Celebrate Pride at the Library! Get special after hours access to the Rose Main Reading Room and other gorgeous Library spaces. Enjoy live music, a special collections display, and 16mm films; learn about the history of queer kids’ books and get tailored book recs from NYPL librarians. Featuring a one-night-only display curated from the special collections at the Library for the Performing Arts, live performances in the Rose Main Reading by Be Steadwell, 16mm films curated from the Reserve Film and Video Collection spotlighting lesbian cinema, and much more!
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.