PAYING/NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Points & Parks, DEADLINE: Mar. 28, 2022

Parks & Points publishes personal essays and poetry about national parks and other public lands, along with timely budget travel tips and short guides to select sites. They host an annual fall essay contest and a spring poetry series in conjunction with National Poetry Month. They invite poetry […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – The Q&A Queerzine, DEADLINE: April 30, 2022

The Q&A Queerzine is a new, biannual online zine founded during the pandemic with a staff lgbtq+ writers and visual artists. They are currently open to no fee submissions of Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Artwork, Hybrid for their next issue. For more information see my interview with Co-Founder Christina […]

Two of my poems published in POETiCA REViEW + submissions open!

I couldn’t be more honored to have two new poems published in the Spring 2022 issue of POETiCA REViEW alongside two other Rock Canyon Poets members, Marianne Hales Harding and Barbara Tyler: “Couples Therapy: Duncan Yo-yo Speaks to its String” and “Scale of Life” by Trish Hopkinson “Ultramarine,” […]

PAYING/THEMED/NO FEE Chapbook submission call + editor interview – Blanket Sea, DEADLINE: March 15, 2022

Blanket Sea is a magazine and small press dedicated to showcasing work by chronically ill, mentally ill, and disabled creators. They are currently open for chapbooks (25-40 pages) of poetry or creative nonfiction, which includes essays and short memoir. Hybrid works with both poetry and creative nonfiction will […]

My interview w/ Allison Joseph of CRWROPPS via Tell Tell Poetry

Welcome to the eighth interview in my 12-part poetry submissions interview series for Tell Tell Poetry with Allison Joseph, professor, poet and curator of Creative Writing Opportunities, talks about literary community, how the pandemic affected her writing, and tips for poets and writers. Learn about multiple online communities, Facebook […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Arkana, DEADLINE: Always open

Arkana is an online literary journal of mysteries and marginalized voices, staffed and edited by graduate students in the University of Central Arkansas’s Creative Writing MFA program. They are currently open to no fee submissions of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Illustrated Narrative, Scriptwriting, Translation, and Artwork for their […]

How art awakened my sense of poetry – guest blog post Lydia Prendergast

I can’t even remember the first time my mom mentioned Frida Kahlo to me. It was probably somewhere around middle school age, when I was wildly unsure about myself, my likes, and where I was going to go with my life. Being a chronically ill, anxious young girl […]

NO FEE Submission call – Dolly Parton Anthology, DEADLINE: June 30, 2022

To celebrate Dolly Parton’s 76th birthday, Madville Press is publishing a Dolly Parton print anthology of poetry. “Dazzle us with your Dolly expertise. Pay tribute to her music, movies, TV appearances, philanthropy, Dollywood, Dollyisms, interviews, fashion influence, religious connection, family history. We want to see how you envision […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Rougarou, DEADLINE: Mar. 18, 2022

Rougarou is the international online literary magazine run out of the graduate English Department of University of Louisiana at Lafayette. They are currently open to no fee submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art until March 18. They are also running their annual contest for poetry […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Valiant Scribe, DEADLINE: Dec. 15, 2022

Valiant Scribe is a new, annual online and print journal publishing fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, artwork, cross-genre, and religious work. You can read their first two annual issues on their website to get a feel for the type of work they accept. “Valiant Scribe sits at the nexus […]