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“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Albert Camus

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Opportunity Knocks

THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POETRY has a rolling deadline and is now reading for its third volume of poetry from emerging and established poets.  Guidelines HERE.  Submissions HERE.

ALLEGRO POETRY, a quarterly magazine is open for submission for its twelfth issue. Deadline: January 31. Details HERE.

DRIFTWOOD PRESS “is devoted to finding fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, photography, craft essays, interviews, and other cross-genre work of the highest caliber.” Quarterly issues are released on the first Monday of every third month. The editors read all year round and there is a reading fee. Guidelines HERE. Submissions HERE.

SPLIT ROCK is an online lit mag established 2012 in Minnesota. “While we are proud of our Northwoods roots, SRR provides a venue for writers and artists of any background, in any stage of their careers, to showcase their best work. We seek poetry, creative non-fiction, fiction, book reviews, graphic narratives, comics, visual poetry, digital literature, and hybrid forms that explore place and the natural environment, though we welcome any work that presents a unique vision and aesthetic. We love innovative writing that finds new meaning in the familiar and inspiration from the stuff of everyday life.” Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.  Details HERE. 

OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS is an academic publisher in New Zealand publishing books on New Zealand and the Pacific with emphasis on history and natural history, biography (memoir), literature and the arts, and the Maori and Pacific. Submission guidelines HERE.

HAYMARKET BOOKS is a nonfiction publisher of “a wide range of progressive and radical political activists.”  Send proposal.  Details HERE. No poetry or fiction.

PULP LITERATURE seeks poetry and there is no reading fee for poetry.The editors are not accepting submissions of fiction right now. Details HERE.

GOBLIN FRUIT seeks “poetry that we can call ‘of the fantastical,’ poetry that treats mythic, surreal, fantasy and folkloric themes, or approaches other themes in a fantastical way.”  Pays on publication. Submissions through March 3.  Details HERE.

CONTESTS/COMPETITIONS

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CALGARY POETRY MAGAZINE open internationally for submission in English only. Reading fee. Deadline July 30, 2017. Details HERE.

WEGLE FLOMP HUMOR POETRY CONTEST year sixteen. Deadline April 1, 2017. Details HERE.

PULP LITERATURE short fiction (up to 750 words) contest. Looking for “short, sweet and sassy”.  Deadline February 15, 2017.  Details HERE.

EVENTS

ROLLING WRITERS ~ WRITERS NOT WRITING ~ Local lit-lights do other stuff: “The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St @ 22nd, Oakland, California 94612 February 4, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.Youssef Alaoui (instrumental music), Judy Clement Wall (house artist ~ our Toulous Lautrec!), Sharon Coleman (dance), Paul Corman-Roberts (drums), Jamey Genna (acting), Sarah Kobrinsky (dance), Charles Kruger (magic), Lisa Martinovic (singing original song), Colleen McKee and Ruth Crossman (singing duet), Deborah Steinberg (singing), Sandra Wassilie (Shakespearian monologues), Jon Sindell (Shylock speech, original song)” (510) 844-4120

TUPELO PRESS BAY AREA POETRY CONFERENCE – Tupelo’s fifth poetry Conference. Two-day small group sessions. There are three sections: Sat/Sun — March 18-19, 2017 — Portola Valley; Thurs/Fri — March 23-24, 2017 — San Francisco; and, Sat/Sun — March 25-26, 2017 — Berkeley. Details HERE.

news

two-years-eight-months-and-twenty-eight-nightsTHE NEW OBAMA FICTION PICKS the Rushdie book to the left is one, Off the Shelf

THE 38TH BLUES AWARDS, 2017, The Blues Foundation

PLANS TO PRIVATIZE U.S. PUBLIC BROADCASTING, Fortune Magazine

PLANS TO ABOLISH U.S. NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES, The Poet by Day

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM THE U.S. PRESS CORP, Columbia Journalism Review

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RYGA, a journal of provocations seeks work that explores social themes. The magazine is named for the distinguished Canadian writer George Ryga, which gives you an idea of the magazine’s mission. It is published twice yearly by Okanagan College. You may submit unpublished poetry, prose and short plays in line with their missions. Submission by mail.  Details HERE.

RUBARB MAGAZINE ” is an independent, secular, not-for-profit magazine for the general reading public, published three times a year featuring the writing and visual images of diversely defined Mennonites: genetic, practicing, lapsed, declined, resistant, wannabe, and friends of.

