This weekend has been a whirlwind of amazing events for me here in Utah, including the exceptional performance by Taylor Mac kicking off MLK week and the inspirational, packed #writersresist event last night at Mandate Press. Today, I’m immersing myself in reading poems to honor Martin Luther King Jr. […]
Night Court, a poetry collection by Erica Goss, is the winner of the 2016 Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre Press. The collection will be published in the summer of 2017. When I received the news that Night Court was a semi-finalist for the Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre […]
Night Court, a poetry collection by Erica Goss, is the winner of the 2016 Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre Press. The collection will be published in the summer of 2017. When I received the news that Night Court was a semi-finalist for the Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre […]
I am honored to have four of my found poems published in Wild Horses: Women on Fire with so many amazing and powerful women writers in this annual print journal published by ELJ Editions to celebrate Women's History Month. I’m particularly proud of these poems, which I wrote as part of […]
Lost Sparrow Press is a new small independent press recently founded by publisher/editor, Logan Olsen. This new indie press will focus on poetry, literary, and art publications and is “dedicated to the vast world of humanity and the many differences therein.” I wondered how and why this press came to be, […]
Lost Sparrow Press is a new small independent press recently founded by publisher/editor, Logan Olsen. This new indie press will focus on poetry, literary, and art publications and is “dedicated to the vast world of humanity and the many differences therein.” I wondered how and why this press came to be, […]
The Shade Journal is a new online poetry journal recently founded by Editor-In-Chief, Luther Hughes. It is “focused on the empowerment of queer people of color (QPOC); publishing poems that inspires, devastates, and howls—work that challenges forms and upsets the canon, but understands its rigorous and traditional roots.” I […]
The Shade Journal is a new online poetry journal recently founded by Editor-In-Chief, Luther Hughes. It is “focused on the empowerment of queer people of color (QPOC); publishing poems that inspires, devastates, and howls—work that challenges forms and upsets the canon, but understands its rigorous and traditional roots.” I […]
UPDATED JAN. 9, 2017 It’s so important to do your homework before sending your manuscript to a publisher. Make sure to take notes for each publisher you research. You will most likely want to compare them to each other before deciding where you want to submit. Make sure […]
Back in September, I was inspired by an article on Lit Hub by Kim Liao about setting a goal of 100 rejections per year. The idea being that making the rejections the goal would take some of the sting out of getting them and hopefully remove the mental block most […]
