WordPress Discover editors’ picks of the best Writing blogs–including this one!
Posted: October 11, 2016 Filed under: Writing Resources | Tags: discover sites, featured blogs, poetry blog, selfish poet, The Fem literary magazine, Wordpress Discover, writing blogs 8 Comments
Are you following WordPress Discover yet? If not, you may be missing out on a quick and easy way to find the best blogs on all sorts of topics, including one on Writing blogs!
Their generous editors not only featured my blog last week, but also tweeted it with some kind and encouraging comments.
“From event listings to calls for submissions, @trishhopkinson’s site is a poets’ paradise”
“Trish Hopkinson may describe herself as a “selfish poet,” but her site is an indispensable community hub for poetry lovers, with news and event listings, writing resources, and much more (including her own poems, of course).”
Since then, I’ve received several new followers and I’ve enjoyed checking out the other blogs they’ve featured, including my friends at The Fem literary magazine.
The purpose of WordPress Discover is to locate “[T]he best content on WordPress, collected for you by humans who love to read” and to “highlight the work of this diverse and global community.” You can read more about their Editor’s Picks, Features, and Topics here on their About page.
Don’t have a WordPress account? No problem, you can keep up with their picks and features by following them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WPDiscover.
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NO FEE Submission call, volunteer call, & editor interview–Sugar Rascals (teen lit mag), STAFF DEADLINE: Oct. 20, 2016 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Nov. 1, 2016
Posted: October 10, 2016 Filed under: Call for Submissions | Tags: Canadian lit mag, Farah Ghafoor, No fee submission call, Sugar Rascals, teen journal, teen lit mag, volunteer staff applications 5 Comments
Sugar Rascals is an online, international, Canada-based teen literary magazine featuring prose, poetry, and visual art in their bi-annual issues. You can read their inaugural issue here. Teens ages 13 – 19 are encouraged to submit and to apply for their volunteer staff positions. Working on a lit mag is great experience for anyone looking to go into writing, poetry, visual art, teaching, editing, etc. and helps writers/artists make connections with a larger writing community.
I wondered how and why this lit mag came to be, so I asked Sugar Rascals co-founder and editor Farah Ghafoor a few questions to find out. See my interview with Ghafoor and links to their volunteer staff application info and to their submission guidelines below.
HOPKINSON: Tell me a little bit about Sugar Rascals.
HOPKINSON: If someone has a question, how can they contact you?
Click here to apply for a volunteer staff position.
DEADLINE: October 20, 2016
OPEN POSITIONS: social media manager, art contributors, associate sweet talk interviewer, blog editor, blog contributors
PAYMENT: None (experience and connections with other writers/artists)
Click here to read submission guidelines.
DEADLINE: December 15, 2016
SUBMISSION FEE: None
PAYMENT: None
FORMS: poetry, prose, and visual art
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How to Move Beyond Once Upon A Time – guest blog post by Christine Butterworth-McDermott
Posted: October 9, 2016 Filed under: Guest Blog Post | Tags: Christine Butterworth-McDermott, fairy tale poetry, Gingerbread House Literary Magazine 2 CommentsAs much as it relies on transformation as a plot device, the fairy tale as a mode is delightfully transformable. Because it is so malleable, it has been used for centuries as a way to comment on past and present, to give voice to the forbidden or unspoken. This is why it remains attractive. We want to retell or remake it in order to make it ours—to tell our audience, this is how this story goes in the here and now for me, for you, for us. Running a literary journal (Gingerbread House Literary Magazine) that looks for work with this magical element has made me consider how poets might approach fairy tales as source material—and also, why are some fairy tale poems so successful while others less so?
I’ve found that a successful retelling of a fairy tale relies on the poet’s ability to keep familiarity present enough for recognition and to change tropes enough to feel fresh. Doing that takes a certain level of precise awareness of craft, and not everyone might know where to begin, and so I thought it might be helpful to come up with some helpful hints.
Discover the secrets in the original tales.
