Contrary to popular opinion, there are many ways to earn an income for today's resourceful writer, particularly in the digital age. The "starving artist" image is so '80's! Trust me; I should know. In my long and colorful career as a professional scribe, I've pursued darn near all […]
Yavanika is a new digital chapbook press that “hopes to integrate multifarious genres of literature and artwork including Japanese short-forms of poetry, avant-garde, conceptual, and postmodern works of culture and art.” Chapbooks from the press are published digitally and are available as free downloadable PDFs with beautiful formatting and always gorgeous […]
For poets, reading is both business and pleasure. You can hide out in Squaw Valley workshopping your verses all you want, or enter every writing contest you stumble across online. But the most enjoyable way to become a better poet? Reading more poetry. It's simple enough to find […]
The Pittsburgh Anthology is part of an intriguing series of cities published by the independent publishing house Dostoyevsky Wannabe. The anthology will be edited by Jessica Fischoff, Editor and Owner of [PANK], author of the little book of poems, The Desperate Measure of Undoing (Across the Margin, 2019). […]
UPDATED: May 15, 2021 Why limit yourself to being published in lit mags in the U.S., Canada, or the U.K? There are many countries with English-language lit mags you can also submit your work to. For example, my poem “My Monkey Grammarian” was published in Hong Kong and […]
The literary magazines/journals listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading, take online submissions, and have submission deadlines from August 30 – September 30, 2019. This list focuses on poetry submissions/contests, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are […]
Piano Microstories is a unique collaborative project calling for poems and photography inspired by pianist and composer Fabrizio Paterlini. I love seeing different art forms combined and this truly looks amazing. I wanted to know more about this project, so I interviewed editor Ravinder Surah to learn more. […]
I’m honored to have my poem “Other Ways” published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry for their Poets Resist feature. This poem, newly written, is my response to the mass shootings we’ve experienced here in the U.S. It was one of those poems I had to write to […]
I’m honored to have my poem “Other Ways” published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry for their Poets Resist feature. This poem, newly written, is my response to the mass shootings we’ve experienced here in the U.S. It was one of those poems I had to write to […]
Tinfish Press is a nonprofit print journal and press coming back after a ten year haitus with a new editor Jaimie Gusman taking the reigns in 2020. They are specifically looking for poems and essays that are experimental while considering the themes of rage and hope. I wanted […]
