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THE BeZINE, Be inspired … Be creative … Be peace … Be Michael Dickel and I are reviewing submissions for the April’s special poetry edition. Traditionally at the Zine we celebrate April as interNational Poetry Month. Deadline is April 10 and pub date is April 15, so you still have time to submit poetry on any subject and in any form. International submissions are encurage but poems must be in English. You may also include your poem in your first or other language to go with the English translation. Also of interest: features on poets and poetry, the art and craft of poetry, why and how poetry matters, history and development and so forth. Welcome also are reviews of books and collections as well as literary criticism. Submissions to bardogroup@gmail.com.  Please check out the Zine first so that you understand our mission. Intro and Mission Statement HERE.  Submission guidelines are HERE. Thank you!  

GRANTA in publication since 1889, is a prestigious lit mag that says of itself: “From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the world’s best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. Granta does not have a political or literary manifesto, but it does have a belief in the power and urgency of the story and its supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real.”  Granta accepts submissions in different categories during the following periods: Poetry 3 October – 3 November; Fiction 16 January – 16 February; Non-fiction 24 April – 24 May. Details HERE.

THE SOUTHERN REVIEW, another venerable old lit mag,  accepts unsolicited work during the following periods: fiction and nonfiction from September 1 through December 1;  poetry from September 1 through March 1.  Details HERE.

AMERICAN SHORT FICTION publishes the work of emerging and established writers three times a year and often these works are included in anthologies. In publication from 1991 – 1998 and then resumed in 2006, it has an excellent reputation for delivering quality literature. Details HERE.

ZYZZYVA, A San Francisco Journal of Arts and Letters founded in 2011 offers readers a curated view of contempoary fiction, nonfiction and poetry “with a distinctly San Francisco perpsective.” Submission guidelines HERE.

THE BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW  (BRW) “is named for the river that borders the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Established in 1974 by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing, BWR is the oldest continuously published literary journal produced by graduate students in the United States.” This biannual publication includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic writing, comics, and art and is published twice yearly. Black Warrior Review reads submissions from December 1 – March 1 and June 1 – September 1. Submission guidelines are HERE. This publications sponsors a contest each year but hasn’t posted for 2017.  Watch the site. It should come up in April.

NARRATIVE seeks “to advance literary art in the digital age” and “to connect writers and readers around the globe.” It is free to readers but writers are paid. It accepts submissions of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Details HERE.

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THE $4,000 NARRATIVE PRIZE of Narrative magazine (featured above) is an annual event with the deadline of June 15 every year. The price is awarded annually for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, one-act play, graphic story, or work of literary nonfiction published by a new or emerging writer in Narrative. Details HERE.

WRITER’S DIGEST‘s annual Writing Competition is in its 86th year and the Digest announced that almost 500 winners will be chosen. Prizes inlcude a cash awards ($5,000 for the grand prize) among other things.  Deadline May 5, 2017. There is a submission fee. Details HERE. Writer’s Digest also sponsors poetry, fiction and self-published book competitions but these are closed for the year.  Put it on your watch list for 2018.

The Seventh 2017 Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry offers a $1,000 award, publication in Evansville Review and an invitation, with honorarium, to read in June 2017 as part of The Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Robert Frost Farm. “The reading opens the Frost Farm Poetry Conference, which is devoted to metrical poetry. The winner also receives a scholarship to attend the conference.” International submissions (in English) are welcome. Heads-up: Deadline is March 30, 2017. You can submit electronically, so you have time to make the deadline if you have something prepared.  Details HERE.

EVENTS

  • 03/28/2017, 6 p.m. Chrystal Williams & Amelia Blanquera, Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Reading and Discussion at  NYU Bookstore, 726 Broadway, New York City, NY 10003 Details HERE.
  • On March 31: Starting From San Francisco. A Life of Writing by Armienian-American author, David Kherdian.  You can pre-order this memoir for $7.99. Thanks to Silva Merjanian (Rumor) for the heads-up announcement.
  • April is National Poetry Month in the U.S. and interNational Poetry Month at The BeZine. Check out our special poetry issue online on April 15.
  • Singing American Sunrise by Joy Haro is feature by Poetry Foundation. Each line ends with a word from Gwendolyn Brook’s We Real Cool.  It’s pretty fabulous. Link HERE to listen and get the back story.

