Congrats to our spring 2026 fellowship winners! Incoming students Darren Black and Millie Sullivan and incoming certificate program student Patricia Achiro Olwoch each receive $1,500 awards.

Thanks to your generosity and support, we're closer to raising $6k for our $7,500 stretch goal. Donate and help spread the word about our campaign this #GivingTuesday to help keep our need-based scholarship fund healthy for years to come.​

We're more than 96% funded toward our goal! As of this post, we've raised more than $4,830, meaning we have less than $200 left until our target. We're so close to $5,000 with six more weeks left in the campaign. Gift a $25, $50, or $100 gift today to bring us over the line.

😍 We love to see our alums reading with their mentors. Congrats to Ellen and Iain!

Ever wonder what factors bookstores consider when deciding which books to stock? Here’s a great interview with Fisher the Bookseller on the details that matter—and yes, sometimes they do judge a book by its cover 📚

We're nearly there for our 2025 Writers Helping Writers fundraiser! We've raised more than $4,000, meaning we have less than $1k to go to our goal. With your help, we can reach and then surpass our $5,000 goal well before the Dec. 31 deadline. Give a gift of $5, $50, or more: buff.ly/K7Kzctd

Happening tonight! Register here and invite a friend to help us raise $500 toward our scholarship fund during the event:

Today is the final day to apply to Solstice and start this winter/spring 2026! Get your application (manuscript, personal statement, and recommendations requested at minimum) in by 11:59pm ET tonight to be considered to start this January. Apply now: buff.ly/9g8kzms

2 more days to apply and start your MFA journey with Solstice this January! Apply here: buff.ly/9g8kzms

Only 3 days left to apply for winter/spring 2026! Submit your materials here: buff.ly/9g8kzms

Just 4 more days left to apply and start with us this January! Upload at least your writing sample & 3- to 5-page personal statement and submit your application to request your recs by this Monday, Nov. 10, 11:59pm ET. Apply here: buff.ly/9g8kzms

Now that we've launched our 2025 campaign for our need-based scholarship fund, we invite you to join us for our virtual fundraiser reading on Nov. 12 at 7pm ET! Hear from our student Sr. Allison Regina Gliot, alum Annette Marquis, and faculty member Tara Betts. Register here: buff.ly/OUE1Msi

Today, the we launch our 2025 Writers Helping Writers fundraiser for need-based scholarships. Our campaign runs through the end of the year with a goal of $5,000. Give a gift today to help Solstice grow as a space where writers can thrive in community rather than competition: buff.ly/3SumywK

Happening tomorrow! Register here: applygrad.lasell.edu/register/?id...

Ready to earn your MFA with Solstice? You have one week left to apply for a January 2026 start. Upload at least your writing sample & 3- to 5-page personal statement and submit your application to request your recs by Nov. 10 at 11:59pm ET to make the deadline. Apply here: buff.ly/9g8kzms

“If Kafka were alive today, he wouldn’t be unpublished—he’d be under NDA.” On the dangerous fine print of creative contract law.

Applying to Solstice to begin in January? Today, Oct. 27, is the last day to apply and be considered for our available fellowship options. Submit your materials by 11:59pm ET for your chance at $1,500 off your 1st-semster tuition. More info here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

Don't miss out on our final virtual information session before our last deadline to apply to start this January. Learn more about us on Nov. 5 at 6 p.m. ET. Register here: applygrad.lasell.edu/register/?id...

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Applying to our program to start this winter? Check out our Doug & Betsy Sholl Poetry Fellowship. Apply by Oct. 27 to be considered. The selected writer gets $1,500 of first-semester tuition. See more details here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

Applying to our program to start this winter? Check out our Dennis Lehane Fiction Fellowship. Apply by Oct. 27 to be considered. The selected writer gets $1,500 off first-semester tuition. See more details here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

Applying to our program to start this winter? Check out our Michael Steinberg Creative Nonfiction Fellowship. Apply by Oct. 27 to be considered. The selected writer gets $1,500 off first-semester tuition. See more details here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

Happening soon! You can still register here:

Check out our newly announced Carrie Watson Legacy Fellowship for Young People's Literature, which awards $1,500 off 1st-semester tuition to the selected writer thanks to the generous support of our Writer-in-Residence Renée Watson. More details here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

The most commonly accepted pronunciation is ‘FOH-lee-ij.’ However, there’s no denying that the pronunciations ‘FOH-lij’ and even ‘FOY-lij’ have also staked their claim.

