Team VoW

In 2017, Nicole Sealey decided to read one poetry collection a day during the month of August. She had just been appointed as the Executive Director...

Amazon’s share of the book market is forecast to keep on growing. But Amazon is already so big, you say. How is this possible? First,...

Salman Rushdie is often referred to as the most controversial novelist of the 20th century. The renowned British Indian novelist and essayist is well known...

Deadline: November 15, 2021 SmokeLong is an online literary magazine dedicated to flash narrative. It publishes narratives that are 1,000 words or fewer. The term...

Deadline: August 31st, 2021, Midnight, Pacific Time. The Prize Cultural Daily’s 9th Annual “Jack Grapes Poetry Prize” is open for submissions. This contest is free...

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Jethro Soutar, writing in The Brittle Paper, reminds us with a breathtaking first sentence why it’s such a privilege that we are able to sit...

New England writer, Ayden LeRoux, has a double-take inducing analysis of the acknowledgements section that so many authors add to their books. We say ‘section’...

Deadline: September 1, 2021 The Awards The American-Scandinavian Foundation annually awards three translation prizes for outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose written...

Entries are invited for the 2021 Kindle Storyteller Award. This is a £20,000 literary prize recognizing outstanding writing published through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform....