“Reading is always an imaginative collaboration between the writer and the reader.” David Szalay talks about his Booker Prize–winning novel, Flesh (Jonathan Cape, 2025), and the episodic style of writing and use of white space in this PBS NewsHour interview with Jeffrey Brown.
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.