The Authors Guild

Each month we curate a list of contests, fellowships, and other writing opportunities with approaching deadlines.

Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest
Eligibility: U.S. writers
Prize: $3,000 + pub...

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? Writing sustains me; it is my place to go when life doesn’t make sense. I strongly believe that if everyone took the time to write down their thoughts, their feelings, before they acted them out, the world would be a better place for it.

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Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? Flannery O’Connor said, “I write to discover what I know.” I’m not far afield from that. Writing – ever since the age of 8 – has been a medium for understanding, for clarifying thought (that one’s close to Joan Didion’s “I write to know what I think”). Most crucia...

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? Writing is important to me because it gives me a way to sit with things that don’t resolve right away. A lot of The Mess That Made Them came from my frustration with the way we tell famous lives backward, turning uncertainty, failure, interruption, and lu...

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? It’s a way of sharing experiences, emotions and lessons learned.

What are your tried and tested remedies to cure writer’s block? First I do some sort of exercise – running, swimming, bike riding and then I set timer for 30 minutes to foc...