Category: Poetry Press

NO FEE Chapbook contest + editor interview – Literary Underground, DEADLINE: June 30, 2026

Here’s an exciting no fee poetry chapbook contest! Check out my interview with Michele McDannold, founder/publisher of The Literary Underground—a grassroots collective doing important work to highlight marginalized and outsider voices. If you’re ready to send out a poetry chapbook, their Brian Fugett Memorial Prize is currently open […]

NO FEE full-length poetry book call + editor interview – Sundress, NO FEE DEADLINE: June 14, 2026

I’m excited to share this interview with Erin Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of Sundress Publications—a press I’ve long admired for its commitment to bold, thoughtful, and necessary work, run by the some of the best folks I know in the poetry community. If you’re looking for a home […]

My poem “There is a Doppelganger Planet” published by Cicada Song + prose MS call

I’m pleased to share that my poem “There is a Doppelganger Planet” was published in the first poetry anthology by new press Cicada Song entitled Lost at 27: Musicians, Artists, Mortals, available now on Amazon. It’s an incredible collection of poets paying homage to musicians lost far too […]

NO FEE submission call & interview – Pirene’s Fountain, DEADLINE: June 30, 2022

Pirene’s Fountain is a journal of poetry published in print annually by Glass Lyre Press. Glass Lyre is an independent literary press interested in publishing poetry collections, chapbooks, select short & flash fiction, and the occasional anthology. The journal is currently open for submissions of poetry until June […]

The possibilities of Medusa & The Loneliest Girl – guest blog post Kate Gale

I began the The Loneliest Girl in 2015. I wanted to explore the experience of being a woman in the 21st century and compare that to the experience of Medusa. Medusa was a virgin who was raped and then banished to the island of Cisthene where she was […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Arteidolia / swifts & slows, DEADLINE: Always Open

Arteidolia is an art and literary platform founded in 2013 that features essays, reviews, critical writing, visual art, experimental work, engagements, interviews & conversations. The platform includes their literary journal swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossings which features poetic collaborations; and Arteidolia Press publishing literary collections of poetry, […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Cider Press Review, DEADLINE: May 31, 2020/Book Reviews Year-round

Cider Press Review is quarterly online poetry journal originally founded in 1999. They are open year-round for submissions of book reviews and their current poetry call has a deadline of May 31, 2021. They also publish the manuscript winners of the annual Cider Press Review Book Award and […]

[Review Exchange] Titania in Yellow by Dayna Patterson / Almost Famous by Trish Hopkinson published by Tinderbox

My review of Titania in Yellow by Dayna Patterson was just published in Tinderbox, a poetry journal that publishes online quarterly issues of poetry, book reviews, and interviews with poets. This review was a unique and amazing experience, in that it was a review exchange–Patterson and I had chapbooks […]

NO FEE Call for Chapbooks + interview – Porkbelly Press, DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2021

Porkbelly Press is an independent micro press specializing in handbound, small & open edition runs of chapbooks, micro chapbooks, zines, broadsides (letterpress & lithograph & screenprint), and Sugared Water. They create beautifully done handmade books with gorgeous artwork. (I own many). They are currently open for chapbook submissions of poetry, short […]

NO FEE Call for Chapbooks + interview – Harbor Editions, DEADLINE: Feb. 28, 2021

Harbor Editions, created by Small Harbor Publishing, runs a chapbook open reading period, the Laureate Prize for full length books, and the Marginalia Series. The Marginalia Series is currently open for poetry and hybrid chapbooks 20 – 40 pages in length from traditionally marginalized writers. They would love […]

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