Category: Interviews

NO FEE Submission call and interview – Wicked Banshee Press, DEADLINES: Sept. 30 & Dec. 31, 2016

Wicked Banshee Press is a an online lit mag and seeking submissions for three upcoming issues. They are “dedicated to shining a light on voices that normally don’t get a lot of opportunities in the literary world. Things are changing, we are hoping to be a catalyst for the positive […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call and interview – Come As You Are (90s themed) anthology, DEADLINE: August 31, 2016

Come As You Are is a forthcoming 90s themed anthology edited by E. Kristen Anderson with the help of Samantha Duncan and ELJ Publications. They are seeking submissions of poetry, micro and flash fiction, flash essay (lyric essay especially), and hybrid works of no more than 750 words. I wondered how […]

NO FEE Submission call and interview – SHANTIH Journal, DEADLINE: Sept. 2, 2016

SHANTIH Journal is a new online lit mag and seeking submissions of poetry, prose, drama, visual art, and translations for their second issue. I wondered how and why this new lit mag came to be, so I asked founder David White and he kindly replied. See my interview with White and submission guidelines below. […]

The SAFTAcast with Scott “C” Fynboe (A Sundress Academy for the Arts Production)

If you have yet to tune into a SAFTAcast episode, you’re truly missing out! This completely different approach to interviewing poets and writers is nothing but a good time. Host Scott “C” Fynboe interviews guests without really talking about writing. Instead, he has lively conversations about anything and everything […]

The SAFTAcast with Scott "C" Fynboe (A Sundress Academy for the Arts Production)

If you have yet to tune into a SAFTAcast episode, you’re truly missing out! This completely different approach to interviewing poets and writers is nothing but a good time. Host Scott “C” Fynboe interviews guests without really talking about writing. Instead, he has lively conversations about anything and everything […]

Live conversation with poetry contest judges (including me)! THIS SUNDAY 8/14/16 online w/ Poetry Super Highway @ 2pm Pacific

I’m so excited to be judging this contest this year along with two talented and wonderful poets, M. Brett Gaffney and Helen Townsend. This Sunday @ 2pm Pacific we will be live on the air with Rick Lupert of Poetry Super Highway reading poems, having a conversation about […]

NO FEE Submission call and interview – Matador Review, DEADLINE: August 31, 2016

Matador Review is a fabulously designed online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago, Illinois. They publish poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art and are currently open for submissions of all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call and interview – Hourglass Literary Magazine, DEADLINE: July 15, 2016

Hourglass Literary Magazine is an annual and bilingual magazine which is being published in print and digital form in English as well as the languages of the BCMS region (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, and Montenegro). They also run an annual literary contest for best short story, essay, poem. I wondered […]

NO FEE Submission calls + editor interview for Thank You for Swallowing, NEXT DEADLINE: June 30, 2016

Thank You for Swallowing is a fairly new online lit mag described as a “protest in poems.” They have several themed submission calls currently open. The themes for the next few issues are: Blood (due 30 June) Guns (due 30 July) Fear (due 30 August) Toxic masculinity (due […]

What are the Tandem Reader Awards and how are they helping poets?

I’m blown away by the importance and the meaning packed into this project. The folks at the Tandem Reader Awards have attracted support from some outstanding literary community presses and lit mags, such as Milkweed Editions, Copper Canyon Press, Sundress Publications, and poets and artists such as, Kaveh Akbar, Siaara Freeman, Megan […]

Trish Hopkinson