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.
This list from Hyacinth Girl Press is a great place to start if you’re looking for chapbooks to send to friends/family as holiday gifts or as a better greeting card! Cards are often overpriced and quickly discarded. Why not send a book of poetry instead! I’m thrilled that […]
A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or […]
Empty Mirror is an online literary and arts magazine established in 2000 that publishes poetry, essays on literary or art-related topics, criticism, personal essays, articles, features, book reviews, interviews, and art. While their interests are broad, they also have special interests in the Beat Generation and Surrealism. I wondered how […]
Big thanks to Bekah and Shannon Steimel for this lovely interview and feature of my poem “Resurrection Party” which was originally published on Tinderbox. Read below to see what other local poetry projects I’m up to and make sure to check out all the poet interviews on Bekah’s […]
When I got a "real world" job after years of intermittently waitressing and staying at home, I stopped writing. Not because I wanted to. I found myself so drained of inspiration that I simply couldn't put pen to paper. Instead, I spent my days rushing to get my […]
Outlook Springs is a fairly new bi-annual, print and online literary journal “transmitted from the town of Outlook Springs, New Hampshire, which may or may not exist in one or more alternate dimensions.” They don’t charge submission fees and they pay their contributors, $25 fiction/non-fiction and $10 per poem + a contributor […]
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 from December 15, 2018 – January 15, 2019. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The […]
I’m so grateful of the reading and work that went into this in depth and thoughtful review of my chapbook Footnote by Deborah Hauser published by Stirring, one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet. And they are always open for submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. A […]
I went to a good poetry reading the other evening. But, boy, I wish I the poet hadn't kept doing things that undermined his own presentation of his own work. The poet violated almost every rule in my unwritten how-to-do-a-poetry-reading rule book. Which spurred me to write down […]
Below are the details for fifteen free poetry contests in the order of the upcoming deadlines in December 2018. The contests are listed in order of deadline and in two sections: 1) open to most, 2) open to specific region, identity, etc. Also listed are links to other […]
