table of context. The first centers around information gaps and the plasticity of opinions. Call for submissions closes October 1. www.seventhwavemag.com.

SLAB WANTS IT ALL, your raise-the-roof, funky creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and text/image pieces. We love flash, too. Reading period: late summer until December 1. All submissions read by bipedal mammals, accompanied by the occasional marsupial. Samples and more info at slablitmag.org. SOUNDINGS EAST, the literary journal of Salem State University, seeks poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for publication in Vol. 38 in Spring 2016. We read from September 1 to March 1, and respond within 3 months. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Please send up to 5 poems in a single file, or prose up to 10,000 words, to our online submissions manager at https://salemstateuniversitysoundingseast.submittable.com/submit.

THIRD WEDNESDAY literary arts journal accepts unpublished poetry, short fiction (up to 1,500 words), and b/w art or photography. E-mail only to tw@leadfootpress.com. For details, go to thirdwednesday.org. TRANSFERENCE invites submissions of poetry translated into English from Arabic, Chinese, French, Old French, German, Classical Greek, Latin, or Japanese. Please also submit a commentary on the translation process addressing particular challenges posed by the text or specific translation choices. Submission period: September 1, 2015– January 31, 2016. Contact information, earlier issues, and submission guidelines at http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/transference. For more information write to lang_trans@wmich.edu.

TULIPTREE REVIEW is a quarterly print literary journal accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. There is no reading fee and authors whose works are accepted will receive free subscriptions. For guidelines and contact information, visit www.tuliptreepub.com.

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 quality 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, 2015, through January 2, 2016. Creative nonfiction and single submissions only. Inquire about reviews. Website: http://underthesunonline.com. New e-mail address:underthesun44@gmail.com.   New address: Heidemarie Weidner, Editor, 1622 Edgefield Ct., Cookeville, TN 38506.

UNIVERSITY OF KNUMBSCULL needs your flash, your humor, your you! Become an honorary adjunct professor in no time flat, at no cost. At U Knumb, the sky is the limit and you are the literary upper stratosphere. Visit www.uknumbscull.com.

UNLIMITED SUBMISSIONS. Please e-mail your poems in just 1 attachment or in the body of the e-mail. Simultaneous submissions and previously published poems are welcome. The Great American Poetry Show, e-mail: larry@tgaps.com, website: www.tgaps.net.

UPSTREET: award-winning annual’s twelfth issue seeks quality submissions—fiction, poetry, CNF. Past interviewees include Jim Shepard, Lydia Davis, Michael Martone, Robert Olen Butler, Joan Wickersham. This issue features interview with poet Tony Hoagland, winner of Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Award and other honors. Deadline: March 1. For new submission guidelines, including payment, and to submit: www.upstreet-mag.org.

THE WHIRLWIND REVIEW, an online literary journal focusing on the connections between writing and spirituality, is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Emerging and unpublished writers are encouraged to submit. For guidelines e-mail contact@writingthewhirlwind.net or go to www.writingthewhirlwind.net.

12TH ANNUAL Palm Beach Poetry Festival in Delray Beach, FL, January 18–23, 2016. Focus on your work with 8 of America’s most celebrated poets: Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Carl Dennis, Denise Duhamel, Carol Frost, Thomas Lux, Tom Sleigh, Mary Szybist, and Kevin Young. Six days of workshops, readings, craft talks, manuscript conferences, panel discussions, social events, and so much more. Special guest: Robert Haas. To join our mailing list and to apply, visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org.  

23RD ANNUAL Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, January 15–18, 2016, Atlantic City area. Join Stephen Dunn, Thomas Lux, and the rest of our award-winning faculty for small, intensive workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. Enjoy challenging and supportive sessions, insightful feedback, and an encouraging community. Scholarships available. Register by November 20 and save: www.stockton.edu/wintergetaway.

THE 2016 LAS VEGAS Writer’s Conference, hosted by Henderson Writers’ Group, is scheduled for April 28–30 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.   

2016 SAN MIGUEL Writers’ Conference & Literary Festival (February 10–14). Keynote presenters: Joyce Carol Oates, Scott Simon (NPR), Lisa See, Kirk Ellis (John Adams, HBO), Gail Sheehy, Luis Alberto Urrea, Elizabeth Hay (CA), Juan Villoro (MX). Choose from 70 workshops in all genres. Barbara Kingsolver: “San Miguel is full of unexpected riches...” (est. 2004.) Details and registration: www.sanmiguelwritersconference.org.

GREAT LAKES Writers Festival, November 5–6 at Lakeland College, near Sheboygan, WI. Featured writers: A. E. Stallings and Nickolas Butler. No fee. For details and registration form go to www.greatlakeswritersfestival.org or contact Karl Elder, elderk@lakeland.edu or (920) 565-1000 x2295.

