A Few of My Favorite Things

(AFOMFT archive)

Once upon a runway... modern-day fairy tales about ready-to-wear by yours truly, Angela Jane Fountas, the writer behind Write Habit (read: this "favorite thing" is self-promotional).

Steal Like An Artist: Ten pieces of advice that turned into a book.

Colm Tóibín reads Sylvia Townsend Warner's "The Children's Grandmother." Listen carefully.

Contests and More

First book awards

• James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship, deadline: March 1
• Hidden River Publishing Eludia Award, deadline: March 15 (for a first novel or short story collection by a woman over 40 who has not published a book)
• Cave Canem Foundation Poetry Prize, deadline: March 15 (for a first poetry collection by an African American poet)
• Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, deadline: March 31 (for a first or second book of poetry)
• Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize, deadline: March 13
• Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award, deadline: March 31 (for a first or second poetry collection)
• Tupelo Press First/Second Book Award, deadline: April 30 (poetry)
• Trio House Press First/Second Book Award, deadline: April 30
• University of Pittsburgh Press Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, deadline: April 30

Additional awards for new and emerging writers

• Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships, deadline: March 31 (applicants must be at least 21 years of age and no older than 31 years of age)
• Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest, deadline: April 2 (one winner in each genre: fiction, nonfiction, poetry)

Other notable contests

Lilith's Annual Fiction Competition: Enter now for your chance to win cash prizes, publication in this award-winning international magazine, and other opportunities to promote your work through Lilith. Looking for stories that speak to the experiences of Jewish women everywhere. Deadline: March 15.

DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Contest: A prize of $1,000 and publication in DIAGRAM is given annually for an innovative short story. Ben Marcus will judge. Deadline: March 30.

Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents: A prize of $1,000 to a fiction writer who is the parent of a child under the age of 10. The winner also receives an invitation to give a reading in New York City. Deadline: April 17.

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