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Ten Speed Press

Based on the West Coast, Ten Speed Press spent decades as an independent publisher before becoming part of the Crown Publishing Group in 200...

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Ghoulish Books

Small press and indie bookstore specializing in horror and spooky books. Publishes novels and novellas, short story collections and antholog...

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23 House Publishing

Founded with celestial inspiration and a rebellious spirit, 23 House Publishing has been a stalwart champion of quality literature for over ...

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On The Calendar

Upcoming Award Deadlines

CWA Communications Contest
Each year, the Cat Writers’ Association selects the best entries in each category and awards them with Certificates of Excellence. The highest-scori...
Deadline: 2024-05-04

Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest
Canada’s favorite micro-writing competition. Submit a story and a postcard-the relationship can be as strong or as tangential as you like, so long ...
Deadline: 2024-05-20

Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
The ethos of America is defined by its immigrants. Their stories have always been an essential component of the nation's cultural consciousness, ...
Deadline: 2024-05-31

St. Louis Literary Award
For more than 50 years, the St. Louis Literary Award has honored many of the most important writers of our time and celebrated the contributions of li...
Deadline: 2024-06-03

California State Poetry Society Annual Contest
This contest is open to all poets, whether or not they are members of the CSPS. Entries must be in English and be the original, unpublished work of th...
Deadline: 2024-06-30

Upcoming Festivals & Events

Ottawa International Spring Writers Festival
Ottawa’s Festival of Ideas since 1997. We believe that a love of reading and learning should be nurtured throughout our lives and that literacy...
Starts: 2024-05-02

Bendigo Writers Festival
Bendigo Writers Festival gives you time out to tune in to the important things in life. Five different venues will be running hour-long sessi...
Starts: 2024-05-02

Oklahoma Writers Federation Conference
Enjoy sessions with publishing experts who can provide career-advancing knowledge. Speakers on legal issues, short stories, writing for film, edi...
Starts: 2024-05-02

Deepings Literary Festival
Deepings Literary Festival is a festival for everyone who enjoys words – the written word, the spoken word, the recited word and the sung word ...
Starts: 2024-05-02

Spring Writes Literary Festival
The Spring Writes Literary Festival is a free, open to the public, literary event featuring over 100 local and regional writers n over 40 literar...
Starts: 2024-05-02

Book Awards for Self-Published Authors

Upcoming Book Fairs & Literary Festivals

Writing Contests for Kids & Young Adults

Recently Added Literary Zines

Dust Poetry Magazine

Dust Poetry Magazine was founded in January 2020 and publishes issues of new poetry online. The work in Dust is unsolicited and international. ...

Apparition Lit

Apparition Lit is an online, quarterly magazine publishing genre short stories & poems....

Diabolical Plots

Online magazine publishing speculative fiction–science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Everything should have a speculative element–that includes ho...

Off Menu Press

We are a zine and community space for individuals who identify with a canonically-excluded gender. To those who identify as womxn, fem-aligning, trans...

Hinterland Magazine

Hinterland is a quarterly print magazine committed to publishing the best in creative non-fiction from around the globe. We are always thrilled to fea...

Five South Journal

Five South is an online, biannual, literary journal where storytelling counts. Whether it’s in prose or poem form, we want to get to the meat of it....

EX/POST Magazine

Founded in 2020, EX/POST is a nonprofit, independent literary and arts journal. We want the raw, unblinking work that will haunt us unapologetically. ...

Digging Press

Digging Press is an independent publisher. We publish Digging Through The Fat and a chapbook series, & produce the podcast, Digging Through w/ Gessy A...

Five Points

The journal of literature and art published by the Department of English at Georgia State University. Published three times a year, each issue feature...

Cave Wall

Cave Wall, published twice a year is a national literary magazine dedicated to publishing the best in contemporary poetry. We welcome poems of any le...

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