Online LIVE Poetry Open Mic! – Sunday, Jan. 18 at 2pm PT

Poetry Super Highway hosts an online broadcast once a month in a poetry open mic format. You can call in and read your poetry live and hear other great poets, along with spoken word recordings, and related poetry announcements. Tune in on Sunday, January 18 at 2pm Pacific […]

Three by Five Welcomes Back Trish Hopkinson with Three by Five Part II

Part II of my Three by Five interview with Vicky Hudson. Make sure to check out who else is on deck for the upcoming months. I’m definitely looking forward to the upcoming interviews!

Paying/Non-paying Submission Calls – Deadlines Jan. and Feb. 2015

Several of these are paying markets. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of closest deadlines. Before submitting, read my Submission Tips and to check other paying markets for emerging writers and how they […]

Print Journals that Accept Online Submissions

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.) She recently updated the list just a couple of months ago and provides links to each journal, frequency of publication, and reading periods. […]

Chipotle

Love this latest poem by fellow poet and blogger Robert Okaji. Also make sure to check out three of his poems recently published in http://thebluehourmagazine.com/2014/12/28/3-poems-by-robert-okaji/. And if you like these poems, make sure to follow his blog so you don’t miss out!

Calls for Submissions – Dink Press is looking for poetry, drama, artwork, and photography

This fledgling press needs submissions! “Dink Publishing is an extremely small scale press dedicated to promoting poetry, art, and photography.  At the moment Dink will primarily publish our zine, DINK MAG, as well as various other zines and chapbooks.” Click here to submit!

Which famous writers kept a diary and how did it benefit them?

Another excellent article from Maria Popova of Brainpickings provides insights and quotes from several writers, including  Anaïs Nin,  Virginia Woolf,  Henry David Thoreau,  Ralph Waldo Emerson,  Anne Frank, Sylvia Plath, and more. These beloved writers all kept diaries . . . maybe something worth adding to your writing […]

Call for Chapbook Submissions – Porkbelly Press, Deadline January 31

Click here for their  Submission Guidelines. If you like this post, please share with your writerly friends and/or follow  my blog or  like my Facebook page.

Trish Hopkinson Interview Part I

First part of my author interview with Three by Five was published today. Big thanks to Vicki Hudson for putting together such a great resource for poets and writers!

Four of my poems published in Verse-Virtual's January issue . . .

So pleased to have four of my poems "A Leveling," "Diamond-Shaped Shadows," and "Prima Facie," and “In a Room Made of Poetry” published along with other amazing authors in the January issue of Verse-Virtual. Also, make sure not to miss the editor’s note, a brief and lovely homage to a World […]

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