LIT CAMP Writers Conference held at Mayacamas Ranch in the rolling hills of Napa Valley, CA. Thursday, May 12, through Sunday, May 15, 2016. Only 40 participants, more than a dozen world-class & Pulitzer Prize–winning faculty members. Workshops, editor & agent panels, yoga. Submission deadline: January 31, 2016. litcampwriters.org.

NEW YORK Writers Workshop Pitch Conferences: Improve your pitch and present it to editors from 3 major New York publishing firms, plus attend an agents panel. Fiction (adults and children’s/YA) October 16–18 and Nonfiction November 13–15. Check the New York Writers Workshop website for information and next year’s dates: www.newyorkwritersworkshop.com/conferences.

SAN FRANCISCO Writers conference and open enrollment workshops: 13th Annual Celebration of Craft, Commerce & Community. February 11–15, 2016, Mark Hopkins Hotel. Keynotes by T. Jefferson Parker, Ann Packer, Annie Barrows, and Jane Friedman. 100+ presenters, agents, editors, publishers, and authors. Details and free SFWC Newsletter at www.sfwriters.org.

STORIES FROM THE HEART VIII, a unique women’s writing conference on personal history. Keynotes: Brooke Warner, She Writes Press and New York Times best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert. Austin, TX, April 15–17, 2016. Sponsored by Story Circle Network, a nonprofit international community of women with stories to tell. www.storycircle.org/conference.

$1,000 CASH PRIZE! A contest for self- published and traditionally published work. The Nancy Pearl Book Award is PNWA’s writing contest for completed, published books, copyright 2015. Every qualified book receives 2 reads by librarians. Finalists’ books are featured on our website and placed prominently in the bookstore during our summer conference (July 28–31, 2016). Winners are announced at the PNWA conference (1 per category) and receive $1,000 cash prize. Deadline January 31, 2016. Website: pnwa.org; e-mail: pnwa@pnwa.org; telephone: (425) 673-BOOK.

$1,000 PRIZE FOR best poem. DASH Journal welcomes submissions to its 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: February 15, 2016. All poems blind-reviewed by panel of editors. Finalists published in 2016 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 POETRY PRIZE prize from Girl on a Stoop Press: Fall 2015 Poetry Contest, deadline December 31; Winter 2016 Poetry Contest, deadline March 31, 2016. Three poems, $20 reading fee. Also various projects accepting submissions including alphabet poems anthology and children’s illustrated book series. Single poem or children’s story, $10 reading fee. See website: www.girlonastoop.press.

$12,000 IN PRIZE MONEY!  Call for unpublished work: Submit your writing to 12 categories for PNWA’s Literary Contest. Every qualified entry receives 2 written critiques, first-, second-, and third-place winners selected by agents and editors actively acquiring new authors. Entries per category ($35/PNWA members, $50/nonmembers) must be received by February 19, 2016. More than $12,000 in prize monies. pnwa.org. E-mail: pnwa@pnwa.org, phone: (425) 673-BOOK.

7 BEST REASONS to Enter New Millennium Awards’ contest by November 15. Best poetry $1,000; fiction $1,000; nonfiction $1,000; short-short fiction $1,000. All submitters receive our anthology. All winners are published in our anthology and online. “Highly recommended. NMW is one of our favorite journals.”—Winning Writers. We have launched careers! Visit www.newmillenniumwritings.com.

10TH ANNUAL SMITH COLLEGE Poetry Prize For New England high school girls in 10th and 11th grades. Award: $500 + opportunity to read poem at Smith. Judge: Marilyn Chin. No entry fee. Submissions: September 1– December 1. Sponsored by The Poetry Center at Smith College. Guidelines, eligibility, required entry form: www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/outreach/hs-poetry-prize. 17TH GIVAL PRESS Poetry Award for best original previously unpublished collection of poetry of at least 45 typed pages in any style or form. Prize: $1,000 and book publication. Reading fee: $20 per manuscript submitted. Deadline: December 14. E-mail givalpress@yahoo.com or visit website www.givalpress.com for complete details. Gival Press, P.O. Box 3812, Arlington, VA 22203.

2015 KNUT HOUSE novel prize. A prize of $1,500 and publication by Knut House Press awarded to an unpublished novel that captures the “(k)nuthouse” spirit authentically. Submit an unpublished manuscript (of at least 44,444 words) with a $15 entry fee via Submittable by December 31. To submit visit: http://knuthousepress.com/2015novelprize.html.   

2016 MAIN STREET RAG Poetry Book Award. Deadline: January 31, 2016. Length: 48–84 pages of poetry (TOC, title pages, and blank pages don’t count). Reading fee: $25. $1,200 prize plus publication. Blind judging, guidelines available online. All entries considered for publication. Send to: Main Street Rag, P.O. Box 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001. Website: www.mainstreetrag.com.

