Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

With several imprints to choose from, GalleyCat explains ways to submit your novel in 2013. [2]

The New York Times Magazine published its annual The Lives They Lived this past weekend, with many literary figures featured, including Cheryl Strayed on Adrienne Rich [3], and Ariel Kaminer on David Rakoff.

Today is the last day to vote in the Above and Beyond Award 2013 [4], given by literary website Beyond The Margins. The award, now in its second year, "recognizes an individual who has gone above and beyond to help other writers and/or contribute to a community of writers."

If you're near New York City tomorrow, the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery is hosting its thirty-ninth annual New Year’s Day marathon reading [5], featuring dozens of poets, including Jen Benka, Charles Bernstein, Eileen Myles, and John Giorno.

The Boston Globe lists its favorite nonfiction books of 2012 [6].

Meanwhile, the New Yorker looks back at the best literary feuds of 2012 [7].

Maria Popova tracked down a numbered copy of The Wishing Tree, a children's book written by Willliam Faulkner [8] in 1927, and published as a limited edition in 1964. (Brain Pickings)

The New York Times details Walt Whitman's Civil War service [9] as a hospital volunteer in our nation's capital.

Roxane Gay shares her favorite small press reads of the past year [10]. (HTML Giant)

The Los Angeles Review of Books looks at the life and iconoclastic career of songwriter Tom Waits [11], and the many poets who informed his work.

Happy New Year!