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. […]
A writing exercise “Wine is Rain in Translation” by Rob Carney, guest blog post on Terrain.org
Rob Carney jumps right into metaphor in his most recent guest blog post on Terrain.org and then continues with an interesting writing exercise. “My friend Rick suggested this years ago: working out approximate versions in English based solely on the way another language looks . . . the […]
PAYING/NO FEE Submission call and interview–Subprimal Poetry Art, DEADLINE: June 30, 2017
Subprimal Poetry Art was founded in 2013 to provide a community for quality thought provoking poetry and other art. They “believe in poetry and other art that takes the reader / viewer / listener out of the ordinary and into an place altered from that which they normally experience. […]