We often turn repeatedly to the stories we think we know—but I would encourage any would-be writer of fairy tales to re-read Perrault, Grimms, and Andersen. Also, think of fairies and/or magic in stories beyond the traditional tale: Shakespeare, Spenser, Carroll, MacDonald, Baum, Barrie, C. S. Lewis, etc., and fairy tales from other cultures. Perhaps there’s a minor character who’s never been discussed, whose story is waiting for you—or an object you see in an original way. For example, how many people know that in Beaumont’s “Beauty and the Beast,” there are two sisters as cruel as Cinderella’s? How many poems have been written about Dorothy’s magic silver shoes? Clearly, there are wonderful poems written about the familiar, but I always get excited about a new angle.
Make the language fresh and unexpected.
Magic is about surprises, so I am somewhat disappointed with how often I’ll see “Once upon a time” or “There was a princess who . . . .” While these conventions are sometimes a good way for a writer to start engaging in the material, for the reader they can seem too familiar. If the poet catches me immediately, I’m invested and want to keep reading. This can be done by writing a wonderful first line (Mary Jo Bang’s poem “Gretel” begins with “Mother, I am bare in a mist-mad forest”), by writing in open form, which mitigates any kind of sing-song rhyme (which can in the wrong hands seem juvenile), or by writing in highly crafted form (see Sara Henderson Hay’s sonnets). Any time there is lovely language, I will read a submission twice.
Start after the “happily ever after” or offer a new perspective.
One of the most successful fairy tale poems to me is Louise Glück’s “Gretel in Darkness,” which offers us a glimpse into the psychological consequences Gretel faces after pushing the witch into the oven. Matthea Harvey’s prose poem “The Morbid Mermaid” takes Andersen’s mermaid’s tendency toward myopic fascination and twists it to something darker (“Mer-funerals are the worst since, poof, the merfolk just morph into seafoam. But she circles the days before their dying, making the other mermaids whisper, ‘Yuck, the necrophiliac’s back’”). Delia Sherman’s “Snow White to the Prince” also offers us new insight into why Snow may have opened the door to the Queen multiple times. See your favorite character through a different lens, and see what happens.
Frame the tale in a new location.
Putting familiar characters from the fairy tale world into contemporary situations can lead to interesting results. What if Snow White has to shop at the local grocery store to feed her family of seven dwarves? Is she cutting coupons, looking for the end cap deal, or trying to trim down Happy’s girth? Shifting the story from that undefined “once upon a time” into, say, World War I, could also highlight an aspect of a story we’ve never thought of before and make for an interesting read. Using the fairy tale as a metaphor for a contemporary situation is also a great way to play with the form. One of my favorite fairy tale poems is “The Gingerbread House,” by John Ower, which highlights how divorcing parents might “gobble” up their child.
Consider the purpose for retelling.
In the Victorian age, it was common, as Jack Zipes has noted, for authors “to use the fairy-tale form in innovative ways to raise social consciousness.” From the 1970s through the 1990s, a great deal of fairy tale poetry was devoted to exposing and protesting sexual abuse, most notably beginning with Anne Sexton’s “Briar Rose.” Women’s issues remain important in our current climate, but the fairy tale poem also has the potential to illuminate concerns about race, disability, class, masculinity, LGBTQ concerns, and gender fluidity. The fairy tale has traditionally used for warning or protest, to uplift or to expose. Work in that tradition.
Please & thank you & what the hell.
In an interview in Compose, Ada Limón says that “that there are really only two prayers: thank you, and please”—and I think these are two states we can also approach with the fairy tale. Is the character saying “please transform me” or “I am grateful for my transformation?” Keeping this in mind might be a fabulous way to begin a poem. I also like an idea embedded in Alice Hoffman’s gorgeous novel, The Ice Queen: “Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.” Think of what pain is necessary for a transformation to occur. Show us that.
Those poems which do several of these at once are the most memorable. And of course, the more memorable a poem is, the more likely it is to be well-crafted, which increases its likelihood of publication.
Do you have something say about poetry? An essay on being a poet, tips for poets, or poetry you love? TrishHopkinson.com is now accepting pitches for guest blog posts.
Contact me here if you are interested!
