For our twelfth annual roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction, we asked five established authors—Charles Baxter, Attica Locke, Christine Schutt, Peter Ho Davies, and Sam Lipsyte—to introduce this year’s group of talented debut authors: Natalie Bakopoulos, Yvvette Edwards, Karolina Waclawiak, Anna Keesey, and Dylan Hicks.
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.