See your name listed online with other poets on Poets & Writers and Winning Writers!

Looking for ways to promote your writing and get your name out there? I recently was listed with two major writing resource sites: – My listing on Poets & Writers – My listings on Winning Writers:  Markets and Contests for Writers Recommended Authors (pg 2) If you are […]

Write or refuse to write – "Poems for Tragedy and Grief" on poets.org

Remembering those lost last year…

Write or refuse to write – “Poems for Tragedy and Grief” on poets.org

Remembering those lost last year…

Living and Writing in Ambiguity – guest blog post by Janet R. Kirchheimer

My father hangs upside down on a pipe that separates our street from the next. All of his change falls from his pockets. I am eight years old. The kids in the neighborhood have fathers in their late twenties, and mine is in his early forties. He waves […]

NO FEE Contest & Submission call & editor interview–Sonic Boom, DEADLINES: June 25 & July 1, 2016

Sonic Boom is a literary & arts journal seeking both solicited and unsolicited experimental poetry, flash fiction, and visual art submissions tri-annually. They “hope to integrate multifarious genres of literature and artwork including Japanese short-forms of poetry, avant-garde, conceptual, and postmodern works of culture and art.” The issues come […]

Where to Submit in June/July 2017 by Entropy (filtered for no fee only!) – 250+ poetry markets

Entropy is a “website featuring literary & non-literary content. A website that seeks to engage with the literary community, that becomes its own community, and creates a space for literary & non-literary ideas.” They recently posted an article on where to submit in June and July. Click here to read […]

34 Writing Contests in June 2017 – No entry fees! + more from Publishing and Other Forms of Insanity

Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity is the blog and writing resource site by writer Erica Verrillo. Her site is loaded with great articles for writers and the writing life, including listings of publishers, agents, where to get reviews, submission calls, free contests, writing conferences and more. […]

Interview with poet Carla Drysdale, Author of Little Venus–guest blog post by Frances Donovan

Carla Drysdale's work explores difficult subjects such as childhood abuse and sexual exploitation with tight, lyrical nuance. Little Venus, Drysdale's first book of poetry, came out in 2009 from Canadian publisher Tightrope Books. As often happens when poets create a persona, Drysdale's Little Venus tells truths and makes […]

Journals That Publish Poetry Book Reviews by Diane Lockward

A big thank you to Diane Lockward for posting such a great list on her poetry blog! (It’s one less list for me to create.) The list provides links to each journal, frequency of publication, and reading periods. “Here is a list of journals, print and online, that […]

Best Places to Submit Poetry: A Ranking of Literary Magazines by John Fox + updated with payment/submission fees

Thanks to John Fox for putting together this amazing list of Best Places to Submit Poetry. He actually went through 5 years worth (2011 – 2015) of the anthology The Best American Poetry to see where the poems had been originally published. The result was a list of 147 literary magazines. […]

Trish Hopkinson