Submission Calls

Collection of places to submit for publication

This site offers a large array of choices that you can
customize with a search engine for the type of poetry
you write.

Hope it helps:


http://www.duotrope.com

excellent suggestion - this is a great site, I can get lost there for an hour and wind up submitting nowhere but it IS a great site -- well maintained

Cub4ucme said:

This site offers a large array of choices that you can
customize with a search engine for the type of poetry
you write.

Hope it helps:


http://www.duotrope.com

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Has it been a year???

CALL FOR " THIRD ANNUAL NC-17 ISSUE: THE BIRDS & THE BEES" SUBMISSIONS



(Issue: No. IV.1 of The Hiss Quarterly )

The submission deadline for Issue IV.1 is December 15, 2006. The issue
will go live on or about February 1, 2007 to run through the end of
April; so please send submissions as soon as possible.

We're looking for a few good euphemisms…and if you aren't, you should
be! Our third annual NC-17 issue, "The Birds & The Bees", is all
about innuendo. Tell us about IT, but use a little discretion, you
know? Go ahead. Have a wardrobe malfunction, make like bunnies, do
the nasty, carve a canoe together, get it on, make some love… just DO
it already! And then, well… let it slip…bare your souls… fill us in…
come on, tell us about it. Without, uh, actually TELLING us about it.

We urge you to explore the possibilities, and submit them to us. Give
us a good, old fashioned burlesque fan feather dance. (And if your
feathers happen to slip a bit, we won't mind at all.)

- - - - -

The Hiss Quarterly showcases emerging and established writers, plus
cartoonists and general nonsense makers for our "Deliberate Nonsense
(TM)" department. We seek short stories, flash fiction, nonfiction,
creative nonfiction, poetry, essays, <100-wd Deliberate Nonsense(TM)
and original *anythings*, based on your interpretation of our theme.

Please visit the website for complete submission guidelines at ~

http://hissquarterly.thehiss.net/guidelines.html ~ And please *follow*
those guidelines.

Thank you in advance for the opportunity to showcase your work,

The Janitorial Staff of
The Hiss Quarterly Editorial Team
hissquarterly(at)gmail.com
(replace (at) with @)
_______________________
The Hiss Quarterly
http://thehissquarterly.net

annaswirls said:

excellent suggestion - this is a great site, I can get lost there for an hour and wind up submitting nowhere but it IS a great site -- well maintained

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I know, it's easy to get lost there.

Especially when you have that itch
thing going on.


I can be very distractive.

I use the search engine controls to limit the selections
and that works.

I haven't used the site in a long time but, I know
it's still up and running because they email me
once a month. Maybe, today I'll take a look
and see what's new.


It's a nice place to find the right environment for what you write.

The bonus is you also find sites that are interesting and dedicated to the
arts.

Glad to be of assistance.

That's my nature.

I'm sure you would have guessed that by now, though.

best,
andy

I'm starting to read for the winter issue of Mannequin Envy.

Submission Guidelines

Anyone interested should send their poetry submissions to me at poetry@mannequinenvy.com

thanks,

patrick

Oh I do not get lost lost, the site is set up well, easy to navigate, I just can spend a lot of time enjoying the work and the sites out there, it is much more fun than actually submitting work.

I think you are much more distracted by my metaphorical itch than I am my darling.

What sites have you found to be a good environment for your work? That is the trick, yes? No one writes in a way that everyone would accept. I know a poet who once got the rejection comment "the poetry you have sent us is too good. Please try again."



We just listed Mannequin Envy there, hopefully we get some more great work! I need to write and let them know our submissions are open now, and that we are not taking flash fiction anymore .

Cub4ucme said:

I know, it's easy to get lost there.

Especially when you have that itch
thing going on.


I can be very distractive.

I use the search engine controls to limit the selections
and that works.

I haven't used the site in a long time but, I know
it's still up and running because they email me
once a month. Maybe, today I'll take a look
and see what's new.


It's a nice place to find the right environment for what you write.

The bonus is you also find sites that are interesting and dedicated to the
arts.

Glad to be of assistance.

That's my nature.

I'm sure you would have guessed that by now, though.

best,
andy

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annaswirls said:

I think you are much more distracted by my metaphorical itch than I am my darling.


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Well, that may very well be.

I'll have to go and check and see
if there is a cat in my bag.

