Excellent primer to submitting up on Submittable’s blog by Nausheen Eusuf with tips on how to research and evaluate lit mags and journals for reputation and fit. Submittable’s blog is chock full of great posts including submission related posts, winner announcements, writing prompts, and more! Not only that, […]
When a local writers group asked me to teach a class on inspiration, I was stopped in my tracks. How could what inspires me inspire this community of prose writers and poets? The more I thought about what might be universally applicable, however, the more excited I got. […]
Rob Carney presents his readers with two poems as examples of writing myths and origin stories, entitled “Sometimes It Isn’t the Same Old Story” and “On Mars as It Is in Heaven.” He also reflects on the current political climate and how “Poems have jobs. They use the […]
It’s tax time, you had a new project at the office, the kids were serially down with a stomach bug, and your sister came to visit last week. Sometimes taking an hour to write feels impossible. You finally find the time and a quiet place, and your head […]
Here are seven ways I know of drawing upon words and languages, the tools of our craft, to ignite the spark which inspires the creation of poetry. Three Word Addresses On this map ‘what3words’, the whole world is divided into some 57 trillion 3m x 3m squares and […]
Albany Poetry Workshop’s online classroom provides “five exercises that we hope will inspire, cajole, and tease you into writing new work.” The exercises themes include: The Five Senses Organic Metaphor Organic Simile Personification Integrated Poem If these five exercises aren’t enough, check out their other sessions, including a Seven-Session […]
Honored to be included in this great blog post by Nausheen Eusuf up on Submittable’s blog with a list of the top ten sites to follow for places to submit! “Poet Trish Hopkinson posts submission calls regularly on her blog, focusing specifically on markets that don’t require a submission […]
