David Shields, author of How Literature Saved My Life (Knopf, 2013), recommends fifty-two must-read books and essays that wrestle with the question of what it means to be alive.
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.