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For information about more than 250 graduate programs in creative writing, including MA and PhD programs, visit our MFA Programs database, which includes details about funding, class size, and core faculty, as well as links to profiles of alumni and more. Use our extensive list of Literary Journals Associated With MFA Programs to find schools with graduate programs in creative writing that produce literary magazines. Read expanded versions of the interviews with Jamia Wilson of Random House and Rowan Ricardo Phillips of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poetry. Listen to recordings of Jamel Brinkley, Shane McCrae, Mary Ruefle, Sally Wen Mao, and others reading from their new books featured in Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin. Read Online Exclusives, including an interview with Nicole Sealey on her new…

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EDITOR’S Note

EIGHTY-FOUR ISSUES AGO I WROTE MY FIRST EDITOR’S NOTE for this magazine. Like this issue, the November/December 2009 edition was dedicated to MFA programs, and in this space I wrote about how I had been reminded of the seasonal rhythms of student life while watching my daughter get ready for her first day of prekindergarten. As I write this my daughter is getting ready for her first day of college. And I am sorting through a rather full bag of emotions, including pride, gratitude, worry, and at least a couple of others, as yet undefined. While I marvel at her achievements and honor the strong young woman she has become, a part of me really wants that little girl back. So when I tell you I have tried to make…

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Reactions

LETTER Feedback from a reader I read your magazine whenever I get a new issue. I note that there are many funds, prizes, incentives, and so on for beginning or younger poets and writers, but I never find any for older people. Are there any? I am eighty-eight, two months away from eighty-nine. I have now published three dozen titles, many of them with Hippocampus Press and Arkham House. Does any publisher offer a prize to a writer of elderly status? If so, would you please share names, addresses, and other information? DONALD SIDNEY-FRYER North Chatham, Massachusetts The editors respond: It sure can seem like there are precious few opportunities for older writers, especially considering how much attention is paid to authors under a certain age—and some publishers’ insistence on…

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The International Library

One early Thursday afternoon this past June, Mexican author Carmen Boullosa sat onstage with translator Samantha Schnee at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, New York. The two took turns reading from Boullosa’s novel El libro de Eva, published by Alfaguara in 2020; Boullosa read in the original Spanish, and Schnee from the English translation, The Book of Eve (Deep Vellum, 2023). Projected onto the large screen behind them, Alice McCrum, program manager at the American Library in Paris, was beamed in from across the Atlantic to moderate a lively discussion with the two featured guests. Attendees included not only the dozen or so seated audience members in Brooklyn, but also participants at the American Library in Paris, people enjoying morning coffee at a remoteviewing event at the San Francisco…

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CONTRIBUTORS

BONNIE CHAU is the author of the story collection All Roads Lead to Blood (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2018). She is on the board of the American Literary Translators Association, teaches at Columbia University and Fordham University, and edits for 4Columns, Public Books, and the Evergreen Review. JONATHAN VATNER is the author of The Bridesmaids Union (St. Martin’s Press, 2022) and Carnegie Hill (Thomas Dunne Books, 2019). The managing editor of Hue, the magazine of the Fashion Institute of Technology, he teaches at New York University and the Hudson Valley Writers Center. BRITTANY MOSELEY is a writer and editor based in Columbus, Ohio. DANA ISOKAWA is the editor in chief of the Margins and a contributing editor of Poets & Writers Magazine. JULIA MALLORY is the author of six books.…

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One Page Where New And Noteworthy Books Begin

“Who knew that old-ass Headass was capable of even greater feats of headassery?” Witness (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2023) by Jamel Brinkley. Second book, story collection. Agent: Jin Auh. Editor: Jenna Johnson. Publicist: Sarita Varma. “About this time I began to suspect I was never named; people called me Mary because it was convenient, or because they had heard others call me Mary, I was in the beginning named after someone else who was named Mary but I was neither this person nor the one they called Mary after her, I was nameless, and in this state I perpetually wandered among fruit and flowers and foliage, among vines and overhanging rock and untamed animals, none of whom I could name, none of whom knew my name, nor, if they…

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Bookshop Expands Into Publishing

