In this Green Apple Books event, Emilie Lygren, author of Once I Was a Stone (Wayfarer Books, 2025), and Deema K. Shehabi, author of Water to Water: Gaza Renga (Interlink Books, 2025), read a selection of their poems and discuss their experiences with writing communities and creating time and space for their writing.
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.