“I write exclusively for myself—absolutely 100 percent myself.” In this BBC Arts in Motion segment, Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about his childhood spent with books, the doubts he had beginning his career as a writer, and his writing practice and breakthrough publishing My Struggle, a six-book autobiographical series.
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.





