Submission Calls

[annaswirls]

My SEARCH function is not working for some reason, so I figured I would be lazy and put up a new thread instead of doing an archeological dig for the old one....

once I find the former threads I will post the links here.

 

[annaswirls]

body anthology seeks submissions
Posted by: "crwropps@aol.com" crwropps@aol.com aejos
Date: Fri Aug 3, 2007 6:48 am ((PDT))

Submit your work to an exciting new anthology: Torn Skin and Soul Clothes.
Accepting non-fiction, poetry, and photographs.

Body. Your body. Your lived and living body. In what ways is your body
marked? Do you have scars? Plastic surgery? Tattoos or piercings?
Crazy haircuts? Have you ever injured yourself on purpose, or had the
desire to do so? Do you have special jewelry or clothing that carries
meaning for you?

For written work:

Write about the meaning or experience of marking your body or being marked.

Some thematic ideas:

-In what ways do your body markings carry memories? Have you ever marked
your body to promise yourself never to forget? What do your scars remind
you of?

-What do your scars or body art tell the world about you? Have you ever
marked your body to create a new image for yourself? Have you ever marked
your body to force yourself to be true to who you are? Have you ever
marked your body to pass yourself off as someone you're not?

-Have you ever marked your body as an attempt to connect your inner world
to your outer world--to communicate something you didn't have words for,
to let yourself out of your body, to let feelings into your body, to bring
some knowledge home to yourself?

-Have you ever marked your body out of shame--used pain or symbolism to
try to silence part of yourself that you were uncomfortable with? Have
you marked your body to silence forbidden desire, to transform aspects of
your body that you did not like?

-Have you ever marked your body to deliberately make it imperfect, to mar
its wholeness? To break your body into pieces? Have you ever marked your
body to suture your broken body together?

-Have you ever felt that marking your body was related to erotic desire?
Have you marked your body to silence desire, to fulfill desire, as an
erotic act? What do you make of the connection between desire for pain
and desire for sexual fulfillment? Have you ever marked your body as a
way to deal with a sense of sexual insatiability?

-What does your body know? Does your body know things you don't? Do you
learn from its knowledge? Have you ever marked your body as a way of
telling your body something or learning something from it?



Ideas for photographs:

-photos of scarred bodies or body art
-paint on someone's nude body and then photograph it
-photos of jewelry or clothing used in one of the above ways--consider
including written work that explains the photograph
-photograph someone and then interview them about their body, submit the
photograph and the interview


Submission instructions:

Please submit work by email to tornskin.soulclothes(at)gmail.com
(replace (at) with @) .
If you cannot submit by email, please send an email to the above address to
explain your situation, and we will make other arrangements.

Submission deadline: December 31, 2007.

 

[annaswirls]

A Call for Submissions for CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW
Special Issue: The In-Between Age ~
Writers on Adolescence

CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW is seeking work for our Summer/Fall 2008 issue focusing
on writing inspired or informed by the experiences, observations, and/or
cultural and historical possibilities of the following topic: "The In-Between Age ~
Writers on Adolescence." We are open to work that covers any of the multitude
of ways that the transition from childhood to adulthood in the teenage years
defines us and, in turn, defines the world we live in.

All submissions should be original, unpublished poetry, fiction, or literary
nonfiction in English or unpublished translations in English (we do run
bilingual, facing-page translations whenever possible). Please query before
submitting any interview.

For guidelines, check our Web site at <
http://www.siu.edu/~crborchd/guid2.html>.

Mail submissions to:

Jon Tribble, Managing Editor
CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW
Adolescence issue
Faner 2380, Mail Code 4503
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
1000 Faner Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901

Please include SASE with your submission for manuscript return or for reply.
No submissions via e-mail or fax, thanks.

The submission period for this issue is August 1, 2007 through October 31,
2007. We will be reading submissions throughout this period and hope to complete
the editorial work on the issue by mid-February. Writers whose work is
selected will receive $20 (US) per magazine page ($50 minimum for poetry; $100
minimum for prose), two copies of the issue, and a year´s subscription.

