A Few of My Favorite Things
(AFOMFT archive)
John Ashbery on Bookworm -- interviewed on April 15, 2010 about his new book, Planisphere.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender -- a title I can't wait to eat.
Featherproof Mini-Books -- free little books you can download, fold up, and staple before you read! And they're good.
Contests and More
First book awards
- Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, deadline: November 15
- American Poetry Review Honickman First Book Prize, deadline: October 31
- Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes, deadline: November 1 (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction)
- New Rivers Press MVP Competition, deadline: November 1 (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction)
- Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, deadline: November 1 (U.S. woman poet)
- Perugia Press Poetry Prize, deadline: November 15 (first or second book of poetry by a woman)
- Silverfish Review Press Gerald Cable Book Award, deadline: October 15 (poetry)
- University of Iowa Press Short Fiction Award, deadline: September 30
- Yale University Press Yale Series of Younger Poets, deadline: November 15 (poets under 40)
Additional awards for new and emerging writers
Please send calls for submissions and awards notices to
info[at]writehabit[dot]org.
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