Rhubarb is looking for contemporary art and writing of excellence. Writing should be clear, stimulating and persuasive without being didactic. Rhubarb publishes poetry, drama, creative non-fiction and short fiction, and images of two and three-dimensional artwork. Rhubarb also publishes humour, interviews, book reviews, commentary and articles” Details HERE.

CECILE’S WRITERS where intercultural writers connect publishes fiction, plays, essays and memoir, and poetry.  Details HERE.

WORLD ENOUGH WRITERS has a call for submissions to its Beer, Wine and Spirits Poetry Anthology scheduled to be published Winter 2018. Guidelines HERE.  Reading fee is $5. There is a Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Anthology in the works. Watch the site for details.

CONTESTS/COMPETITIONS

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SPIRIT FIRST founded in 2008 to promote the practices of meditation, awareness and mindfulness is accepting submissions of poetry through January 31 for it’s 2017 contest, its eighth. Submissions by email or snail mail.Awards are $200, $150 and $100.  Details HERE.

WRITING FOR PEACE is accepting submissions nonfiction, fiction and poetry from youth between the ages of 13 and 19 years. The deadline is March 1st.  Details HERE.

A PUBLIC SPACE was founded in 2006 as an independent magazine of literature and culture. Editors read submission from September 15 – April 15. This is a market for poetry. Details HERE.

EVENTS

AWP, Association of Writers and Writing Programs will host its Conference & Bookfair from February 8 – 11, 2017 in celebrations of its fiftieth year. Details HERE.

TUPELO PRESS Bay Area Poetry Conference; Sat/Sun — March 18-19, 2017 — Portola Valley; Thurs/Fri — March 23-24, 2017 — San Francisco; Sat/Sun — March 25-26, 2017 — Berkeley. Details HERE.

DAYS OF AWE AND WONDER March 10 and Saturday morning March 11, 2017, The Marcus J. Borg Foundation will celebrate a new collection of writings by Marcus Borg, Days of Awe and Wonder. The event will be at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon where Marcus served as Canon Theologian. Guest lecturer is The Reverend Dr. Robin Meyers. (Borg was a theologian, a New Testament Scholar and a writer.) Details HERE.

GALLOWAY COMES TO GLASGOW: “Two accomplished, accessible and widely published poets from the wilds of Dumfries and Galloway will discuss and share readings on Solway seascapes, sheep, the Large Hadron Collider, the murder of Robert Burns, and other matters. Entertainment absolutely guaranteed.” January 17 Details on Facebook page.

TIDBITS

2016 Great Graphic Novels for Teens, Young Adult Library Services

Poems of Protest, Resistance, and Empowerment, Why poetry is necessary and sought after during crises, the editors of Poetry magazine

lyrikline – listen to the poet! at this international website for experiencing the diversity of contemporary poetry. Here you can listen to the melodies, sounds, and rhythms of international poetry, recited by the authors themselves, and read the poems both in their original languages and various translations.This project from the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and its partners has established itself as an online cultural project, making poetry accessible and understandable for all, above and beyond national borders and language barriers. Until today, lyrikline has been visited by several million users from over 180 countries.

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POETRY ON THE BIG SCREEN: “And I a smiling woman./I am only thirty.”

51pnhss455l-_sy445_I must admit to mixed feelings on Sylvia, a film about the American poet Sylvia Plath. There’s not much of Path’s poetry included and no poems from her husband Ted Hughes. I understand that their daughter, the poet and painter Frieda Hughes, refused permission. She felt the producers were “voyeuristically raking over the ashes of her mother’s death.” What poetry is quoted includes:  “Dying is an art … I do it exceptionally well …” from Ariel, which was read in voice over (as were any other bits of poetry) more than once. This perhaps speaks to Frieda Hughes’ concerns.

The producer (BBC) and director (Christine Jeffs) chose to focus on Plath’s clinical depression, her tumultuous relationship with Hughes, and her suicide.The sense of Plath as a poet is background to all that. One could argue that it should have been the other way around.

Gwyneth Paltrow plays Plath and while she does bare some resemblance to Plath, she is rather wooden. If you’ve listened to recordings of Plath’s interviews, you know she was animated. Lively.  A smoldering and sauterne Ted Hughes was played by Daniel Craig. Blyth Danner (Paltrow’s real-life mom) plays Plath’s stern, knowing and concerned mother, not a big part but well done.

I think what’s redeeming is that the interplay between Plath and Hughes illustrates the extraordinary challenge presented to their marriage by the depth and persistence of her depression. Neither excusing nor judging Hughes for his adultery, the film gives a nod to his pain and the fact of his love despite all.

