I’ve been posting almost daily since the Fall of 2014 and it’s time for a short break from blogging. I’ll be back before you know it! Around the end of May or beginning of June. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of great stuff to keep you busy while I’m […]
Matador Review is a fabulously designed online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago, Illinois. They publish poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art and are currently open for submissions of all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many […]
An interview with Program Director & Founder, Tyler Tsay, on what The Speakeasy Project brings to the writing world. What is The Speakeasy Project? The Speakeasy Project is an online workshop space for students of all ages. By offering workshops entirely online, we hope to bring the space […]
Literary Taxidermy’s Short Story Competition is open to any writing form and genre, including: satire, tragedy, science fiction, fantasy, suspense, detective, romance, hyper realism, magical realism, plain old realism, speculative fiction, flash fiction, meta-fiction, meta-meta-fiction, screenplay, poetry, etc. “This year’s competition is actually three contests in one. The first […]
Women Speak is a new project of artist Nancy Smith, in which she is “inviting women writers to create poetry or prose based on select paintings I’ve created to further explore the feminine experience.” I wondered how and why this project came to be, so I asked Smith and […]
I’m so grateful and utterly blown away by this in depth and thoughtful review of my chapbook Footnote by Janeen Pergrin Rastall published by Connotation Press this week. Rastall’s careful reading and insight captured so much of what I was after in this collection of poems. Her familiarity with the […]
Pretty Owl Poetry “is a journal that publishes new, emerging, and established writers in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts.” The issues are published in PDF format and are free to read online. Not only did Pretty Owl publish my poem “And Finished knowing – then –” in […]
