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2025 stats & Giving Tuesday email
Find the full calendar here.
The wildness continues at the WW. Our plans for 2026 are so big and full and exciting that I couldn't fit them all into the January mailer. Instead, they're HERE (with a calendar inside!).
Meanwhile... we have openings for Spring and Summer Internship programs, plus poetry readers and a CNF editor for WayWords, a Social Media Manager, and other staff roles. Learn about these positions here.
OPEN CALLS:
Head's up, we changed our submissions guidelines! We'll keep the popup active on the Potluck and WayWords pages through this first quarter's call and through March for the Tales page.
Fiction Potluck is OPEN for "endings with a twist"
Read more about this quarter's guest judge, David Klotzkin, and check out his advice.
Closing February 15
See the finalists on March 7.
Join us for Fiction Potluck Friday on March 20.
WayWords is OPEN for "habits"
Closing February 20
Issue 21 is in review. Our reading team and editors are reviewing all submissions. We'll be in touch in early February.
Issue 20, Messy, is published in digital and print!
Coming soon:
FEST RETURNS! We're working on another amazing FEST for 2026 with Events during the week and judging on the weekends. Registration opens March 1 with the first of three Events starting March 30.
Want to be a judge? Apply for our Spring Internship or contact me.
Join us FEBRUARY 23 for a Fest Mock Event!
2026 CONFERENCE is March 23-29!!
Past playlists are still available.
Writer's Games registration will open in MAY 2026 with Events in June and July.
Check the overall and Event winners on the Games and Archive pages. The 2025 anthology, vol. 13 of 72 Hours, is published in digital and print!
Tales will return with a new theme on March 1.
Tales from the Unknown is NOW AVAILABLE in digital and print!
Check the Tales page for cover, Pushcart Nominees, and links.
We hit NUMBER ONE in New Releases for the second year in a row!
Around WW:
Our focal topic in February explains feedback: differences between helpful and harmful, how to dissect it, and tips to help you help others. Ash also breaks down some survey results in her pursuit of the very best feedback, all on February 5.
Neurodivergent writers might find clarity (and tips!!) in Karen's Craft & Chaos series, available in the resources tab.
Welcome back, Indie Author Spotlight! Contact us to be featured.
Join us on Discord for write-ins, chats, and fun times.
Find quick access to announcements from any page through the pinned note at the top.
Happy writing!
—Theresa
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