20 May, 2024

New York Encounter poetry contest 2021 / How To Apply ($500 + Publication)

New York Encounter is sponsoring its 5th annual poetry contest to celebrate its 2021 theme: When Reality Hits. The winning poems will be published on the New York Encounter website after the reading. The guest judge is writer, poet and professor Angela Alaimo O’Donnell.   Eligibility for the New York Encounter poetry contest 2021. The contest […]

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Writing Workshop With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Learning To Write Like A Nobel Laureate At The Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop.

A writing workshop is a great opportunity for budding writers to have their works subjected to peer review and critique. Readers and writers workshops come in various models, but the goals are to teach writers to be better writers Every year, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie organizes the Purple Hibiscus Creative writing workshop. Various writers are selected […]

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Midnight & Indigo Submission/ How to Submit (

Midnight & Indigo is a literary platform dedicated to publishing short fiction and narrative essays by black women writers. Published and unpublished writers are encouraged to submit character-driven short stories. Stories should feature strong female lead characters or black female POV. Book reviews focused on works by black women authors are accepted by the magazine […]

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Awele Creative Trust Award 2020 (Call for Submission)

The 2020 Awele Creative Trust Award is open for entries. Founded in 2013 by the NLNG Prize-winning novelist Chika Unigwe, as an initiative of her Awele Creative Trust, the Short Story Award recognizes the best unpublished fiction by a writer living in Nigeria, irrespective of nationality, and between the ages of 16 and 26. Previous winners […]

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