What's in a Name? by Rick Lupert (All About My Name Poetry Series)
Look who is on Silver Birch Press this morning! Congrats to Poetry Super Highway’s esteemed leader for this fabulous poem. Well done Rick Lupert!
NO FEE Submission Call for Black Lawrence DEADLINE: June 30
Black Lawrence is currently open for no fee submissions for their open reading period in June. “During our June and November open reading periods, we accept fee-free submissions in the following categories: novel, novella, short story collection (full-length and chapbook), poetry (full-length and chapbook), biography & cultural studies, […]
NO FEE Calls for Submissions - 7 Lit Mags with Deadlines in July, 2015
This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of closest deadlines. If you like this post, please share with your writerly friends and/or follow my blog or like my Facebook page. Blueshift Journal DEADLINE: 7/1/2015 SUBMISSION FEE: […]
Exquisite Poetry in Words Dance – "The Rape of Persephone" by Hannah Hamilton
Plan to spend some time with this poem by Hannah Hamilton and corresponding artwork by Kelly Louise Judd. Each numbered section of this poem brings readers in closer and closer to the speaker–an intimate and detailed exposure to experiences many of us relate to in one way or another. […]
Exquisite Poetry in Words Dance – “The Rape of Persephone” by Hannah Hamilton
Plan to spend some time with this poem by Hannah Hamilton and corresponding artwork by Kelly Louise Judd. Each numbered section of this poem brings readers in closer and closer to the speaker–an intimate and detailed exposure to experiences many of us relate to in one way or another. […]
PAYING/NO FEE Call for Submissions – Quaint Magazine (female, non-binary) NEW!
“Quaint Magazine is a literary quarterly that publishes dynamic, arresting, and transgressive poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by female and gender non-binary writers. Accordingly, we are trans inclusive. We are strongly committed to publishing work from traditionally marginalized writers, giving voice to the strange, the weird, and the […]
Do you know how to format your poetry book manuscript?
Call for Submissions – BARED Anthology on bras/breasts – DEADLINE Sept. 18, 2015
Forthcoming from Les Femmes Folles Books, Bared collects art and poetry on bras and breasts by women writers and women artists. Poets and artists bare their best breasts clad in bras, bare-chested, or both to boast their barbaric yawps in poems, in paint, in pictures, and art. Bared […]
FREE Poetry Contests – Prizes from $20 – $100,000! DEADLINES in June 2015
All of the contests below have no entry fees, except for the animal poetry contest, which is for a good cause and only $1 per poem to enter. Animal Poetry Contest DEADLINE: June 15, 2015 ENTRY FEE: $1/poem NOTES: "Poems can be up to 40 lines and must […]
How to Submit Poems for Publication
Great article with specific tips about how to submit your poetry to journals. I couldn’t have said it better myself!
