Category: Call for Submissions

FREE Entry – Reader's Digest Poetry Contest (Deadline 1/30/15)

Don’t miss out on this free to enter contest from Reader’s Digest! The form is easy to complete. DEADLINE: January 30, 2015, Midnight Eastern Time NOTE: You must reside in the U.S. to enter. “Dazzle us with your best poem, 15 lines or fewer. One grand-prize winner will […]

FREE Entry – Reader’s Digest Poetry Contest (Deadline 1/30/15)

Don’t miss out on this free to enter contest from Reader’s Digest! The form is easy to complete. DEADLINE: January 30, 2015, Midnight Eastern Time NOTE: You must reside in the U.S. to enter. “Dazzle us with your best poem, 15 lines or fewer. One grand-prize winner will […]

Two poems published in Switch (the Difference) by Kind of a Hurricane Press

“Prima Facie” and “The Day You Were Born” were selected for this Switch (the Difference) by Kind of a Hurricane Press. Check it out and download a free e-copy or order a paperback on Amazon for $8. Kind of a Hurricane Press always has submission calls lined up […]

Call for Submissions – Degenerates: Voices for Peace anthology

This call is for the second issue of Degenerates: Voices for Peace. You can purchase the first anthology in print or read it for free here  and includes my poem “Breast-giver” on page 33. The editor is a pleasure to work with and I’m looking forward to submitting […]

FREE – 6th Annual Spirit First Poetry Contest with $450 in prizes: Deadline 1/31/15

Poets, don’t miss this opportunity to submit your poetry to Spirit First with a theme of Meditation, Mindfulness, Silence, Stillness or Peaceful Solitude. You can view the 2014 Contest Results to see what the judges are looking for. You may enter up to three unpublished poems in any […]

Paying/Non-paying Submission Calls – Deadlines Jan. and Feb. 2015

Several of these are paying markets. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of closest deadlines. Before submitting, read my Submission Tips and to check other paying markets for emerging writers and how they […]

Print Journals that Accept Online Submissions

A big thank you to Diane Lockward for posting such a great list on her poetry blog! (It’s one less list for me to create.) She recently updated the list just a couple of months ago and provides links to each journal, frequency of publication, and reading periods. […]

Calls for Submissions – Dink Press is looking for poetry, drama, artwork, and photography

This fledgling press needs submissions! “Dink Publishing is an extremely small scale press dedicated to promoting poetry, art, and photography.  At the moment Dink will primarily publish our zine, DINK MAG, as well as various other zines and chapbooks.” Click here to submit!

Call for Chapbook Submissions – Porkbelly Press, Deadline January 31

Click here for their  Submission Guidelines. If you like this post, please share with your writerly friends and/or follow  my blog or  like my Facebook page.

Four of my poems published in Verse-Virtual's January issue . . .

So pleased to have four of my poems "A Leveling," "Diamond-Shaped Shadows," and "Prima Facie," and “In a Room Made of Poetry” published along with other amazing authors in the January issue of Verse-Virtual. Also, make sure not to miss the editor’s note, a brief and lovely homage to a World […]

Trish Hopkinson