In this City Club of Cleveland event, Namwali Serpell reads from her book On Morrison (Hogarth, 2026) and discusses Toni Morrison’s use of literary forms as well as her frustration with critics during her career in a conversation with poet Kortney Morrow.
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.