Last fall, Lydia Davis’s agent, Denise Shannon, approached Andy Hunter, founder and CEO of the online bookseller Bookshop, with a question: Would any publisher be willing and able to exclude Amazon from its distribution channels? Davis opposes the mega-retailer and has not purchased anything on Amazon in many years. “It seemed completely unreasonable that I was still allowing them to sell my own books,” Davis wrote in a subsequent message to Hunter. Every press Shannon had approached with the same question—including Davis’s longtime publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux—told her it was impossible to avoid Amazon because it is the industry’s largest retail channel, by some estimates commanding more than half of U.S. book sales. Hunter, an experienced publisher who oversaw the independent press Catapult until last year, took Shannon’s query…

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The Writing Freedom Fellowship

The stark contrast be tween Hanif Abdurraqib’s early life and his current literary celebrity is not lost on him: He spent part of his younger years in and out of Ohio’s jails and courtrooms before publishing a series of critically acclaimed books and, in 2021, winning a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. Abdurraqib is a “system-impacted” writer, a term that refers to people who have been negatively affected by the criminal justice system, although he does not typically apply that label to himself. “Let’s be real: If I didn’t win the MacArthur or write some shit that people like, I would have a hard time getting a job because I have a record,” says Abdurraqib. “So consider what it’s like for someone who has not won something prestigious or who has not…

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Small Press Points

Nurturing transnational literary conversations for nearly two decades, the Toronto-based Book*hug Press (bookhugpress.ca) publishes eighteen to twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation that are distributed across North America each year. In 2004, after operating as a micro press specializing in handmade chapbooks and broadsides, the company released its first full-length title: the poetry collection Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace by the Danish writer Niels Lyngsø, translated by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gregory Pardlo. About 10 percent of the press’s list comes from international authors, says Hazel Millar, who with her husband, Jay Millar, owns and manages Book*hug. “We think of ourselves as a Canadian press with international leanings, both representationally and aesthetically,” she says. “We believe reading beyond borders is necessary and important.” Book*hug is open to submissions…

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Literary MagNet

In the first version of her debut story collection, Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go (Tin House, August 2023), Cleo Qian focused on girlhood while writing coming-of-age narratives about teenagers and early twentysomethings. As Qian wrote more pieces, though, her characters became older, and the book’s themes shifted to loneliness, fear, and technology. “There were more adult concerns about work, success, aging, keeping up with your peers, the consequences one starts to face, emotionally and physically, for choices and patterns from your youth,” she says. “The book became a bit darker and scarier.” With precise imagery and a voice both sharply observant and yearning, the final collection depicts the sometimes blurry lines between girlhood and adulthood, admiration and attraction within female friendship, and the surreal and real in online interactions.…

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Phillips Edits Princeton Poets

TRENDS Q & A In April, Rowan Ricardo Phillips was named editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, which publishes emerging and established poets through Princeton University Press and has nurtured many critically acclaimed verse makers over its nearly fifty-year history. The editorship was previously held for ten years by Susan Stewart. A poet, screenwriter, academic, journalist, and translator, Phillips is the author of six books, including the forthcoming poetry collection Silver (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024). Phillips discussed paying it forward through poetry, the power of the written word, the importance of university presses, and his plans to leave no manuscript unturned in his new role. What is it about the written word that you find compelling? The written word is part math and part miracle. It marks…

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Writing Prompts and Exercises

Poetry: Let’s Meet Our Contestants “For $200: When inheritance begins//What is: in the womb/What is: decades before I announced my father dead/to me,” writes Taylor Byas in the poem “Jeopardy! (The Category Is Birthright),” which appears in her debut collection, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, published in August by Soft Skull Press. In this emotional poem, which follows the familiar format of the classic trivia game show referenced in the title, each stanza is framed with a dollar amount and clue in the form of an answer, followed by a list of potential responses in the form of questions. Try writing a poem that turns the format of your favorite game show into a poetic form. Whether you experiment with Wheel of Fortune, Pyramid, or Lingo, what limits…

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The Pressure of Young Promise

