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SUMMARY:CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2027 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is the largest International awards program for indie authors and independent publishers. \nSubmissions accepted: Entries from independent publishers and authors worldwide who have a published book\, unpublished manuscript\, galley copy or Advanced Reader Copy written in English with a copyright/release date of 2025\, 2026\, or 2027.\nCategories: 80+\nEntry Fee: $80 for the first category entered and $65 for every additional category entered for the same title\nDeadline: Friday\, February 12\, 2027.\nWinners’ Prizes: Winners in each category are given $100 cash prizes\, gold medals\, complimentary stickers\, social media coverage\, website exposure\, possible representation by a leading literary agent\, and recognition as one of the top independently published books of the year. Three Grand Prize Winners will be selected from all entries received and will be awarded cash prizes of $1500\, $750 and $500 based on their order of win. All Winners are invited to attend the Indie Book Awards gala ceremony.\nFinalists’ Benefits: Winners in each category are given silver medals\, complimentary stickers\, social media coverage and website exposure. All Finalists are invited to attend the Indie Book Awards gala ceremony.\nEnter at: www.indiebookawards.com
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-entries-next-generation-indie-book-awards/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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SUMMARY:CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2027 Next Generation Short Story Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Next Generation Short Story Awards is a not-for-profit international awards program for authors of short stories. \nSubmissions accepted: Unpublished short stories and poems (5\,000 words or less)\nCategories: 30+\nDeadline: February 25\, 2027\nEntry Fees: $25 for the first category entered and $20 for every additional category entered for the same story\nWinners’ Prizes: Winners in each category receive $75 cash prizes\, gold medals\, digital promotional stickers\, social media coverage\, literary exposure\, story publication in an Anthology of Winners\, and a complimentary copy of the Anthology of Winners. Three Grand Prize Winners will be selected from all entries and awarded $500 for 1st Prize\, $300 for 2nd Prize and $200 for 3rd Prize and will be invited to attend the Next Generation Indie Book Awards gala ceremony.\nFinalists’ Benefits: Finalists in each category are awarded digital promotional stickers\, literary exposure\, social media coverage and have their name and title of story mentioned in the Anthology of Winners. A copy of the Anthology of Winners is available to purchase at half price and silver medals are available to order.\nEnter at: www.shortstoryawards.com
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-entries-next-generation-short-story-awards/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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SUMMARY:Open Call: Flash\, poetry\, graphic novels\, art
DESCRIPTION:Sunspot Lit\, an international magazine\, seeks unique works. Accepts all genres and art forms. Submit flash\, poetry\, graphic novels\, stories\, CNF and art before September 30. See guidelines and submission form\, along with the journal’s other open calls (including art)\, here: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/open-call-flash-poetry-graphic-novels-art/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: 2027 Next Generation Short Story Awards
DESCRIPTION:Next Generation Short Story Awards \nSubmissions accepted: Original unpublished short stories and poems in English (5\,000 words or less) \nCategories: 30+ \nDeadline: Thursday\, January 28\, 2027 \nEarly Bird Special: Enter and pay by September 30\, 2026\, to receive your second category (for the same story) for free! \nWinners’ Prizes: Winners in each category receive $75 cash prizes\, gold medals\, digital stickers\, social media coverage\, literary exposure\, and story inclusion in a digital Anthology of Winners available complimentary for all. Three Grand Prize Winners will be selected from all entries and awarded $500 for 1st Prize\, $300 for 2nd Prize and $200 for 3rd Prize and will be invited to attend the Next Generation Indie Book Awards gala ceremony. \nFinalists’ Benefits: Finalists in each category are given digital stickers\, literary exposure\, and author’s name and title of story mentioned in the Anthology of Winners. \nEnter at: www.shortstoryawards.com
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/early-bird-special-2027-next-generation-short-story-awards/
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SUMMARY:EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: 2027 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:Next Generation Indie Book Awards \nSubmissions accepted: Entries from independent publishers and authors worldwide who have a book written in English and released in 2025\, 2026\, 2027 or with a 2025\, 2026\, 2027 copyright date.  \nCategories: 80+ \nDeadline: Friday\, February 12\, 2027 \nEarly Bird Special: Enter and pay by September 30\, 2026\, to receive your second category (for the same title) for free! \nWinners’ Prizes: Winners in each category are given $100 cash prizes\, gold medals\, complimentary stickers\, social media coverage\, possible representation by a leading literary agent\, and recognition as one of the top independently published books of the year. Three Grand Prize Winners will be selected from all entries received and will be awarded cash prizes of $1500\, $750 and $500 based on their order of win. All Winners are invited to attend the Indie Book Awards gala ceremony. \nFinalists’ Benefits: Winners in each category are given silver medals\, complimentary stickers\, and social media coverage. All Finalists are invited to attend the Indie Book Awards gala ceremony. \nEnter at: www.indiebookawards.com
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SUMMARY:Emily Yellin talk about Nonviolent\, book she coauthored for Rev. James Lawson Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Emily Yellin\, New York Times contributor and coauthor of the posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr.\, peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders\, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world. Nonviolent delivers an intimate self-portrait of Lawson as a man who recognized the inherent dignity of everyone\, and challenged all forms of violence\, Of the work historian Jonathan Eig\, author of King: A Life\, says\, “This book is a gift to be treasured\, from a man who has already given so much.” Tuesday\, September 22 at 5:30pm. Co-sponsored by the Freedom Rides Museum\, SPLC Alabama\, Civil Rights Memorial Center\, and SPLC Learning for Justice.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/emily-yellin-talk-about-nonviolent-book-she-coauthored-for-rev-james-lawson-jr/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:Kwoya Fagin Maples
DESCRIPTION:An evening of poetry with Kwoya Fagin Maples on the UAB Campus at Mary Culp Recital Hall at 6:00 PM on September 22nd \nKwoya Fagin Maples will read and share her poetry at a public event on the UAB Campus. \nKwoya Fagin Maples is a writer\, poet and bookshelf artist from Charleston\, S.C. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and is a graduate Cave Canem Fellow. She is the author of Long Eye (Hub City Press\, 2026) and Mend (University Press of Kentucky\, 2018) a finalist for the 2019 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry and finalist for the 2019 Housatonic Poetry award. She is also co-editor of I Witness: An anthology of Documentary\, Witness and Research Based Poetry forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press\, 2027). In addition to a chapbook publication by Finishing Line Press entitled Something of Yours (2010) her work is published in several journals including Poetry\, Poem-a-Day\, Gulfcoast\, Blackbird Literary Journal\, Obsidian\, The Langston Hughes Review\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, The African-American Review\, Pluck!\, Tin House. Her anthology contributions include Cave Canem Anthology XIII\, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood and Chaos\, Creativity\, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD.  Mend tells the story of the birth of obstetrics and gynecology in America and the role black enslaved women played in that process. This work received a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. Prior to publication\, Mend was also the 2017 finalist for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs™ Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. \nMaples is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program for Creative Writing at the University of Alabama\, home of the Black Warrior Review. She lives in Birmingham\, Alabama.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/kwoya-fagin-maples/
LOCATION:Mary Culp Recital Hall on the UAB Campus at 950 13th Street South\, Birmingham\, AL 35205\, 950 13th Street South\, Birmingham\, AL 35205\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35205\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kerry Madden-Lunsford":MAILTO:kiffnkerry@gmail.com
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