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RED WHEELBARROW POETRY PRIZE 2025: $1,000 and letterpress broadside

Deadline: July 31, 2025

RED WHEELBARROW POETRY PRIZE 2025: $1,000 for first place and a letterpress broadside, $500 for second, $250 for third. Top five published in Red Wheelbarrow …
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Speckled Trout Review: A Call For Submissions!

Deadline: August 20, 2025

Speckled Trout Review is an independent literary magazine publishing an online issue every summer and winter. In our short time, we have published former poet laureates, …

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Book Review :: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution by Mary Anne Trasciatti

Biographer Mary Anne Trasciatti’s deep research accurately details the life of activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
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Extended Deadline: New American Fiction Prize – July 15

Submissions deadline for the 2025 New American Fiction Prize has been extended! Winner will receive a contract including a $1500, publication, twenty-five copies, and promotional support. EXTENDED DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2025. All full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including novels, novellas, collections of stories and/or novellas, novels in verse, linked collections, as …

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