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A beautiful blend of historical fiction and science fiction, The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal is the first book in a currently growing series that explores the concept of women becoming astronauts and colonizing the moon in the 50s. Below is The Calculating Stars review by Spencer Fantastic. Book Title: The Calculating Stars Author: […]

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is a quarterly magazine dedicated to publishing heroic fantasy — in both prose and poetry. They are unrepentant in their goal of elevating unapologetic sword and sorcery to a rightful high place. Submission Guidelines The fiction word limit is a soft 10,000 words, although they are willing to serialize at a maximum […]

The Motherwell Magazine Essays/Articles Submission is open. Motherwell Magazine is a self-funded startup publication that accepts work on a variety of parenting-related themes such as culture, family life, obstacles, and the process of overcoming them. The Motherwell Magazine Essays/Articles Submission is all about the content that tells all sides of the parenting story.  This is […]

The Miles Morland foundation knows that it can be difficult for writers, before they become established, to write while simultaneously earning a living. To help meet this need the Miles Morland Foundation annually awards a small number of Morland Writing Scholarships, with the aim being to allow each Scholar the time to produce the first draft […]

  Scribbler has a mission to help writers in this synopsis contest. The company started with a monthly subscription box. It quickly grew into an e-commerce store, industry newsletter, online community, and digital magazine. They are working on new products and aspire to grow Scribbler into the largest company catering to novelists in the world. […]

The Ann Petry Award is currently open to Black Writers with unpublished Prose manuscripts ready for submissions.    Founded in 2020 in partnership with Red Hen Press and the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance, the Ann Petry Award seeks to publish prose literature by Black authors. The Ann Petry Award is for a work of previously unpublished prose, […]

The Atlas Shrugged essay contest is open to all high school, college, and graduate students worldwide.  Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest is offered by the Ayn Rand Institute, a California-based nonprofit “think tank” dedicated to promoting a better understanding of Ayn Rand’s philosophies. Ayn Rand was a writer and philosopher that lived between 1905 – 1982. Thirty-seven million […]