A Few of My Favorite Things

(AFOMFT archive)

Poem-a-Day National Poetry Month -- sign up to receive a poem a day via email during April.

Writers and Mentors -- a brilliant article by Rick Moody that ran in the Atlantic Monthly's 2005 Fiction Issue.

Luna Park -- a Quarterly and Occasional Review of Literary Magazines.

Contests and More

First book awards

• Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry, deadline: Mar. 31.
• Tupelo Press First Book Award, deadline: Apr. 15 (poetry).
• Wick Poetry Center Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, deadline: May 1.
• Zone 3 Press First Book Award, deadline: May 1 (poetry).

Awards for new and emerging writers

• Boulevard Emerging Poets Contest, deadline: May 15.
• Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, deadline: May 15.
• Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest, deadline: May 15 (poetry).
• Southwest Review David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction, deadline: May 1.

Notable contests for all writers

• Diagram Chapbook Contest, deadline Apr. 1 (open to poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, or mixed-genre work). The prize is $1000 + publication. 10+ finalists will have their stories published in the DIAGRAM Summer Fiction issue.
• Name the World: The Contest, next deadline: April 30. Stories of 500 words or less inspired by a writing exercise from Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer.

Please send calls for submissions and awards notices to info[at]writehabit[dot]org.