Guilty pleasure confession: I love classic KISS. Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, and Paul Stanley. Yeah, the whole make-up, pyrotechnics, costumes, stunts, and usually loud songs KISS. They were my first rock band and they will always have a special place in my overly-nostalgic heart. This week I’ve been […]
The literary magazines/journals listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading fees, take online submissions, and have submission deadlines in October 2019. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of […]
I’m pleased to announce I’ll be presenting a session at the upcoming International Women’s Writing Guild conference coming up this October in New York City! In preparation for the event, they recently published a new article I wrote about submission strategies on their blog: Do I need a […]
As most of us poets know, it’s rarely cheap to enter your poems into contests or even submit them to literary magazines. Many contests come with sizable entry fees — and unfortunately, those contests often end up feeling more like scams when the prize isn’t quite worth the […]
Thanks to Donna Hilbert for this personal guest blog post reflecting on the events of September 11, 2001, originally posted in April 2016. A few days into a three-week vacation, on a train with friends returning from a day-trip to Florence to the house we were sharing in […]
This contest from Poetry Super Highway is a great opportunity for only $1 per poem to enter, especially since you can enter as many poems as you like. And the prize money is not too shabby! Last year the winners took home $529, $317, and $211 for first, […]
You’ve been writing poetry for a while, perhaps as a student or for your own pleasure and eventually you decided (or been encouraged) to submit somewhere for publication, and with some trepidation, you did. Lo and behold, your poem was accepted for publication and you saw your name […]