 

[annaswirls]

anthology calls: best gay poetry/best lesbian poetry

oh I can think of more than one sexy poet here that would have a great shot at this!!

A Midsummer Night's Press announces two new annual anthologies:

BEST GAY POETRY edited by Lawrence Schimel
and
BEST LESBIAN POETRY edited by Linda Alvarez

For the 2008 editions of this exciting new series celebrating the best
in gay/lesbian poetry, A Midsummer Night's Press invites submissions
of poems published during 2007.

Poems can have appeared in print or online magazines, journals, or
anthologies; we are also willing to consider poems from books or
chapbooks first published in 2007, even if the poem was originally
published previously in periodicals, so long as the poet has the right
to reprint the poem.

We are open to all styles of poetry, from formal to free verse; we are
likewise open-minded in terms of content, so long as it somehow fits
(even if pushing the boundaries of) what might be considered "gay
poetry" or "lesbian poetry".
We are willing to consider slam poetry, so long as it has been
published in text form, not merely performed; the poem must also work
on the page, for these anthologies.
We are open to English-language poetry from all over the world, and
actively look to include non-North American voices.

Please title documents with the poet's surname.

Please include contact information (both street and email address),
bio, and previous publication history WITHIN the .doc file, as
documents will be read separately from the emails.

Submissions from individual poets or queries should be sent by email
in .doc format to one of the following addresses, as appropriate:

BestGayPoetry(at)gmail.com
(replace (at) with @)
or
BestLesbianPoetry(at)gmail.com
(replace(at) with @)

Deadline is December 1, 2007.
(We will consider submissions of work that is scheduled to appear in
the latter half of the year, but which has not yet been published.)

In each volume, A Midsummer Night's Press also plans to include a
round-up of all books/journals/anthologies of gay/lesbian poetry
published the previous year. (We also welcome recommendations or
suggestions of appropriate poems from editors of journals or
anthologies.)

Books and journals for review can be sent to the attention of the
appropriate editor at:
A Midsummer Night's Press
16 West 36th Street
2nd Floor
New York NY 10018

About the Editors

Linda Alvarez is the editor of the anthologies BEST DATE EVER: TRUE
STORIES THAT CELEBRATE LESBIAN RELATIONSHIPS (Alyson) and DYKE THE
HALLS: EROTIC LESBIAN CHRISTMAS TALES (Circlet) and lives in New York
City.

Lawrence Schimel is an award-winning author and anthologist who has
published over 80 books, including FIRST PERSON QUEER (Arsenal Pulp),
TWO BOYS IN LOVE (Seventh Window), THE FUTURE IS QUEER (Arsenal Pulp),
PoMoSEXUALS (Cleis), and TWO HEARTS DESIRE (St. Martin's Press). He
also edited the first (and so far only) anthology of gay love poetry
to appear in Catalan, ELLS S'ESTIMEN (Llibres de l'Index). His poems
have appeared in a diverse array of periodicals, from THE CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE MONITOR to PHYSICS TODAY to THE LYRIC, and have been widely
anthologized in GAY LOVE POETRY, THE PRACTICE OF PEACE, CHICKEN SOUP
FOR THE HORSE-LOVER'S SOUL 2, and THE RANDOM HOUSE TREASURY OF LIGHT
VERSE, among others. He lives in Madrid, Spain with his husband,
Ismael Attrache.

About the Publisher:

A Midsummer Night's Press (www.amidsummernightspress.com) is an
independent publisher devoted primarily to poetry, publishing under
three imprints: Fabula Rasa for work inspired by fairy tales or
mythology, Funny Bones for light verse and humor, and Body Language
for works exploring sexuality and queer subjects. The press' first
titles include THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR OTHER LIFE by Achy Obejas,
THE GOOD-NEIGHBOR POLICY: A DOUBLE-CROSS IN DOUBLE DACTYLS by Charles
Ardai, and FAIRY TALES FOR WRITERS by Lawrence Schimel. A Midsummer
Night's Press is distributed by SPD (www.spdbooks.org).

 

[annaswirls]

Americana Poetry

I seem to recall some great poems about baseball, the Jersey Shore, NYC to name a few....


