The 2025 Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest is now open. Guest Judge Roxane Gay will select 3 winners. Each will be published & awarded $1K and 6 books from The Art Of series by @GraywolfPress. Shortlist will receive $1K scholarship to @PocketMFA! Learn more: https://t.co/jntawVtBDV

We’re thrilled to celebrate two CRAFT pieces named Notables in Best American Essays 2025! Huge congratulations to Starr Davis for “Pawn” and Elissa Lash for “Twelve.” Read "Pawn" here: https://t.co/IYVPekyQFM Read "Twelve" here: https://t.co/Y2AsIaiDrl

"Mary Magdalene told me I wasn’t fit to play the Virgin Mary. We should switch roles, Mary Magdalene said." —Lauren Barbato, "As the Lord Hangs Around Her Neck" https://t.co/KjpRXN5zGA

Final day to apply! If you enjoy literary work and the deep exploration of writing craft, and three to four hours each week of reading submissions sounds like fun, we encourage you to apply. Deadline: December 7, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Learn more: https://t.co/6VVTY0SoRi

"The sky should hold its breath while we give you back to the ground. Instead, it breaks open, spilling a gray so heavy our heads bow without meaning to." —Aishatu Gwadabe, "The Drowning Mothers" https://t.co/urBwYcjhvI

We're looking for readers to join our team at CRAFT! CRAFT is a market for literary fiction and creative nonfiction; we will consider new readers who are comfortable with evaluating submissions in one or both genres. Apply today: https://t.co/6VVTY0SoRi

Our Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest is open until January 25th! —3 winners: $1K, publication, & a set of 6 books from The Art Of series by @GraywolfPress —Guest judged by Roxane Gay — $1,000 scholarship to @PocketMFA for 15 shortlisted writers Learn more: https://t.co/jntawVtBDV

We’re proud to congratulate our Guest Judge, Roxane Gay, on being selected for the 2025 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community! Learn more: https://t.co/p61QSGvnnB

New #interview: "Imagining a world beyond ours was a way of me creating the conditions that allow for perspective." —Salma Ibrahim in conversation with Paul Chuks https://t.co/TzUqPhekLx

New #interview: "When it comes to motherhood the mundane is the sacred. You literally feed your child with energy that comes from your own body. It’s like photosynthesis. It’s fucking nuts when you think about it too closely." —Sarah Yahm https://t.co/K6zrd8nN37

New #craftessay: "Fiction has the ability to create impossible realities, to entertain paradoxes. Just because it can, however, doesn’t mean it always does so successfully." —JB Andre, "Ambiguity in the Speculative Impossible" https://t.co/6rCrDBsnYR

Thank you to all who submitted work to the CRAFT 2025 First Chapters Contest. We are delighted to publish the winners in December 2025. Congratulations to all the writers honored below! Learn more: https://t.co/RTHABBasdI

New #flashfiction: "First kisses, virginities, that game you play where you close your eyes and touch a body part and guess. At fifteen he touched my soul instead." —Trisha Dhar Malik, "Nostalgia UTI" https://t.co/PDp5S87Rkk

New #creativenonfiction: "Like many of Gonzalez-Torres’s works, Portrait of Ross is manifestable. It can exist in multiple places at once, shifting to fit each gallery." —Davin Faris, "Terminal Portraiture" https://t.co/F1Y5ECGqck

New #interview: "We have to have an adventure because we are In Everyone’s Hair and There Are Too Many Damn Kids In This Damn House and It’s A Lovely February Day So Why Don’t You Enjoy It Before The Weather Gets Hot." —Jaclyn Port, "Everybody Knows" https://t.co/DrcHxpSLau

New #creativenonfiction: "I have a very inauthentic relationship to death. I think I know what it is—obliteration, absence, emptiness, stopping. But my imagination and reality don’t always see eye-to-eye." —Nicole Walker, "Still. Life." https://t.co/PqESWAeahf

Final day to submit your work! We're seeking your best flash work, whether fiction or nonfiction. Guest Judge Grant Faulkner will select three winning pieces from the shortlist. Deadline: November 2, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Learn more: https://t.co/RSypkfRCmM

New #interview: "I began writing when my daughter started daycare. Reclaiming that time for myself felt both liberating and painful." —Lara Ehrlich in conversation with Amy Shearn https://t.co/EIvoS0Iujt

New #shortstory: "By the time Mama wakes up and Lolo steps outside, the calamansi is already in Gabe’s pocket. Gabe sits cross-legged in the dirt, palms empty." —Joseph Cusi Tian-Delamerced, "Calamansi" https://t.co/soXwbMNu9J

Closing soon: Our 2025 Flash Prose Prize. Three winning essays will each be awarded $1K, publication, and a bundle of the Rose Metal Press Field Guides. Editors' choice selections too! Deadline: November 2, 2025, at 11:59 PM Pacific Learn more: https://t.co/RSypkfRCmM