I couldn’t be more delighted to be appearing on the Ask ALLi Advice Podcast for Self-Publishing Poetry! Orna Ross is a lovely host and human being, working hard to help poets and writers alike on their self-publishing journey. In this podcast we cover both traditional lit mag submissions […]
Updated May 2021. In past years for National Women’s Equality Day, I spent some time compiling a list of feminist lit mags and journals and have recently updated the list! You can support these organizations by sharing, reading, submitting to, or donating. Submit your feminist writing and/or contribute […]
Viral Imaginations: COVID-19 is a new online project of Pennsylvania State University State presented as “a gallery and archive about Pennsylvanians’ experiences during coronavirus.” They are currently open to current or previous Pennsylvania residents for submissions of visual art and creative writing on an ongoing basis. The gallery […]
An amazing thing happened last week! I was nominated for the third year in a row! Thanks to my readers who nominated my site for inclusion in this helpful list curated by the generous folks at The Write Life. This year they added anew section devoted to Black […]
In my thirty years of writing, I had only published four poetry book reviews until last year. So ending the year with sixteen reviews written and published took a major shift in attitude and practice. You could do this too. why review Reviewing is certainly about being a […]
My review of Titania in Yellow by Dayna Patterson was just published in Tinderbox, a poetry journal that publishes online quarterly issues of poetry, book reviews, and interviews with poets. This review was a unique and amazing experience, in that it was a review exchange–Patterson and I had chapbooks […]
Couplet Poetry is a new online literary journal “dedicated to publishing two poems (a couplet) by one author that rhyme (thematically or sonically), pair, complement, juxtapose, hold hands, translate or otherwise couple with one another.” They are currently open for submissions of poetry for their first issue until […]
Miniskirt Magazine is a new online literary magazine with the tagline “your destination for love & romance.” They are currently open for submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, flash prose, and visual art for their first issue until February 14. See my interview with Editor-in-Chief Kimberly Glanzman and […]
Lucky Jefferson is an online literary journal founded in 2018 currently open for submissions of poetry with the theme: If instruments could speak, what would they say? They have a quick response time of just 3-4 weeks. “Lucky Jefferson isn’t your typical literary journal—we generate constructive and interactive conversations around […]
Today, I’m immersing myself in reading poems to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and listening to my favorite community radio station KRCL 90.9 FM streaming online as they play music and speech excerpts in his honor. You can also listen to the entirety of his “I Have a […]
