NewPages December 2024 eLitPak
Book Awards, Writing Contests, Calls for Submissions, Upcoming Workshops & Retreats, MFA Programs
The NewPages eLitPak includes digital flyers from literary magazines, creative writing programs, writing conferences and events, and independent publishers. Discover calls for submissions, writing and book contests, application deadlines, upcoming events, new releases and issue announcements, and more.
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Reserve your spot in an upcoming NewPages eLitPak. Reach our 6,000+ newsletter subscribers and have your flyer promoted on our blog and on our social media to our 30,000+ followers. Now accepting reservations for our January 2025 through December 2025 eLitPaks. Flyer order in the newsletter is based on order of reservations.
National Indie Excellence Awards
Deadline: March 31, 2025
The National Indie Excellence© Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books currently for sale including self-published authors, small to midsize independent publishers, and university presses. Now in our nineteenth year, NIEA is a proud champion of self and independent publishing and authors of all genres who produce books of excellence and distinction. View our flyer for more information and a link to submit.
Colorado Prize for Poetry Opens October 1, 2024
Deadline: January 14, 2025
$2,500 honorarium & book publication. Book-length poetry manuscripts accepted until January 14, 2025 (but we observe a 5-day grace period). Final judge: Craig Morgan Teicher. $28 entry fee includes one-year subscription to Colorado Review. View our flyer for more information and a link to our complete guidelines. Questions? Please email us.
The Kenyon Review Summer Residential Writers Workshops Applications Are Open!
Application Deadline: February 16, 2025
Join us for our week-long, residential writing workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with acclaimed faculty in beautiful Gambier, Ohio. The Kenyon Review Writing Workshops are generative, focused on giving writers time and space to produce new work. Since 1995, these workshops have provided thousands of writers with a nurturing space to take creative risks and push their writing to the next level. The low student-teacher ratio and supportive, rigorous, and immersive writing community have proved so popular that many students return again and again. View flyer for more info and link to our website.
Study Writing at Lindenwood University!
The MFA in Writing at Lindenwood University focuses on the study and practice of the craft of creative writing. Our program offers a variety of craft classes, literature classes, and writing workshops, all in small-group settings and taught by experienced writers who are published authors, journalists, and editors. Students can participate in several industry learning experiences, such as serving as an editorial assistant for The Lindenwood Review, our national literary journal. View flyer to learn more.
Writing from Atrocity to Healing: A Multi-Genre Virtual Workshop
This four-session virtual workshop will provide poets and writers of all levels, genres, and backgrounds with the tools to write from their experiences with atrocity, the traumas produced by atrocity, and the healing (personally, communally, nationally) your words can make of it. Featured Speakers include Ellen Bass, Jacqueline Osherow, Joy Ladin, Geoffrey Philp, Jehanne Dubrow, Sam Fleischacker, and Mehnaz Afridi. View flyer for more information and link to registration information.
Phyllis Biffle Elmore and Annmarie Kelly Writing Retreat in France
Application Deadline: March 1, 2025
We’ll begin each morning in community. What is the heart of your story? Why are you the only one to tell it? Ultimately, we’ll practice writing as healing. This once-in-a-lifetime retreat is for women who long to write achingly beautiful prose in a transcendently beautiful place. Apply now for $900 off with code 25AK. See flyer for more information and link to apply.
Livingston Press Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse
Deadline: May 25, 2025
Livingston Press announces it is seeking unpublished manuscripts preferably between 90 to 160 pages for its annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. Past winners include Nicelle Davis and Michael George. No fee to submit. See flyer for more information and a link to the Livingston Press website.
$20,000 in Fellowships for Writers: Martha's Vineyard Summer Writers' Conference
Deadline: January 19, 2025
The Martha's Vineyard Summer Writers' Conference is offering Full Fellowships for Parent Writers, LGBTQIA+ Writers, Writers of Color, Educators, and more! Devote a week to your writing at our 2025 Summer Writers’ Conference! Winners receive the Full Attendance Package, which includes registration, lodging, and a manuscript session. View flyer for more information and link to apply!
Hindsight Creative Nonfiction Call for Submissions
Deadline: February 3, 2025
Hindsight Creative Nonfiction publishes all forms of the “fourth genre”: memoir and lyric essays, but also portraiture, narrative journalism, creative scholarly writing, and humor—anything creative we can fact-check.
Get your true stories published in our Spring print edition! See our flyer to scan the QR code for more information.