2016 NEW AMERICAN Poetry Prize; $1,000 award and book publication. Final judge: Gabriel Gudding. Deadline: January 1, 2016. Minimum length: 48 pages (no maximum). Reading fee: $22.50. Online submissions only, please. Complete guidelines: www.newamericanpress.com/contests.

THE 2016 WATERSON Desert Writing Prize will accept submissions January 1, 2016 through March 15, 2016. The prize honors nonfiction that illustrates artistic excellence, sensitivity to place, and desert literacy. It recognizes the vital role deserts play worldwide in the ecosystem and the human narrative. Emerging, mid-career, or established nonfiction writers are welcome to apply. The prize will recognize one writer with a $1,000 award, a reading and reception at the High Desert Museum in Bend, OR, and a 4-week residency at Playa at Summer Lake, OR. For submission guidelines, visit www.writingranch.com.

THE ANNUAL RATTLE Chapbook Prize offers $2,000 for a chapbook (up to 36 pages), plus 500 author copies, and distribution to Rattle’s 5,000+ subscribers. Entry fee of $20 includes a 1-year subscription to the magazine. Deadline January 15, 2016. For guidelines, visit our website: www.rattle.com/poetry/chapbooks.

BALTIMORE REVIEW Winter Contest Theme: Health. Aren’t you the tiniest bit obsessed with it? Make health 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.

BAUHAN PUBLISHING launches a contest for best collection of essays! The Monadnock Prize will be awarded for a book-length collection of essays: $1,000 and book publication in our fall list. Open to all. Entry fee $30. Postmark/submission deadline: December 31. Judged by Alice B. Fogel. For submission guidelines: www.bauhanpublishing.com/essay-contest.

BELLINGHAM REVIEW announces its annual literary contests: 49th Parallel Poetry, Tobias Wolff Fiction, and Annie Dillard Nonfiction. $1,000 first-place prizes and publication for winners; runners-up considered for publication. December 1–March 15. Online submissions only. General Submissions run till December 1. $3 reading fee. For those readers who subscribe to the journal between September and December, we will read submissions through June 1. Complete guidelines at: bhreview.org.

THE BELOIT FICTION JOURNAL announces the Hamlin Garland Award for the Short Story. $2,000 and publication for the top unpublished story. Novelist Nickolas Butler to judge. All entrants considered for publication. Maximum 7,000 words. Postmark December 1. $20 fee. One story per entry. Send entries to: Chris Fink, Editor, BFJ, 700 College St., Beloit, WI, 53511. Checks to BFJ. Or pay through Submittable: https://beloitfictionjournal.submittable.com/submit.

BRIGHT HILL PRESS 22nd Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition, $350 and publication plus 30 copies for winner. Entry fee $17. MS, 16–24 paginated pages (plus separate bio and acknowledgments) may be submitted electronically or via USPS. Results via e-mail. Complete guidelines: wordthur@stny.rr.com or www.brighthillpress.org. Deadline for MS receipt at BHP: November 30. BHP Poetry Chapbook, 94 Church St., Treadwell, NY 13846-4607.

BRIGHT HILL PRESS Book Prize. Deadline: December 31, 2015. Entry fee: $27. Website: www.brighthillpress.org. A prize of $1,000, publication by BHP, and 30 author copies for a poetry collection judged by a nationally known poet. Submit a manuscript of 48–64 pages with a $27 entry fee by December 31, electronically or via U.S. post. Visit the website for complete guidelines. Bright Hill Press, Book Prize, 94 Church St., Treadwell, NY 13846. Telephone: (607) 829-5055).

CARVE MAGAZINE’S first annual Premium Edition Contest open October 1–30. Seeking entries in short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction essay: $1,000 prize in each category and all published exclusively in our premium edition in print and featured online. Entry fee $17 online/$15 mailed. For full guidelines, visit www.carvezine.com/premium-edition-contest.

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: Linda Pastan. Submit 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, 2016. Final judge is Tyrone Williams. 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 Spring/Summer 2016 Poetry Contest! Publication & $500 first prize, $200 second, $100 third. We publish honorable mentions. Judge TBA, $15 entry, no simultaneous submissions. Non-contest poems welcome: no fee & simultaneous submissions. Send via Submittable at www.cgreview.org or with SASE to Janet Bowdan, Editor, H-5132, Western New England University, 1215 Wilbraham Rd., Springfield, MA 01119.

