From the competition website: Broadway Arts Festival launched a short story prize in order to encourage creativity during the lockdown. The prize is generously sponsored and judged by festival Benefactors Julia & Martin Wilson who read every entry received, from across the world. The competition now takes place every other year. Entries need to be a...
From the journal's website: From the EDGE of Alton is a print publication celebrating local talent and creativity. The ‘EDGE’ represents the importance of inclusivity in the arts. We champion all creative voices, and especially encourage those from the edge of the mainstream, from those who may not feel that their work is worthy...
Named in honor of Carson's parents, The Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers was inspired by McCullers's experience at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference in Vermont, especially the Yaddo Arts Colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. To honor the contribution of these writers' residences to McCullers's work, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians...
Every summer, five writers across disciplines (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, translation, playwriting, songwriting, comics, and more) are awarded residencies. The residency includes private use of a sculptural-architectural writing studio; housing; a living stipend; reimbursement for travel to and from Pittsfield; and opportunities for local events, engagement, and discovery. The Studios The studios are rustic and open...
Rediscover Virginia Woolf as a radical printer, publisher and maker through the Hogarth Press, a site of hands-on experimentation and creative independence. Founded in 1917 from Woolf’s living room as an indie printing venture, the press blurred boundaries between art, craft and literature, treating the book itself as an art object. Bringing together hand-printed books,...