I struggled to get my first novel, “The Beasts They Turned Away,” published. It was set on a dairy farm, embraced the Gothic, and included a lot of details about agriculture. It took a year and a half ...

Betty Brandt Passick is a Fairbank, Iowa native and award-winning author, currently residing in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. One of the things we love about reading the pieces submitted to the Pasatiempo Writing Contest is that it truly ...

The Howe Writing Center is thrilled to announce the winners of their Fall 2025 Creative Writing Contests. The first contest invited writers to submit a prose poem response to an artwork in the Faculty ...

I’ll reveal our new champion in a moment, but first, a little background. The Bulwer-Lytton contests challenge participants ...

When our school signed up for the Tadpole Press 100-Word Writing Contest, I saw it as more than just an enrichment activity. It was a chance to show every student that storytelling was for them. Not ...

Eight local seniors were named winners of the 2025 Essex County Senior Citizen Legacies Writing Contest during a ceremony held last week at the Cherry Blossom Welcome Center in Branch Brook Park, ...