After Plath’s death, Hughes was vilified as someone tantamount to a murderer. He often still is even after the publication of Birthday Letters, which gives his side of the story.

“Nor did I know I was being auditioned
For the male lead in your drama,
Miming through the first easy movements
As if with eyes closed, feeling for the role.
As if a puppet were being tried on its strings,
Or a dead frog’s legs touched by electrodes.”

Plath was deeply wounded by her father’s death when she was eight and saw in Hughes a replacement. The situation couldn’t have been easy for the man. And, after all, Plath’s depression predates her relationship with Hughes, as did her first attempt at suicide.

If I was using stars to rate Sylvia, I’d give it two out of five, mainly because it perpetuates the mythology that surrounds Plath over her poetry, which I find intrusive and ultimately disrespectful. If you’re a Plath fan and haven’t seen the movie, you might want to just because of your affinity for the poet and her poetry … and, of course, you might like it more than I do. If you have no particular affinity for Plath or know little about her, you might appreciate it as the story of a depressive.

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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

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CARBON CULTURE, The Intersection of Technology + Literature + Art “advocates a creative, thoughtful and visually appealing dialogue about our complex relationship to technology. We strive to promote the work of those who employ technology and utilize technological designs and terms in art and literature. Our collection of voices and artistic work explore who we are as human beings in a technological world to create a lasting impression at the intersection of technology, art and literature.” It publishes poetry as well as other literature and art.  Submission guidelines HERE.

THE BAKERY  “is  an online literary journal that features a new poem every morning, publishing the work of emerging and established voices. The Bakery is interested in representing a wide range of voices and is open to all styles. Send poetry that we want to eat, that we want to put on a cake or between two slices of other poems. Make us want to make poem sandwiches, poem brownies, and donuts that we would like to see filled with your poems.” Submission guidelines are HERE.

THE EMMA PRESS (charming!) has two calls-for-submissions open: One  is for poems about British and Irish kings and queens.  Tight deadline –  November 13 – but shared here on the odd chance that some reader has something ready to go. The other is for poems about animals and the deadline December 4th. Details HERE.

WHITE PINE PRESS  is not accepting new submissions except for the possibility of Poetry in Translation.  Send a query letter and a representative sample.  Details HERE.

THE MARIE ALEXANDER POETRY SERIES , an imprint of White Pine Press (above), publishes one or two books a year – single author collections of “prose poetry, flash fiction, short lyric essays and hybrid forms.” Details HERE.

THE BeZINE, a publication of The Bardo Group Begins in the process of pulling together the October issue and will continue to consider submissions until midnight (PDT) on October 12. Submit poetry, essay, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, photography, music videos and art or photography.  The theme for October is Rituals for Peace, Healing, Unity. The Rev. Terri Stewart (Beguine Again and The BeZine) hosts the October issue. Submission guidelines HERE.  Submit to bardogroup@gmail.com

The November issue’s theme is Caritas/Chesed/Metta (in other words, loving kindness). Deadline is the 10th. 

The December issue’s theme is The Healing Power of the Arts.

CONTESTS

Opportunity Knocks

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF STATE POETRY SOCIETIES sponsors fifty poetry contests a year. Details HERE.

CALIFORNIA STATE POETRY SOCIETY sponsors monthly theme poetry contests.  Details HERE. Membership information is HERE.

WHITE PINE PRESS POETRY PRIZE COMPETITION opens for submission of collections on July 1, 2017.  Cash award: $1,000 and publication. There’s a $20 free for entry, reading and processing. Details HERE.

EVENT

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Details on this event (the poets and the sponsoring organizations and topics) are HERE.

Reviews of two of Hélène Cardona’s books , poetry samples and an interview with Hélène are scheduled for November 24 in the Poet by Day’s popular series Celebrating American She-Poets, which will resume then.

KUDOS TO

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FROM WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: a comprehensive listing of Poetry Terms: Brief Definitions

HEALING STORY ALLIANCE (HSA) “explores and promotes the use of storytelling in healing. Our goal as a special interest group of the National Storytelling Network (NSN) is to build a resource for the use of story in the healing arts and professions.

“We share experiences and skills to increase our own knowledge of stories and how best to use them to inform, nurture, inspire and heal, both organizations and individuals. We strive to reach beyond our storytelling community to engage all those in other service professions who can see the benefit of story as a vehicle for healing.”

Find “guidance and practical applications for storytelling, revealing and reflecting the many facets of healing story in the world today and in the past” on their website.  Thanks to our fave world-class storyteller, Naomi Baltuck (Writing Between the Lines, Life from a Writer’s POV and The BeZine).

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