CROSSWINDS POETRY JOURNAL accepting contest submissions: $1,250 in prizes. Fifteen honorable mentions; reading period: September 1–December 31. We particularly enjoy well-crafted nature-oriented poetry but will consider well-done work on a variety of subjects, and frequently comment on submissions. For guidelines and to submit, visit our website at crosswindspoetry.com.

CUTBANK LITERARY MAGAZINE announces the 2016 Montana Prize for Fiction, Montana Prize for Nonfiction, and Patricia Goedicke Prize for Poetry are open to submissions November 1, 2015–January 15, 2016.  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.

DANAHY FICTION PRIZE/Tampa Review,  $1,000 and publication in Tampa Review, or a previously unpublished work of short fiction, 500–5,000 words. A $20 entry fee includes subscription. All entries considered for publication. Submit by December 31. Danahy Fiction Prize, Tampa Review, 401 West Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33606. Website: www.ut.edu/tampareview.

DIODE EDITIONS 2015 Chapbook Contest. Got chapbook? Prize of $250, 25 author copies, and publication by Diode Editions for a poetry chapbook. Submit a manuscript of 22 to 32 pages with a $12 entry fee, between August 15, 2015 and January 15, 2016. For full guidelines, visit www.diodeeditions.com.

EVENING STREET PRESS announces 2015 contests: Helen Kay Chapbook Poetry Prize, $250 plus 25 copies, possible publication of runners-up; $15 reading fee, ongoing. eveningstreetpress.com/helen-kay.html. Sinclair Poetry Prize, $500 plus 25 copies, possible publication of runners-up; $25 reading fee, May 1 to December 1. eveningstreetpress.com/sinclair.html.  

FROM JANUARY 1 to January 31, 2016, Crazyhorse will be accepting entries for prizes in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Winners receive $2,000 and publication. A $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 2016 Chapbook Contest, $500 and 50 gorgeous copies to winner. Use submission manager for electronic submissions or send postal submissions to Grayson Books, P.O. Box 270549, West Hartford, CT 06127: 16–24 pages poetry, $20 reading fee. January 31, 2016 deadline. Vivian Shipley to judge. For guidelines, see www.graysonbooks.com.

HEART POETRY Award: $500, publication, Heart #11. Honorable mentions published; $10 covers 3 unpublished poems, reserves your copy of Heart #11. Visit website, view past issues, poems preferred, guidelines; judge: John Sibley Williams. Deadline: Postmark December 31. Submit online www.nostalgiapress.com, or mail: Nostalgia Press, 115 Randazzo Ct., Elloree, SC 29047.

HIT & RUN PRESS: The William Dickey Memorial Broadside Contest. An annual prize of $1,000, plus the publication of a limited edition letterpress broadside of the winning poem. Entry fee: $10, one poem per poet. Format: poems must be between 12–30 lines (on any subject).  Include a separate cover sheet with your contact information. Do not put your name on the poem. Deadline: November 30, 2015. Winner will be announced on March 1, 2016.  (See “Winners” for information about this year’s contest.) hit & run press, 1563 Solano Ave. #379, Berkeley, CA 94707. Website: www.mrbebop.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, 2016. David Dodd Lee, Series Editor, will judge. Entry fee: $25. For complete guidelines go to www.42milespress.com.  

THE LEAPFROG 2016 Fiction Contest is open to submissions from January 15–May 1, 2016. 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.

LITERAL LATTE Food Verse Contest. Seeking poems with food as an ingredient. First prize $500 and publication. Postmark deadline March 15, 2016.  All styles and subjects welcome, up to 2,000 words per poem. Entry fee for up to 10 poems is $10. For tastes and online submissions, go to www.literal-latte.com. Or send to: Literal Latte Food Verse Kitchen, 200 E. 10th St., Ste. 240, New York, NY 10003. MUSIC/MATH PRIZE in Fiction/Poetry. A prize of $1,000 and publication by Knut House Magazine for an unpublished short story or poetry selection (less than 8,000 words) that explores music and/or mathematics authentically. Submit a manuscript with a $15 entry fee via Submittable by December 31. To submit visit: http://knuthousepress.com/mathmusicprize.html.  

NEGATIVE CAPABILITY PRESS “Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Contest.” A prize of $1,000 and publication in anthology for single poem. Judge: Pat Schneider. Submit up to 3 poems of no more than 250 lines each with $15 entry fee by January 20, 2016. Visit website for guidelines: negativecapabilitypress.org.

NEW RIVERS PRESS is seeking submissions for its Many Voices Project Award. Two prizes of $1,000 each for book-length manuscripts by emerging writers, one in poetry and one in fiction or creative nonfiction. Finalist judges TBA. Submit full-length, unpublished manuscripts of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry postmarked September 15 through November 15, 2015, along with $25 entry fee. Submit online at https://newriverspress.submittable.com/submit​ or see website for complete guidelines: http://www.newriverspress.com.

