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.
The literary magazines/journals listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading fees, take online submissions, and have submission deadlines between April 30 and May 31, 2020. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings […]
I’m so excited that my poem “Quentin Tarantino Loves The Grateful Dead” was just published in Drunk Monkeys special Pop Culture Issue! Happy to say I’m sharing pages with friends and fellow poets Amorak Huey, Cathleen Allyn Conway, Jen Karetnick, and Sarah Nichols. When I’ve read this poem to […]
Lily Poetry Review is a biannual literary journal available in print. They publish flash fiction, poetry, book reviews, and art. They are currently open for no fee submissions of poetry, flash fiction and art for their print journal. They also publish chapbooks and full length poetry books. To get […]
Paper Nautilus is a small press publishing chapbooks each year through two contests: the Vella Chapbook Prize, and the Debut Series Chapbook Prize. There is a reasonable fee for each contest, but if the fee is an economic hardship to an eligible submitter, please contact them, and they […]
Taco Bell Quarterly is “the literary magazine for the Taco Bell Arts and Letters. We're a reaction against everything. The gatekeepers. The taste-makers. The hipsters. Health food. Artists Who Wear Cute Scarves. Bitch-ass Wendy's. We seek to demystify what it means to literary, artistic, important, and elite.” Please […]
Many thanks to Gyroscope Review for publishing my poem “Things to Tell My Daughter” published in their Spring issue. Happy to say I’m sharing pages with friends and fellow poets Tom Montag and Wren Tuatha. Make sure to check out the other poems in this well-rounded issue, downloadable […]
This great list of National Poetry Month online open mics and readings curated by Devi Lockwood includes a list of online open mics, readings, classes, workshops, and prompts. I’m specifically watching for the next Self-ish open mic, and you can imagine why :). Also on the list, one […]
The WEIGHT Journal is a “literary blog for high school students who may similarly find themselves in need of a creative outlet. Everyone has something heavy to get off their chest.” They publish “all sorts of creative writing: poetry, slam poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, creative non-fiction, hybrid, […]
This great list of National Poetry Month resources curated by Northampton Poet Laureate Karen Skolfield for sheltering in, includes 12 categories with lists and links of sites I often frequent myself as well as many others with online readings, online workshops, podcasts & audio, writing tips, prompts, etc. […]
Every few seasons, I find myself pressed to scroll through the bindings of journals whose covers I shut long ago. These journals are full of poetry from various eras. A time when I first got the hang of compiling sentences together. A period during which I shifted from […]
