This is our third year as a Northern California book festival. We anticipate having more than 200 authors, author panels, writer workshops, food trucks and much more, building on the success of the 2025 festival.
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.