My feature in 15 Bytes: Utah's Art Magazine, including 3 poems

I’m honored to be featured in 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine for their Read Local Sunday series along side other Utah writers such as Natasha Sajé and Jan Minich. The feature includes three of my poems: “Waiting Around,” “Temple City listens to Orlando,” and “Offspring;” and links to my chapbook Footnote, […]

My feature in 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine, including 3 poems

I’m honored to be featured in 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine for their Read Local Sunday series along side other Utah writers such as Natasha Sajé and Jan Minich. The feature includes three of my poems: “Waiting Around,” “Temple City listens to Orlando,” and “Offspring;” and links to my chapbook Footnote, […]

Daring to Write about Family – guest blog post by Penelope Scambly Schott

As poets we write about topics that matter to us. These topics might be anything: race horses, the nature of the divine, our lover's hands, caterpillars, environmental degradation, or jazz trombone. And then there's always that one huge, delicate, and potentially difficult topic: family. How honest can we […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call & editor interview: Timeless Tales, DEADLINE: Sept 1, 2017

Timeless Tales is a quarterly digital magazine exclusively publishing retellings of fairy tales and classic myths since 2013. The current submission window is open for stories (up to 2,000 words) and poems that fit with the theme Rumpelstiltskin. There is no fee to submit and the magazine pays a flat […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call & editor interview: Timeless Tales, DEADLINE: Sept 1, 2017

Timeless Tales is a quarterly digital magazine exclusively publishing retellings of fairy tales and classic myths since 2013. The current submission window is open for stories (up to 2,000 words) and poems that fit with the theme Rumpelstiltskin. There is no fee to submit and the magazine pays a flat […]

Making Poetry Pay: Five Ways to Increase Your Poetry Income by Erika Dreifus via AWP

Excellent tips in this article by fellow poet and blogger Erika Dreifus on the AWP web site last month. She reflects on her experience tracking funds she received for poetry submissions in 2016 while participating in Jessica Piazza's Poetry Has Value project and provides the five ways she learned to […]

Laugh Your Way Through Writer's Block – guest blog post by Eileen Murphy

If you're blocked and can't write, what's the best way to get yourself pounding the keyboard again? Or let's say you're like me and you have a routine, so you force yourself to write even when you're blocked, only to discover you're producing dreck. What to do? Remedies […]

NO FEE Submission call and interview – Matador Review, DEADLINE: Aug. 31, 2017

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 […]

NO FEE Submission call w/ musical prompt + editor interview – Golden Walkman Magazine, DEADLINE: August 31, 2017

This is a really cool prompt and submission opportunity from the folks at Golden Walkman Magazine for a project they are calling “Dialogue Submissions.” Every few months, they will publish a Dialogue Starter Issue with poetry and prose inspired by an original, contributor-provided piece of instrumental music. “Writers will have (1) […]

2 FREE writing contests, submission call, and interview! Lunch Ticket DEADLINES: August 31, 2017

I really can’t say enough great things about the staff at Lunch Ticket. They are kind, responsive, and organized. I wanted to know a little bit more about what they have going on and they are up to a lot of amazing things! Including two free writing contests […]

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