Christine Butterworth-McDermott is the author of Woods & Water, Wolves & Women (2012), and the founder and head editor of Gingerbread House Literary Magazine (https://gingerbreadhouselitmag.com). Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, River Styx, and The Southeast Review among others. She teaches creative writing at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.
12 international lit mags seeking English submissions of poetry, prose, and art #nofees
Posted: October 8, 2016 Filed under: Call for Submissions | Tags: Cha, Crannóg, Eastlit, International lit mags, International publishing opportunities, Malahat Review, New Contrast, Poetry Kanto, Poetry Salzburg, Sand, Sonic Boom, Sukoon, The Moth 10 Comments
Why limit yourself to being published in lit mags in the U.S., Canada, or the U.K? There are many countries with English-language lit mags you can also submit your work to. For example, my poem “My Monkey Grammarian” was published in Hong Kong and even included in a review! You can read more about it here.
Thanks to Authors Publish and Aerogramme Studio for compiling the original lists I used as resources to start my research for the list below.
This list focuses on NO/LOW FEE poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. Three of the listings are PAYING markets. The listings are in alphabetical order.
Updated 10/8/2016
Cha
LOCATION: Hong Kong
READING PERIOD: Rolling deadlines
SUBMISSION FEE: NONE
NOTES: “Cha is dedicated to publishing quality creative works from and about Asia. At this time, we can only accept work in English or translated into English.”
FORMS: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, art, “Lost Teas”: “Works from any of the above genres which have been previously published in journals/magazines that have now folded. If submitting for “Lost Teas”, please include the periodical and issue/date the work appeared. Please note that this is the only place we accept reprints.”
PAYMENT: None
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/2782
Crannóg
LOCATION: Ireland
READING PERIOD: Rolling deadlines. Submissions are open in the month of: Nov for Feb issue. March for June issue. July for October issue.
SUBMISSION FEE: NONE
NOTES: “Crannóg‘s mission is to publish the work of Irish writers alongside the best available worldwide and to show how well such writing sits with the best available internationally.”
FORMS: poetry under 50 lines, short stories under 2,000 words
PAYMENT: Writers selected to appear in Crannóg will receive:
* A contributor’s copy and €30 per story, €20 per poem.
* An invitation to attend/read at the launch of Crannóg at The Crane Bar, Galway, Ireland.
* Four contributors will be nominated for the Forward Prize for best single poem, in memory of Michael Donaghy.
* Six contributors will be nominated for The Pushcart Prize, (poetry and fiction).
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/1298
Eastlit
LOCATION: East and South East Asia
READING PERIOD: Always Open
SUBMISSION FEE: NONE
NOTES: “The Takahe magazine appears three times a year and publishes short stories, poetry and art by established and emerging writers and artists as well as essays and interviews (by invitation), and book reviews in these related areas.”
FORMS: fiction, novel extracts, poetry, short creative non-fiction, photography, artwork, translations, reprints previously published online with acknowledgment
PAYMENT: None
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/8807
Ilanot Review
LOCATION: Israel
READING PERIOD: Rolling deadlines.
SUBMISSION FEE: None
NOTES: You can read more about them on The Review Review‘s site, including Josh Medsker‘s five star review of their Winter 2013 issue, as well as an interview with editor Janice Weizman by Stanley Trice.
FORMS: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Graphic Art
PAYMENT: None
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/5835
Malahat Review
LOCATION: Canada
READING PERIOD: Rolling deadlines. Special issue calls.
SUBMISSION FEE: NONE
NOTES: “The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international works . . .”
FORMS: poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction
PAYMENT: “The Malahat Review purchases first world serial print and digital rights and, upon acceptance, pays $50 CAD per published page plus a one-year subscription starting with the issue after the one in which the accepted work has appeared. Two copies of the issue in which the accepted work has appeared are sent to each contributor.”
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/355
The Moth
LOCATION: Ireland
READING PERIOD: Always Open
SUBMISSION FEE: None
NOTES: “We are delighted to receive previously unpublished work from anywhere in the world. It can take some time to respond, so please do bear with us. Work will be considered for any future issue, not just the one closest to date of submission.”
