NaHaiWriMo – Write one haiku a day for the month of February!

NaHaiWriMo is a web site focused on the pursuit of writing a haiku a day, every day in February and there’s still plenty of time to join in! The site includes daily haiku prompts and tons of haiku related resources, including links to other haiku organizations. I wondered […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Blue Mesa Review, DEADLINE: Feb 28, 2019

  Blue Mesa Review (BMR) is a literary magazine published online by the creative writing department at the University of New Mexico. They are currently open for submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction until the end of February, as well as artwork until March 15, 2019. I wondered […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Soundings East, DEADLINE: Feb 15, 2019

  Soundings East is the annual literary journal of Salem State University, published with support from the Center for Creative and Performing Arts. Founded in 1973, the journal is edited by graduate and upper-level undergraduate creative students under the aegis of an advisory editor from the writing faculty. […]

4 things to look for in a poetry contest – guest blog post by Lisa Mangini of Paper Nautilus Press

It's hard to believe that Paper Nautilus, the small press I started at my kitchen table, will turn 8 years old this year! By the end of this Spring, we will have published a free digital anthology, six annual print issues, and 27 chapbooks in various genres. While […]

NO FEE Poetry, Prose & Visual Art Contest (Women of faith) + editor interview – Segullah, DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2019

Segullah is currently running a poetry and visual art contest free to enter this year. Segullah is an online literary journal and blog designed to encourage literary and artistic talent, provoke thought and promote greater understanding and faith among Latter-day Saint women and other women of faith. They […]

NO FEE Poetry, Prose & Visual Art Contest (Women of faith) + editor interview – Segullah, DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2019

Segullah is currently running a poetry and visual art contest free to enter this year. Segullah is an online literary journal and blog designed to encourage literary and artistic talent, provoke thought and promote greater understanding and faith among Latter-day Saint women and other women of faith. They […]

Honor Martin Luther King Jr. day in poetry

Today, I’m immersing myself in reading poems to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and listening to my favorite community radio station KRCL streaming online as they play music and speech excerpts in his honor. You can also listen to the entirety of his “I Have a Dream” speech here […]

5 Tips to Acquire Your Dream Endorsements – guest blog post by John Sibley Williams

For my previous poetry collections, I had kept my endorsements close to home, inviting poets I knew personally and whose passionate support I could trust. In all honesty, I also feared it an imposition to contact "big names" in our poetry community whose work I admired yet to […]

100 Best Websites for Writers in 2019 via The Write Life

An amazing thing happened this week! While technically, the numbered list isn’t ranked in any way, I’m fine with being first on the list, even if it is just alphabetical and a coincidence they listed my blog in the first section :). Thanks to my readers who nominated […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Willawaw Journal, DEADLINE: Mar. 1, 2019

Willawaw Journal is a new online literary journal of poetry and art, published quarterly. The unique thing about Willawaw is that each issue has a poem prompt or mentor poem from a poet laureate! Each issue is also themed based, but may evolve in the future at the […]

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