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Trish Hopkinson

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.

14 NO FEE Chapbook Publishers and other Chapbook Listings

Note: 2 of the listings below close for submissions on March 31, 2017… Hurry! The individual listings below are the chapbook publishers I found which do not charge submission fees, reading fees, or contest fees. The majority of chapbooks are published via contests and do typically require a […]

My poem "Breastgiver" published in BARED: Contemporary Art & Poetry on Bras & Breasts by Les Femmes Folles

I am honored to have my found poem “Breastgiver” published in this amazing poetry and art anthology BARED: Contemporary Art and Poetry on Bras and Breasts with so many wonderful writers and artists. Please note, this anthology is worth every penny, with 374 pages including stunning full color art and 170 […]

My poem “Breastgiver” published in BARED: Contemporary Art & Poetry on Bras & Breasts by Les Femmes Folles

I am honored to have my found poem “Breastgiver” published in this amazing poetry and art anthology BARED: Contemporary Art and Poetry on Bras and Breasts with so many wonderful writers and artists. Please note, this anthology is worth every penny, with 374 pages including stunning full color art and 170 […]

The Obligation to Be Happy–guest blog post by Nicole Rollender

Since the late 1970s, Linda Pastan has been writing "quiet" verse on marriage, family, parenting, and grief. While she was a senior at Radcliffe College, she won Mademoiselle's poetry prize (in case you didn't know, Sylvia Plath was the runner-up). Despite that success, for the next decade, Pastan put poetry aside […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview — Crips in Space special issue / Deaf Poets Society, DEADLINE: April 4, 2017

The Deaf Poets Society is a new online literary magazine featuring writers and artists with disabilities. They are currently seeking submissions of poetry, prose, cross-genre work, book reviews, and artwork for publication for their fourth issue with the theme of Crips in Space. They are looking for D/deaf and disabled perspectives and […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview — Wild Voices anthology, DEADLINE: Closes when full

Wildflower Poetry Press is an independent publisher of poetry books, specializing in short poetry & art. They publish collections of single poets, as well as anthologies. They are currently looking for short poems for their second volume of wild voices: an anthology of short poetry & art by women. Previously published poems […]

Where to submit formal verse (rhyming, blank verse, villanelle, sonnet, etc.)

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 + editor interview — FIVE:2:ONE, DEADLINE: Open year round

FIVE:2:ONE publishes quarterly print issues of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, art and interviews. They also publish an online daily journal #thesideshow, where they’d love to receive more submissions of visual, audio, and video poetry. They accept submissions year round. I wondered how and why this lit mag came to […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview — Rat’s Ass Review, DEADLINE: April 15, 2017

Rat’s Ass Review is an online poetry magazine published twice a year. This year they are also publishing poems for a special collection entitled Such an Ugly Time for the first 100 days of the new US administration. Their site includes some great resources for poets, including a page entitled […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview — Rat's Ass Review, DEADLINE: April 15, 2017

Rat’s Ass Review is an online poetry magazine published twice a year. This year they are also publishing poems for a special collection entitled Such an Ugly Time for the first 100 days of the new US administration. Their site includes some great resources for poets, including a page entitled […]