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Events April 23 Creative Nonfiction Grant April 25-27 Malice Domestic Apr 29 - 30 ECPA Leadership Summit April 30 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize April 30 Oxford 42/ New Writing Prize May 1 Readers Views Literary Awards May 1 Annual Book Award Contest May 1 Show Don't Tell, Writers Digest University May 1 Prairie Schooner submission May 2- 4 North Carolina Writers 2025 Spring Conference in Asheville, NC May 3 - 10 Writer's Digest Writing Retreat in Florence and Tuscany May 10 Tin House poetry collections May 10 Workshop: Marketing Before and After the Book Deal with Jane Friedman May 17 Greensboro Bound Book Festival May 14-18 Sleuthfest May 15 Pangyrus LitMag Submission May 15-18 Crimefest May 17 Gaithersburg Book Festival May 29 Will Your Nonfiction Book Sell, Writers Digest University May 31 Sacramento Book Festival May 31 - June 1 Bay Area Book Festival June 7 ShortCon June 11- 13 Nonfiction NOW 2025 June 13-14 Capital Crime Festival June 14-15 Maine Crime Wave June 27 Unpublished Novel Award, The Black List June 30 To Hull And Back Humorous Short Story Competition July 8 Spotify X JED Impact Award July 9 Mastering Character Inner Life, Tiffany Yates Martin July 10 MWW25 Summer Conference July 15 The Genre Films Manuscript Partnership Award, The Black List July 18-20 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference 2025 July 24- 24 Writers Digest Annual Conference July 31 Anthology Short Story Competition August 1 International Best Indie Book Award August 6 Onyx Collective Manuscript Initiative Program, The Black List Aug 21 - Aug 24 Killer Nashville writers conference Aug 27 - Sep 3 Craft & Publishing Voyage August 31 American Book Fest Award September 3-7 Bouchercon September 5-7 CrimeCon: The World's #1 Event for True Crime & Mystery September 13 Tin House short story collections September 13- 21 International Agatha Christie Festival September 19-20 Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity Con September 20-22 StoryFest 2024 September 27-28 New Frontiers in Writing October 18-19 The Morristown Festival of Books October 22- 26 Tremont Writers Conference in Townsend, TN November 3-7 Author Nation Live, Las Vegas November 7-9 New England Crime Bake November 9 Midwest Mystery Conference November 15 Pangyrus LitMag Submissions January 21 Eric Hoffer Book Awards February 12 Next Generation Indie Book Award Monthly submissions due by the 26th of each month for Andromeda magazine short story contest. Monthly submissions due by the 28th of each month for Future Scholars Foundation, click for monthly story prompts.

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