Saturday, April 8 at 7:15 PM – 9:30 PM EDT at Cyrus: Chai & Coffee Company, 1 Railroad Plz, Bay Shore, New York 11706.

***SHAKESPEARE IN DOWNTOWN BAY SHORE!*** Join hosts Matt Pasca and Terri Muuss every second Saturday at Cyrus’ for the kind of poetry, coffee, treats and open mic experience you’ve been looking for!!! Our features will move and inspire you with their honesty and scintillating presence. Open mic follows features, so bring your ukulele, cello, double bass, guitar, sonnets, spoken word, villanelles and more!

KNIGHTHORSE THEATRE COMPANY:
Amy & Ty Lemerande have been touring the country and beyond, bringing their electric performances to audiences of all kinds, since 2003!! Their mission is simple: make Shakespeare cool again. Amy & Ty move Shakespeare off the page and onto the stage, where he belongs. But not just any stage — a Knighthorse stage is unlike anything you have ever seen. It has no dimensions, no boundaries, no limits. It is not constrained by the “fourth wall” because for Amy & Ty it doesn’t even exist. Actor and audience occupy the same space. They believe in theatre that is a communal experience filled with cheers, jeers, fears and tears.

**Be prepared to enjoy theatre and Shakespeare in a way you never thought you could! We guarantee it!** Don’t miss this opportunity!!!

For more information:  www.knighthorse.org

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GOLD MAN LITERARY REVIEW is published once a year on November first and seeks submissions of original and unpublished fiction, nonfiction and poetry from writers and
and artists living in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii. Deadline is May 1. Details HERE.

AGNI ONLINE, a publication of Boston College and an extension of its print publication, reads unsolicited poetry, fiction and nonfiction manuscripts from September 1 through May 31. All submissions are considered for the print publication as well. Details HERE.

CARVE MAGAZINE reads submission of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, author interviews, and hand-drawn illustrations. year round for its quarterly publication. Details HERE.

SATURDAY EVENING POST accepts submission of Non-Fiction, Fiction, “Lighter Side,” Cartoons, and Post-It Jokes. It is published six times a year. Details HERE.

BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW, A journal of humanity and human experience accepts submissions of original unpublished fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry related to the themes of health, healing, illness, the mind,  Details HERE.

ROOM. Literature, art, and feminism since 1973 publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews and reviews.  Details on various calls for submission are HERE.

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THE EXILE WRITERS’ “Carter V. Cooper $15,000 Short Fiction Competition (Canadian writers only) is open – Deadline for submissions (extended) is Monday May 22, 2017. $10,000 awarded for Best Story by an Emerging Writer, $5,000 for Best Story by a Writer at any career point. Literary and Speculative fiction / all styles considered. (Speculative Fiction includes all forms of literature of the Fantastic, such as. Fantasy, Magic Realism, Science Fiction, Science Fantasy, Horror, Alternative History, etc.).”

THE 2018 SATURDAY EVENING POST GREAT AMERICAN FICTION CONTEST is the sixth to be sponsored by this organization.  The deadline is July 1, 2017. There is a $10 entry fee. Details HERE.

THE BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW, a journal of humanity and the human experience 2018 Bellevue Literary Review Prizes are now open. Deadline: July 1, 2017. The categories are nonfiction, fiction and poetry.  There is an entry fee. Details HERE. Themes should relate health, healing, illness, the mind.

ROOM, Literature, Art, and Feminism since 1975 next contest for fiction and poetry opens on April 15. Details HERE.

THE POETRY SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, funded by the National Arts Council, sponsors a number of competitions each year. Details HERE.

EVENTS

BLACKWATER INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL, 2017 Friday, August 4th – Monday, August 7th, County Cork Ireland. Workshops. Readings. (Members of the Blackwater Group are eligible to submit their work for the contest held in conjunction with the festival.) Facebook Page HERE. 

