Inception 2025 Contest
2025-03-01 - 2025-03-31 | Online, NC
Sunspot Lit’s Inception contest offers $100 cash plus publication for the best opening. Authors and artists eligible. All genres accepted. Opens March 1. Closes March 31. Guidelines and entry form here: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/318760/inception-2025-100-for-fiction-cnf-poem-art.

Sunrise on the Reaping Midnight Release Party at The Haunted Book Shop
2025-03-17 23:30 - 2025-03-18 00:30 (America/Chicago) | The Haunted Book Shop, 9 S JOACHIM ST, MOBILE, AL, 36602-2707, United States
Calling all tributes for the Sunrise on the Reaping Midnight Release Party at The Haunted Book Shop on March 17, 2025. Yes, it’s time to enter the arena again, or rather to devour the fifth installment in Suzanne Collins’ thrilling Hunger Games series.
In “Sunrise on the Reaping,” Collins once again transports us to the harsh and fraught world of Panem during its fiftieth Hunger Games, introducing a harrowing new twist with the Quarter Quell. Young Haymitch Abernathy, a resident of District 12, faces the ultimate test of love and survival as he’s ripped away from his loved ones and thrust into the Capitol’s cruel festivities. This gripping tale explores themes of sacrifice, strategy, and resilience, once more proving Collins’ mastery in weaving complex narratives with profound emotional depth.
Attendees will be treated to donuts and coffee, and Hunger Games activities–no reaping, just fun! The FIRST 50 tickets purchased will include an exclusive Hunger Games logo button, and a drawing will reveal the twelve fortunate tributes to receive a Hunger Games (temporary) tattoo. So, act fast and “May the odds be ever in your favor!”
Ticket purchase required for entry. Ticket includes one copy of “Sunrise on the Reaping.”

Poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble to Read for Cobalt Poets via Zoom
2025-03-18 21:30 - 22:30
Cobalt Poets presents JACQUELINE ALLEN TRIMBLE plus open reading.
Jacqueline Allen Trimble is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow (Poetry), a Cave Canem Fellow, and an Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Louisville Review, The Offing, and Poet Lore and has been featured by Poem of the Day, Poem-a Day, and Poetry Daily. Published by NewSouth Books, American Happiness, her debut collection, won the 2016 Balcones Poetry Prize. How to Survive the Apocalypse, was named one of the ten best poetry books of 2022 by the New York Public Library. Trimble is Professor of English and chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University.
Tune in with Zoom here: https://zoom.us/j/887913287 (make sure to use your full real name as your Zoom identity to avoid any delays letting you in through the waiting room.)

Signups for the open reading start at 7:15pm in the Zoom Chat.
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