Trish Hopkinson is a poet and literary arts advocate. You can find her online at SelfishPoet.com and provisionally in Colorado, where she runs the regional poetry group Rock Canyon Poets, curates Poetry Happens for KRCL 90.9 FM, and is a Poetry Reader for The Adroit Journal. Her poetry has been published in several magazines and journals, including Sugar House Review, Glass Poetry Press, and The Penn Review; and her fourth chapbook Almost Famous was published by Yavanika Press in 2019. Hopkinson happily answers to labels such as atheist, feminist, and empty nester; and enjoys traveling, live music, and craft beer.
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 $593, $355, and $237 for first, second, […]
This exceptional weekly contest by Poetry Nook is in its 146th week! Each week a poetry entry will be selected by Poetry Nook editors to win a generous $150 prize! In some cases, honorable mentions of $15 each may also be awarded. In order to enter, just register […]
I’m honored to be featured in 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine for their Read Local Sunday series along side other Utah writers such as Natasha Sajé and Jan Minich. The feature includes three of my poems: “Waiting Around,” “Temple City listens to Orlando,” and “Offspring;” and links to my chapbook Footnote, […]
I’m honored to be featured in 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine for their Read Local Sunday series along side other Utah writers such as Natasha Sajé and Jan Minich. The feature includes three of my poems: “Waiting Around,” “Temple City listens to Orlando,” and “Offspring;” and links to my chapbook Footnote, […]
As poets we write about topics that matter to us. These topics might be anything: race horses, the nature of the divine, our lover's hands, caterpillars, environmental degradation, or jazz trombone. And then there's always that one huge, delicate, and potentially difficult topic: family. How honest can we […]
Timeless Tales is a quarterly digital magazine exclusively publishing retellings of fairy tales and classic myths since 2013. The current submission window is open for stories (up to 2,000 words) and poems that fit with the theme Rumpelstiltskin. There is no fee to submit and the magazine pays a flat […]
Timeless Tales is a quarterly digital magazine exclusively publishing retellings of fairy tales and classic myths since 2013. The current submission window is open for stories (up to 2,000 words) and poems that fit with the theme Rumpelstiltskin. There is no fee to submit and the magazine pays a flat […]
Excellent tips in this article by fellow poet and blogger Erika Dreifus on the AWP web site last month. She reflects on her experience tracking funds she received for poetry submissions in 2016 while participating in Jessica Piazza's Poetry Has Value project and provides the five ways she learned to […]
If you're blocked and can't write, what's the best way to get yourself pounding the keyboard again? Or let's say you're like me and you have a routine, so you force yourself to write even when you're blocked, only to discover you're producing dreck. What to do? Remedies […]
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 […]
