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Trish Hopkinson

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.

A List of Resources for Writers via Pen & Paper Writing Workshops

This great list of online resources curated by the folks at Pen & Paper Writing Workshops includes 9 sites I often frequent myself for places to submit, writing tips, prompts, etc. including my own blog! Special thanks to P&P for listing me among these other fine sites. “Here’s […]

A List of Resources for Writers via Pen & Paper Writing Workshops

This great list of online resources curated by the folks at Pen & Paper Writing Workshops includes 9 sites I often frequent myself for places to submit, writing tips, prompts, etc. including my own blog! Special thanks to P&P for listing me among these other fine sites. “Here’s […]

Wildly popular poets – guest blog post by Sandra de Helen

Every once in a great while a poet comes along who captures a huge following and the rest of us feel all the feels. (Jealously, envy, rage at the injustice, happiness that at least people are reading poetry.) The last time this happened in the United States was […]

NO FEE Chapbook call & editor interview – Glass Poetry Press, DEADLINE: March 31, 2018

 Glass Poetry Press is a micro-press in Toledo, Ohio that publishes poetry chapbooks. They also publish the online poetry journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Their chapbooks are beautiful designed, hand-bound, and side stapled with full-color card stock covers. Their initial print runs are 200 copies and each chapbook will […]

NO FEE Chapbook call & editor interview – Glass Poetry Press, DEADLINE: March 31, 2018

 Glass Poetry Press is a micro-press in Toledo, Ohio that publishes poetry chapbooks. They also publish the online poetry journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Their chapbooks are beautiful designed, hand-bound, and side stapled with full-color card stock covers. Their initial print runs are 200 copies and each chapbook will […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Underblong, DEADLINE: Open year-round

Underblong is an intriguing new online poetry journal recently founded by poets Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein. Their second issue just went live and is bursting with incredible poetry! Make sure not to miss the audio recordings of the poets reading their poems. There’s just simply nothing better than […]

NO FEE Submission call & editor interview – Toasted Cheese, DEADLINE: March 31, 2018 (rolling)

Toasted Cheese is an online literary journal founded in 2001. They publish flash fiction, fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. They accept approximately 5% of the submissions they receive and encourage unpublished writers to submit. I wondered how and why this journal came to be, so I asked Toasted Cheese editor Stephanie […]

NO FEE Submission call & editor interview – Toasted Cheese, DEADLINE: March 31, 2018 (rolling)

Toasted Cheese is an online literary journal founded in 2001. They publish flash fiction, fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. They accept approximately 5% of the submissions they receive and encourage unpublished writers to submit. I wondered how and why this journal came to be, so I asked Toasted Cheese editor Stephanie […]

My poem “My matter” published in Whale Road Review, Spring 2018 Issue

I couldn’t be more honored than to have my poem “My matter” published along side such wonderful company in the Spring 2018 issue of Whale Road Review. “These pieces will take you from Mardi Gras to Easter, from giraffe procreation to elephant extinction, from childhood memories to dust […]

My poem "My matter" published in Whale Road Review, Spring 2018 Issue

I couldn’t be more honored than to have my poem “My matter” published along side such wonderful company in the Spring 2018 issue of Whale Road Review. “These pieces will take you from Mardi Gras to Easter, from giraffe procreation to elephant extinction, from childhood memories to dust […]