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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
A contronym is a word that can mean two things, which are opposites. See what contronyms you can come up with (feel free to google) and see what direction it takes your creative writing.
Our Annual Literary Prize is back again for 2024, with bigger cash prizes, publication for all shortlisted entries in our annual anthologies, a televised award ceremony, and an inspiring new theme.
You can call it many things: a tipping point, the eleventh hour, climate change, passing the point of no return...whatever you call it, it’s The Beginning of the End.
To be considered for the prize, submit a manuscript of 48 pages or more, single-spaced, paginated, with a table of contents and acknowledgments.
Submit poems on any theme, up to 250 lines each. Prizes: TOM HOWARD PRIZE: $3,500 for a poem in any style or genre MARGARET REID PRIZE: $3,500 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style The top two winners will also receive two-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor, Duotrope (a $100 value) Honorable Mentions: 10 […]
You are invited to explore and reflect on the power of connection, empathy, and support in the healing process. Connection is open to interpretation in the broad sense (e.g. human relationships, animals, and nature).
This competition invites creative responses from poets that critically engage with ideas of time and temporality and the question of who gets to say that something has ended.
We like to uphold the unique, showcase the weird, and embrace the uncomfortable.
Poems should be on the theme of FRIENDSHIP – though we’ll leave it to you how you interpret the theme.
Limited Demographic: Submissions are restricted to LGBTQ+ people.
The competition theme is Finding the Words, representing the difficulty that any of us can face when trying to express our feelings.
In the spirit of Leonard Cohen, we ask that your poems deal in some way with the intersections of Love, Faith, & Sex.
Craft your short speculative story around a holiday that has meaning in whatever world you choose; in whichever speculative fiction genre you choose.
For this contest, we’re looking for writers to explore the intricacies of time: How does it mold us, ruin us, or set us free? Is time a friend or an enemy?
This competition is open to unpublished poems of any length, on any subject.
The competition is open to collections of 18-20 poems, of up to 24 pages, by poets who have never had a full-length collection published.
We're putting together a feast of words for our 4th contest issue. For this call, we're looking for stories, essays, and poems that feature food.
Love and loss go hand in hand: nothing lasts forever, and to love anything – or anyone – is to know that love will be lost one day.
Palette Poetry will select four micro manuscripts to publish in print and digitally, beginning in the fall of 2025.
This year’s Hurt & Healing Prize is about expressing our pain, but it’s also about celebrating all we have overcome. It is also a call to action—an invitation to support each other in the darkest times.