Sacred Fools Press Submission Call-Out:

Americana Poetry

Send us your poems about American icons and
experience. Drive down that road in that classic car.
Retell the tales of Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan.
Deconstruct American Gothic. Get nostalgic. Get
bitter. Show us humor. Political poems given
consideration, but should have a general audience
appeal.

Submit poems as text in email and 20 word or less bio
to: sacredfoolspress(at)yahoo.com
(replace (at) with @)

Deadline: January 15th, 2008.

 

[The_Fool]

Hey Ange!

Hear ya go baby....

Sestina Contest

 

[Angeline]

Hey Ange!

Hear ya go baby....

Sestina Contest

Now cut that out. I will if you will. And no computer programs!

 

[The_Fool]

Now cut that out. I will if you will. And no computer programs!

I was thinking about it. Don't know about writing another, although I should. Thinking about cleaning up some old ones and submitting them.

 

[Angeline]

I was thinking about it. Don't know about writing another, although I should. Thinking about cleaning up some old ones and submitting them.

I could do that, too! I have about a dozen sestinas I've never submitted anywhere.

 

[annaswirls]

You both should go for the sestina challenge! Why not? I mean, not for the fame and glory of internet publishing (eh hem ) but it is a great motivation to polish.


~AS

hitting "submit reply" quickly before I have to take my own advice!

 

[annaswirls]

Motherwords

What is the grass ceiling???

Motherwords is a new regional magazine for mothers and families North of
Boston. We are currently accepting stories about:
breaking through the "grass" ceiling, kids´s health and transitions.

For a complete list of focus topics for 2008 please visit:
http://www.motherwords.org/editorial_calendar

You do not need to be a resident of New England to submit a story.
Motherhood: We are all in it together; why not share the journey?

Please e-mail your story and a brief bio as a word attachment or as text in
an e-mail to:
sarah.teres(at)motherwords.org--replace (at) with @

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Hey Ange!

Hear ya go baby....

Sestina Contest

I think I just stumbled into a strange new world ... just cal me Alice ...

 

[annaswirls]

oh I know a few of these girls on this board

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!

The latest offering from
GirlChild Press is intended to be a rough and tumble, sassy, wickedly clever,
kick-
ass anthology. Where Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from
Marginalized
Spaces was a meditation on the state of girlhood; Just Like a Girl is meant
to
highlight the clever girls, the funny girls, the girls who don’t ask for
permission and
take up as much room as they damn well like. She is the girl who knows there
is no
sin in being born one; and that in spite of all evidence and current belief
systems
girl/woman does not equal weak. Said girl doesn’t have to be a super hero,
but she
has hit a few balls out of the park, cursed out a couple trash talking
construction
workers, and took a few racist, homophobic, misogynistic folks to task.

Ultimately, she knows how to pick herself up and brush herself off. She’s a
feminist.
2nd Wave. 3rd Wave. No Wave. She’s high maintenance. She has read the Patriot
Act.
She understands it. She recognizes that people’s lives fall apart, but with
time and
some Elmer’s glue it all works itself out. She’s an urban girl. A country
girl. She lives
in a square state. A blue state. A red state. She seriously ponders what are
the SAT
scores of those girls grinding in the music videos. She is the girl in the
music video.
She has the perfect plan on how to break up with a boyfriend and how not to
lose
her cool when her 38 triple D bra snaps in the middle of a cocktail party. She
’s a
25th century girl. She knows the words to Roberta Flack’s Killing Me Softly.
She
secretly pinches her best friend’s bratty three year old. She is a cashier at
WALMART.
She’s the second chair flute in her 8th grade band. She marches on
Washington; She
makes fun of vegans; She has 6,000 friends on myspace.com She still hides the
tattoo that she got at senior beach week from her mother – she’s 42. She
writes for
herself. She writes for her sister. She writes for the girls still not born.

Think of Just Like a Girl as a travelogue for the bumpy, powerful, action
packed
world of girlhood. Tell a secret. Reveal a lie Go tell it on the mountain.
You get the
point. So cast a net and see what the day’s catch brings.