OMNIDAWN OFFERS $3,000 prize for our annual Open Book Poetry Contest. Calvin Bedient 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.

THE ORISON PRIZES in Poetry & Fiction offer $1,500 and publication by Orison Books for a full-length manuscript in each genre. Judges: Hadara Bar-Nadav (poetry) & Peter Orner (fiction). $25 entry fee. Entry period: November 1, 2015–February 15, 2016. For complete guidelines visit www.orisonbooks.com/submission-guidelines.

THE PERMAFROST BOOK PRIZE in Nonfiction offers publication of a book-length work of literary nonfiction, $1,000, and distribution through the University of Alaska Press. Final judge, Scott Russell Sanders. Deadline: December 1. Entry fee: $20. For complete guidelines, please visit: http://permafrostmag.com/1st-annual-book-prize-in-nonfiction.

POETRY & ONE-ACT Play Contests. Announcing poetry and one-act play contests opening July 1. The winners of each category will receive $1,500. The deadlines for the one-act play and poetry contests are respectively November 1 and November 15. Winners announced by late February 2016. The one-act play grand prize includes a staged professional reading at the next festival. The poetry contest entry fee is $20, and one-act play fee is $25. Visit the website for complete guidelines: http://con13.tennesseewilliams.net.

POETRY VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONTEST, $2,000+ in prize money. Many categories. Entries must be postmarked between November 1, 2015, and January 19, 2016 (submission deadline). Member entries unlimited. Nonmember entry fee $4/poem. For guidelines and membership application: www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org or SASE to 11594 Hume Rd., Hume, VA  22639.

PRESS 53 AWARD for Short Fiction awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of short fiction. Award includes publication plus $1,000 cash advance and a quarter-page ad in Poets & Writers Magazine announcing our winner. Reading fee: $30. Enter September 1–December 31. Complete details at www.press53.com.

PRISM REVIEW Poetry/Story Contests. $250 prizes! Check our fantastic judges! Poetry: Victoria Chang (The Boss, California Book Award). Fiction: Bryan Hurt (Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France, Starcherone Prize). Your $10 entry gets you a great $10 issue. Deadline: midnight, November 30. More information and submissions at prismreview.submishmash.com/submit.

RIVER STYX Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Microfiction 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.  

SELECTED SHORTS’ Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Contest. Prize includes $1,000; publication on electricliterature.com; and 2 tickets to a performance of Selected Shorts featuring your winning story. Judge: T. C. Boyle. Max: 750 words. Fee: $25. Due: March 15, 2016. For complete guidelines, visit www.selectedshorts.org.

SLAB 2016 POETRY PRIZE. First place: $600 + a limited edition, hand-bound chapbook. Runner-up: $400. Judge: Lori Jakiela, most recently the author of the collection Spot the Terrorist, the memoir The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious, among others. All winners published; all entries considered for publication; $10 reading fee. Reading late summer until December 1. 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, P.O. Box 2071, Niagara Falls, NY 14301. For further details and new guidelines, visit: www.slipstreampress.org.

SPORT LITERATE wants your midrange jumper—a sporty, nonfiction essay actually of no more than 2,500 words. Robert Reichle, our guest judge and first contest winner, will pick an anonymous favorite for the $500 prize. Your $25 entry fee includes a 2-issue subscription. Deadline: January 31, 2016. Guidelines online: www.sportliterate.org.

TALLGRASS WRITERS Guild/Outrider Press Anthology/Contest. Prose to 2,500 words and poetry to 32 lines on “Home,” literal and symbolic. Deadline: February 27, 2016. Prizes: $500 each category. Entry fees: 1–4 poems or each prose entry $16. TWG members: $12 each. 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. A $25 entry includes subscription. Deadline December 31. See guidelines online or send SASE. University of Tampa Press, 401 West Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33606. Website: www.ut.edu/tampareview.

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

TWO POETRY PRIZES: The Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize for a full-length manuscript of poetry and/or flash fiction: $1,000, plus publication. Judged by Dennis Schmitz. Fee $25. Deadline: January 2, 2016. Cloudbank 10 Poetry Prize: $200 plus publication. Fee $15. Cloudbank, P.O. Box 610, Corvallis, OR 97339-0610. Full guidelines at www.cloudbankbooks.com.

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, 2015–January 31, 2016. Early submissions are encouraged. An entry fee of $15 includes a subscription. For complete guidelines, visit http://thechattahoocheereview.gpc.edu.

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS Press is accepting submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, judged 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.  

