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2 FREE writing contests, submission call, and interview! Lunch Ticket's 1st DEADLINE: Aug 31

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 […]

2 FREE writing contests, submission call, and interview! Lunch Ticket’s 1st DEADLINE: Aug 31

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 […]

7 Tips on crowdfunding a lit mag – guest blog post by Voki Erceg

Crowdfunding is, I must say, a stressful full-time job, distractive for an Editor-in-Chief  who is simultaneously coordinating, collaborating with writers, translators, proofreaders (and in my case with jurors) and so on, and no matter how many people you have on  your team - and no matter that crowdfunding  […]

Poetry Super Highway Contest (non-profit), $1/Poem entry fee, DEADLINE: Oct. 1, 2016

I’m so excited to be judging this contest this year along with two other talented and wonderful poets, M. Brett Gaffney and Helen Townsend. You can read samples of our work featured in July here. We’ve already started receiving some wonderful submissions, so definitely send in your best! […]

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Poet of the Week along with M. Brett Gaffney, Helen Townsend on Poetry Super Highway

Click the image below to read two of my poems, “Wouldn't a flyswatter be easier” and “South Side,” along with excellent work from fellow poetry contest judges M. Brett Gaffney and Helen Townsend on Poetry Super Highway. Watch for my official announcement of the Poetry Super Highway poetry contest later this […]

NO FEE Submission call and interview – Matador Review, DEADLINE: August 31, 2016

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poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art and are currently open for submissions of all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many […]

5 NO ENTRY FEE Contests open in August, next deadline: Aug 3, 2016

Make sure to check out the blog Publishing and Other Forms of Insanity. They post regular lists of places to submit on their Calls for Submissions page. End of July they posted an awesome list of free contests running in August. I've filtered the list to the remaining open contests and […]

NO FEE Submission call and prompt for Golden Walkman Magazine, DEADLINE: August 31, 2016

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) […]

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