Whale Road Review is an online literary journal that “takes its name from an old kenning. The ocean is the whale road. Whale road. Those words conjure an image of whales moving in patterns through the waters of the world.” I wondered how and why this journal came to be, […]
Sad Girl Review is a new online contemporary art and literary magazine. They will be publishing quarterly and their inaugural issue is forthcoming on July 1. I was curious how and why this art and literary magazine began, so I asked Editor Amber Morrison a few questions to find […]
As a lover and reader of poetry, and as a poet and editor, I'm always thinking about how to connect poems (my favorites, my own, poets I publish) with readers. This is no easy task; it's not as if poems sell by their own weight in worthiness. It […]
Riddled with Arrows is a fairly new online literary journal, publishing quarterly. They are “dedicated to writing about writing. We seek (short) metafiction and metapoems, and writing that celebrates the process and product of writing as art.” I was curious how and why this literary journal began, so […]
I’ve been posting almost daily since the Fall of 2014 and it’s time for a short break from blogging. I’ll be back before you know it! Around the end of May or beginning of June. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of great stuff to keep you busy while I’m […]
Matador Review is a fabulously designed online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago, Illinois. They publish poetry, fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art and are currently open for submissions of all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many […]
An interview with Program Director & Founder, Tyler Tsay, on what The Speakeasy Project brings to the writing world. What is The Speakeasy Project? The Speakeasy Project is an online workshop space for students of all ages. By offering workshops entirely online, we hope to bring the space […]
Literary Taxidermy’s Short Story Competition is open to any writing form and genre, including: satire, tragedy, science fiction, fantasy, suspense, detective, romance, hyper realism, magical realism, plain old realism, speculative fiction, flash fiction, meta-fiction, meta-meta-fiction, screenplay, poetry, etc. “This year’s competition is actually three contests in one. The first […]
Women Speak is a new project of artist Nancy Smith, in which she is “inviting women writers to create poetry or prose based on select paintings I've created to further explore the feminine experience.” I wondered how and why this project came to be, so I asked Smith and […]
I’m so grateful and utterly blown away by this in depth and thoughtful review of my chapbook Footnote by Janeen Pergrin Rastall published by Connotation Press this week. Rastall’s careful reading and insight captured so much of what I was after in this collection of poems. Her familiarity with the […]