Just wanted you to know I just visited a couple of manaquins.

They were very well-dressed and had a lot more to say than
I might have imagined.

I booked-marked the site infact. That's something I don't do
much of anymore, unless I know there's something there for
me.

Hope it isn't something wet that doesn't talk.
I too am easily distracted.

best,
andy

PoetryCemetery

December Issue; "Seasons Fleeting"
this site/ e-zine currently accepting submissions...

annaswirls said:

What sites have you found to be a good environment for your work? .

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It depends on what forms I'm working with and what subject
matter I'm writing about at the time.

Right now I have a few poems publised on Sage of Consiousness
which is an EZINE and a couple more in an Australian Mag both
of which I believe were generated from that site. One pays,
one doesn't but I like that environment enough to agree to
have my poetry represented there.

It is really important to understand the media that you are submitting
to before you do so. They all have their own persona and genre.

It's a great site to use. If you haven't done much submitting, I would
recommend choosing sites that fit your poetry and then submitting
to those sites with a very high acceptance percentage.

Once you're out there enough if your poetry is valid enough the ezines
will find a way into your email and they will be contacting you.


Anyway, I hope this answered your question.

best,
andy

Thanks Andy! Very helpful advice.

I don't do much submitting because I find it to be a chore-- I know that is a poor excuse but it does not seem that important to me at the moment. I will get back into it.

I checked out Sage of Con. Looks like a nice site! They have a bunch from Taylor Graham, an outstanding poet and all around good person, from what I know of her.

I did not know ezines would go looking for poets! That is interesting! I have had invites to join this forum or that forum and invites to put my work on collective sites (um I think the angry poet is one of them lol!) but never to a "real" zine. It is how we get most of our featured visual artists, though.

One of the reasons I put submission calls here is I sometimes see a zine and think of a person or persons who frequent this board and think THIS is the perfect site for them Maybe save someone time. Sometimes I put them here because it is somewhere I Would like to submit and maybe it will inspire me if I put it down.

Night!

~anna

Cub4ucme said:

It depends on what forms I'm working with and what subject
matter I'm writing about at the time.

Right now I have a few poems publised on Sage of Consiousness
which is an EZINE and a couple more in an Australian Mag both
of which I believe were generated from that site. One pays,
one doesn't but I like that environment enough to agree to
have my poetry represented there.

It is really important to understand the media that you are submitting
to before you do so. They all have their own persona and genre.

It's a great site to use. If you haven't done much submitting, I would
recommend choosing sites that fit your poetry and then submitting
to those sites with a very high acceptance percentage.

Once you're out there enough if your poetry is valid enough the ezines
will find a way into your email and they will be contacting you.


Anyway, I hope this answered your question.

best,
andy

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I should have clarified my statement.

Generally start-up ezines and print media put out calls for submissions but,
many of them contact poets via email after cruising the net or having someone referred to them.

Established media is ussually unindated with submissions so there is no need to reach out to writers.

There is the rare case when they will contact your after you have publised something with them and ask you to resubmit new poems.

If it's not important to you to that's fine.

We all have our passions and poetry for many is a personal pursuit.
There are countless poets worth reading who never pursue publication.

I understand their reasons for doing so. Poetry can be a private
means to a better and healthier life. The same for musicians, or painters.


thanks,
andy

TheRainMan said:

I'm starting to read for the winter issue of Mannequin Envy.

Submission Guidelines

Anyone interested should send their poetry submissions to me at poetry@mannequinenvy.com

thanks,

patrick

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Pat, will there be any particular theme for this issue?

just wondering



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Maria2394 said:

Pat, will there be any particular theme for this issue?

just wondering



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this issue is NOT theme-related.

just looking for good poetry.

TheRainMan said:

this issue is NOT theme-related.

just looking for good poetry.

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we are still looking for a more positive cheery sort of artwork, something more feel good as opposed to um reptilian skin on human figures with forked tongues or execution style killings in plastic soldiers... I have LOVED our feature artists, as has Alex, but we are going to try for somehting more on an upward slant, as the days are long and the hours of darkness grow, we are looking for a little something, hmmm bizarre, surreal, whickitty whacked but with a more lighthearted twist.

Not going so far as hummingbirds in flight and kitties hanging in there...but if y'all see something tres cool, let us know. We mainly get darker submissions as that is what we have generally published.

~Jennifer

annaswirls said:

Not going so far as hummingbirds in flight and kitties hanging in there...but if y'all see something tres cool, let us know. We mainly get darker submissions as that is what we have generally published.

~Jennifer

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I'm still looking Jenn. It's surprising how many people's work just doesn't translate into good photographic reproductions for the web.

bogusbrig said:

I'm still looking Jenn. It's surprising how many people's work just doesn't translate into good photographic reproductions for the web.

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Thanks! It is tricky! I did like the people you sent over by the way, I owe you mail. Today has been crazy.

Contest: No Entry Fee!!!!!

Euphoria Poetry Contest



"Euphoria" has an annual Poetry Contest which offers a prize of $100 for the
winning entry. There is no entry fee, and nothing that must be purchased if
this contest is won.

Entries for this contest may be sent after August 1, of each year. Poems may
be of any genre, with no more than 5 poems being entered, and with a 50 line
maximum. Please send all entries in the body of an email (no html please) to <
bowmanj8(at)aol.com> (replace (at) with @), and type "Poetry Contest
Submission" in the subject line of the email.

Be sure to type your name, give biographical info. and a working email
address, so we may contact you when we receive your entry. If you send more than one poem in the email, be sure that you separate each poem and be sure to add a
copyright date for it also, to protect your rights. The winner will retain all
rights to their poem, with the exception of "Euphoria" printing and displaying
the poem on the web page as the winning poem.

The deadline for all poems is December 31, 2006, and the winner will be
announced on February 1, 2007. Hope to hear from you soon!

...................

ask yourself, what do I have to lose?


Here is the winner and finalists from last year:

2005 Euphoria

Attention Carolina Poets and Artists!!!

Dear Friends and Fellow Poets,



This is a reminder that the KAKALAK POETRY AND ART COMPETITION is open! We were thrilled with the level of participation in the 2006 contest. We received over 1,100 poems from 285 poets and over 100 images from 28 artists. The competition was intense. The resulting contest anthology, Kakalak 2006, received great reviews and a very warm reception wherever it was read in public. Thanks to you, all the poets and artists who trusted us with your work and your money, and many friends who supported us, for making Kakalak 2006 a great success. Let's do it again!



For your convenience, the contest guidelines are provided below. There are a few changes from last year, so please read carefully. We consider it a privilege to review your poetry or art, and look forward to hearing from you. -- The Editors



KAKALAK 2007
Anthology of Carolina Poets

Poetry Contest & Art Competition

Poetry Prize Awards: First Place $300 Second Place $100 Third Place $50

• Open to natives and current residents of North & South Carolina
• Entries must be postmarked by January 10, 2007
• Poetry Contest judged by Peter Meinke
• Initial screening by editors Richard Allen Taylor, Beth Cagle Burt, and Lisa Zerkle

Official Rules for Poetry Contest (scroll down for art guidelines):

1. Submit 1 to 5 poems printed on white 8 1/2 x 11 paper (three copies of each poem), any style, any subject, no more than one poem per page. Poems may not exceed 40 lines including stanza breaks. We would appreciate all poems in 12-point Times New Roman. Please do not submit poems in all bold, all caps, or all italics. No email submissions, please.

2. Poems must be original, unpublished in any medium (print or electronic), not under consideration elsewhere and must not have been selected for a monetary prize in any other contest.

3. Poet’s name, address, phone and email address must be provided on a cover sheet accompanying the manuscript and this information must NOT appear anywhere on the manuscript. Cover sheet should also include the following: titles of the poems entered and the poet’s 30-word (max.) bio.

4. Entries must be postmarked by January 10, 2007. Include SASE for notification or indicate on cover sheet if email notification is preferred. No entries will be returned. All entrants will be notified by March 1, 2007.

5. Entry fee: $10 nonrefundable check or money order payable to Kakalak Poetry. $10 fee covers up to five poems.

6. All poets selected for publication will be required to sign a publishing agreement. All rights revert to authors upon publication.

Please send entries to:

Kakalak Poetry
4057 North Course Drive
Charlotte, NC 28277

Questions: kakalakpoetry@aol.com

Thank you in advance for sending three (3) copies of each poem.

