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Shadow Spark Publishing

Shadow Spark Publishing is an independent small press founded in 2019 by Jess Moon and Mandy Russell, focused on fantasy, science fiction, a...

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Fringe Press

Specifically looking for crime, mystery, high-concept literary, and thriller novels. Ideally, books that make agents and editors go &...

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Bottom Dog Press

An independent, non-profit publisher of working-class culture and values, as well as writings of the Midwest, Appalachia, American Zen and ...

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On The Calendar

Upcoming Award Deadlines

National Outdoor Book Awards
The National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA) is a non-profit educational program sponsored by the NOBA Foundation, the Association of Outdoor Recreation an...
Deadline: 2026-08-15

Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards
The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards contest is designed to honor the year’s best children’s books, authors and illustrators. The program is open...
Deadline: 2026-08-20

An Post Irish Book Awards
The awards feature nine categories, with seven judged by the Irish Literary Academy and two determined by public vote. There is also a Lifetime Achiev...
Deadline: 2026-08-21

Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award
Any writer who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter the competition.

The manuscript must be a ...
Deadline: 2026-08-31

Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
The Bernstein Award recognizes works written by working journalists that raise awareness about current events or issues of global or national signific...
Deadline: 2026-08-31

Upcoming Festivals & Events

Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
Join Canada’s longest-running summer gathering of Canadian writers and readers, featuring established literary stars and exciting, new voices, ...
Starts: 2026-08-13

Orcas Island Lit Fest
The Orcas Island Lit Fest (OILF) is an annual celebration of literature and community held in an inspiringly beautiful place. With the San Juan I...
Starts: 2026-08-14

When Words Collide
When Words Collide is an annual non-profit festival designed to bring readers and writers together in a celebration of the written word. Up to 10...
Starts: 2026-08-14

RWNZ Annual Conference
The Romance Writers of New Zealand conference is three days of keynotes, workshops, panels, and social events. Or, if you prefer, you can attend ...
Starts: 2026-08-14

Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair
Antiquarian book fair featuring rare books, ephemera, maps, posters, art prints, post cards, first editions, signed prints and more. ...
Starts: 2026-08-14

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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