WIN UP TO $5,000 and be a featured poet on storiestoart.com. StoriesToArt is a new digital venture that helps connect poets to poetry lovers in a revolutionary new way. More than a gallery—though artists will sell original works on it—it will enable art buyers to commission art, poetry, and songs inspired by a memory/story they share. StoriesToArt is calling all artists. The call includes stories. You may choose 1 as inspiration for any type of visual or expressive art. Use our other stories as inspiration or submit up to 5 additional pieces and the 5 stories that inspired them. To see the early stages of the website, check out the terms, and enter for your chance to win and be on StoriesToArt, go to www.storiestoart.com.

WOMEN’S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION announces its 2015–2016 Writing Contest. Fiction, poetry, and  creative nonfiction/memoir. Award includes publication for top 4 submissions in a national literary journal, $250 paid for first prize winners. Judges TBA. Submission period September 15, 2015–February 1, 2016. All contest fees fund WNBA literacy programs. Contest guidelines, judges’ bios, and submission link: www.wnba-books.org/contest.

WRITERS & BOOKS announces the ninth annual Kenneth and Geraldine Gell Poetry Prize Competition:  $1,000, publication with Big Pencil Press, and a weeklong 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. Timothy Liu will be the final judge for the prize to be awarded in March 2016. Reading fee is $25. Manuscripts must be postmarked between September 1 and December 31. For guidelines and entry form, click on Gell Poetry Prize at www.wab.org.

BRUTE BOUND PRESS is seeking 8–10 poems each by adult children of veterans reflecting the impact of war on the family. Also seeking 3–5 photographs each by veterans documenting their time in the military. Selected poets and photographers will receive a copy of the codex “Beyond Freedom.” Deadline: December 31. No fee. Please send submissions to brutebound@gmail.com.

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GREAT NORTH AFRICAN NOVELS from the postwar (1962) period, now in English. Exile and Helplessness, by the legendary Nabile Farès (Kateb Yacine Award winner). Father/Son, 2 moving novellas by multiple award winner Abdelkader Djemaï. The poetic/mythic Nomad Love by Grand Prix Atlas winner Youssouf Amine Elalamy. Diálogos Books—buy at diálogosbooks.com/africa.

HUMOR, SATIRE, AND DRAMAS. A collection of short stories: The Dog Called Hitler by Walerian Domanski, awarded 2015 Art Fellowship from Kresge Arts in Detroit. Amazon.com/books from Domanski Books. Enthusiastic reviews from Kirkus and readers’ favorite. Website: www.domanskibooks.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, andfreelance writers. Website: http://writingcareer.com.

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COSTA RICA Retreat for Writers, January 19–26, 2016. Located at a gorgeous lodge in the rainforest. Pool, spa, wildlife, beautiful walks. Spend the morning in writing workshops, then sightsee or write all afternoon. Attend alone or bring your family. Beginner and experienced writers welcome. Telephone: (416) 766- 7124, e-mail: julie@centauriartscamp.com, or website: www.centauriartsacademy.com.

GREECE WRITER’S RETREAT on the magical island of Alonnisos, one of the top eco-islands of Europe. Exquisite accommodations on the Aegean Sea. Turquoise waters, hiking paths, private beaches, yoga. Limited to 12 writers. Workshops follow the Amherst Writers and Artists Method. Returning for the sixth year. Led by Julie Maloney, director of Women Reading Aloud. June 14–23, 2016. Visit: www.womenreadingaloud.org. Contact: julie@womenreadingaloud.org.

JOYCE MAYNARD’S Hunsaker Canyon Writers’ House. One- to four-week residencies in Northern California. Live and work in your own private Tiny House tucked away in quiet and beautiful wooded glade. Spend your day writing, assisted by New York Times best-selling writer (of fiction and memoir) Joyce Maynard. More information at www.joycemaynard.com.

LOOKING TO FINISH your novel? Find your inspiration in a rustic, cozy, and enchanting 200-year-old farmhouse authentically restored for modern life. The 18th-century Amos Brown farmstead, Whitingham, VT, surrounded by hay meadows, stone walls, and forests, is the perfect space to enhance your productivity. Special $600 weekly rate, request PW15 code, see photos, and reserve at www.landmarktrustusa.org.

WELLSPRING HOUSE Retreat Center for writers and artists in the MA 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.

WRITER’S RESIDENCE in beautiful area of East Hampton near village available for winter. Living room with fireplace, kitchen, bath, 2 bedrooms plus office for writing. Only 10 minutes to ocean. January, February, March: $3,900. Inquiries by e-mail: galenwilliams@optonline.net.

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2015: Camac is now accepting applications for its residency program 2015 for 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. 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.

DORLAND MOUNTAIN ARTS COLONY located in beautiful hills overlooking wine country of Temecula Valley in Southern California. Private cottages with bath, bedroom, kitchen, work space, porch, piano: $300/week, $1,000/4 weeks. Peaceful, serene, inspiring. For more information and an application, go to www.dorlandartscolony.org, e-mail info@dorlandartscolony.org, or call executive director Janice Cipriani-Willis, (951) 302-3837.