SUCCESS to my kid cohort in rural Minnesota during the seventies was getting into The Guinness Book of World Records. It was all about being the first or best at something—or doing the most of something else. I planned a head start on Guinness-type fame because I already knew I wanted to be a writer at age nine. Having received a hand-me-down typewriter from my older brothers, I was astonished by how immediately professional my “novels” looked coming off the platen. I quickly sold that first typewritten novel to my parents for a quarter. How hard could achieving the moniker of “nation’s youngest author” be? By twelve I had a pile of pages that I began sending to publishers, and I was getting nice notes back from a variety of…

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Laugh Tracks

HOW did you spend your Thanksgiving?” It’s a straightforward question, and a straightforward respondent might answer something like, “Oh, the old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I napped for two hours.” Yawn. What did Jon Stewart write? “I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.” Stewart’s barb works because it ends with an uncomfortable truth—in this case, a truth that far too many Americans ignore as they enjoy their holiday feasts. He punches up, targeting those who used their power for corrupt and immoral purposes. Using humor in this way can challenge abusive authority and effect…

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What Is Meant for You Is Always Meant for You

FOR years I thought myself in competition with another writer—a writer, I should say, whom I’d never met. I first became acquainted with this writer nearly a decade ago when I joined a Facebook group for people applying to MFA programs in creative writing. Ostensibly the purpose of the group was to exchange information and resources and to support others who were navigating the application process. However, once application deadlines had passed and people began posting news of their acceptances—acceptances that went out long before rejections—the group did more to provoke my anxiety than anything else. Every day in the springtime of that year, I visited the group’s page religiously, compulsively, and it wasn’t long before I began to recognize the same name, the writer’s name, as he posted acceptance…

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HOW TO SURVIVE THE DARKNESS OF OUR DAYS

AFEW minutes into our conversation, the poet Roger Reeves reveals a surprising detail about Dark Days: Fugitive Essays, his third book and first essay collection, published by Graywolf in August. “I didn’t plan on writing a book,” he says before flashing a knowing smile. “But I’m a writer, and when someone says to you…” He trails off, leaving the rest of the sentence unspoken. As a fellow multi-genre author and member of the hip-hop generation, I know what this kind of silence means. The first rule of the game in any medium, from rap to nonfiction, is to know your skill set and to stay ready, which Reeves absolutely does. During our nearly two-hour talk, he is genial yet astute, tossing out quotes from DJ Khaled alongside references to Giorgio…

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Singing Into the Silence of the State

What is the song that can be sung to soothe a fretting child in a bomb shelter? What is the song sung to disrupt a State-imposed curfew? What is the necessity of singing during catastrophe, whether State-created or virus-induced? Blearyeyed, my head pandemic-heavy, I watch protests erupt all over Austin, Texas, after the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer. My daughter sits beside me, and I’m fumbling to find a poem to read to her, as I do every morning, a poem that will allow us both to enter the day. But, the day appears much like the day before in this early part of the pandemic: she is huddled over a tablet, watching an Australian cartoon about a family of…

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the tiny, ımmense, and immeasurable gift

THE poetry of Jane Hirshfield, collected in ten books over the past forty years—starting with Alaya (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1982) and continuing through The Asking: New and Selected Poems, forthcoming in September from Knopf—have brought solace to private darkness and courage to public action; they have borne witness to refugees, terrorism, and our era’s failures and fractures, along with the joys, griefs, and perplexities of the poet’s own life. They have become anthems of biosphere and climate as well as staples at weddings and memorials. In addition to her ten poetry collections, Hirshfield has published two much-treasured collections of essays on poetry’s deep workings, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (HarperCollins, 1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Knopf, 2015), and four books presenting world…

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Each Morning Calls Us to Praise This World That Is Fleeting

Each morningwakingamidst the not-ever-before,dressing inside the not-ever-again. Under sunlight or cloud,brushing the hair. Not yet arrivedat the end-crimped finish,drinking coffeeand buttering toast. Permitted to slip into coat, into shoes,I go out,I count myself part, carrying onlya weightless shadow,whose each corner joins and departsfrom the shadows of others. Mortal, alive among othersequally fragile. And with luck—for days even, sometimes—this luxury, this extra gift: able to even forget it. From The Asking: New and Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield. Copyright © 2023 by Jane Hirshfield. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.…