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In honor of Derek Walcott who died a few days ago, the recommended read for this week is The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013.  Walcott first poem was published when he was fourteen and this book was published in his 84th year. Never more than now has the world needed the grace, wisdom and universality of his poetry. This is a must add to your poetry book collection.  It doesn’t include the epic Omeros, also recommended, but it does include some of his earlier work that I have not seen included elsewhere.

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AMETHYST ARSENIC is open submissions of poetry. Payment: $10. Featured poet receives $50. Deadline: March 31, 2017. Details HERE.

COLD CREEK REVIEW, a literary journal is a fledgling quarterly that accepts poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art.  “… we are partial to submissions that demonstrate examples of troubled emotions…We want your submission to leave us paralyzed and distressed. We challenge you to alarm us.”  This publication also plans to produce a special biannual – The Shallows – which does not share the same theme as the review. For details on both publications. link HERE.

ODYSSA MAGAZINE “accepts submissions for every monthly issue in the section “Story,” “Go,” “Family,” and “Think.” …. The look for fiction up to 700-1,000 words and buy first electronic and online rights exclusive for three months.  Each issue has a theme.  More detail HERE.

MUNSTER LITERATURE CENTRE publishes a biannual journal, Southword, which features poetry, fiction and reviews. Details HERE.

THE JOURNAL OF COMPRESSED LITERARY ARTS  seeks “compressed creative arts” including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, mixed media and visual arts that are “compressed in some way. ” Publications are weekly. Details HERE.

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL seeks submissions of poetry and story for numberous publications.  Christmas and Holiday Collection – 2018, deadline October 31, 2017. Miracles and More , deadline August 31, 2017.  My Crazy Family! – June 30, 2017. My Kind (of) America – March 31, 2017. Positively Happy! – May 31, 2017.  Stories of Redemption – August 31, 2017. Details HERE.

PURITAN MAGAZINE seeks submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews all year round and from anywhere in the world. Details HERE.

MUGWUMP, a literary revolution – Arocentric Anthology: Afrofuturism – publishes fiction stories in diverse settings, featuring diverse people. Payment: 1 cent/word. Deadline: March 31, 2017. Details HERE.

THE BeZINE, a publication of The Bardo Group Beguines, a virtual arts collective, is a digital publication that is published on the fifteenth of each month. The deadline is always  on the tenth. Submit via email to bardogroup@gmail.com.  Each issue is themed and the themes for each month are included in Submission Guidelines.  Please read the guidelines, one or two issues AND the Mission Statement before submitting. Special issues are April for interNational Poetry Month and September when we host a virtual 100,000 Poets for Change (100TPC) event for reader participation. This year 100TPC will be on September 30 and the September issue will post on the fifteenth as usual. The site was established in 2011 and the Zine is in publication now for three years. The theme for March 2017 is Science in Culture, Politics and Religion with a deadline upcoming on March 10. Submissions of poetry, essay, fiction and creative nonfiction, music videos, photography and art are welcome.

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THE POETRY SOCIETY (UK) “awards £16,000 in prizes each year. Poets at all stages of their careers are celebrated, and prizes also include ways to support writers’ development: courses, books, membership and publication. The competitions and prizes are a central part of The Poetry Society’s work.” Details HERE.

Award Winning British Poet, Myra Schneider (b. 1936), Writer, Writing Coach, Consultant to Second Light Nework of Women Poets
Award Winning British Poet, Myra Schneider (b. 1936), Writer, Writing Coach, Consultant to Second Light Network of Women Poets

SECOND LIGHT POETRY COMPETITION FOR LONG AND SHORT POEMS BY WOMEN 2017 – Deadline Tues, 15 August.
JUDGE MYRA SCHNEIDER will read all entries. Myra Schneider’s latest and recent books are Persephone in Finsbury Park (SLP), The Door to Colour (Enitharmon); What Women Want (SLP); and the writing resource, Writing Your Self (with John Killick). Myra is a Poetry School and Second Light regular tutor. More at Myra Schneider website. £300 First Prize for each of Long (no upper limit) and Short (max 50 lines) poems. £150 Second Prize (1 poem from either category). £75 Third Prize (1 poem from either category) Winning & Commended Poets published (in full or extract) in ARTEMISpoetry. Winners offered a London reading.
Entry: £6 each per long poem. Short poems: £4 each or £9 for 3, £14 for 8. Enter by post (2 copies) or online.
**Members are entitled to one free entry into the competition. Join now to be eligible.** (See About Second Light/Joining. Recommended ladies. I’m a member.) more: Rules & Entry direct link to payment at [Anne Stewart’s] poetry p f online shop, The results of the competitions will be posted on the website by 30th September. Once winning poems (or extracts) are published in ARTEMISpoetry. Second Light Network was founded and is managed by Dilys Wood.

