The Great 2017 Indie Press Preview – 70 indie presses via Electric Lit + manuscript tips!

Electric Literature is a free online resource for all things literature related. They are also a non-profit and a paying writer’s market! “Electric Literature's mission is to expand the influence of literature in popular culture by fostering lively and innovative literary conversations and making exceptional writing accessible to new […]

Check out the SAFTAcast poet interviews 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 […]

Check out the SAFTAcast poet interviews 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 […]

What is "previously published" and where can I submit reprints? (UPDATED LIST!)

UPDATED 5/2/2017 The article “What Is Considered Previously Published Writing?” on Writer’s Relief does a great job explaining all the nuances of determining if your work should be considered previously published. For example, is the original publisher still online? Is the issue out of print? Do blogs and social […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Cider Press Review, DEADLINE: May 31, 2017

Cider Press Review is quarterly online poetry journal, along with an annual 'Best of' print compilation. They also publish the manuscript winners of the annual Cider Press Review Book Award and the Editors’ Prize for first or second book. I wondered how and why this poetry journal came to be, so I asked Managing […]

Bless Me, Reader, for I Have Sinned – guest blog post by Elizabeth O'Connell-Thompson

Every community has its taboos, and the literary world is no different. Dirty words like flowery, pretentious, or derivative get bounced around to describe work, but few accusations strike blows at the hearts of the seriously bookish more so than being called a confessional writer. Telling a new […]

Bless Me, Reader, for I Have Sinned – guest blog post by Elizabeth O’Connell-Thompson

Every community has its taboos, and the literary world is no different. Dirty words like flowery, pretentious, or derivative get bounced around to describe work, but few accusations strike blows at the hearts of the seriously bookish more so than being called a confessional writer. Telling a new […]

My poem "Footnote to a Footnote" published in Chagrin River Review's 5th year anniversary issue – with audio!

Very excited that my poem “Footnote to a Footnote” was selected by the editorial staff to appear in their special tenth edition of Chagrin River Review, a print and electronic anthology of the most representative works published in their first five years. The poem was originally published in the Fall 2013 […]

My poem “Footnote to a Footnote” published in Chagrin River Review’s 5th year anniversary issue – with audio!

Very excited that my poem “Footnote to a Footnote” was selected by the editorial staff to appear in their special tenth edition of Chagrin River Review, a print and electronic anthology of the most representative works published in their first five years. The poem was originally published in the Fall 2013 […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Manticore: Hybrid Writing from Hybrid Identities (Sundress), DEADLINE: May 15, 2017

Manticore: Hybrid Writing from Hybrid Identities will be an online anthology of prose and poetry edited by Nicole Oquendo and published by Sundress Publications. I wondered how and why this anthology came to be, so I asked editor Oquendo a few questions to find out. See the interview and a link […]

Trish Hopkinson