Samyak Shertok’s NO RHODODENDRON is “an absolute marvel,” says former AWP Award Series judge Kimiko Hahn. Want to win a free copy of this poetry collection? US residents who follow us on socials can enter our giveaway! Enter soon—giveaway closes TOMORROW!

Applying to our program to start this winter? Check out our Dubus Fellowship for Native & Indigenous Writers. Apply by Oct. 27 to be considered. The selected writer gets $1,500 off first-semester tuition. See more details here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

Congrats to our student Sr. Allison Regina Gliot, who will discuss monstrous characters, Catholic publishing, and her novel The Curse He Chose at the online Legendhaven Convention at 11:45 a.m. ET and 12:45 p.m. ET. Get more details here:

“Today’s poem is a poem that inspires me to ask better questions about the world, and about the soul, and about the idea of God," shares @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode. Read "Soot" by Kaveh Akbar: bit.ly/4n0LAxi 📷: Charles Bakofsky 📖: @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

A poem is an anti-capitalist machine yes, it is broken if you try to produce with it no, it doesn’t produce on command the factory is closed the worker is sleeping

THE NATION is accepting applications for winter/spring 2026 editorial internships until October 26! AWP members can find out more and browse additional job openings on our Job List.

Now online: Our August event with @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social & Monica Lee Weatherly. thenotebookscollective.com/notes/in-con...

The Best of the Net is looking for volunteer readers for its 2026 issue! Find out more here: bestofthenetanthology.com/work-with-us...

Happening next week! Register here:

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow: bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

Guess what it also is? Banned books week! Hurray for free speech & boo to censorship. bannedbooksweek.org

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Don't miss out on our next virtual information session to get answers to your questions about earning an MFA with Solstice. Get to know us on Oct. 15 at 12 p.m. ET by registering here: applygrad.lasell.edu/register/?id...

Contemporary literature and AWP have benefited from the efforts of individuals who have done their utmost to support the next generation of writers. To help us recognize them, submit a nomination for the AWP George Garrett Award, open through October 31.

actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know learning is good

We're excited to announce that our Writer-in-Residence Terrance Hayes will join us in person for our upcoming January 2026 residency to teach a class and give a reading that will be open to the public. Stay tuned for more details, and check out his bio here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

psst.... we open for chapbook submissions in two days (October 1). www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

Winter/spring '26 deadlines are approaching. Apply by Nov. 10 (Oct. 27 for fellowship consideration). Decisions in as few as 10 biz days if we have your personal statement, writing sample, and 2 recommendation forms. (Transcripts due by Jan. 2 at the latest.) More info: buff.ly/gBgQGLr

Well, this is delightful news. 📚 bookriot.com/new-host-of-...

Congrats to our faculty member @joshneufeld.bsky.social, who self-published a zine related to his book, A.D.: After the Deluge, called Beyond A.D.: 20 Years After the Deluge, gathering material related to the book and its characters in the years after Hurricane Katrina.

Congrats to our alum @ellenaustinli.bsky.social, who spoke with Katerina Stoykova about her poetry collection Incidental Pollen on Accent Publishing's podcast! Check it out here:

Our submission period is open for Issue 16! Send us 1–3 poems via Submittable—it’s free to submit, and we pay $10 per published poem. 🔗Full guidelines here: smallharborpublishing.submittable.com/submit #PoetrySubmissions #LitMag #poetry

Perugia Press’s annual prize is open through 11/15, for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Guidelines & info at linktree in bio. We look forward to reading your work!

For our friends in and around Portland, ME, our founding director @megkearney.bsky.social and faculty member Iain Haley Pollock will read with Myronn Hardy at Print: A Bookstore on Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. Get more details here:

Grab your copy of Issue 15 of Palooka & consider sending your own chapbooks, prose, poetry, comics, art, & photography for future issues or chapbook publication. Open year-round. Fees vary. #writers #litmag #callforsubmissions