EVENTS

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THE THIRD DUBLIN WRITERS CONFERENCE sponsored by The Society of Authors is scheduled to be held at The Gresham Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 from the 23rd-25th of June 2017. Seventeen speakers are scheduled.  Details on conference, programme and to purchase tickets are HERE.  The Society is offering a lower early-bird registration rate.

HALI POETRY WORKSHOP WITH RUSS GREEN hosted by Long Island Poetry on March 8, 150 Brightside Aven, Central Islp, New York 11722. Russ Green is a guest poet with The BeZine.

SECOND SATURDAYS AT CYRUS with Terri Muuss and Patricia Spears Jones, hosted by the featured poets and Matt Pasca.March 11, Cyrus: Chai & Coffee Company, 1 Railroad Plz., Bay Shore, New York 11706.

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH is celebrated on April in the United States. Look for announcements of events and celebrations on this site throughout the rest of this month.

interNATIONAL POETRY MONTH at The BeZine is April. We will feature a special issue and submissions are encouraged. Deadline is April 10.

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51kdxwtdml-_sx331_bo1204203200_The recommended read for this week is Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Pulitzer Prize winning Megan Marshall who studied with Bishop at Harvard. This biography is richly spun,  energetic, engaging and even inspirational despite the breathtaking depth of Bishop’s losses, her sense of marginalization and her head-long push into alcoholism. Indeed, some of the inspiration comes because with all her loses, Bishop managed to hold poetry tight. Her poems were for her a charm “against the loneliness they often expressed.” The book covers Bishop’s relationships with other poets and her romantic interests, the last was for me the singular wearisome downside, much overrided though by the book’s pleasures and values. It is laced with Marshall’s own stories and together the lives of these two bare witness to the power of words to give shape, sense and meaning to life. We come away with a strong sense of Elizabeth Bishop, one of America’s most extraordinary poets. A page-turner. A must read or everyone who loves and writes poetry.

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THE LASCAUX REVIEW publishes work by both emerging and established writers and artists and includes stories, poems, essays and works of art. This magazine nominates its contributors for awards, prizes and honors such as the Pushcart Prize and the Million Writers Award. Details HERE.

EASY STREET, a magazine of words and culture accepts submissions of flash fiction, fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, editorials and opinion pieces. Will consider previously published material and simultaneous submission. Reading and publication is year round and on a rolling basis. Details HERE.

THE BeZINE, a publication of The Bardo Group Beguines, a virtual arts collective, is a digital publication that is published on the fifteenth of each month. The deadline is always  on the tenth. Submit via email to bardogroup@gmail.com.  Each issue is themed and the themes for each month are included in Submission Guidelines.  Please read the guidelines, one or two issues AND the Mission Statement before submitting. Special issues are April for interNational Poetry Month and September when we host a virtual 100,000 Poets for Change (100TPC) event for reader participation. This year 100TPC will be on September 30 and the September issue will post on the fifteenth as usual. The site was established in 2011 and the Zine is in publication now for three years. The theme for March 2017 is Science in Culture, Politics and Religion. Submissions of poetry, essay, fiction and creative nonfiction, music videos, photography and art are welcome.

THE BOND STREET REVIEW is a publishes in PDF only to subscribers on Ink Publications Mailing List. Issues are twice a year in January and July and included are poems and flash fiction. Details HERE.

CRICKET family of children’s publications has open calls for submissions for several of its magazines: Journeys (Babybug and Ladybug); Folktales, Myths, & Legends (Spider and Cricket); Contemporary Fiction (Cricket), Hauntings (Cicada)
Aliens (Cicada). Details HERE.

