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Reach over 50,000 poets and writers in the Winning Writers email newsletter. Great for promoting contests, websites, events, and publications.
We publish our newsletter on the 15th of each month. Ads are $175 each. Get a 25% discount when you purchase 4 or more ads. The ads don't have to run in consecutive months, and each ad may have different copy.
No time to design your ad? We'll do it for you and send you a proof. Just send us your raw text and a graphic image.
Newsletter ads may contain up to 150 words, a headline and a graphic image. At no extra charge, you may associate your newsletter ad with a sponsor page on our website—a great place to expand on your message. See examples of recent newsletters.
Premium positioning at the top of our newsletter can double response and more. Availability is limited. Contact adam@winningwriters.com if you are interested.
Sponsored social media posts are a great way to publish timely messages on a budget to our 58,000+ Facebook followers. Pick the dates and times that work for you.
Pay with PayPal or a major credit card, and then email your ad and desired distribution dates to adam@winningwriters.com. Questions? Prefer to be invoiced? Please email adam@winningwriters.com or call toll-free, 866-WINWRIT.
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Our advertisers say...
"Honestly a great response. I've always adv with Poets and Writers but the response with WW has been better. I shall return..."
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"Adam Cohen is an advertising wizard. I was absolutely stunned by how the number of entries to my annual, international story competition increased tenfold within hours of our sponsored mailing being sent to the Winning Writers list. Mere hours, and the word had been spread to thousands of writers with a visually beautiful email that had been crafted with such care and precision. I trust Adam Cohen's marketing skills implicitly, but more importantly I trust his integrity. His work enriches the lives of so many, especially the hopeful writers he reaches with his truly magical ad campaigns. His work is a gift, and if you are looking to promote a short story competition then look no further than Winning Writers. The results are astounding, and I am so very grateful to Adam for his expertise."
—Lorian Hemingway, Director and Final Judge of the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, now in its 42nd year
"When our close-knit editorial staff at the State University of New York at Oswego launched Subnivean in late October 2020, we had no idea what our reach would be. We had great contributors and collaborators, but it's not often that an undergraduate literary publication's first issue makes a splash in the global community. Enter Winning Writers: the day our literary competition was promoted to the Winning Writers newsletter subscriber list, visits to our website spiked to nearly ten times more than on any other day. Beyond gaining readers, we also began receiving more and more submissions from writers working in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Canada, India, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Australia, Palestine, Japan, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Austria, Portugal, Paraguay, Morocco, Norway, Germany, Ireland, Poland, South Africa, Pakistan, Nigeria, New Zealand, and 45 US states. Subnivean's editorial mission is to curate and produce bone-deep, high-caliber literary art that speaks urgently to an ever more connected international audience. And thanks to the jumpstart that Winning Writers gave us, our reach has grown even since we provided the numbers for this SUNY Oswego news article. As a brand-new publication, we look forward to many more collaborations with Winning Writers. But first, back to work: we've got a lot of reading to do."
—Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Professor, Creative Writing and Digital Storytelling, SUNY Oswego
"Thank you so much for all you've done for us. It seems to have been wonderfully effective."
—Eli MacLaren, Professor, McGill University (Montreal International Poetry Prize)
"Thank you for having our ad in your publication. Each year, we receive many entries listing Winning Writers as their source of information."
—Judy Cheung, Dancing Poetry Contest Chair
"With a large community of serious writers, there's no better venue for advertising literary contests than Winning Writers."
—Timothy Green, Editor, Rattle
"I just wanted to say that we had both more and better quality submissions than we’ve had in previous years and I'm attributing some of that to advertising with you."
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"Our experience working as an advertiser with Winning Writers has been fantastic. Adam not only worked hard to put a great visual ad together for the WW newsletter, he composed tweets to go out to their large following. We ended up having a stellar year with our writing contest; we nearly doubled our submissions. Thanks so much to Adam and the team at Winning Writers!"
—Joan Gelfand, former Development Chair, Women's National Book Association, and award-winning author of three poetry collections and the forthcoming novel, Fear to Shred (Incanto Press)
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—David Dodd Lee, judge of the 42 Miles Poetry Prize sponsored by 42 Miles Press
