“It is very weird to be written about in fiction or nonfiction.” In this event at Politics and Prose Bookstore, Susan Cheever reads from her book When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), and discusses the life events that shaped the short stories written by her father, John Cheever, in a conversation with Molly Jong-Fast.
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.