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LASCAUX REVIEW PRIZE IN FLASH FICTION is open for submissions for its 2018 Anthology. Deadline: March 31, 2017. 1,000 word max story length. Entry fee. Cash award plus publication. Details HERE.

THE LASCAUX BOOK PRIZE accepts submissions from 1 October 2017 through 31 December 2017. Categories include novels and poetry collections that were published during 2016 or 2017 calendar years. Entry fee. Cash Prize.  Details HERE.

THE LASCAUX PRIZE IN POETRY is open for submissions from 1 July 2017 through 30 September 2017. Published or unpublished submissions are accepted. Entry Fee. Cash prize. Details HERE.

THE LUXEMBOURG ART PRIZE, an annual international competition aiming to discover talents, amateur or professional, regardless of age and nationality, seeks to accelerate the careers of unknown artists by providing them with professional art gallery space, first as part of a group exhibition showcasing the finalists for the Prize and then as a solo exhibition for the winner. To help the winner prepare and create a solo exhibition at the gallery, a grant of 25,000 euros (about 26,523 USD or 21,126 GBP or 26’623 CHF or 34,768 CAD or 2,976,000 JPY) is awarded by the gallery for the 2017 edition of the prize. Deadline is 31 May 2017. Details HERE.

Award Winning British Poet, Myra Schneider (b. 1936), Writer, Writing Coach, Consultant to Second Light Nework of Women Poets
Award Winning British Poet, Myra Schneider (b. 1936), Writer, Writing Coach, Consultant to Second Light Network of Women Poets

SECOND LIGHT POETRY COMPETITION FOR LONG AND SHORT POEMS BY WOMEN 2017 – Deadline Tues, 15 August.
JUDGE MYRA SCHNEIDER will read all entries. Myra Schneider’s latest and recent books are Persephone in Finsbury Park (SLP), The Door to Colour (Enitharmon); What Women Want (SLP); and the writing resource, Writing Your Self (with John Killick). Myra is a Poetry School and Second Light regular tutor. More at Myra Schneider website. £300 First Prize for each of Long (no upper limit) and Short (max 50 lines) poems. £150 Second Prize (1 poem from either category). £75 Third Prize (1 poem from either category) Winning & Commended Poets published (in full or extract) in ARTEMISpoetry. Winners offered a London reading.
Entry: £6 each per long poem. Short poems: £4 each or £9 for 3, £14 for 8. Enter by post (2 copies) or online.
**Members are entitled to one free entry into the competition. Join now to be eligible.** (See About Second Light/Joining. Recommended ladies. I’m a member.) more: Rules & Entry direct link to payment at [Anne Stewart’s] poetry p f online shop, The results of the competitions will be posted on the website by 30th September. Once winning poems (or extracts) are published in ARTEMISpoetry. Second Light Network was founded and is managed by Dilys Wood.

EVENTS

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THE THIRD DUBLIN WRITERS CONFERENCE sponsored by The Society of Authors is scheduled to be held at The Gresham Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 from the 23rd-25th of June 2017. Seventeen speakers are scheduled.  Details on conference, programme and to purchase tickets are HERE.  The Society is offering a lower early-bird registration rate.

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51u0fnastll-_sx309_bo1204203200_The recommended read for this week is Ted Kooser’s The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets.  There’s so much I like about this manual.  For one thing, Ted assumes that if you are a heavy-duty reader, you already know quite a bit.  After all, one of the best ways to learn to write is to read. He operates on the moral principle that if you have a gift then you have the obligation to offer something by way of giving back. He says, “I hope I won’t exhaust your patience” and he doesn’t. He assumes that our ultimate goal is to reach others and to move them, so there is a great deal of emphasis on the relationship between the poet and her reader. He discusses our job as poet – not money, not fame – but “to serve the poems we write.”  This perspective makes reading and working with Ted Kooser’s The Poetry Home Repair Manual an refreshing guide to the poetic terrain for both budding and even some experienced writers interested in creating work that is fulfilling and truly artistic.

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