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Eirinie Carson

The Dead Are Gods (Melville House, April), a debut memoir about life after the sudden loss of a close friend that plumbs the depths of grief, pulls memories filled with love and joy from the grasp of pain, and explores how those people we are closest to help forge our identity and sense of self. Agent: Tim Wojcik of Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. Editor: Athena Bryan. First Lines: “My best friend, Larissa, died three years ago. A sudden death, improbable and unexpected. She died a week after my thirty-first birthday, two weeks after her thirty-second. A vibrant human, also improbable and unexpected: a cool rock-and-roll type with a love of poetry. An enigma, hard to gain a grip on, a mythical woman, indulgent, reverent. Loved by us all.” THE…

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Leah Myers

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity (Norton, May), a debut work of personal history exploring four generations of women in the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of the Pacific Northwest, blending tribal folktales, Native mythology, and the history of Native genocide to tell a story of family, heritage, and identity. Agent: Paul Lucas of Janklow and Nesbit Associates. Editor: Matt Weiland. First Lines: “No one taught me to be Native American. My mother taught me that I was, but she did not have the context for what that heritage meant. My grandmother mentioned it very little, even though it was visible in her features. Yet from my earliest memories, being Native has always been an integral part of my identity. Even though I was raised far from my…

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Andrew Leland

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (Penguin Press, July), a debut book of nonfiction that combines personal narrative and historical and cultural investigation to explore the experience of the gradual transition from full vision to blindness in a moving portrait of not only the physical experience of blindness, but also its language, politics, and customs. Agent: Claudia Ballard of William Morris Endeavor. Editor: Emily Cunningham. First Lines: “I’m going blind as I write this. It feels less dramatic than it sounds. The words aren’t disappearing as I type. I’m sitting comfortably in the sunroom. The sun is rising like it’s supposed to. I can plainly see Lily sitting next to me, reading in her striped pajamas. The visible world is disappearing, but it’s not…

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Jen Soriano

Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing (Amistad, August), an essay collection about the impacts of transgenerational trauma, blending neuroscience, sociology, history, and family stories to explore the secrets of the human body—centering neurodiverse, disabled, and genderqueer bodies of color—in a journey to understanding and transformation. Agent: Samantha Shea of Georges Borchardt, Inc. Editors: Jennifer Baker and Francesca Walker. First Lines: “We are nervous beings, in nervous nations, at an increasingly nervous time. I wrote this book for those of us who have felt crazy and alone. For those of us who have been told to forget about the past, to stop being weak, and to swallow our pain. For all of us with a knowing body. For babaylan who remember a time before silence. For pearls in their shells seeking…

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Jami Nakamura Lin

The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir (Mariner Books, October), a genre-bending memoir, divided into the four acts of a traditional Japanese narrative structure and illustrated by the author’s sister, that reckons with Lin’s adolescence, marked by an undiagnosed bipolar disorder, as well as the death of her father, and interrogates the notion of recovery, fear, and grief to answer the question of how we learn to live with the things that haunt us. Agent: Stephanie Delman of Trellis Literary Management. Editor: Jessica Williams. First Lines: “Listen— In the presence of a story—if the story is a good one—time collapses. This is why I am always telling it. Once upon a time, long, long ago, my people knew a fundamental truth: the sea was coming for them. It was not their…

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Agents & Editors JAMIA WILSON

JAMIA Wilson is many things: an activist, a feminist, a writer, an editor, a bridge. What connects her many roles is a love of connection with the world, a connection with people and their ideas. She sees what a good future can look like and has been working toward creating this through her love of books, writing, editing, and fostering a new generation of readers and thinkers. Wilson’s publishing career started at Feminist Press, where she was the executive director and publisher for nearly four years, and continues at Random House, where she was named executive editor and vice president in 2021, but her love of storytelling began decades earlier when she was growing up in front of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves at her parents’ home in Columbia, South Carolina. Having two…

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SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?

