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Opportunity Knocks: Calls for Submissions and Competitions

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

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WEST BRANCH, a literary journal of Bucknell University, has an open call for submissions of poetry, fiction, essays and reviews. No submissions fees. Cash payment. Details HERE.

THE MUNSTER LITERATURE CENTRE is open for unsolicited submissions of English poetry and fiction through March 15. No submission fees. Cash payment. Details HERE.

THEMA LITERARY SOCIETY, many plots / one premise is open for submissions of short stories, poems, photographs, and art to themed issues of its publication: The Clumsy Gardener [July 1, 2019]; What a Strange Question! [November 1, 2019]; Not of this World [March 1, 2020]. Previously published work is considered. No submission fee. Payment. Details HERE.

COMPETITIONS

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THE GREGORY O’DONOGHUE INTERNATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION   is open to English language writers from anywhere in the world. Entries may be up to 3,000 words.  Entry fee. Cash awards. (Residency at Anam Cara Retreat is part of the first prize.) Entry fee. Cash award and publication. (Residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre is part of the first prize.) DEADLINE: 30 November, midnight. Details HERE.

PALETTE POETRY PRIZE FOR 2019 offers $4000 in awards is open through April 15. No entry fee. Details HERE.

THE SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY PRIZE is open to English language writers from anywhere in the world. Entries may be up to 3,000 words.  Entry fee. Cash awards. (Residency at Anam Cara Retreat is part of the first prize.) DEADLINE: 31 July, midnight. Details HERE.

WRITER’S DIGEST SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD is open through April 1, 2019. Entry fee. Cash and other awards. Details HERE.

Note:  Events from around the world, more contests, and links to features of interest to poets and writers are available through The Poet by Day, Arts and Humanities Facebook Page.

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Poet and writer, I was once columnist and associate editor of a regional employment publication. I currently run this site, The Poet by Day, an information hub for poets and writers. I am the managing editor of The BeZine published by The Bardo Group Beguines (originally The Bardo Group), a virtual arts collective I founded.  I am a weekly contributor to Beguine Again, a site showcasing spiritual writers. My work is featured in a variety of publications and on sites, including: Levure littéraure, Ramingo’s Porch, Vita Brevis Literature,Compass Rose, Connotation Press, The Bar None Group, Salamander Cove, Second Light, I Am Not a Silent Poet, Meta / Phor(e) /Play, and California Woman. My poetry was recently read by Northern California actor Richard Lingua for Poetry Woodshed, Belfast Community Radio. I was featured in a lengthy interview on the Creative Nexus Radio Show where I was dubbed “Poetry Champion.”

The BeZine: Waging the Peace, An Interfaith Exploration featuring Fr. Daniel Sormani, Rev. Benjamin Meyers, and the Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi among others

“What if our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. If holy water–the rivers, lakes, and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was the center of our being.” Ganga White, teacher and exponent of Yoga and founder of White Lotus, a Yoga center and retreat house in Santa Barbara, CA

“Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.” Lucille Clifton