FORMS: short fiction, poetry
PAYMENT: None
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/8533
New Contrast
LOCATION: South Africa
READING PERIOD: Always Open
SUBMISSION FEE: NONE
NOTES: “New Contrast is devoted mainly to publishing original work by South African writers, and other activities incidental to that.”
“Our readership is primarily English or Afrikaans speaking, so we accept submissions in English and Afrikaans. We will consider submissions in other languages if they are accompanied by a translation.”
FORMS: poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction
PAYMENT: None
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/8615
Poetry Kanto
LOCATION: Japan
READING PERIOD: “The reading period for Poetry Kanto 2016 is now open and submissions are welcome from December to June.”
SUBMISSION FEE: NONE
NOTES: No simultaneous submissions. “We seek exciting, well-crafted contemporary poetry in English, and also encourage and publish high-quality English translations of modern and emerging Japanese poets.”
FORMS: poetry
PAYMENT: Unknown
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/2768
Poetry Salzburg
LOCATION: Salzburg, Austria
READING PERIOD: Always Open
SUBMISSION FEE: NONE
NOTES: No simultaneous submissions. Email and postal submissions. “Our intention is to publish the best available writing from a variety of writers. Due to the amount and high quality of work we receive, potential contributors are strongly encouraged to read the magazine prior to submitting their work.”
FORMS: poems, translations, interviews, essays and reviews of recent collections of poetry
PAYMENT: “All contributors are going to receive a complimentary copy of the issue that contains their work.”
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/4483
Sand
LOCATION: Berlin
READING PERIOD: Submissions are open from May 1 – July 15 and from November 1 – January 15.
SUBMISSION FEE: NONE
NOTES: “SAND is an English literary journal printed bi-annually in Berlin, featuring prose and poetry as well as translations, art, and photography. We collaborate with musicians, literary festivals, and artist cooperatives to hold regular events in the city. We seek to offer a printed space for art and literature in Berlin’s international community and beyond.”
FORMS: short stories, poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction essays, photography, drawing, painting, etc.
PAYMENT: None
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/5860
Sonic Boom
LOCATION: India
READING PERIODS: Feb 1 – March 1, June 1 – July 1, Oct 1 – Nov 1
SUBMISSION FEE: NONE
NOTES: “We hope to integrate multifarious genres of literature and artwork including Japanese short-forms of poetry, experimental, avant-garde poetry and postmodern works of culture and art.”
FORMS: experimental poetry, Japanese short-forms, flash fiction, and visual art
PAYMENT: None
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/17197
Sukoon
LOCATION: Beirut/Dubai
READING PERIOD: Always Open
SUBMISSION FEE: NONE
NOTES: “Sukoon is an Arab-themed, English language, online literary magazine reflecting the diversity and richness of the Arab world. . . . Artists and writers need not be Arab, nor of Arab origin, but all art and writing must reflect the range and richness of the cultures of the Arab world, where Arabic is spoken—a Semitic language with over 30 different varieties of colloquial Arabic.”
FORMS: poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction
PAYMENT: None
DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/14386
If you know of any other international markets publishing poetry in English, please post info in the comments below so I can add them to the list.
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My review of Chen Chen’s ‘Kissing the Sphinx’ published by Stirring + they are open for submissions!
Posted: October 7, 2016 Filed under: Call for Submissions, Poetry Reviews | Tags: Chen Chen, Kissing the Sphinx chapbook, No fee submission call, Stirring, Sundress Publications, Two of Cups Press 2 Comments
Kissing the Sphinx, poems by Chen Chen (2015 chapbook contest finalist)
30 pages, matte cover, perfect bound
$12 (includes shipping)
My review of Kissing the Sphinx by Chen Chen just went up on Stirring: A Literary Collection published monthly by Sundress Publications.
“This short collection evokes tattoos and Tuesdays, cats and camels, Russian novels and postcards, muscular legs and gorgeous men, a body covered in colorful Post-it notes, and yes, kissing the Great Sphinx of Giza. There are places to visit, dreams to dream, realities to question, and sounds that whisper and boom throughout its pages. I’m tremendously pleased that these poems were not lost as secrets whispered ‘into the hollow of a tree.'”
