Building authentic enthusiasm for your novel or memoir—making it stand out and sell—has never been more challenging. It requires creative energy, support from the publishing community, and luck. In this free Zoom event, three top-notch writers who have played an integral role in cultivating their audiences—Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck and This Great Hemisphere; Marjan Kamali, author of The Lion Women of Teheran; and Juliet Grames, author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna and editorial director of Soho Press—join 5E, a collective of independent editors, to kick around ideas and explore strategies for book promotion. To be followed by an open Q&A session.
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.