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Literary Yardsticks: Big-Picture Questions to Focus Your Revisions
Managing Editor’s Blog: This developmental editing hack will change the way you write, edit, and give feedback
Broken Sleep Books: Poetry Book Reading Period
Call for submissions: received by May 31
The Connecticut Poetry Award
The Connecticut Poetry Society sponsors the Connecticut Poetry Award
Subscriber News: April 2026
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest
Call for submissions: received by July 15
Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction
Choose a team and write a 500-word story based on your team’s prompts to compete for thousands of dollars in cash prizes & print publication
Driftwood Press: Novella and Poetry Manuscript Reading Period
Call for submissions: rolling deadline
Querencia Press
Small press publishes poetry collections, literary prose, and anthologies
Dream Foundry Speculative Short Story Contest
$1,500 prize, deadline change: received by June 8
The Australian Fiction Prize
A$15,000 prize, deadline change: received by June 1
Pacing as Moral Choice
Author and artist Sabyasachi Roy on how narrative tempo influences our empathy for characters
Black Lawrence Press: Asian American and Pacific Islander Adoptee Anthology
Call for submissions: received by June 1
Last Girls’ Club: The Witches’ Cosmo
Online journal of feminist speculative fiction and horror
A Shroud for Mother’s Day
This poem previously appeared in Prairie Schooner and was published in 2025 by the University of Alaska Press in Latorial Faison's Nursery Rhymes in Black: Poems .
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Archive on Spilled Entryway
The traditional form employed here is the concrete poem , in which the words are arranged on the page to mimic the physical shape of the poem's topic or imagery.
Tiger Mom
Illustration by Connie Chang This poem previously won the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers in 2025. It is in a form known as the contrapuntal , which interweaves two or more poems to create a text that can be read in multiple directions.
Ode to the Hot Flash
Sweat-slicked & torched spine, I awake, every atom reaching for the cool dark—at 6 am, 5, when we turn back the clocks, fool ourselves into thinking we'll have more life. Last night, I dreamt of blood, years of shed selves. When I was a girl, I saw Venus through a…
A Hinged Double Sonnet For My Laparoscopy, August 1, 2023
That desire, tools to scrape out pelvic pain, as if that would cure. It's not that simple. For twenty years I've stretched across hardwood and exam tables, dry needled, joints moved, exercises repeated. So many trials just to end up being dug through anyway. Iodine smells like licorice. I'm now…
Pantoum After Today’s Mass Shooting
Papi, when I die, will you be alive? our four-year-old asks between bites of beans. All day I've fled my body—now, arrive: throat quaked raw. The same familiar scene. Our four-year-old asks between bites of beans, Is candy from space? How big is sadness? Throat quaked raw, the same familiar…
Aperture
The perfume lady at the department store teased and marveled at my long eyelashes, said they looked like I'd just come from the beauty salon. My smirking aunts held the word beautiful to my face like a mirror or blade. So I balanced on the sink of my parents' bathroom,…
Is Your Writing Style Falling Into One of These Four Traps?