JAMES MERRILL House Writer-in-Residence Program invites writers of all genres, including translators, to apply to live rent-free next door to and work in James Merrill’s Stonington, CT, apartment for 4–6 week fall residencies or a 4-1/2 month spring residency. A stipend is offered. The application period for Fall 2016/Spring 2017 residencies begins October 1, 2015, and ends January 15, 2016. For further information, please visit http://jamesmerrillhouse.org/residency/writer-in-residence-program.

MARTHA’S VINEYARD Writers’ Residency. Two-week and monthlong 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, bio, with $10 application fee to Justen Ahren, P.O. Box 1041, West Tisbury, MA 02575.

SPEND 3 WEEKS at Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL, developing your work with the personal support and mentorship of avant-garde poet Frances Richard, May 15–June 4, 2016 (application deadline December 6, 2015), or national bestselling author Danzy Senna, June 19–July 9, 2016 (application deadline January 24, 2016). Participation is limited to 8 people for each residency. For more information, please visit www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org.

WRITERS, COME TO ITHACA! The beautiful Saltonstall Arts Colony offers all-expenses-paid residencies for New York State artists and writers from May–September. Free to attend. Private apartment, stipend, prepared dinners, stocked kitchen, 200 acres of trails, 7 miles from Ithaca. Application deadline: January 2, 2016. Visit: www.saltonstall.org.  

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AFFORDABLE, POWERFUL, and comprehensive editorial services give your manuscript an edge. Unlock the potential of your manuscript with in-depth evaluation, plot/character development, line editing, revisions. Benefit from years of editorial experience at Big 5 publishers. Want to write a good book? Let me help! Helga Schier, PhD, helga@withpenandpaper.com. Website: www.withpenandpaper.com, telephone: (310) 828-8421.

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AWAKEN YOUR CREATIVITY. Jump-start your ideas or enrich existing work. I specialize in plays, journalism, or screenplays, but can help with any literary form. Credits: Harvard BA, 20 produced plays, many columns and essays in print, 6 screenplays, teaching at 3 Minnesota universities. John Fenn: (612) 371-9010, e-mail: john@johnfenn.net. Website: www.johnfenn.net.

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: jhcook@quickclic.net. Website: hugh-cook.ca.

BEAUFORT WRITING GROUP Developmental Editor. Academic/ nonfiction/novel/ memoir: Same mindfulness pruning apple trees. Copyeditor, grammar, clarity, syntax. Structural/style critique: shape, focus, fine-tune narrative trajectory. Beaufort, NC, rental. New novel: Song of Moving Water, poetry Salt Runs in My Blood: Amazon. Website: www.the-efa.org/dir/memberinfo. Susan Schmidt, PhD (252) 269-0032. E-mail: susu@susanschmidt.net, susankiwi15@gmail.com. Website: www.susanschmidt.net.

DOES YOUR CREATIVE WORK need tidying up? Field of Words can help. We offer affordable and professional editing services. Send us your short story, first chapter, or novel and we'll help improve your chances of winning writing commendations or securing a publication contract. For full details, visit the website: www.fieldofwords.com.au.

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EDITOR. Acclaimed author Marcy Dermansky (Bad Marie) will help you improve your novel, short story, or memoir. I provide a detailed rewriting plan, including big-picture structural suggestions and line edits on the manuscript. E-mail: mdermansky@gmail.com.  Website: http://marcydermansky.com/editing-services.

IS YOUR POETRY manuscript ready for publication? Professional evaluation and comprehensive editing provided by acclaimed editor. Workshops, tutorials, publishing advice. Former executive director of Alice James Books, with 12+ years of publishing experience. Author of Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007). For details, visit: www.aprilossman.com.  E-mail: aprilossman@hotmail.com.

MALONE-EDITED books sell to traditional publishers. Turning manuscripts into traditionally published books, and developing writers into successful authors. Malone Editorial Services, www.maloneeditorial.com. E-mail: maloneeditorial@hotmail.com. Website: www.susanmarymalone.com.

MANUSCRIPT CRITIQUES by experienced book reviewer and certified copyeditor. Put the perspective of a Publishers Weekly, BookPage, and Kirkus contributor to work for you and learn how to earn 5-star reviews. Clients call me their “secret weapon” for the element-by-element analysis I provide, along with implementable suggestions for revisions. A 6–10 page report addresses organization, structure, style/voice, plot, pace, characters, dialogue, and more. Editing options also available. www.sheilamtrask.com.

