The PoArtMo Anthology is a new project of Auroras & Blossoms poetry journal and is “a digital anthology celebrating the most creative and inspiring art that has been produced in 2020.” They are currently open for submissions of poetry, flash fiction, short stories, photography, drawings, and paintings. You […]
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.) The list provides links to each journal and reading periods. She recently updated it to include even more journals, so this is a […]
Siyaah Qalam Akhbar is a Pakistan based, dual language, print akhbar (magazine) focused on emerging writers and artists and includes a Pride section for LGBTQIA+ contributors. They are open year-round for prose, poetry, sketches, photography, and political views. I wanted to know more, so I asked their staff […]
About Place Journal is an online literary journal “published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society.” You can read all the issues online to get a feel for the type of work they are accepting for publication. They […]
Excerpts from Prartho Sereno's book-in-progress, Tending the Roots in a STEM-Crazed World: Gleanings from a Curriculum in Wonder If' a child loses her natural friendship with the world of animals and trees, her sense of belonging to the realms of weather and the moon and stars' how will […]
Tremendous thanks to Rise Up Review for publishing one of my more recent feminist poems “She-God” in their Summer 2020 issue along with some brilliant and diverse work I’m honored to be next to. Specifically, don’t miss “Pyriscence” by Angelique Zobitz–a prose poem in three parts, using erasure […]
Boog City is a small press and online community newspaper currently open for submissions for a special baseball themed section guest edited by Sandy Marchetti. “On the verge of entering its 30th year, Boog City has put out over 200 publications, including 35 volumes of poetry, various zines, […]
The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. They accept submissions every other month, in January, March, May, July, September, November. They also accept submissions for their biweekly ekphrastic prompt on a rolling basis with a deadline two weeks from posting […]
Quail Bell Magazine is an online feminist publication currently open for prose/poetry submissions from Black writers for their Black Lives Matter anthology (final title pending). The deadline for the anthology is July 15. Quail Bell is otherwise open year-round for submissions of art, writing, and multimedia. I wanted […]
"What is your process when writing a found poem?" editor Jessica Purgett asked me recently, in an interview. Good question! And one I hadn't considered before–it had seemed like a simple thing. But the more I thought about it, the more complicated and interesting that question was. My […]
