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.
I’m so excited to be judging this contest this year along with two other talented and wonderful poets, M. Brett Gaffney and Helen Townsend. You can read samples of our work featured in July here. We’ve already started receiving some wonderful submissions, so definitely send in your best! […]
Click the image below to read two of my poems, “Wouldn't a flyswatter be easier” and “South Side,” along with excellent work from fellow poetry contest judges M. Brett Gaffney and Helen Townsend on Poetry Super Highway. Watch for my official announcement of the Poetry Super Highway poetry contest later this […]
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poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art and are currently open for submissions of all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many […]
Make sure to check out the blog Publishing and Other Forms of Insanity. They post regular lists of places to submit on their Calls for Submissions page. End of July they posted an awesome list of free contests running in August. I've filtered the list to the remaining open contests and […]
This is a really cool prompt and submission opportunity from the folks at Golden Walkman Magazine for a project they are calling “Dialogue Submissions.” Every few months, they will publish a Dialogue Starter Issue with poetry and prose inspired by an original, contributor-provided piece of instrumental music. “Writers will have (1) […]
Loving this essay out in the new issue of Peculiar, Utah’s only queer lit mag. This one is by friend and local poet Matthew Jonassaint. Enjoy!
So pleased to have this little poem published in Silver Birch Press today…
Make sure to check out the blog Publishing and Other Forms of Insanity. They post regular lists of places to submit. Like this one: 24 Calls for Submissions in July 2016 - Paying Markets. End of June they posted an awesome list of free contests also running in […]
TODAY ONLY UNTIL 9PM EASTERN Black Warrior Review is not charging submission fees! get those subs in! After 9pm tonight and through September 1, 2016 Black Warrior Review (BRW) doesn’t charge subscribers fees for submitting, but they do charge non-subscribers a small admin fee of $3 to submit. Per […]
