In this Bay Area Book Festival event featuring Native debut authors, Jon Hickey reads from his novel, Big Chief (Simon & Schuster, 2025), and Aaron John Curtis reads from his novel, Old School Indian (Hillman Grad Books, 2025), followed by a discussion moderated by Greg Sarris on the Native experience through modern political and personal struggles. Curtis and Hickey are featured in “First Fiction 2025” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.