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SUMMARY:CALL FOR ENTRIES: Next Generation Short Story Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Next Generation Short Story Awards is an esteemed not-for-profit awards program for short story writers. In its second awards year\, this program is designed to celebrate the best short story writing and the creative minds behind the words. The Next Generation Short Story Awards is brought to you by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards\, the largest and most rewarding book awards program in the world for self-published authors and independent publishers\, which has been operating since 2008\, and Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-entries-next-generation-short-story-awards/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Next Generation Short Story Awards":MAILTO:info@shortstoryawards.com
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SUMMARY:CALL FOR ENTRIES: Next Generation Indie Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is the largest International awards program for indie authors and independent publishers. In its eighteenth year of operation\, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards was established to recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books in 80+ different categories\, for the year\, and is presented by Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group in cooperation with Marilyn Allen of Allen Literary Agency (formerly the Allen O’Shea Literary Agency).
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-entries-next-generation-indie-book-awards/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Next Generation Indie Book Awards":MAILTO:info@indiebookawards.com
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SUMMARY:Submissions Open for: unwashed\, A Bay View Creative Writing and Arts Zine
DESCRIPTION:The submission period for the 2024 issue of unwashed begins April 1st and ends May 31st. For submission guidelines and questions: unwashed53207@gmail.com
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/submissions-open-for-unwashed-a-bay-view-creative-writing-and-arts-zine/
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SUMMARY:Solar Flare contest offers $500 for Fiction\, CNF\, Poetry\, Art\, or Graphic Novel
DESCRIPTION:Sunspot Lit is looking for one work\, including a novel or novella excerpt\, that provides a flare of creative energy. Literary or genre accepted. First prize: $500 plus publication. Open May 1 to May 31. Entry fee: $10 Enter through Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/280392/solar-flare-2024-500-for-fiction-cnf-poetry-art-graphic-novel or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/contest/sunspot-lit-solar-flare-contest-36652.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/solar-flare-contest-offers-500-for-fiction-cnf-poetry-art-or-graphic-novel/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Submissions Open for the James Baker Hall Book Award
DESCRIPTION:Accents Publishing is honored to partner with the JamesBaker Hall Foundation to launch the James Baker Hall Book Award. The inaugural award will be given in poetry to an emerging author who hasn’t yet published a full-length collection. \nIn 2024\, the award will recognize an unpublished manuscript of over 50 pages by a Kentucky author. The author of the winning manuscript will receive a $3000 award and the manuscript will be published the following year by Accents Publishing\, with the standard Accents Publishing contract. \nManuscripts can be submitted between May 1st and June 30th. \nThere is no submission fee. \nAcclaimed poet Greg Pape will be the final judge. \nFor more details\, please visit https://www.accents-publishing.com/contest.html
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/submissions-open-for-the-james-baker-hall-book-award/
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SUMMARY:Go and Write! Retreat to Kingsbrae\, Spring or Autumn—St. Andrews by-the-Sea\, New Brunswick (Canada)
DESCRIPTION:May 4-11 or October 23-30\, 2024. Small group retreats (only 5 rooms). Private\, ensuite bedroom in historic mansion\, private writing studio\, workshops\, written feedback\, and dedicated writing time. All breakfasts and three suppers included.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/go-and-write-retreat-to-kingsbrae-spring-or-autumn-st-andrews-by-the-sea-new-brunswick-canada/
LOCATION:Kingsbrae Estate\, St. Andrews by-the-Sea\, New Brunswick\, Canada\, New Brunswick\, Canada
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ORGANIZER;CN="Go and Write!":MAILTO:janiegoandwrite@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones to Read at Auburn University Montgomery on May 8\, 4:30 p.m.