Dear writer, The best source of advice on the writing life is so often other writers. But if you’re at the start of your literary career, with questions about how best to develop your art—and where, and with whom—you may not have found your community and your sounding board for these queries yet. So we asked six writers we admire to step in as mentors and answer a question on many emerging writers’ minds: Should I get an MFA? In the following letters they share their advice to you on finding a path that will nurture your talent and help you flourish, as a writer, as a person—and maybe, just maybe, as a graduate student. Sincerely, The editors Dear writer, There is such a wide range of things “MFA program”…

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DECISIONS, DECISIONS

YOU’RE a writer, and you’ve decided to get your MFA. This choice will center writing in your life, give you a unique opportunity to develop your craft, and equip you with a degree for teaching or further education. I love this for you. Congratulations on making the first of many MFA-related choices. But there are scores of programs out there, each offering a distinct education. How do you decide where to apply? My own MFA came from the threeyear fully funded program at Syracuse University. For a long time I couldn’t imagine a better MFA experience than the one I had. Since graduating I’ve directed a full-residency, partially funded MFA program, and I currently teach in the low-residency MFA in Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. I’ve come to…

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THE THIN ENVELOPE

IF YOU’VE been rejected from an MFA program, the experience may have left you stumped about how to move forward as a writer—or, worse, questioning your abilities. You wouldn’t be the first writer to feel this way. A rejection from an MFA program comes with a particular sting and creates a particular dilemma: Should you brush yourself off and try again, or are these rejections a meaningful judgment of your talents as an artist? The answer is almost certainly the first: If the MFA still calls to you, reapply. Admissions committees change, your work evolves, and no one cloistered group of academics gets to decide if your work matters. It does. But it’s also worth remembering that there is more than one way to learn to be a writer. “The…

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WHEN WORKSHOP IS HARD

I’VE spent a lot of time thinking about the egos of writers. We live in a culture suffused with therapeutic language that has shifted its meaning with broad usage, and ego is a good example. In its original sense, it was value-neutral, meaning only the thinking, conscious self, the one putting sentences together, anxiously replaying conversations, having coherent qualities and consistent likes and dislikes. The ego is just the self. In classical psychoanalysis, the ego was what mediated between the world and the raw, chaotic id. The ego does your taxes, decides what peanut butter to buy, comes up with something appropriate to say at baby showers, while the id boils and quakes somewhere underneath, obsessing about sex and death. Writers have a reputation for having egos that are more…

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TWENTY-ONE OTHER WAYS TO GET THERE

THE MFA is just one of many ways to develop your voice and your skills as a writer. If you’re drawn to the idea of connecting with like-minded writers, learning from the authors you admire, or workshopping a manuscript—but don’t necessarily want or need the MFA credential—consider the wealth of nondegree writing classes offered across the United States and online. Often taught by contemporary literature’s biggest names and rising stars, quality writing classes can offer an afternoon of inspiration on a given topic, a season—or even a year—of sustained work on a project, or any number of lengths and styles of engagement in between. Look for classes with “workshop” in the title to find sessions in which you’ll likely receive peer feedback. “Intensives” or “seminars” tend to be one-day events…

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Publishing Myths

Anyone who has tried to write and publish a book will tell you some absolute truth they learned along the way. Editors don’t edit. You must have a big-name agent to succeed. Their certainty leaves you feeling discouraged, dissuaded, or downright despondent. As a literary agent and writer with eighteen-plus years of experience in the business, I’m here to debunk these harmful publishing myths, if not with publishing certainties, then with solid reasons not to believe the naysayers. Everything is not sunshine and best-seller lists for everyone—or even many—in publishing, but hopefully this will assuage some fears so you can get back to writing and reaching for your goals. First myth up: You must have a bigname agent to get a book deal. I’ll admit, this idea made me nervous…

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Preorder Now

NOT so very long ago publication of something like a new Harry Potter novel could cause a frenzy of publication-day anticipation. In those pre-Kindle, pre-iPhone days, kids—and not a few adults—lined up outside bookstores the night before each book came out, many of them dressed as one of J.K. Rowling’s characters, so they could be among the very first to buy the book when it went on sale at the stroke of midnight. Even back then some tech-savvy readers figured out they could skip the lines and preorder online for delivery on publication day. Today, with more than half of book sales taking place online, preorders have become an important indicator of early interest in a forthcoming book. This in turn has given rise to a new marketing wrinkle, the…

