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Press Pause Press Presents The Beautiful Pause Prize
The Beautiful Pause Prize is a yearly prize of $1,000 and the print publication of a full-length poetry manuscript
Nadia Colburn, Founder of Align Your Story School
Write your best work and use the power of literature for transformative, compassionate change—individually and collectively
The Autism Parent Memoir I’d Love to Read
Managing Editor’s blog: Best practices for writing about your neurodivergent child
The Faller by Michael Demaray
Winner of the 2024 North Street Book Prize for Literary Fiction
nighthawks
By Tobey Kaplan
Subscriber News: April 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Rattle: “Tribute to Rebels” Issue
Call for submissions: received by October 15
Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest
Call for submissions: received by July 16
Tertulia
Simple, affordable tool for building an author website
Michelle Mae
Book Covers, Marketing, and Authenticity: An Interview with Laura Duffy of Laura Duffy Design
A handsome book cover that’s right for your genre can increase sales by a factor of two or more. But does working with a professional designer have to feel like a trust fall? Designer Laura Duffy doesn’t think so.
Exits by Stephen C. Pollock
Exits won First Prize for Poetry in the 2024 North Street competition
Award-Winning Poetry and Prose 2025
The best contemporary writing from around the web
Subscriber News: March 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Not Quite Write Prize for Flesh Fiction
A$500 prize, contest added: received by August 24
Story Unlikely
Call for submissions: received by September 29
Sonnet in Triptych
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A Catalogue of Hurricanes
I’m Done with Birds
After a week away to bury my mother, we found robins nesting above our front door. Was this a cosmic joke, one mother laid to rest, a new mother bivouacking on the porch? But what to do, move future chirps to a nearby spruce, toss out five beating hearts? In…
My Mother Used Her Kohl’s Cash to Buy Her Husband’s Urn
What I remember most from the nights is how they were the same as his mornings. What I remember most from his mornings is that they were still coming. There is no remembrance without pain. Pain from either the wish of re-living it or the memory itself. Sometimes when I…
Ars Poetica
Illustration by Rowan Fridley after Chris Colfer / after Chelsea Dingman / after Rachel Mennies Dear Poem—witness yourself: a crumpled tissue knotted with tear stains dipped in ink. In my dreams, I threw a penny in the only wishing well for miles & you returned, swimming with liquid moons. You…
Shoulder Season
Illustration by Helen Bar-Lev Who are we to decide when traffic to the orchard should peak? Or how to name the first apple that falls and smashes into seconds, into a thing half-wrecked, swelling worthy of cider or apple butter, the ritual my great grandmother presented with her hands until…
Sestina (A Ghost Story)
It's been a while since I've been up to the lake, but I remember well how its surface can look so different, murky-dark or green-slate glass. Its stillness is deceptive unless you stare a while. Then you'll see how much rises up, the signs beneath the surface, minnows, rings of…
Daily Life in Gaza
Only makeshift tents and broken pieces of ground to rest upon. No tombstones. When the rains continue all winter and then stop, sewers still spill over coughing children, who can only mimic play try to sell homemade foods for pocket change. All land crossings closed border gates never entered— not…
Trifecta of Sonnets, New Year’s Day
“We cannot know his legendary head…” —Rilke i. Heaven grays, the river storms. A buck, sculling at the center crest of dusk— his rack, a nest of silver twigs— slashes river-green from river-black. He carves upstream. His wake, a froth of yellow lace. I feel his lease on time, this…
Entering the Mine
In 1923 Diego Rivera began painting 124 frescoes on three floors of the Ministry of Education building in Mexico City. These murals reflect the Mexican people at work, their land, struggles, triumphs, and festivals. Rivera longed for a day when everyone would exist in harmony, without class distinctions. A rooster's…
Elegy for Uncle Ron
You of the acid-blue Palm Springs skies, you Warhol Soup Can collector, you star-spangled tax evader, making America bankrupt again, you UFO-abduction believer, zapped up into one of those intergalactic, metallic wombs during a drug-swathed segment of the seventies, survived by no one, which is to say everyone, let me…
Shelly Cato
Shelly Cato is a 2024 Iron Horse Literary Review NaPoMo winner. Her writing has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Rattle, Poet Lore, and TriQuarterly Review. She lived much of her life in the Mississippi Delta and now lives and writes on Mulberry Fork in Walker County, Alabama. When she is…
Em McCoy
Em McCoy is a writer and mechanical engineer. She currently resides in the California Bay Area with her husband and two cats.
