In this Green Apple Books event, literary agent Alia Hanna Habib reads from her guidebook, Take It From Me: An Agent’s Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career From Scratch (Pantheon Books, 2026), and offers advice to aspiring writers in a conversation with Maia Ipp. Habib’s book is the “Suggested Reading” pick in the March/April 2026 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.