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Acknowledgments

HAVE yet to publish my novel—haven’t signed a contract or even received an offer of representation from an agent—but I already have a good start on my acknowledgments page. It’s something I think every aspiring writer should do. Someday my novel will no longer be a mere Word document living on my computer and in the cloud. It will be printed and bound, available in bookstores. An e-book will be available in those places people go to download e-books. Maybe there will be an audiobook. In preparation for that day, in belief that day will come, I’ve begun drafting the book’s acknowledgments. A m I manifesting? I wouldn’t call it that, but then again I have only the most surface understanding of the concept: I picture vision boards, mantras, maybe…

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Deadlines

POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES state, national, and international prizes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We list only prizes of $1,000 or more, prizes of $500 or more that charge no entry fee, and prestigious nonmonetary awards. Applications and submissions for the following prizes are due shortly. Before submitting a manuscript, first visit the sponsoring organization’s website for complete guidelines. When requesting information by mail, enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE). See Submission Calendar for deadlines arranged by date. For announcements of recently awarded prizes, see Recent Winners. creative nonfiction, and translation. We list only prizes of $1,000 or more, prizes of $500 or more that charge no entry fee, and prestigious nonmonetary awards. Applications and submissions for the following prizes are due shortly. Before submitting a manuscript, first…

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Submission Calendar

September 15 CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize FREE FINISHING LINE PRESS New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition LIGHTSCATTER PRESS Poetry Prize UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes September 19 JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION Writing Fellowships FREE September 21 TRAVELERS’ TALES Solas Awards September 29 NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Cullman Center Fellowships FREE September 30 BOULEVARD Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY IN FRESNO Philip Levine Prize for Poetry CONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY Vivian Shipley Poetry Award DZANC BOOKS Prize for Fiction Short Story Collection Prize GHOST STORY Supernatural Fiction Award HACKNEY LITERARY AWARDS Novel Contest LASCAUX REVIEW Prize in Creative Nonfiction THE MOTH Nature Writing Prize ONE PAGE Poetry Contest NEW PEN/FAULKNER FOUNDATION Award for Fiction TEXAS REVIEW PRESS: THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF SHSU X.…

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Recent Winners

92NY Unterberg Poetry Center DISCOVERY POETRY CONTEST Four poets won the 2023 Discovery Poetry Contest. They are Lucas Jorgensen of Denton, Texas; Saba Keramati of Detroit; Jenna Lanzaro of Jersey City; and jj peña of El Paso, Texas. They each received $500, publication of their work on Literary Hub, and an invitation to give a reading at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Timothy Donnelly and Omotara James were the preliminary judges; Kaveh Akbar, Tracie Morris, and Simone White were the final judges. The annual awards are given to poets who have not published a full-length poetry collection. The next deadline is January 12, 2024. 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center, Discovery Poetry Contest, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128. Sophie Herron, Contact. sherron@92ny.org 92ny.org/poetry/discovery-contest.aspx Action,…

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Conferences & Residencies

POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES application information for writers conferences, literary festivals, and residencies of interest to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators. Applications for the following events are due shortly. Conferences and festivals with rolling, first-come, first-served admission are listed well in advance. Some accept registration on the date of the event. Contact the sponsoring organization for an application and complete guidelines. When requesting information by mail, enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE). All accessibility information has been provided by the sponsoring organizations. A.I.R. Studio Paducah A.I.R. Studio Paducah offers residencies of two weeks to three months yearround to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the Lower Town Arts District of Paducah, Kentucky. Residents are provided with a private apartment, Wi-Fi, and studio space. The…

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Jackson Poetry Prize Honors Sandra Lim

POETS & WRITERS IS MORE than a magazine. We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving creative writers. We pay fees to writers giving readings and leading workshops, provide information and advice to authors, and help them connect with one another and with audiences. We also sponsor a number of awards and prizes. Learn more at pw.org. In April, Poets & Writers named Sandra Lim the 2023 recipient of the Jackson Poetry Prize, one of the nation’s most generous awards for poets. Awarded annually to an American poet of exceptional talent, the prize was established in 2006 with a gift from the Liana Foundation and is named for the John and Susan Jackson family. This year’s prize carries a monetary value of $85,000. Lim, the author of three books of…

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