DESCRIPTION:Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley Jones will discuss creativity and empathy during an open public session hosted by AUM’s Civil Rights & Civic Virtue Society as part of the May 8-9 “Out of the Box: Workshop on Teaching and Learning.”\n\n\nMembers of the campus community are invited to attend Jones’ presentation\, “Imagine Us In Love With The World: How Poetry and Empathy Can Save Us All\,” on Wednesday\, May 8\, at 4:30 p.m. in Goodwyn Hall 109.\n\n\nJones\, who serves as associate director of UAB’s Honors Program\, received a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets in 2022. She is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival and a board member of the Alabama Writers Cooperative and the Alabama Writers Forum.\n\n\nHer debut poetry collection\, “Magic City Gospel\,” was published by Hub City Press in 2017 and earned a silver medal in poetry at the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her second book\, “dark // thing\,” won the 2018 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry from Pleiades Press.\n\n\nJones’ third collection was published in 2021.\n\n\n#poetry #writing #literature #creativity #education #WarhawkNation #ChooseAUM #universities #college #montgomeryalabama
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/alabama-poet-laureate-ashley-m-jones-to-read-at-auburn-university-montgomery-on-may-8-430-p-m/
LOCATION:AUM\, 7400 East Drive\, Montgomery\, AL\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dominic Erdozain at The NewSouth Bookstore Thursday\, May 16 at 5:30pm!
DESCRIPTION:Historian Dominic Erdozain’s “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (NYTimes) takedown of American gun culture is a new book and the subject of the talk he will give at The NewSouth Bookstore on Thursday\, May 16 at 5:30pm. We are so fortunate to have Erdozain — a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge\, currently a visiting professor at Emory University — stop at the store with his newly released One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy\, which one critic says “goes wide and deep on the critical issues.” This is going to be a fascinating program. Don’t miss it.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/dominic-erdozain-at-the-newsouth-bookstore-thursday-may-16-at-530pm/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday Poetry Reading at Auburn
DESCRIPTION:Our final Third Thursday poetry reading of this season will take place at 6:30 on May 16 at Pebble Hill in Auburn. Wine and snacks will be served beginning at 6.\n\n\nThis month’s program will feature a series of brief readings by 12 writers living in the Auburn-Opelika area.\n\n\nThis series is supported by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities\, Department of English\, and Southern Humanities Review in the college of Liberal arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University; and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/third-thursday-poetry-reading-at-auburn/
LOCATION:Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities\, 101 S. Debardeleben St.\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849-5637\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christina Lauren Block Party: The Paradise Problem
DESCRIPTION:Christina Lauren is coming to town on May 18th\, and we’re celebrating their 30th novel with a block party! We will have an in-conversation Q&A with the writing duo known as Christina Lauren\, a curated vendor market\, a special Christina Lauren cocktail menu at Alchemy Tavern\, sangrias at Penton’s Bistro\, and a photo station to capture the fun! \nWHAT’S IN STORE \nIn-Conversation: Christina Lauren will have a Q&A with a fellow author (author TBA)\nBlock Party: Our section of Conti Street will be blocked off and will have curated vendors for your shopping pleasure\nPhoto Line: Timed-entry for the photo line to get your photo with Christina Lauren\nSpecialty Cocktails: Next door at The Alchemy\, enjoy a Christina Lauren-themed cocktail menu or partake of sangrias at Penton’s Bistro\nPurchase of the hardcover of THE PARADISE PROBLEM equals your ticket to the event.\nGrab your tickets and books early – you won’t want to miss this!\nPurchase of the hardcover of THE PARADISE PROBLEM from our bookstore is required for entry. \nImportant Information/Rules per Publisher – PLEASE READ \nYour ticket will get you a pre-signed copy of THE PARADISE PROBLEM. Signature only. No personalizations per the request of the authors.\nAdditional backlist will be made available for purchase (see Add-Ons when selecting tickets). Backlist will also be pre-signed and have Christina Lauren’s signature only.\nPersonal backlist from home will not be permitted and will not be signed by Christina Lauren.\nAll attendees will receive an exclusive tour art print inspired by the book.\nChristina Lauren will be posing for fan photos once the Q&A has concluded. They will not be signing or personalizing books in this line.\nWe’d like to thank the following sponsors and partners! \nThe Alchemy Tavern\nPenton’s Bistro\nMobile Bay Magazine\nDowntown Mobile Alliance\nMore details to come. \nAbout THE PARADISE PROBLEM\nChristina Lauren\, the instant New York Times bestselling and “reigning romance queens” (PopSugar)\, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance. \nAnna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed\, and they both went on their merry ways. \nThree years later\, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate\, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested\, however\, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch. \nDue to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will\, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch\, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse\, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents—his unpolished\, not-so-ex-wife. \nBut in the presence of his family\, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty\, foul-mouthed\, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie. \nAbout Christina Lauren\nChristina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings\, the New York Times\, USA TODAY\, and #1 internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series\, Dating You / Hating You\, Autoboyography\, Love and Other Words\, Roomies\, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating\, My Favorite Half-Night Stand\, The Unhoneymooners\, Twice in a Blue Moon\, The Soulmate Equation\, Something Wilder\, and The True Love Experiment. You can find them online at ChristinaLaurenBooks.com and @ChristinaLauren on Instagram or Twitter.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/christina-lauren-block-party-the-paradise-problem/
LOCATION:The Haunted Book Shop\, 9 S JOACHIM ST\, MOBILE\, AL\, 36602-2707\, United States
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SUMMARY:Austin Film Festival Extends Submission Deadline to May 31!
