Barren Magazine is an online literary publication that features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and photography currently open for submissions for issue No. 11 with the theme of oppression, fervor, color, and community justice. Submissions are rolling and prompts are provided for each themed issue. Per their Info page, […]
Josh Medsker created a project about four years ago called Medskerpedia, and now he has started a new version of this pretty amazing poem-a-day practice–Medskerpedia Mark II. I wanted to know more about this new project, so I interviewed Medsker to find out what he is up to […]
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 […]
