Learn how to make your own Little Free Library book-sharing box in this short video from the organization, which fosters neighborhood book exchanges around the world. A Q&A with Little Free Library’s new executive director and CEO Daniel Gumnit appears in the May/June 2026 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.





