WWA Jade Ring Contest is now open! Get your work read by the recipient of the Ohio Women Making a Difference Award, Cathy Cultice Lentes; winner of the Florida Humanities Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing, Janet Burroway; and/or National Book Award finalist, Sandra Scofield. Optional feedback for additional fee. Deadline: Aug 1, 2026
Laid-back Feedback
Keep your writing momentum moving forward during the summer months with this "lower commitment" option than a full Roundtable series—to receive feedback from Director, Kim Suhr, and a couple other Red Oak writers. No sending work ahead of time. No written feedback afterwards. Just the chance to read your work aloud and receive verbal feedback from keen-eyed writers. Register for each session separately. Space is limited. We may add dates if the waitlist warrants it.
Hop on over to Wordsmith Writers to read this beautiful essay, “Flesh and Word: A Reader Learns to Mother,” by Jade Ring Judge, Sandra Scofield
Rebecca Makkai, this year’s chair of the fiction category of the Pulitzer Prize, lifts the veil on what goes on behind the scenes of writing contests in this essay, “Book Prizes Don’t Work How You Think.”
Submissions are open at QWERTY Quarterly, a Milwaukee-based publication seeking to publish “articles, essays, stories, poems, art, notes, interviews, concerns, ephemera, whimsy, facts, opinions, fantasies, useful tips, unhelpful nonsense, and as yet undiscovered items of any relevance to the Qwertyverse, which is defined by virtue of its making among interested parties.” Intrigued? Visit their website to learn more
Panatrope Arts Journal seeks poetry and short prose for their next issue. Deadline: Aug 31
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