MANUSCRIPT EVALUATIONS. Expert guidance on perfecting your story. Trusted advice on what agents and publishers want. Award-winning, internationally published author of 10 novels and former University of Toronto instructor Barbara Kyle has launched many writers to publishing success. Start with your first 50 pages for $150. All genres welcome. www.barbarakyle.com.

POETRY, POETRY MANUSCRIPT. Expand your range, syntax, facility with language, grasp. Close editing and attention to big picture. Phone or Skype conference—U.S. or international. References. Roger Weingarten, experienced poet/teacher. All levels. rogw12@comcast.net.

PRIZE-WINNING FICTION WRITER, recipient of 2008 award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, an O. Henry, a Pushcart, publications in the Best American Short Stories, offers writing coaching services. Teaching experience at Barnard College and the New School, 15 years working privately with clients. E-mail: maxine.swann@gmail.com.

PROFESSIONAL WRITING COACHING: Blocked? Struggling? I’ll help you finish that project! Break through blocks with published author, skilled editor, experienced teacher, compassionate mentor. Plays, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir, dissertations, children’s books—I can help you get it done right! Carol Burbank, MA, PhD.  Free 30-minute consultation. E-mail: cburbank@carolburbank.com. Website: www.carolburbank.com.

RESEARCHER.  Beginning? Overwhelmed? Ex-Ivy Reference Librarian with MLS. I search with a purpose. I know how to frame the questions and have access to unique databases that will hold the answers. I am an intrepid information sleuth. No haystack too large. Reasonable hourly rates. E-mail: randi.kepecs@gmail.com.

WANT TO IMPROVE, revise, polish your writing? Get help from an award-winning, published writer with an MFA from Cornell and a PhD from Binghamton University. For more information, visit www.sarahjefferis.net.

WRITE-GOALS: Editor/Coach (MFA, MA, published writer) will read and critique your work with an eye to bringing out your unique voice. I also help writers get their ideas onto the page by brainstorming with them and setting writing schedules. Contact Joann for a free consultation: joannsmith.writegoals@gmail.com. Website: www.write-goals.com.

WRITING COACHING, manuscript evaluation, and editing. Widely published (Glimmer Train, Missouri Review, etc.), Pushcart Prize winner in nonfiction, anthologized and award winner in fiction, and New York City–produced playwright. Works with award-winning novelists and short story writers as well as beginners. Specializes in process and structure in fiction and nonfiction. www.steveadamswriting.com.   

YOUR FAIRY GODMOTHER EDITOR. Well-connected author of Bang the Keys (Penguin) will help you unleash your book or script’s true fabulosity, and bring it to life in the real world before depression or drink destroy your nerve! Also a novelist, I can help you to navigate the treacherous waters of publishing. Contact: jilldearman@gmail.com. Website: www.jilldearman.com.

2016 TODOS SANTOS Writers Workshop, January 24–30. Five-day intensive workshops for writers at all levels. Fiction, nonfiction, and memoir in a “Pueblo Magico” by the sea. One-on-one mentoring, manuscript critique. Faculty: Gordon Chaplin (memoirist/novelist), Jeanne McCulloch (editor), Rex Weiner (journalist), Jonathan Penner (novelist) plus guest writers, editors, and seminars. Register now at www.todossantoswritersworkshop.com.

28-YEAR-OLD PROGRAM developed by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Schultz. Fiction + poetry workshops for writers at all levels in NYC, Tucson, San Francisco, Amsterdam, and online. Tutorials available. “The most personal of the programs”—The New York Times. Students publish and win awards. Phone: (212) 255-7075. Website: www.writerstudio.com.

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. Five-week sessions. Take separately or combine into an ongoing course. Waterfront writing retreats also. www.creativewritingcenter.com. (800) 510-1049. E-mail: eayres@creativewritingcenter.com.  

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: ahicks@philawordshop.com. Website: www.philawordshop.com.  

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 10- and 5-week classes in memoir, personal essay, magazine writing, online workshops, 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.

WISDOM HOUSE Retreat and Conference Center, Litchfield, CT—workshops with poet, author Davyne Verstandig: January 15–17, 2016; Writing Across Genres: A Winter Writing Retreat; and July 15–17, 2016, Small Books, Big Ideas: A Reading and Writing Workshop. More information call (860) 567-3163, e-mail programs@wisdomhouse.org, or visit www.wisdomhouse.org.

WRITE IN ITALY this summer! Poet Kim Addonizio (7 collections, Best American Poetry, Poetry, etc., National Book Award finalist, Guggenheim, NEA, Pushcart recipient) leads a workshop/retreat June 7–21, 2016, at a former monastery in Umbria. Included: incredible meals, trips to Rome & surrounding towns & attractions. www.kimaddonizio.com; www.laromita.org.