Small Press Points: Airlie Press
Founded seventeen years ago to support poetry from the Pacific Northwest, Airlie Press is a nonprofit publisher guided by a unique rotating editorial board of poets from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
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Genre: Poetry
Banyan Poetry Prize
Banyan Review
Entry Fee:
$20
Deadline:
September 1, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Banyan Review will be given for a single poem. Natasha Kane will judge.
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Call This Mutiny: Uncollected Poems by Craig Santos Perez and The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma.
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Open Poetry Book Contest
Omnidawn Publishing
Entry Fee:
$27
Deadline:
August 31, 2024
A prize of $3,000, publication by Omnidawn Publishing, and 20 author copies is given annually for a poetry collection. Katy Peterson will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 40 to 120 pages with a $27 entry fee from July 1 to August 16. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
The Waiting Seasons: One Poet’s Life in Alaska
From her home just outside of Fairbanks proper, a poet subverts mainstream Alaskan imagery to conjure the reality of her writing life, which includes a local waste transfer site, muddy shoulder seasons, and slow internet.
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Nobel Prize Interview With Jon Fosse
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“I think that literature is really needed, and art in general. It’s saying something that cannot be said in any other way, and that’s why you do it.” In this interview, Norwegian author Jon Fosse, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023, talks about how music inspired him to write at a young age, and how pauses and silences are used to generate rhythm in his work.
Coming Down Hard
“The sun had just gone out / and I was walking three miles to get home. / I wanted to die. / I couldn’t think of words and I had no future / and I was coming down hard on everything.” In Linda Gregg’s poem “New York Address,” which appears in her retrospective collection, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2008), the speaker recounts bleak existential angst. Despite the pain and darkness, there are glimmers of light. In the second half of the poem, questions are stubbornly answered with snappy, tidy pacing: “Yes I hate dark. No I love light. Yes I won’t speak. / No I will write.” Write a poem that goes all in on angst, channeling a time that felt overwhelmingly uncertain and full of trepidation. How can you experiment with sound and diction to gently steer the dramatic toward the life-affirming?
MacDowell
MacDowell offers residencies of up to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 450 wooded acres near Mt. Monadnock in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Residents are provided with a private studio and work space, as well as access to the James Baldwin Library. Stipends and travel reimbursement grants are available based on financial need.
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RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
no
Event Date:
September 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions:
no
Application Deadline:
February 10, 2025
Financial Aid?:
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
September 10, 2024
Free Admission:
yes
Contact Information:
MacDowell, 100 High Street, Peterborough, NH 03458. (603) 924-3886, ext. 135. Julie Hamel, Scheduling and Fellows Engagement Manager.
Julie Hamel
Scheduling and Fellows Engagement Manager
Contact City:
Peterborough
Contact State:
NH
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
03458
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US
Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference
The Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU), was held from October 10 to October 12 at the Memorial Union community center on the university’s campus in Tempe, Arizona. The theme for the 2024 conference was “Craft. Culture. Community.” Programming included craft talks, classes, generative workshops, panels, readings, and events focused on the business of writing for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators.
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CONFERENCE
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no
Event Date:
October 10, 2024
Rolling Admissions:
no
Application Deadline:
September 30, 2024
Financial Aid?:
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
September 30, 2024
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, c/o Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, P.O. Box 875002, Tempe, AZ 85827. (480) 965-1243. Sheila Black, Assistant Director.
Sheila Black
Assistant Director
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Tempe
Contact State:
AZ
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
85281
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US
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Frost Farm Poetry Conference
The seventh annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference was held from August 16 to August 18 at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire. The conference featured workshops, readings, and one-on-one consultations for poets. The faculty included poets Ned Balbo, Meredith Bergmann, Joseph Bottum, Brian Brodeur, Midge Goldberg, and Jane Satterfield. Poet A. M. Juster delivered the keynote address. The cost of the conference was $450, which included tuition and meals. Lodging was available at area hotels and inns. Writers registered by August 1. Visit the website for more information.
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CONFERENCE
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no
Event Date:
August 16, 2024
Rolling Admissions:
no
Application Deadline:
August 1, 2024
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
June 6, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Frost Farm Poetry Conference, Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm/Hyla Brook Poets, 280 Candia Road, Chester, NH 03036. (603) 845-6931. Robert Crawford, Conference Director.
Robert Crawford
Conference Director
Contact City:
Derry
Contact State:
NH
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US
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