In this live episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Barbara Kingsolver reads from her novel Partita (Harper, 2026), with piano accompaniment by César Reyes, and talks about how her Appalachian upbringing allowed her to explore music and language despite class barriers.
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.