Editor’s note: The second annual “Best in Rural Writing Contest” was presented by the rural literary journal The Milk House with promotional support from the Daily Yonder. Judge Dr. Chea Parton ...

Ain’t life grand? That’s what Stories On Stage artistic director Anthony Powell thinks, and his group has just announced a new writing contest with that theme. Stories on Stage is looking for upbeat ...

Visitors can print a randomly-selected story by pressing a button on Waldo Library's Story Machine. Submissions are limited to 7,500 characters maximum (including spaces) and are due by Sunday, Nov. 2 ...

Regan Ralston, a first-year graduate student in English, was the winner of the Fall 2019 Distinguished Voices Short Story Contest for her short story, “Death in Four Parts.” Sarah Daniels, a ...

I struggled to get my first novel, “The Beasts They Turned Away,” published. It was set on a dairy farm, embraced the Gothic, and included a lot of details about agriculture. It took a year and a half ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The annual statewide short-story writing contest from Kent District Library is now open. Write Michigan Short Story Contest began accepting entries on Sept. 1 and is open ...

Betty Brandt Passick is a Fairbank, Iowa native and award-winning author, currently residing in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.

The prestigious awards, supported by Cambridge University, are celebrating their 21st anniversary with judges including Saba Sams, David Almond & Lily Fontaine ...

Winners of a new Baltimore writing contest will help Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists learn what happens in the brain when people read stories. The inaugural fMRI Writing Prize, created by a ...