SUNDAY ANNOUNCEMENTS: CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS, COMPETITIONS, OTHER INFORMATION AND NEWS
“The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.” It Is Daylight,
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Opportunity Knocks
BOSTON REVIEW is currently reading query letters and unsolicited nonfiction up to 5,000 words. Watch the site for its 2019 poetry and fiction contest announcement. Details HERE.
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY MAGAZINE, Helping Families Thrive™ discusses marriage and parenting from a biblical perspective and has an open call for article submissions. Writers’ guidelines are HERE.
THE GOOD MEN PROJECT (in its seventh year) has on ongoing open call for articles that “spark an international conversation about the changing roles for men in the 21st century.” No submission fee. Optional membership fee. Details HERE.
GUERNICA, a magazine of global arts & politics, publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art. Calls for submissions will reopen in February. Watch the site.
HAUNTED WATERS PRESS publishes prose and poetry and welcomes submissions from new and emerging writers as well as established writers. There are a number of opportunities with a variety of opening and closing dates. Details HERE.
THE HELIX LITERARY AND ART MAGAZINE, a publication of Central Connecticut State University, publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art twice a year and is open to submission for its spring 2019 edition. No submission fee. Deadline: April 5, 2019. Details HERE.
LUCENT DREAMING, a magazine for emerging writers and artists, publishes short stories, poetry, and artwork in print publication and online. Payment: Contributor copy. Details HERE.
SPRING SONG PRESS has an open call for submissions from February 1- May 1, 2019 to its upcoming fiction Starlight and Mist anthology. 1,000 – 10,000 words. Paying Market. Submission guidelines forthcoming HERE.
VITA BREVIS, an online poetry journal for emerging poets, publishes poetry and feature articles and will review queries for interview. Vita Brevis also hosts a poetry community. Details on poetry submissions HERE. Explore the site for other info.
VOICEMAIL POEMS is open for submission to its spring 2019 issues. No submission fee. Modest charge if you want critique. Details HERE.
CONTESTS
Opportunity Knocks
WHISPER FROM THE HEART POETRY CLUB (South Africa), POETRY AND SHORT STORY COMPETITION is hosting an International Poetry & Short Story Competition for an upcoming anthology. The competition is open to the international community. Cash award and copy of anthology. $30 submission fee.
The entry fee of $30.00 gives an entrant
- A chance to win a prize
- Every entry is published
- Every entrant gets a copy of the Book of Verse and Short Stories
Details HERE.
RIVER STYX INTERNATIONAL POETRY CONTEST opens for submissions through May 31, 2019. Entry fee, which may include subscription. Cash award: $1,500 first prize. Details HERE.
ZÓCALO PUBLIC SQUARE POETRY PRIZE is awarded each year to a U.S. poet “whose poem best evokes a connection to place. ‘Place” may be interpreted by the poet as a place of historical, cultural, political, or personal importance; it may be literal, imaginary, or metaphorical landscape. Cash award and published interview. No entry fee. Deadline: February 4, 2019. Details HERE.
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FYI: Paul Brookes, a stalwart participant in The Poet by Day Wednesday Writing Prompt, is running an ongoing series on poets, Wombwell Rainbow Interviews. Connect with Paul if you’d like to be considered for an interview. Visit him, enjoy the interviews, get introduced to some poets who may be new to you, and learn a few things.
The Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: Jamie Dedes
REMINDER:
The Poet by Day
WEDNESDAY WRITING PROMPT . . .
. . . returns this Wednesday, January 16, 2019.
OTHER INFORMATION AND NEWS
- How do you define authenticity? A poetry collection explores a modern problem., Michael Dirda, Washington Post
- Natasha Trethewey: Finding Her Calling in a Wound That Never Heals, Chet’la Sebree, Guernica Magazine
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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
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