Every database on this site says it is checked and refreshed on a schedule. This page is the receipt: the 66 records verified against their organisers' own pages, or newly added, in the 30 days to 26 Oct 2026. A record only earns a verified date when the deadline or submission window we list literally appears on the organiser's page that day. Records we cannot confirm keep a "to confirm" note instead; nothing is guessed at.
A deterministic script fetches each record's cited source page and requires the listed deadline or submission window to appear on it, character for character, before the record gets a verified date. When a page shows a different date, the record is corrected to match the page. When a URL dies, the record is flagged for human review rather than silently dropped. The provenance notes for each dataset live in the repository beside the data.
While you wait for that email
Writers' Deadline Database, $29
Contest, grant, magazine, residency and conference deadlines as spreadsheets and calendar files you own.