Call for Submissions – National Poetry Month

Posted on 03/14/202204/11/2022 by Ryan Collins

Calling all QC poets! Dead Poets Espresso & the Midwest Writing Center are partnering to feature local poets’ work during April, which is National Poetry Month.

The selected poems will be featured at Dead Poet’s Espresso (1525 3rd Ave A, Moline, IL) and the Moline Public Library throughout the month of April. If enough submissions are received, additional poems will be selected and rotated throughout the month. We are also looking for other partner venues to showcase the poems—if you are interested in hosting, please contact MWC.

Iron Pen Contest 2022 – Selections Announced, Awards Reading Sat. 3/12

Posted on 03/10/202203/28/2022 by Ryan Collins

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in Iron Pen 2022. We received many terrific entries from writers across a record 16 states, and our judges had difficult decisions to make in their evaluations with such strong and various work in each category. Without any further ado, here are the winners of the 2022 Iron Pen Contest, by category:

Iron Pen 2022 – Rules, Submission Info, and Prompt

Posted on 02/25/202203/14/2022 by Ryan Collins

Thank you all very much for participating in the fastest writing contest in the Midwest! We appreciate your writing courage & quick imagination, and we look forward to seeing all of your terrific submissions. Click here for complete guidelines and the prompt…