DESCRIPTION:Austin Film Festival’s Script Competition takes all kinds of submissions\, including screenplays\, teleplays\, stage plays\, scripted digital series\, and fiction podcasts. To submit\, visit https://austinfilmfestival.com/submit/ and use the discount AFFWG24 for $5 off your submission fee. \n  \nWe can’t wait to read your scripts so submit them today!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/austin-film-festival-extends-submission-deadline-to-may-31/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Austin Film Festival":MAILTO:screenplayassistant@austinfilmfestival.com
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SUMMARY:Del Shores Foundation Call for Submissions
DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR UNPRODUCED SCRIPTS BY LGBTQ+ SOUTHERN WRITERS \nThe third Del Shores Foundation Writers Search is now open for submissions from unproduced playwrights and screenwriters whoidentify as LGBTQ+ and currently live in the South.  CASH AWARDS are given to the semifinalists\, finalists and winners andPRODUCTION GRANTS accompany the winning scripts to move their work toward production.  USE WAIVER CODE “DSFAL” for FREE SUBMISSION. Final submission deadline 7/31/24. For more information and submissions visit https://www.delshoresfoundation.org/
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/del-shores-foundation-call-for-submissions/
LOCATION:Del Shores Foundation
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ORGANIZER;CN="Del Shores Foundation":MAILTO:emersoncollins@hotmail.com
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SUMMARY:A Carolyn Haines Launch Party!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a launch party in honor of Mobile mystery novel phenom Carolyn Haines on May 23\, as we celebrate her latest novel\, “Lights\, Camera\, Bones.” We’re rolling out all the frills for Carolyn with a specialty cocktail menu at Happy Hour pricing\, putting Carolyn on the hot seat for an audience Q&A\, book signing line\, and\, most certainly when Carolyn is involved\, unknown hijinks and hilarity. \nIn “Lights\, Camera\, Bones\,” we step again into the shoes of the much-loved character Sarah Booth Delaney\, a fiery and resourceful private investigator from the South famously described by Kirkus Reviews as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.” The drama unfolds on a movie set in Greenville\, right on the Mississippi River where Delaney Detective Agency faces a unique challenge with the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy political scion while filming a story about the 1927 flood that devastated Greenville. The subsequent discovery of a severed foot suggests a disastrous encounter with a bull shark\, but as rumors circulate\, the human element cannot be discounted. Delaney\, along with her associates\, must navigate a complex maze of evidence to solve this alarming mystery. \nMake sure your funny bone and curious mind are intact for this event. It is one you won’t want to miss! \nBook purchase from The Haunted Book Shop is required to enter the signing line.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/a-carolyn-haines-launch-party/
LOCATION:The Haunted Book Shop\, 9 S JOACHIM ST\, MOBILE\, AL\, 36602-2707\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Haunted Book Shop":MAILTO:info@thehauntedbookshopmobile.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240527T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240527T193000
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SUMMARY:Alabama State Poetry Society Online Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join us for online poetry open mics the 4th Monday of each month! \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85693609367\nMeeting ID: 856 9360 9367
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/alabama-state-poetry-society-online-open-mic/2024-05-27/
LOCATION:Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alabama State Poetry Society":MAILTO:alabamapoets@gmail.com
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