Managing Editor’s blog: Fixing repetitive prose syntax
Black Fox Literary Magazine: Contests
We challenge writers to reshape classic fairy tales and invent their own spellbinding versions
Going There
For my son Five years later and still, I have not left that night. Even now, I can feel the heave of your body as you try to climb over the balcony rail. Let me go I want to go you rasp, trying to scale the empty air, the singularity…
Holy Nights
In Los Angeles summers, you're reverent for relief, so you stay up. In my bedroom—I am twelve, sister seven—we build altars of Ninja Turtles, pogs, and Mouse-Trap while dewdrops of white jasmine and monoxide anoint our foreheads. Sis's bed is a blanket on the floor with gold forest stitching. At…
Late Arrival
We stand naked by the window. Long shadows. The sputter of hooves across the porch. A doe and newborn fawn lick salt from the overnight frost, scraping clean the wooden slats. I tuck my chin into his shoulder. The wreck of myself, cancer-rich, pressing against his back. The doe shivers.…
A Request to Live On as Color and Spice #4
With Rainer Maria Rilke in mind When I die, God, let me live on as color and spice. Help me evade this blandness, pass through the black mirror with an armful of red roses, twists of henna and vanilla on the back of my hands. Drag a star through my…
Sonogram Vision
Illustration by Mélissa Chalhoub Somehow moonlight in my womb catches you, breath on a mirror. Breach. Feet pressing craters on my bladder. Wand on my wet belly sniffs out your right arm, right hand in a calligraphy of smoke. Behind my eyes appear two gibbous moons, the bright shoulders…
Elisabeth Preston-Hsu
Elisabeth Preston-Hsu is a practicing physician in Atlanta, Georgia. Her writing is published in CALYX, West Trade Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She won The Healing Muse's F. Sean Hodge Poetry Prize in 2024 and Common Ground Review's poetry contest in 2025. Follow her on…
Mickie Kennedy
Born and raised in rural North Carolina, Mickie Kennedy is a gay poet who explores queerness, family, illness, and what it means to rebuild after trauma and tragedy. His work is a window to an integral time in gay history, when AIDS was its zenith and sex was synonymous with…
Simon Peter Eggertsen
Simon Peter Eggertsen came very, very late to poetry after a career in international public health. Even so, his work has been published widely—Nimrod, Spoon River Poetry Review, Vallum (Canada), Ekphrasis, Atlanta Review, The MacGuffin, The New Quarterly (Canada), Wasafiri (UK) and beyond. And, his poems have been named finalists,…
Qiaorui (Sherry) Zhang
Qiaorui (Sherry) Zhang is a senior in high school. As an avid creative writer, she aims to build a more empathetic world by inviting readers to inhabit unfamiliar perspectives. Her poetry has been published in The Kenyon Review and recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing. In her free time, Sherry…
Margo Wheaton
Margo Wheaton is the author of Rags of Night in Our Mouths and Wild Green Light . She lives and writes not too far from the ocean in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq. Her debut poetry collection The Unlit Path Behind the…
Jomil Ebro
Jomil Ebro lives in Golden with his wife, Nancy Stohlman, and his 12-year-old son. Trained at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Jomil is a poet, philosopher, scholar, and associate professor at Arapahoe Community College. His PhD is in Poetry and Consciousness Studies, and he holds Master's Degrees…
Alishya Almeida
Alishya Almeida is a poet, educator, and editor from India. Alishya holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University and has served as an assistant poetry editor and interviews editor at Washington Square Review. Alishya's poems appear in wildness, Bellevue Literary Review, exquisites anthology , The World That…
Emily Davis-Fletcher
Emily Davis-Fletcher is a writer and educator. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University, her MA in Women's Studies from the National University of Ireland Galway, and her BFA in Creative Writing from Stephens College. Her poetry has been published in Tinderbox, Crannóg Magazine, the Irish Examiner,…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the 23rd annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
IngramSpark: Self-Publish Your Book
IngramSpark: Everything you need to self-publish your book
Fish Publishing Haiku Prize
Mary-Jane Holmes will judge the 2026 Fish Haiku Prize
LittlePuss Press
Feminist press run by trans women publishes genre and literary fiction, memoirs, cultural commentary, and hybrid work
Microcosm Publishing
Small press publishes queer erotica and nonfiction with leftist, DIY, and/or graphic elements
Uplift by Jessica Mann
First Prize, Genre Fiction, 2025 North Street Book Prize competition
Five Years by Teresa Tennyson
Grand Prize Winner, 2025 North Street Book Prize competition
Award-Winning Poetry and Prose 2026
The best contemporary writing from around the web
Subscriber News: March 2026
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Vietnam War Poetry
Online journal and archive of poetry about the Vietnam War
Atmosphere Press: Book Title Generator
Say hello to fresh book title ideas
Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature
3,000 pounds prize, deadline change: received by July 1
Joanna Lewandowska
Joanna Lewandowska is North Street Book Prize assistant judge, book critiquer, and contest administrator, as well as a literary translator and editor. She holds a BA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warsaw and, in 2025, earned an MPhil in Literary Translation from Trinity College Dublin with a dissertation…
Jakub Karolczyk
Jakub is a North Street Book Prize assistant judge, book critiquer, and contest administrator at Winning Writers. He holds a Master's degree in English Culture, Media, and Translation from the University of Silesia. In his thesis, he analyzed various English translations of neologisms found in Andrzej Sapkowski's novel The Last…
