“It felt like the kind of book that you can only write when someone is either about to die or has died, which is the case for me.” In this Copper Canyon Press event, Paisley Rekdal reads from her poetry collection Heritance (Copper Canyon Press, 2026) and discusses grief, forgiveness, and lineage in a conversation with Michael Wiegers. For more from Rekdal, read her installation of our Ten Questions series.
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.