New Orleans Book Festival
New Orleans, Louisiana March 14–16 March 16th at FAU Campus in Boca Raton, Florida. Honoree Joyce Carol Oates. Authors Guild members are FREE with code word: LIBRARIAN, but you’ll need…
Opportunities
Event listings and opportunities of interest to writers, publishers, artists and illustrators
Murderous March 2024
March 8 @ 1:00 p.m.-March 9 @ 6:30 p.m. All Virtual Event Guest of Honor: Edgar Award-Winning and Best-Selling Author Naomi Hirahara
The Women In Publishing Summit
March 6-9, 2024 Virtual Open to authors, aspiring authors, and publishing professionals alike across a variety of genres. The biggest 4-day online conference for women and those who identify as…
Carefree
Carefree is looking for pitches that speak firsthand to the Black woman’s experience. Various columns in their newsletter open for pitches. Pays $100.
Backbone Press Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition
$20 entry fee. Deadline March 31, 2024. Chapbook-length manuscripts are 20-40 pages. A $250 prize, (20) author copies for personal use and distribution, a $250 travel stipend for a reading,…
102 Traditional poetry manuscript presses that do not charge reading fees
This article focuses on a number of poetry manuscript publishers who do not charge submission fees to writers, which is good news for poets.
Amelia Island Book Festival
Feb 23-24 Amelia Island Book Festival, Amelia Island, Florida
Granite Noir, Aberdeen UK
Feb 20-24 Granite Noir, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Santa Barbara Writers Conference
Santa Barbara Writers Conference, June 9-14 in Santa Barbara CA: writing workshops, panels, speakers, agents, and seminars
Murder in the Magic City
February 3 Murder in the Magic City, Birmingham, Alabama February 3, 2024, Homewood Library, Guests of Honor, S. A. Cosby and Wanda Morris