Strange Rumblings in Aztlan. “Aztlan – the “conquered territories” that came under the yoke of Gringo occupation troops more than 100 years ago, when vendito politicians in Mexico City sold out to the US in order to call off the invasion that Gringo history books refer to as the Mexican American War.” Hunter S. Thompson’s…
DEADLINE: May 1st.. The 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize is sponsored by the Department of English at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, the awards issue one prize to a poet for a single poem of 40 or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately 60 poems, from…
BenBella Books Non-fiction (All Genres), Culture, Occasional Fiction benbellabooks.com glenn@benbellabooks.com Founded in 2001, BenBella Books is a publishing house for authors who value personal attention, a partnership philosophy, flexibility, and the creative approach. BenBella operates on a simple business philosophy: publish wonderful, exciting books. BenBella publishes a range of non-fiction (and the very occasional…
Belt Publishing Novels, Non-fiction, History, Culture, Rust Belt beltpublishing.com query@beltpublishing.com “Publishing for the Rust Belt” Belt Publishing is an independent press founded in 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. Originally a publisher of anthologies about Rust Belt cities, since 2015 Belt has moved into publishing a wider scope of both fiction and non-fiction. In February 2024, it…
Bellevue Literary Press Literary Fiction, Literary Non-fiction blpress.org ops@blpress.org Bellevue Literary Press has been publishing prize-winning books since 2007. It is the first and only non-profit press dedicated to literary fiction and non-fiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences. Originally housed in historic Bellevue Hospital, BLP was established as a project of the…
DEADLINE: May 1st… The 34th Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest is organized by Winning Writers. For this contest, a story is any short work of fiction, and an essay is any short work of nonfiction. Both published and unpublished work is accepted, written in any theme. No restriction on age of author. Deadline: May…
This is Water is David Foster Wallace‘s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College. This Is Water is a book by David Foster Wallace, published in 2009, that contains his famous 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech, “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”. The…
Bella Books Novels, SS, Mystery, Romance, Lesbian, LGBTQ+ bellabooks.com info@bellabooks.com submissions@bellabooks.com Looking for Romance titles. Bella Books publishes fiction for and about women-loving-women. From romance to mystery and science-fiction—to erotica and thrillers—Bella Books embraces and celebrates the worldwide community of lesbian, Sapphic, queer, non-binary readers and authors of all ages, cultures and colors. The acclaimed…
DEADLINE: April 30th… The Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry is an annual prize administered by the Beloit Poetry Journal, supported by the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust. It celebrates poetry that embodies the boldness, creativity, and social engagement championed by Adrienne Rich herself. Submit 1-3 unpublished poems on any subject in any style, up to a…
$15,000 Rattle Poetry Prize Deadline on Wed, Jul 15, 2026 11:00 PM One $15,000 Winner and ten $500 Finalists will be selected in an anonymized review by the editors of Rattle and printed in the Winter 2026 issue; one $5,000 Readers’ Choice Award will then be chosen from among the finalists by subscriber and entrant vote.…