Submission Details: Deadline: September 30, 2007. The anthology is open to
any
subject matter. Work is especially welcomed from new and emerging writers.
Contributors may submit up to three pieces. Essays and short stories should
be no
longer Than 3,000 words. Poems should have the contributor’s name on each
page.
Sci-fi is encouraged! For electronic Mail, send to <girlchildpress(at)aol.com>

(replace (at) with @). Attachments should be titled with your
name and the email subject should beJust Like a Girl.

Snail mail: Michelle Sewell GirlChild Press PO Box 93 Hyattsville, MD 20781
Please
include a brief bio and a mailing address.

Contributors will receive a copy of the anthology and the opportunity to read
at the
official Spring 2008 booksigning. For more information on Michelle Sewell and
the
press. check out Check Out GirlChild Press
at
http://www.thepoetryfix.org/girlchild/about.html

 

[ghost_girl]

new ezine, looking for submissions!!

Red Pulp Underground

http://www.rpwriters.com

check'em out, they look very promising, and i Know some of the people running the place, they are very talented, might I say, gifted? yeah, they are.

 

[annaswirls]

Two days left, why not enter something you have already written?

Three Chances to Win!

$100 1st Place Prize
$50 2nd Place Prize
$25 3rd Place Prize

Entries due by September 20th! Although we've gotten a few new entries since we extended the deadline, there is still a 1 in 6 chance in winning! That's pretty darn good! We will not be extending the deadline again! So don't wait! Winners will be announced and published October 1st.

We are looking for a raucously kinky, craaaaazy fantasy story that will make our readers cum with excitement. The more outrageous and outlandish, the better. A group sex party involving toys and strangers? Sex in a dangerous place, like on the hood of a parked police car? How about jumping out of a plane with a parachute and a vibrator and cumming all the way down? Let your imagination run wild with this one! (Within legal limits, of course, this means NO sex with minors, corpses, or bestiality).

The top three kinkiest stories win cash prizes and will be featured prominently on our homepage, in our newsletter and contest announcements.

Please read our complete contest rules here .

Get crackin' and good luck!
xoxo
Jordan & Samantha

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Can we Brits enter?

 

[annaswirls]

Damn it! They did not mention the 10 buck entry fee in the email. I apologize, I generally do not post submission calls with fees involved. Maybe it is just me but I do not have cash floating around to play the literary lottery! Although they do pay ten bucks a pop for erotic poetry, suppose you could turn it around and call it even.

As far as any geographical requirements? I can't see why there would be any, it not a state supported contest

 

[TheRainMan]

For all you Sestina lovers -- especially you, Fool.


Sestina Contest -- http://trellismagazine.com

Questions about guidelines? Want to know more about the forms?
email info(at)trellismaga zine.com (replace (at) with @)

Contest Deadline: October 31, 2007

Trellis Magazine is challenging poets of all skill levels to enter our
Sestina contest!
http://trellismagazine.com/contest.html

Creativity is encouraged, and lots of variations are allowed. Instructions
on writing a Sestina are given below.

All submissions must be your own original work.

There is no limit on the number of Sestinas that you may enter into the
contest, and we congratulate you if you have written more than one of these challenging poems!

Please read these complete guidelines before submitting.

PRIZES

Grand Prize for Best Standard Sestina: $100 Amazon.com Gift Certificate and
featured publication in Trellis Magazine.

First Place: $50 Amazon.com Gift Certificate and featured publication in
Trellis Magazine.

Second Place: $30 Amazon.com Gift Certificate and publication in Trellis
Magazine.

Third Place: $20 Amazon.com Gift Certificate and publication in Trellis.
Honorable Mentions: Publication and special recognition in Trellis Magazine.

HOW TO SUBMIT

You must include a Submission Form along with your Sestina poem. Click here
for the contest submission form:

Go to -- http://trellismagazine.com/contest.html to download submission form.

By mail, send your entry to: Trellis Magazine Contest, PO Box 32265,
Raleigh, NC 27622.

