The Time Is Now will send you a weekly writing prompt (we’ll send a poetry prompt, a fiction prompt, and a creative nonfiction prompt) every Friday to help you stay committed to your writing practice throughout the year. Whether you're looking for poetry prompts, fiction prompts, or creative nonfiction prompts, you can also browse the more than 1,800 writing prompts we've alredy posted. We also offer a selection of books on writing—both the newly published and the classics—that we recommend you check out for inspiration, plus advice and insight on the writing process from the authors profiled in Poets & Writers Magazine.
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.