Art Prize Awards: First Place $100 Second Place $50 Third Place $25

• Open to natives and current residents of North & South Carolina
• Entries must be postmarked by January 10, 2007
• Initial screening by editors Richard Allen Taylor, Beth Cagle Burt, and Lisa Zerkle

Official Rules for Art Contest:

1. Submit 1 to 5 pieces, any style, any subject, printed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper. No email submissions, please. Submit copies as artwork will not be returned. We encourage presentation of any type of visual art from acrylics, watercolors, charcoal, and photography to photographs of sculptures, ceramics, and installations. Black and white representations only.

2. Artwork must be original, unpublished in any medium (print or electronic magazine; however, art in personal electronic galleries is acceptable), not have been selected for a monetary prize, or under consideration in any other contest.

3. Artist’s name, address, phone and email address must be provided on a cover sheet accompanying the art and must NOT appear anywhere on the art. The titles of the artwork should appear on the cover sheet and on the back of the artwork. The cover sheet should also detail the chosen mediums for each piece and the artist’s 30-word (max.) bio.

4. Entries must be postmarked by January 10, 2007. Include SASE for notification or indicate on cover sheet if email notification is preferred. No entries will be returned. All entrants will be notified by March 1, 2007.

5. Entry fee: $10 nonrefundable check or money order payable to Kakalak Poetry. $10 fee covers up to five pages of art.

6. All artists selected for publication will be required to sign a publishing agreement. All rights revert to artist upon publication. Artists selected for publication will be required to forward a 300 dpi rendition of their work as a jpeg or .tif file via email, disk, or CD to a future specified address.

Please send entries to:

Kakalak Poetry
4057 North Course Drive
Charlotte, NC 28277

Questions: kakalakpoetry@aol.com

oh this looks so cool


Meridian Contest for Prose Poems!

Short-shorts, prose poems--whatever you want to call
them, we're opening a new contest just for them. The
winning entry will be printed on a 4" x 6" postcard
which will be given out at the AWP 2007 Conference
(http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2007awpconf.php)
to promote Meridian. The postcard will also be
included with the May 2007 issue of Meridian. And the
winner will receive a $100 prize and 100 stamped
postcards so you can send copies to all your friends,
acquaintances, uneasy allies, etc. This is a great
opportunity to get your writing noticed in a unique
way.

Obviously, the entry has to fit on a postcard. Visual
appeal is a plus. You may send either word
processor/text files, or--if you're artistically
inclined--an Adobe PDF mockup of what your postcard
might look like.

This contest has a modest $3 entry fee. Deadline is
midnight EST on January 31st, 2007. Entry is online
only. To enter, visit:

http://readmeridian.org/?page=pppp
E-mail:
MeridianUVA(at)yahoo.com
(replace (at) with @)

MARIA: get your frogs in a row....

Uptown Books Chapbook Series Special Edition – Animals
www.myspace.com/uptownbooks

Animals have these advantages over man:Â they never
hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of
death, they have no theologians to instruct them,
their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and
unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them
nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
~Voltaire

Uptown Books Chapbook Series invites submissions for a
special all-animal edition. The chapbook will feature
8-12 flash fiction, prose poems, musings, or other
such stuff and nonsense organized somehow around
"animals" – interpret as you will. Each piece should
be no longer than 250 words – excerpts, incomplete
thoughts, and experimental forms are welcome. A
different artist will illustrate each piece.
Unpublished works will be given preference, but
previously published material to which the author
holds copyright is welcome. Payment is ten copies of
the work.

Please address submissions to "Animal Chapbook" and
send in the body of an email to
threeelephantspublishing(at)yahoo.com
(replace (at) with @)

Uptown Books publishes chapbooks eight times a year -
an individual story illustrated by a professional
artist. Though we tend to favor absurd, magical, and
surreal work, we are open to all themes and styles.
Each chapbook is different, each one is delightful,
and they fit in your back pocket so you can take them
with you then pass them along to someone else when you
are finished.

Please visit www.myspace.com/uptownbooks for complete information.

