Category: Interviews

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poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art and are currently open for submissions of all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many […]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 […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call and interview – The Chaotic Review

The Chaotic Review is a new online literary magazine seeking poems in any form, but they do particularly enjoy prose poems and published one of mine earlier this week, along with several others. I wondered how and why this new lit mag came to be, so I asked editor […]

NO FEE Submission Call and a personal self-interview with Crab Fat Mag’s founder Caseyrenée, DEADLINE: June 15, 2016

Exciting changes and a submission call for an upcoming special issue, plus how and why Crab Fat Magazine got started. Read all the details in Caseyrenée’s self-interview below . . . I often talk to myself, sometimes even out loud, but most of time I'm just quietly freaking out inside my […]

NO FEE Submission Call and a personal self-interview with Crab Fat Mag's founder Caseyrenée, DEADLINE: June 15, 2016

Exciting changes and a submission call for an upcoming special issue, plus how and why Crab Fat Magazine got started. Read all the details in Caseyrenée’s self-interview below . . . I often talk to myself, sometimes even out loud, but most of time I'm just quietly freaking out inside my […]

Poetry, collaboration, and feminism . . . Les Femmes Folles interviews Trish Hopkinson

Many, many thanks to Les Femmes Folles for all they are doing for women writers, artists, musicians, and performers. I so enjoyed the interview process with their curator Sally Deskins. Keep an eye on this organization–they are accomplishing great things! The interview includes two of my poems, “Waiting Around” […]

Trish Hopkinson