Former WITS writer, Marc McKee, will have a collection of poems titled, Fuse, published in May 2011 by Black Lawrence Press. Marc is no stranger to publication, however; his chapbook What Apocapypse, won the 2008 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM Chapbook Competition. His work has also appeared in Boston Review, Conduit, Crazyhorse, Forklift Ohio, The Journal, LIT, [...]
Non-profit organization Narrative is an online literary arts group that features the free publication Narrative Magazine. Narrative also sponsors Literary Puzzler, a weekly challenge and mini-contest for creative writers. This week’s Puzzler, the first of 2010, ask writers to submit their best six-word story that contains a full narrative arc. The challenge deadline is next [...]
There’s a cool new writing contest for kids that you might want to know about. The Exquisite Prompt is a monthly writing challenge sponsored by Reading Rockets and AdLit.org. Judges for the contest include famous authors such as Kate DiCamillo and Jon Scieszka. Teachers, the prompts are also designed as classroom activities for grades K-12. [...]
Former WITS writer Jericho Brown’s book, Please, was recently given the 2009 American Book Award. Since its release by New Issues, the book has been critically acclaimed and is now in its third printing. He is currently at Cambridge on a Bunting Fellowship. Jericho was also named a great “debut poet” of 2008 by Poets [...]
Robin Davidson is a busy person. Not only is she a full time professor of English at University of Houston Downtown, she’s also the president of the board of directors at Writers in the Schools. And if that wasn’t enough, she just had her first book published by Northwestern University Press. The book, The New [...]
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Save the Whales is publishing a book of whale poems by kids. The deadline for submitting your poem is December 31, 2009. Children 13 or younger are eligible to enter, and the best work will be published in an anthology. For complete guidelines and information, click here.
Mrs P, the online storybook site, invites children to write a story on any topic, between 250 and 1,000 words long. It may be fiction or non-fiction. All participants must be between the ages of 4 and 13 years old. There are two age groups in the competition: 4 – 8 and 9 – 13. [...]
Former WITS student Benjamin Moser will read from his widely acclaimed new biography of Clarice Lispector at Brazos Bookstore Monday, September 14, at 7 pm. Get a copy of Why This World, get it signed by the author, and celebrate his birthday–all at the same time. You can get more information about this event on [...]
This month we are featuring many excellent opportunities for kids to publish! We hope that you will encourage the young authors that you know to take one last look at all the work that they did over the summer and choose their strongest pieces to share with a larger audience. It is time to revise, [...]
Do you know kids who participated in the Summer Creative Writing Workshops sponsored by WITS and the Rice School Literacy and Culture Project? Do you know kids who have spent this hot summer scribbling odes at the park and pantoums at the pool? Please encourage them to enter the contest sponsored by Creative Communications. Children [...]
At the end of summer camp, the kids revise their best stories and poems and publish them in an anthology.
Tiphanie Yanique’s short story collection, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, will be published by Graywolf Press in March 2010. Stories from the collection have won a Pushcart Prize, the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, the Kore Press Fiction Award and have been featured in Best African American Fiction for 2009. Describing Tiphanie’s writing [...]
Former WITS Writer Wayne Miller’s second poetry collection, The Book of Props, has been published by Milkweed Editions. In a recent review of this book, Publishers Weekly says in a starred review: “Transformations–from the everyday to the wondrous and/or haunting–are everywhere in Miller’s elegant second book. The poems are at once dreamlike and fervent in [...]
Teen Ink Magazine hosts a variety of writing and art contests for teens. Winners are selected monthly and will appear in their print magazine, website, or other special publications. Categories include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, interview, and more. Click here for more details. There is no fee for submitting your work. [Image by Shirley L., [...]
Jason Koo’s first book, Man on Extremely Small Island, has won the 2008 DeNovo Poetry Prize and will be published in the fall of 2009 by C & R Press. The poet who judged this contest was Denise Duhamel. Jason is a professor at Davidson College in Charlotte, North Carolina. The recipient of a Creative [...]
