ArkansasWriters.com – A Regional Guide to Writers and Writers' Groups

Velda Brotherton 1936—2023

The Arkansas writing community has lost a mentor and a friend.

Meetings

Tiffany’s B & B Offers Accommodations for Writing Retreats

Writers’ clubs looking for a spot for a writers’ retreat in central Arkansas may find what they want at Tiffany’s Bed and Breakfast near Hot Springs. Check it Out

Contests

Submissions Open for 2023 Perkoff Prize for Writing About Health and Medicine

The Perkoff Prize is a tri-genre contest that awards $1000 and publication each to writers of the best story, set of poems, and essay that engage in evocative ways with health and medicine as judged by the editors.The submission deadline is April 1, 2023. GUIDELINES All submissions must engage with health and medicine in some

Contests

Submissions Open for 2023 Nimrod Literary Awards

The Nimrod International Journal at the University of Tulsa is accepting poetry and fiction submissions for the 2023 Pablo Neruda Prize for. Poetry and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. First prize for each is $2,000 and publication. Second prize is $1,000 and publication. Each entry must be accompanied by a $20 fee (additional

Submission Requests

Poetry About Fungi Wanted (March 2023 Deadline)

Eye to the Telescope: Fungi This is a speculative poetry magazine. For the Fungi theme, Mushrooms, molds, and other fungi are organisms that live all around us, yet for the longest time they have eluded classification. They can offer sustenance and ensure survival, or cause a slow, poisoned death. Their mycelium and spores spread–subterranean, airborne–beyond

Submission Requests

Thematic Submissions Sought (February 2023 Deadlines)

Thanks to neighbor Mary-Lane Kamberg (Kansas City Writers Group) for this list of submission opportunities. Some are paid, some not. The themed manuscripts sought are certainly varied and some are more than a little strange. Here are some examples: itch ghoulish takes automation phantoms miracles belonging the first five minutes of the Apocolypse symmetry Halloween the

Contests

Free Digital Download of Reedsy Fiction Magazine

The Reedsy Blog is now publishing a magazine called Prompted. The content will be winners of Reedsy’s weekly short story contest that requires writers to work against the clock to create new works of fiction based on weekly prompts. Examples from the first issue: A cardiac surgeon examining his own heart late in life A girl

Author Talks

Montillo Zoom Talk 8 February 2023

Roseanne Montillo will give an author talk via Zoom on Wednesday night about her latest book, Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire’s Wife, and the Murder of the Century. You can register on the FayLib website. www.faylib.org, Click on Events, then Calendar. Click on February 8, scroll down to the bottom of the list of

Contests

Opportunity for Southern LGBTQ Playwrights and Screenwriters

The Del Shores Foundation has announced its second Writers Search. Named for the author of Sordid Lives, the foundation supports efforts to connect Southern LGBTQ+ writers with opportunities to participate in the world of film, television, and theater. Materials sought are plays, feature films, short films, and web series scripts. Prizes will include cash awards, grants

Author Talks

Poplar Bluff Author Fair—March 4, 2023

The Poplar Bluff (Missouri) Library will hold their Eighth Annual Author Fair on Saturday, March 4, 2023, from 10 am to 2 pm. The purpose of the event is to connect authors with new readers and for library patrons to discover new books they would like to read. Individual authors and literary organizations can apply