USA TODAY - The next No Kings events will feature mass voter turnout efforts nationwide on Oct. 17, organizers announced. They have worked to build a nationwide network of advocates over the past 18 months, hoping to increase turnout ahead of the midterm elections. The No Kings coalition includes labor …

Celebrate the work of writer Mary Oliver, who published more than 30 collections of poetry and essays on nature, beauty, and love.

Submit to the Inverted Syntax Poetry Book Contests. The Sublingua Prize and Aggrey & Tabbikha Prize award publication, 25 author copies, a writing retreat, and $500. Deadline: September 20.

Enter the San Miguel Writers’ Conference Writing Contest for emerging writers. Submit poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction by September 15, 2026, for a chance to win a conference package valued at $1,795.

Poetries in English is on the hunt for the best poetry and prose for its inaugural Louise Glück Prize through December 25, 2026.

We were, I thought, as Karl Barthsaid about Mozart’s music, drawing weight and significancefrom the yes at our center that overpowered and contained a

Meet the Norwegian team behind FixQuotes. Since 2012, we have curated quotations, researched biographies, restored imagery, and built focused software.

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · August 17 · 1h 5m

African American employees tend to receive more scrutiny from their bosses than their white colleagues, meaning that small mistakes are more likely to be caught, which over time leads to worse perform...

For Stewart, this is what poetic process is: the closely observed emergence of empirical knowledge out of chaos,...

...her pastor drew water for her dunking. She’d been close-lipped. But her sisters turned her in. It’s how nymphs survive: we throw each other under the Word. She let the church lead her to water.

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 13 July · 1hr 31min

I was reading one of Jules Verne’s novels when I first experienced the magic of writing. The heroes had just crashed their balloon in the desert. The heat was relentless. They had run out of food d…