Erika Dreifus

Each week in this space, Practicing Writing shares no-fee, paying markets for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction: competitions, contests, and calls for submissions. These weekly posts complement monthly issues of The Practicing Writer newsletter, where you’ll always find more listings, none of them limiting eligibility to residents of a single municipality, state, or province. (But this blog does share those more localized opportunities, including jobs.)

As always, if you’d like to share a specific opportunity listed here, please credit the blog for the find. Thanks for respecting the time and effort that I put into researching, curating, and posting this information! I do notice, and I appreciate the courtesy.

• This is the last Monday in February, which means that by this time next week, the March edition of The Practicing Writer 2.0 will have gone out to subscribers. If you’re not yet a subscriber, it’s never too late to join us! And be sure you haven’t missed any of the still-open opportunities (all fee-free; all paying/funded) listed in the February issue, as well as those posted here on Practicing Writing since then.
• Dream Theory Media is open until February 28: “We’re looking for submissions 300 to 1,000 words in length, from new or experienced authors. We may run ‘themes’ per submission period, and submitted stories must conform to that theme.  For our first submission period, there is no specific theme. We accept submissions for speculative and literary fiction. Unless precluded by any thematic limitations, let your imagination run wild.” Pays: $30.
• “The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (MOAC), City of Boston, in partnership with the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC), is excited to announce the 2025 FAWC Summer Workshop Scholarships opportunity for emerging poets who live and/or work in Boston to participate in FAWC’s 2025 Summer Workshop Program.” Scholarships include “full tuition, housing, and a $500 travel/food stipend.” Apply by March 3.
• “Georgia Writers Association’s LGBTQIA+ Literary Success Grants are designed to encourage and amplify the voices of LGBTQIA+ youth (18-24) in Georgia….We believe that by promoting these young queer voices state-and nationwide, we will offer models for success that all young queer people in the state of Georgia can aspire to. Generously supported by the Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA), the four LGBTQIA+ Literary Success Grants will be awarded annually, one each in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and screenwriting. Winning recipients will receive $500 each, and a full scholarship to attend and read their work at the 2025 Red Clay Writers Conference.” Deadline: March 10.
• The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion section “is looking for a talented editor to join our book review team in New York as an Assistant Books Editor.” No application deadline indicated. Salary: “$75,000 – $95,000.” (Hat tip: MEOjobs of the Week.)
• Publishers Weekly is advertising for an Assistant News Editor. For this hybrid position, “candidate must be located in the greater New York City area and able to commute semi-regularly to Manhattan and Brooklyn.” No application deadline indicated. Salary: $45,000.
• Bookshop.org is hiring a Social Media Manager. No deadline indicated. “The starting salary for this position is between $60-78,000. At this time, Bookshop.org is 100% remote.”
• In Chicago, the Poetry Foundation seeks a part-time Guest Experience Assistant to work “10 hours per week, five hours on Thursday afternoons/evenings  and 12-5 PM on Saturdays.” Compensation: $19/hour. No deadline indicated.
• Southern Illinois University Carbondale is advertising a position for an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Fiction Writing, tenured/tenure-track. Deadline: March 15.
• In Oklahoma, “the Department of Languages and Literature at Northeastern State University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Poetry Writing.” Deadline: March 24.
• In Massachusetts, “the Department of English at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time one-year visiting appointment in Creative Writing-Nonfiction to begin in August 2025.” Application closing date: April 1. 
• “The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a one year Visiting Assistant Professor in English (with the possibility to renew for a second year) with a specialization in Creative Writing (Fiction), to begin Fall 2025.” Deadline: “Priority will be given to applications should be received by April 1.”