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.
My review of Pretty Owl Poetry’s Summer issue just went up on The Review Review! Just last year I sent a request to join the ranks of the literary reviewers on their site and this is the third lit mag they’ve asked me to read and write about. The first two were print issues, meaning, […]
This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of closest deadlines and have no submission fees. Deadlines are all in September. For a list of more places open year round and open now, check out […]
Long Exposure Magazine was founded in 2014 to feature creative writing, photography and other visual art, and explore the ways in which they can interact; how writing responds to other art forms and vice versa, and what new possibilities arise. They publish a wide range of poetry, flash fiction, photography, art […]
I used to be terrified of hope. Well, I was actually terrified of disappointment. But I saw hope as a seductive and deceptive force that enticed me to climb higher, making the inevitable fall hurt that much more. I started writing novels when I was twelve years old, […]
Entropy is a “website featuring literary & non-literary content. A website that seeks to engage with the literary community, that becomes its own community, and creates a space for literary & non-literary ideas.” In August they posted an article on where to submit in August and September. Click here to read […]
From the same press who launched the literary magazine Wildness, Platypus Press is announcing a new mini-chapbook project entitled 2412! To read more about the press and their editors, read their Masthead page here. I wondered how and why this mini chapbook project came to be, so I asked editor Michelle Tudor a few […]
And just when you thought you’d never take another internet quiz… Rob Carney presents a way to entertain and inspire his readers in this recent blog post “Take the A) Sex Quiz, B) Personality Test, or C) Quick Break from Busywork” for his series Old Roads, New Stories: A Blog […]
S-Curves is an online literary journal featuring work by Topanga Canyon writers as well as work from elsewhere. They publish works of short fiction, literary non fiction, poetry, and excerpts from longer works and works-in-progress. Photographers and artists are also encouraged to submit work. I wondered how and why this […]
Big thanks to Silver Birch Press for including this poem in their When I Moved series!
