Category: Interviews

My poem "Bone Music" published in Contrary + PAYING/NO FEE submission call & interview

I’m pleased to announce my poem “Bone Music” was published in the new Winter 2018 issue of Contrary Magazine. This poem is the second to be published from a series of personal poems about healing and recovery. Two years ago my son (21 at the time) was in […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Kettle Blue Review, DEADLINE: Always Open

Kettle Blue Review is an independent online literary journal founded in 2014 by co-editors Lana Rakhman and Virginia Smith Rice. KBR is published biannually, and strives to be inclusive in its presentation of contemporary poetic voices. Their most recent issue from fall of 2017 includes work from Maggie Smith, Ace […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – FIVE:2:ONE, DEADLINE: Always open

FIVE:2:ONE publishes quarterly print issues of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, art and interviews. They also publish an online daily journal #thesideshow, where they’d love to receive more submissions of visual, audio, and video poetry. They accept submissions year round. I wondered how and why this lit mag came to […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Cotton Xenomorph, DEADLINE: Rolling (always open)

Cotton Xenomorph is a quarterly online journal that publishes poetry, fiction, and visual art. They publish accepted pieces every few days on their site and then publish a compilation of all the work in a quarterly PDF issue. Their tagline is “No Creeps” and while they support a social […]

FREE Poetry email newsletter + interview with Erica Goss

Erica Goss recently told me about a new poetry email newsletter she’s starting for 2018, so of course, I needed to know more! See my interview with Goss along with how to sign up for the newsletter below. Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, CA from […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Ramingo's Porch, DEADLINE: Jan. 26, 2018

Ramingo's Porch is a new quarterly print journal of poetry, prose, and art. It is “a collaboration between Mendes Biondo (RamingoBlog), Catfish McDaris (EveryDamnWhere), and Marc Pietrzykowski (Pski'sPorch), a new journal of poetry, prose, drama, non-fiction, art, and whatever else we find worthwhile.” Their first issue just came out […]

NO FEE Submission call + interview – Screen Door Review, DEADLINE: Jan. 15, 2018

Screen Door Review is a new quarterly literary magazine that publishes poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and comics authored by individuals belonging to the southern queer (lgbtq) community of the United States. They are open year round for submissions, but will finish reading for their first issue coming out […]

NO FEE Submission call + interview – Ink&Nebula, DEADLINE: Jan. 1, 2018

Ink&Nebula is a new poetry journal “for established voices (Ink) and holding particular space for emerging ones (Nebula).” They accept submissions from both published (Ink submission) and previously unpublished poets (Nebula submission). By previously unpublished they mean “poets who do not have work that has been published by someone […]

NO FEE Submission call + interview – Ink&Nebula, DEADLINE: Jan. 1, 2018

Ink&Nebula is a new poetry journal “for established voices (Ink) and holding particular space for emerging ones (Nebula).” They accept submissions from both published (Ink submission) and previously unpublished poets (Nebula submission). By previously unpublished they mean “poets who do not have work that has been published by someone […]

NO FEE Submission call + interview – Hellscape Press, DEADLINE: Jan. 1, 2018

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 […]