By email, send your entry to:
contest(at)TrellisM agazine.com (replace (at) with @)

Send text submissions in the body of the email or as an attached Word
document (only .doc or .txt files will be accepted).

Information sent to Trellis Magazine is used only by the nonprofit publisher,
Trellis Literary Corporation, for the purposes of publishing and education, and is not shared with any other organizations. In submitting work to Trellis, you are agreeing to allow Trellis Magazine to publish your work on the internet or print under your own copyright.

 

[champagne1982]

Red Pulp Underground

I received this call in my email. It's not for poetry, but they do consider all submissions of those, too.

An Appeal for Columnists

Red Pulp wants writers (from different parts of the world) who are willing to write columns on various political and social issues and on writing itself. We are looking for writers who don’t necessarily agree with the mainstream. We want imaginative writers that will open our eyes and show us that Washington is not the center of the universe.

If you have the time (1 quarterly or semi-annual piece) and and won't complain for not getting paid then send us your bio and a sample that we can post for our readers. Red Pulp Underground has no paid employees.

You can always use your work at Red Pulp in your resume. Another writing credit could be just what you need (Columnist @ Red Pulp Underground)
Peace

Submit and enter writing competitions at Red Pulp Underground, a place where the words, "freedom of expression" are not just cliché. Express yourself here - http://www.rpwriters dot com

 

[ghost_girl]

Kakalak 2008

calls for submissions for poets living in North and South Carolina, this includes native born Kakalak-ians and current residents.

The guidelines also indicate that they will accept work that is closely related to the Carolinas. It is up to the editors, though.

 

[wildsweetone]

not sure if this one's been found before...

http://www.sonnetcompetition.com/

deadline: 31st October

 

[PatCarrington]

reading for the winter issue of Mannequin Envy has started and will continue until at least the end of October, and most likely beyond that.

submission details can be found here

it's Lit's hometown journal. join in.

patrick

 

[PandoraGlitters]

I saw this and thought maybe . . .

I read some prayer poems awhile back and thought, when I saw this, that people may be interested. Also some of Bijou's poems might work for this. Anyway, it would be cool if someone from here won the money and could buy us a round at Bijou's bistro.

Poetry Contest

Deadline May 15, 2008

Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction announces its
fourth annual juried poetry contest.

The grand prize winner will be awarded a $100.00 USD cash prize. Three
runners-up will receive $ 75.00 USD each.

The top four selections will be published in the September, December,
March, and June issues of Presence respectively. A number of honorable
mentions will also be featured in future publications of Spiritual
Directors International.

Anyone may enter. However here are a few essential criteria to follow.

· Only one poem per person is allowed.
· Poems may be no longer than 30 lines.
· Only previously unpublished poetry can be entered.
· Poems may not be submitted to other publications until after the
results of the Presence Poetry Contest are announced.
· Poems chosen for publication in Presence may not be submitted to
other publications until after publication in Presence.
· Poems should pertain to a spiritual theme or should relate to
spiritual direction.
· All poems must be submitted by e-mail, as an attachment, preferably
in MS Word form.

· Write "Presence Poetry Contest" in the subject line.

· DO NOT INCLUDE ANY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IN THE ATTACHMENT OTHER
THAN
o THE POEM TITLE
o THE POEM ITSELF
o DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME ON THE ATTACHMENT

The poems will be judged anonymously by a three judge panel.

Include all of the following information in the body of the e-mail
submission:
· Name of Poet
· Name of Poem
· E-mail address
· Country

ALL POEMS SUBMITTED WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED. HOWEVER ONLY SUBMISSIONS WHICH
CONFORM STRICTLY TO THE CRITERIA ABOVE WILL BE JUDGED.

Okay, this last part is the most important:

E-mail your poem to poetrycontest@sdiworld.org.

If you send them to any other e-mail, there is a high likelihood they will
wind up in poetry heaven but not in the poetry contest. Good luck!

For more information, see sdiworld.org/publications/poetry-contest.html

 

[TheRainMan]

reading for the Spring '08 issue of Mannequin Envy will be ongoing until the end of march.

keep those cards and letters coming in, here

peace,

Patrick