Chiamaka, Author at Creative Writing News

The Graywolf Press Prize for African Fiction 2023 is now open. The Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature. The Graywolf Press Prize for African Fiction 2023 will be open from February 1st to February 28th, 2023. Do you have your first novel manuscript...

The Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship 2021 is currently open for submissions. The scholarship is awarded annually to writers, to allow them time to write the book they propose to write, the first draft of a complete book. The scholarship is awarded in the fiction category and in the nonfiction category. Previous winners of the Miles Morland Foundation...

Submissions are encouraged from writers who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, LGBTQIA+-identifying, immigrant, international, and/or otherwise from communities underrepresented in U.S. literary magazines and journals. The Common seeks stories, essays, poems, and dispatches that embody a strong sense of place: pieces in which the setting is crucial to character, narrative, mood, and language....