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 not already familiar with Clifford Garstang‘s annual literary magazine rankings or you’ve forgotten to check them out for a while, here’s a reminder to how handy they are! Every year Garstang ranks lit mags based on Pushcart Prize anthology. He creates rankings for the three main […]
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, 2017 – January 15, 2018. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The […]
Working with The Light Ekphrastic was such an amazing experience and the results are incredible. I’m blown away by the quality of poetry and art in this issue, and truly honored to have been able to work with such a creative and inspiring artist, Teresa Duggan. The process […]
Working with The Light Ekphrastic was such an amazing experience and the results are incredible. I’m blown away by the quality of poetry and art in this issue, and truly honored to have been able to work with such a creative and inspiring artist, Teresa Duggan. The process […]
Hellscape Press is an new online journal published bi-annually currently accepting submissions for their second issue. “We are looking for l'appeldu vide; work that evokes sublime horror & dread without any of those tired tropes. We want work that reveals the true terror of human existence.” I wondered how and […]
When I first got serious about writing poetry (2003-ish), the measures of success seemed relatively simple: delight in the writing process, publish poems in journals, win a book contest and find a poetry community. While all have been elusive at various times and in varying degrees, the only one that's […]
Hematopoiesis Press is an new online literary magazine currently accepting submissions for their third issue, with the theme Scarification: “We are not asking for a universal story of scarification. Rather overlap, overlap, lineage, nonlinear, lines, lines, lines, on the body, or often not on the body, where are the […]
Noctua Review is the annual art and literary magazine produced by the Southern Connecticut State University MFA program. It was the brain child of Graduate Student (now Professor) Lois Lake Church and launched its inaugural issue in 2008. Their theme for 2018 is “Instinct”: “Moving with the heart, not […]
Inklette “is a not-for-profit, online literary magazine helmed by emerging artists and writers from all over. Inklette believes in the ability of art and literature to strike our consciousness in inexplicable ways.” The magazine was started as an e-newsletter by Devanshi Khetarpal in March 2014. They are currently open for submissions […]
I’m excited to announce my erasure poem “Redacted” is published online at the Erase-Transform Poetry Project. They are currently taking submissions of found poetry hidden in the inaugural speech. “Beginning with the inauguration speech, we seek submissions that take that rhetoric and draw out life-affirming poetry.” I was curious how and why […]
