Genre: Poetry

Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin

The Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin offers two-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Wonder Mountain Open Source Center, 15 miles northeast of Joshua Tree National Park on the ancestral homelands of the Serrano, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, and Mohave (Mojave) Indigenous communities in California. Residents are provided with a private bedroom, desk, and patio in a newly renovated ranch-style house, as well as shared bathrooms.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
December 28, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
December 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin, Wonder Mountain Open Source Space, 5268 Danby Road, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277. (206) 992-3932. Emily Baker, Founder and Director.

Emily Baker
Founder and Director
Contact City: 
Twentynine Palms
Contact State: 
CA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
92277
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Literary Awards

American Literary Review
Entry Fee: 
$15
Deadline: 
October 1, 2024
Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in American Literary Review are given annually for a poem, a short story, and an essay. Using only the online submission system, submit up to three poems of any length, a story of up to 8,000 words, or an essay of up to 6,000 words with a $15 entry fee by October 1. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Washington Island Literary Festival

The Washington Island Literary Festival, sponsored by Write On, Door County, was held from September 18 to September 20 at the Trueblood Performing Arts Center and other venues in Washington Island, Wisconsin. The festival featured workshops, panel discussions, author presentations, book signings, and a community creative lab for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
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yes
Event Date: 
December 28, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
December 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Washington Island Literary Festival, Write On, Door County, P.O. Box 457, 4210 Juddville Road, Fish Creek, WI 54212. (920) 868-1457. Jerod Santek, Founding and Artistic Director.

Jerod Santek
Founding and Artistic Director
Contact City: 
Washington
Contact State: 
WI
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
54246
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Honickman First Book Prize

American Poetry Review
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
October 1, 2024
A prize of $3,000 and publication by American Poetry Review is given annually for a debut poetry collection. The winning book is distributed by Copper Canyon Press through Consortium. Nicole Sealey will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of at least 48 pages with a $25 entry fee by October 1. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow

November/December 2025

The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow offers residencies of three days to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Residents are provided with a private room and bathroom, work space, weeknight dinners, and a communal kitchen for all additional meals. The cost of the residency is $95 per night, which includes all meals. An additional $30 flat-rate cleaning fee is charged.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
December 28, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
December 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, 515 Spring Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632. (479) 253-7444. 

Contact City: 
Eureka Springs
Contact State: 
AR
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
72632
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Poetry Book Prize

Changes Press
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
October 1, 2024
A prize of $10,000, publication by Changes Press, and 50 author copies is given annually for a first or second poetry collection. The winner will also receive an all-expenses-paid book launch in New York City in 2026. Terrance Hayes will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 48 to 96 pages, a brief bio, and a list of previously published poems by October 1. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

In Cahoots Residency

In Cahoots offers residencies of one, two, or three weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the countryside of Petaluma, California, in scenic Sonoma County. Residents are provided with individual cottages, each with a private kitchen and bathroom, as well as access to private and shared studios. The cost of the residency is $950 ($810 for students) for one week, $1,600 ($1,360 for students) for two weeks, or $2,350 ($2,000 for students) for three weeks.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
December 28, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
December 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

In Cahoots Residency, 198 Liberty Road, Petaluma, CA 94952. Macy Chadwick, Founder and Director.

Macy Chadwick
Founder and Director
Contact City: 
Petaluma
Contact State: 
CA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
94952
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Troubadour International Poetry Prize

Coffee-House Poetry
Entry Fee: 
$8
Deadline: 
September 23, 2024
A prize of £2,000 (approximately $2,602) is given annually for a single poem. A second-place prize of £1,000 (approximately $1,301) is also given. Both winners receive publication on the Coffee-House Poetry website and an invitation to read alongside the contest judges in an online celebration on December 9. Glyn Maxwell and Jane Yeh will judge. E-mail any number of poems of up to 45 lines each with a £6 (approximately $8) entry fee per poem, sent via PayPal, by September 23. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference

The 2025 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Fall Conference was held from November 7 to November 9 at the Holiday Inn Resort on Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. The conference featured classes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as conversations and panel discussions on the craft and business of writing, open mic sessions, faculty readings, and one-on-one manuscript critiques with agents or editors.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
December 28, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
December 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference, P.O. Box 21591, Winston-Salem, NC 27120. (336) 293-8844. Ed Southern, Executive Director. 

Ed Southern
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Wrightsville Beach
Contact State: 
NC
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
28480
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Paterson

The Time Is Now
8.13.24

William Carlos Williams’s multi-volume, mid-twentieth-century poem Paterson is purportedly inspired by the works of his contemporaries: James Joyce’s Ulysses, Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and Hart Crane’s The Bridge. Through his subject—the former mill town of Paterson, New Jersey—Williams provides a voice for American industrial communities. A launching pad for other artists’ work, the book inspired Jim Jarmusch’s 2016 film Paterson, about a bus driver and poet named Paterson in the city of the same name, and Robert Fitterman’s book Creve Coeur (Winter Editions, 2024), set in the segregated suburbs of his eponymous Missouri hometown—an illustration of contemporary America that mirrors the structure of Williams’s postwar epic. Write a poem that draws on specific observations of your neighborhood to express a wider perspective on life in the twenty-first century. Incorporate street names, local landmarks, and history as well as tidbits of everyday conversation.

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