I struggled to get my first novel, “The Beasts They Turned Away,” published. It was set on a dairy farm, embraced the Gothic, and included a lot of details about agriculture. It took a year and a half ...

Editor’s note: The third annual “Best in Rural Writing Contest” was presented by the rural literary journal The Milk House with promotional support from the Daily Yonder. “The Escapee’s Lover” by ...

Betty Brandt Passick is a Fairbank, Iowa native and award-winning author, currently residing in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.

I’ll reveal our new champion in a moment, but first, a little background. The Bulwer-Lytton contests challenge participants ...

The Howe Writing Center is thrilled to announce the winners of their Fall 2025 Creative Writing Contests. The first contest invited writers to submit a prose poem response to an artwork in the Faculty ...

When our school signed up for the Tadpole Press 100-Word Writing Contest, I saw it as more than just an enrichment activity. It was a chance to show every student that storytelling was for them. Not ...