Lance Larsen
Lance Larsen grew up in Idaho mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, and dreaming of catching Bigfoot on film. He has published six poetry collections, most recently Making a Kingdom of It (Tampa, 2024). His awards include a Pushcart Prize and first-place honors in contests sponsored by The Tampa Review, the Missouri…
The Eyes Go
“To see takes time. Like a friend takes time.” Georgia O'Keefe To see takes time. When I lost you did my eyes go? Are they still in that closet in the dark where everything was clear so long as we were together? There is the fear that won't leave. Not…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2024
Congratulations to the winners of the 22nd annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Elinor Ann Walker
Elinor Ann Walker (she/her/hers) holds a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, lives in the Appalachian foothills, and is the author of Fugitive but Gorgeous, winner of the 2024 Sheila-Na-Gig First Chapbook Prize, and Give Sorrow (Whittle Micro-Press), both forthcoming. Featured on Verse Daily and in…
Serrina Zou
Serrina Zou is a fourth-year undergraduate at Columbia University, where she will soon graduate with a BA in Creative Writing and Sociology. Her poetry and prose have been recognized internationally by the Bridport Poetry Prize, the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of the U.K., the Cincinnati Review Robert…
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
Dr. Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2006-2008. She has co-edited three anthologies, co-authored a poem-play, and published nine books of poetry, including The Embrace: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, winner of the international Art in Literature: The Mary Lynn Kotz Award. She is the recipient of…
Jay Aja
Jay Aja (they/he) identifies as nonbinary, transgender queer, and second-generation-immigrant Guyanese. A student of Comics, Jay is fascinated by the confluence point of text and image, how the two in tandem might lead to more nuanced storytelling, and how these mediums together allow Jay to continue exploring the diasporic identities…
R.H. Alexander
Poet R.H. Alexander grew up in Chicagoland and currently lives in southern Wisconsin. He started writing poems at age eight when he learned how to fish and still considers a day of fishing as one no god dare count against us. (It's called “fishing” and not “catching” for a reason.)…
Carla Schick
Carla Schick (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary poet and essayist who received a Certificate in Poetry from Berkeley City College. They served on the editorial board of Milvia Street Literary Arts Journal. Their undergraduate and graduate work was in philosophy and related humanities, but they taught math in California public…
Ceren Ege
Ceren (say Je-ren) Ege is a Turkish-American poet who studied psychology and creative writing at the University of Michigan. After leading poetry workshops for incarcerated youth in her junior year, Ceren's interest honed in on juvenile justice and she is now graduating from Duke Law this May with a JD/MA…
D.T. Christensen
D.T. Christensen is a writer based in Stow, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, NANO Fiction, and Sixfold. He writes about basketball, history and random things in between. When he's not writing, he's coaching youth basketball and exploring New England and its history with his wife and…
Dr. Linda I. Meyers Wins the $10,000 Grand Prize in Our Tenth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its tenth annual North Street Book Prize competition. Dr. Linda I. Meyers of New York, New York won the Grand Prize and $10,000 for her literary memoir-in-essays, The Tell. Dr. Meyers also received a marketing analysis and one-hour phone consultation with…
Writing Co-Lab: 100 Days of Creative Resistance
Daily messages from contemporary writers on art as resistance to American fascism
Dr. Linda I. Meyers Wins the $10,000 Grand Prize in Our Tenth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its tenth annual North Street Book Prize competition
Dr. Linda I. Meyers
Dr. Linda I. Meyers
Finding the best awards for your book: An interview with Book Award Pro founder Hannah Jacobson
Managing Editor’s blog: Finding the best award opportunities for your manuscript, indie published, or traditionally published book
Open Kimono Publishing’s Poetry Competition
Winning poets will be featured in a beautifully curated publication celebrating their work
Subscriber News: February 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Poems You Need
YouTube series showcasing contemporary poems, with analysis
How To Submit: Getting Your Writing Published with Literary Magazines and Small Presses
By Dennis James Sweeney
The Corpse Bloom by Bryan Wiggins
Winner, 2024 North Street Book Prize, First Prize for Genre Fiction
