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Events February 19 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award February 21 Gaithersburg Book Festival poetry Feb 21- 23 Romance Writing Virtual Conference, Writers Digest University February 22 Making the Personal Political with Sebastian Matthews February 27 Next Generation Short Story Awards February 27 Outer Banks: Writers at the Beach Winter 2025 February 27 How to Adapt a Book to Screenplay, Writers Digest University February 28 WOW! Women on Writing Contest February 28 Bill Hickok Humor Award for Poetry February 28 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction Award February 28 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Awards March 1 Pilgrimages - 2025 Travel Writing Contest March 1 Alex Albright Nonfiction Prize March 1-2 Genre Fiction Writers Conference March 2 New2theComp short story contest March 3 Bardsy Short Story Contest & Anthologies March 6 Improve Your Author Website, Writers Digest University March 12 5 Secrets to Fantastic Flash, Dinty W Moore March 13-15 Left Coast Crime 2025: Rocky Mountain High Jinks March 18 Charlotte Lit Build Your Freelance Writing Business March 26 - 29 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference March 28 Southwarkshire Literary Festival Creative Writing Competition March 31 Virginia Writers Project submissions for poetry, prose, history, and art March 31 Rubery Book Awards for self-published authors March 31 Little Kanawha Reading Series Chapbook Contest for poetry March 31 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award April 8 The Business of Being a Writer with Jane Friedman April 10-13 Hamptons Whodunit April 25-27 Malice Domestic Apr 29 - 30 ECPA Leadership Summit April 30 Oxford 42/ New Writing Prize 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 14-18 Sleuthfest May 15-18 Crimefest May 17 Gaithersburg Book Festival 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 30 To Hull And Back Humorous Short Story Competition July 10 MWW25 Summer Conference July 18-20 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference 2025 July 31 Anthologoy Short Story Competition Aug 21 - Aug 24 Killer Nashville writers conference Aug 27 - Sep 3 Craft & Publishing Voyage 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 October 18-19 The Morristown Festival of Books October 22- 26 Tremont Writers Conference in Townsend, TN November 7-9 New England Crime Bake November 9 Midwest Mystery Conference 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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