Spoken Word

calling all spoken word artists and musicians.
Â
Blue Dragonfly Press wants spoken word and music that take on the injustices
of the world! We want the graphic truth of what it’s like to survive or not
survive racism, sexism, colonialism, ethnocentrism, capitalism, homophobia,
ableism, genocide, and other oppressions. We are especially looking for work by
Native American artists, international artists, and work that addresses sexual
violence, including prostitution. “Blasé Redux,� by Fred Ho, Archie Shepp, and
Christine Stark is already committed to the CD.
Â
Blue Dragonfly Press is a new press dedicated to publishing work by talented
artists who are marginalized by mainstream media because of content and form.
Each artist/group will receive a specified number of complimentary copies, to
be determined. Send your best work to Blue Dragonfly Press, P.O. Box 1426,
Detroit Lakes, MN USA 56502.
Â
Deadline: June 15th 2007.
Questions:
bluedragonflypress(at)hotmail.com
(replace (at) with @)
Â

Here's a competition I may have to enter, if I can (it's oriented to UK poets): Poetry on the Lake. Check out the second of the three competitions, the one for short poetry. I think Christian should try that one--he has my blessing.

February 15, 2007.

Gravity Pulls You In, a work in progress, is an anthology of beautifully written essays that describe the experiences of parents raising children on the autism spectrum. We are looking for the piercing truth that can be funny, irreverent, illuminating, tender, moving, but always deeply respectful. We invite all voices that will be at once familiar to any parent but also specific to those moving in the world of autism. When the reader picks up this book, it will be either out of recognition or curiosity but when they put it down, the simple and complicated details from these stories will create the possibility of greater connection and understanding among us all.

We are currently accepting submissions of prose and poetry, not to exceed 5,000 words. Deadline: February 15, 2007.. Please send entire manuscript with SASE to K. Anderson, 53 Christopher Street, Wakefield, RI 02879. It will not be possible to return manuscripts.

Feel free to direct any questions to kyra@gravitypullsyouin.com.

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No fee. Topic is perfect for many of you. You know who you are come on.....

CONTEST: ARE YOU A WRITER MAMA (OR PAPA)?

Writing's hard; parenting's harder. Only the
strongest souls would consider doing them both at
the same time, and we applaud that spirit.

"Writer's Digest" wants to hear from you on the topic
of: "When Parenting and Writing Collide." Write your
best original, unpublished parenting-and-writing
story in a 500-word essay and e-mail it to
mailtoublicity(at)fwpubs.com
(replace (at) with @)
with "Writer Mama contest" in the subject line.
Christina Katz, author of
"Writer Mama," will select the top three entries. The
first-place entry will be published in an upcoming
issue of "Writer's Digest" magazine; second- and
third-place entries will be posted on
thewritermama.com. All winners will receive a signed
copy of "Writer Mama." All entries must be e-mailed
to <publicity(at)fwpubs.com> by March 31
(replace (at) with @).

The entry must be written in the body of the e-mail;
attachments will not be accepted or opened. Each
entry should include your name, address, telephone
number and e-mail address. Only the winning writers
will be contacted, and entries will not be returned.
"Writer's Digest" retains first-time rights to run the
winning entries in the magazine and/or on our
website or associated websites, after which all rights
return to the author. The decisions of the editors are
final.

Oh, Seattle, let me hug on you!! lol

sounds just about purrrr--fect for my froggies!! I am honored that you think us as often as you do. Just so ya know, we ribbet you too

NJ

SeattleRain said:

Uptown Books Chapbook Series Special Edition – Animals
www.myspace.com/uptownbooks

Animals have these advantages over man:Â they never
hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of
death, they have no theologians to instruct them,
their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and
unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them
nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
~Voltaire

Uptown Books Chapbook Series invites submissions for a
special all-animal edition. The chapbook will feature
8-12 flash fiction, prose poems, musings, or other
such stuff and nonsense organized somehow around
"animals" – interpret as you will. Each piece should
be no longer than 250 words – excerpts, incomplete
thoughts, and experimental forms are welcome. A
different artist will illustrate each piece.
Unpublished works will be given preference, but
previously published material to which the author
holds copyright is welcome. Payment is ten copies of
the work.

Please address submissions to "Animal Chapbook" and
send in the body of an email to
threeelephantspublishing(at)yahoo.com
(replace (at) with @)

Uptown Books publishes chapbooks eight times a year -
an individual story illustrated by a professional
artist. Though we tend to favor absurd, magical, and
surreal work, we are open to all themes and styles.
Each chapbook is different, each one is delightful,
and they fit in your back pocket so you can take them
with you then pass them along to someone else when you
are finished.

Please visit www.myspace.com/uptownbooks for complete information.

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