We’re getting ready for the 2025 Writing Contests!
Adult Contest Open: March 1
Adult Contest Close: March 31
Adult Contest Award Ceremony: April 24
Youth Contest Open: September
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Writing can be more than words on paper. It can be your therapist, your love, and if you choose, your profession. Think about it. You won’t know until you try.
– Nancy Van Sant
Featured Writings
from our Pickens writers
Sassafras Literary Exchange is Born
In 1981 the Sassafras Literary Exchange began with a small group of Pickens County Residents….
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Letter Writing – The Forgotten Art
Writing letters should be an important part of every writer’s life. Since writing is putting your thoughts on paper…
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Keeping Readers
Hooked
The key to creating the unexpected in character, setting or plot is that you control reader response….
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News and Recent Writings by our Local Authors
- Fiction Winner – 2025 Adult Writing Contest
Congratulations to Mary Jo Brown on earning first place in fiction for her short story, Rejected, in the 2025 Sassafras Literary Adult Writing Contest! Here … - Nonfiction Winner – 2025 Adult Writing Contest
Congratulations to Lora Bunch Carr on earning first place in Nonfiction for her story, Watermelon Patch Sittin’, in the 2025 Sassafras Literary Adult Writing Contest! … - Poetry Winner – 2025 Adult Writing Contest
Congratulations to Lynn Kaiser Conrad on earning first place in poetry for her poem, Tropical Depression, in the 2025 Sassafras Literary Adult Writing Contest! Here … - 2025 Adult Writing Contest Winners
Sassafras Literary brought back the adult writing contest for 2025! Pickens County writers submitted their original work in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. First, we’d like …