An extensive list of short story contests and prizes in 2020 for writers for both established and emerging writers.

“My brain has banished Chinese. I dream in English. I talk to myself in English. It was a crucial decision to be orphaned from my native language.”

A guest post by Sean Williams Every author is asked by new writers for advice. There is, however, no all-encompassing, single answer that also happens to be correct. Quite a lot of commonly offered...

Every idea needs a Medium

The Kerouac Writer in Residence Project provides four residencies a year to writers of any age, living anywhere in the world. Each residency consists of approximately a three-month stay in Orlando,...

When my collection of short stories was accepted for publication I was very excited—then very scared! What if I stuffed everything up?

Gunfights are chaos events. They make no sense, can never make sense. They are over in seconds. The men who fight them do so guided only by instincts that may or may not reflect training and experi…

The James Jones Fellowship Contest awards $10,000 to an American writer with a first fiction novel in progress in 2020.

Applications for the prestigious and lucrative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting are now open for 2020. This international screenwriting...

I’m an editor at Random House, but for the last several years I’ve been writing around the edges of my day job: mornings, nights, weekends, wherever I can grab the free time. I began my first novel…

Literary magazine Granta is currently accepting submissions of fiction and non-fiction until Wednesday 19 February 2020 and poetry submissions until Thursday 20 February 2020.

Five novels take inspiration from the life and writing of Jane Austen.

A museum dedicated entirely to words and language called Planet Word is opening in the historic Franklin School in Washington, DC in May 2020.

Andre Dubus III, author of Dirty Love and The House of Sand and Fog, explains why the best work happens when you "back the fuck off."

The Oxford American is seeking fiction submissions from debut writers for its Fall 2020 issue.

In this guest post Drew Chial paints a cautionary tale about letting your writing get too technical. A few years ago, someone approached me about adapting a thriller into a screenplay. Reading...

The American Library in Paris is inviting applications for its 2020 fellowship program. The fellowships are open to all English-speakers, regardless of nationality. The American Library in Paris is...

The crime writer joins us to discuss the mechanics of mystery novels, plus Margaret Atwood at the Hay festival in Cartagena