In this Spotlight PA video, Sara Nović discusses how writing letters to her sons inspired her new memoir, Mother Tongue (Random House, 2026), in a conversation with Alex Schneider, co-owner of the community bookstore A Novel Idea on Passyunk in Philadelphia.
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.