In this episode of the Memoir Nation podcast, hosts Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner celebrate independent media in a conversation with Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, who bought the literary magazine the Rumpus in 2025. For more on their new initiatives, read “Relaunching the Rumpus” by Ilana Masad in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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.