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.
If you're angsty. Because you want details, not narrative. Because you want to sound smarter than you are. Because you want to, no one can make you. You're Charles Dickens. These are some of the answers my high school students offered me when I asked why they think […]
We all receive many more rejections than acceptances. I recently learned that there are ways to help interpret the rejections literary magazines and journals send your way. Rejections actually come in many forms, including standard forms, tiered, and personal. Specifically, a “tiered” rejection means the lit mag sends out […]
The British Library via Flikr now offers a huge variety and multiple albums to browse through of illustrations and art that are completely public domain and free to use! From beautiful typography, to bazaar illustrations, book covers, cycling, architecture, decorative papers, and so much more–the possibilities are endless. I’m […]
Want to get published while supporting an awesome feminist lit mag? The Fem is now taking articles for their new blog! Send them your pitch or finished article…
This awesome series at Silver Birch Press has been extended! Go check out some of the great work published in their current series and send in your own by May 15! They are accepting both poetry and short prose.
Reservoir, is a new semi-annual, online literary journal. They publish poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and art. New issues are released in the summer and in the winter. To read their inaugural issue, click here. For more info on how to submit to literary magazine and journals, read my Submission Tips […]
Deadline extended to July 15, 2016!
In developing a new haiku style of poetry, I had to come up with a name. During my investigations into the history of haiku (l) I came across two Japanese words that I have chosen to describe this new style; Shashin, meaning photograph and Kaku, meaning picture (to […]
In developing a new haiku style of poetry, I had to come up with a name. During my investigations into the history of haiku (l) I came across two Japanese words that I have chosen to describe this new style; Shashin, meaning photograph and Kaku, meaning picture (to […]
