Organization
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is a nonprofit literary organization founded in 1967 that supports writers, academic creative writing programs, and writing organizations across North America. AWP publishes the digital magazine The Writer's Chronicle, hosts the annual AWP Conference & Bookfair, and runs mentorship and fellowship programs. The annual AWP Award Series accepts book-length manuscripts from January 1 to February 28, awarding up to $5,500 and university press publication.
Open to poets
- Award Series. Reads Jan 1–Feb 28. Fee: $30 ($20 AWP members). Pays: $5,500 prize and publication ($2,500 for creative nonfiction).
Official site: awpwriter.org. Please confirm the details there before you submit.
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More places to send your poems
- Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair
- Assure Press
- Aster Lit
- Asterales: A Journal of Art and Letters
- astroflakes (Moonflake Press)
- Astrolabe