Trish Hopkinson is a poet, blogger, and advocate for the literary arts. You can find her online at SelfishPoet.com and provisionally in Utah, where she runs the regional poetry group Rock Canyon Poets and folds poems to fill Poemball machines for Provo Poetry. Her poetry has been published in several lit mags and journals, including Tinderbox, Glass Poetry Press, and The Penn Review; her third chapbook Footnote was published by Lithic Press in 2017. Hopkinson will happily answer to labels such as atheist, feminist, and empty nester; and enjoys traveling, live music, wine-tasting, and craft beer.
Thimble is a new online literary magazine, featuring art, poetry, and short prose. They publish issues quarterly. I was curious how and why this art and literary magazine began, so I asked Editor-in-Chief Nadia Wolnisty a few questions to find out. See my interview with Wolnisty and a link […]
A few years ago, I wrote a post here about how to promote a book of poetry with a chronic illness or a disability. That post was a digest of ideas from my how-to book from Two Sylvias Press, PR for Poets. With everything going on, I thought […]
Origami Poems is a non-profit organization with a mission of “the encouragement of literature & the arts by bringing Free Poetry to everyone through the printing and distribution (world-wide) of free Origami micro-chapbooks as well as through poetry events, both of which engender increasing awareness of and appreciation for […]
The whorticulturalist is a new feminist online magazine “concerned with sex, love, power, money, and desire, this is a publication curated by women, and written mainly by women.” Of course, I needed to know more about how this magazine was created and what they’re looking for in submissions, […]
Cider Press Review is quarterly online poetry journal originally founded in 1999. They also publish the manuscript winners of the annual Cider Press Review Book Award and the Editors’ Prize for first or second book. They publish online issues four times per year–January, April, July, and October. I wondered […]
My favorite of the three is Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — “Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.” These two also do the trick and are simpler with less visual flare: […]
Tinderbox Poetry Journal was original founded six years ago and publishes online quarterly issues of poetry, book reviews, and interviews with poets. They recently launched a new special feature to accompany their quarterly issues entitled Gamma Knife. This themed feature is focused on “work living within the space […]
Blue Light Press, along with being a publisher, is a community. We are dedicated to the publication of poetry and flash fiction that is imagistic, inventive, emotionally honest, and pushes the language to a deeper level of insight. We are a group of poets, artists and musicians based […]
The literary magazines/journals and contests listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading fees, take online submissions, and have submission deadlines between May 10 and June 15, 2020. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. […]
Juniper is a new online poetry journal, published three times a year, in February, June and October. I love the simple, yet pleasing design of this web-based journal. It’s easy to navigate and easy to read. To get a feel for what types of poetry they publish, you […]
