Month: July 2016

Answering Blindness: A Poet Makes Amends – guest blog post by Emily K. Michael

Today I am preparing submissions for two local venues -- an online journal and a quarterly print magazine. Each publication asks for a brief cover letter: Introduce yourself and describe your publication history. Introducing myself is easy. I’m Emily, a college writing instructor and local musician. I sing. […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call and interview – Hourglass Literary Magazine, DEADLINE: July 15, 2016

Hourglass Literary Magazine is an annual and bilingual magazine which is being published in print and digital form in English as well as the languages of the BCMS region (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, and Montenegro). They also run an annual literary contest for best short story, essay, poem. I wondered […]

My review of Nicole Rollender's 'Louder Than Everything You Love' published by Yellow Chair Press + their free weekly poetry contest!

My review of Louder Than Everything You Love by Nicole Rollender just went up on Yellow Chair Review! “Rollender brings us in close, provides visions and imagery so full and real I came to know these women, stood in their kitchens, felt their ghosts drift across my bones. There's both […]

My review of Nicole Rollender’s ‘Louder Than Everything You Love’ published by Yellow Chair Press + their free weekly poetry contest!

My review of Louder Than Everything You Love by Nicole Rollender just went up on Yellow Chair Review! “Rollender brings us in close, provides visions and imagery so full and real I came to know these women, stood in their kitchens, felt their ghosts drift across my bones. There's both […]

Where to submit formal verse (rhyming, blank verse, villanelle, sonnet, etc.) – 6 new listings!

UPDATED JULY 7, 2016 Most editors are happy to answer questions regarding submissions. If a lit mag seems like a good fit for your work and it happens to be a specific form, such as rhyming, blank verse, villanelle, sonnet, pantoum, light verse, etc. contact them via email […]

NO FEE Submission call for Luna Luna special issues, DEADLINES: July 11 & Aug. 15, 2016

Luna Luna is an online magazine “divided into two very generalized sections: dark and light. It is not a perfect binary; much of what we explore falls in between. For us, the light is where we talk art and opinion, growth and creativity. The dark may be those things […]

NO FEE Submission call for Luna Luna special issues, DEADLINES: July 11 & Aug. 15, 2016

Luna Luna is an online magazine “divided into two very generalized sections: dark and light. It is not a perfect binary; much of what we explore falls in between. For us, the light is where we talk art and opinion, growth and creativity. The dark may be those things […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call and interview – Feminine Inquiry, DEADLINES: July 5 & July 20, 2016

Feminine Inquiry is a feminist literary and arts zine founded in Austin, Texas by a group of like-minded folks. They are an intersectional zine focused on highlighting the work of women, trans* folk, genderqueer people, people of color, those under the LGBT umbrella, those disabled, etc. They want to […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call and interview – Feminine Inquiry, DEADLINES: July 5 & July 20, 2016

Feminine Inquiry is a feminist literary and arts zine founded in Austin, Texas by a group of like-minded folks. They are an intersectional zine focused on highlighting the work of women, trans* folk, genderqueer people, people of color, those under the LGBT umbrella, those disabled, etc. They want to […]

Fireworks and political science by Rob Carney, guest blog post on Terrain.org

Rob Carney shares a story of working at a fireworks stand and the interesting way the fireworks were titled and promoted in his July blog post for his series Old Roads, New Stories: A Blog Series on Terrain.org. The blog posts are short and full of writing inspiration. This post provides […]

Trish Hopkinson