If you’re interested in writing reviews, browse through some the reviews Stirring publishes in each monthly issue to get a feel for how they are written. Also, many presses/authors will provide a review copy for free.
If you aren’t familiar with Stirring, set aside an hour or two with a glass of your favorite adult beverage and check out the variety of talented writers they publish.
Kissing the Sphinx is a poetry chapbook published by Two of Cups Press. Here’s a little more from my review:
“Now, whether your favorite childhood TV show was Power Rangers, Mr. Rogers, or The Reading Rainbow, this chapbook has it covered. Not to mention the poem ‘Medicine Ball,’ which combines Sarah Jessica Parker, an elbow rash, Q-Tips, and Ultimate Frisbee into a narrative.”
Read my complete review here:
Review of Kissing the Sphinx by Chen Chen
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and forthcoming spring 2017 from BOA Editions, Ltd. A Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow, Chen’s work has appeared in two chapbooks as well as in publications such as Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Best of the Net, and The Best American Poetry. Chen helps edit Iron Horse and Gabby. He also works on a new journal called Underblong, which he co-founded with the poet Sam Herschel Wein. Chen received his MFA from Syracuse University and is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. He lives in Lubbock with his partner Jeff Gilbert and their pug dog Mr. Rupert Giles. For readings, workshops, and conversations about Tuxedo Mask, please send an email: chenchenwrites [at] gmail [dot] com.
Also, Stirring is always open for submissions. “Founded in 1999, Stirring: A Literary Collection is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet. Stirring is a strictly electronic journal that publishes monthly issues on the first of each month.”
Click here for submission guidelines.
DEADLINE: Always open
SUBMISSION FEE: None
FORMS: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, photography
PAYMENT: None
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Where to Submit in Oct & Nov 2016 by Entropy (filtered for no fee only!)–the list of all lists!
Posted: October 6, 2016 Filed under: Call for Submissions | Tags: Entropy, No fee submission calls, October and November 2016 submission deadlines, poetry submission calls 14 Comments
Entropy is a “website featuring literary & non-literary content. A website that seeks to engage with the literary community, that becomes its own community, and creates a space for literary & non-literary ideas.”
They just posted an article on where to submit in October and November. Click here to read the complete article. I’ve filtered the list below to those with no fees that accept poetry submissions and there are some paying markets. Read all the guidelines carefully before submitting your work.
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The following listings from the article are still open, have no fees, and accept poetry submissions:
Presses:
BlazeVOX / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Counterpath Press / Year-Round
El Balazo Press / Now / All Genres
Fathom Books / Now / Poetry
Inside the Castle / Now / Prose, Poetry
Platypus Press / Year-Round / Prose, Essays, Poetry
Salò Press / Now / Poetry, Prose, Experiments
Skylight Press / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Esoteric
Chapbooks:
Damaged Goods Press / Now / Poetry and Flash Fiction from Queer and Trans Writers
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art Work, Photography
Fathom Books / Now / Poetry
Neck Press / Year-Round / Poetry
Ursus Americanus Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Yes, Poetry / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Zoo Cake Press / Now / Poetry
Journals & Anthologies:
3:AM / Now / Nonfiction, Poetry, Reviews
3Elements Review / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art, Photography
45th Parallel / October 1, 2016 – March 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Comics
6×6 / Year-Round
A Public Space / Deadline: April 15, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
A Quiet Courage / Year-Round / Microfiction and Poetry Under 100 Words
Aaduna / Now / Prose, Poetry, Visual Art
The Acentos Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre, Art
Angel City Review / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Reviews from Writers on the West Coast
Another Chicago Magazine / September 6 – October 10, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
APARTMENT Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry
Apricity Press / Deadline: January 1, 2017 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Dance
Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry / Now / Poetry by Gay Males
Asymptote / Year-Round / Translations of Drama, Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction
Atticus Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Mixed Media
Bayou Magazine / Deadline: May 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Beech Street Review / Now / Poetry
Beecher’s Magazine / Deadline: February 10, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Bennington Review / Deadline: August 15, 2016 – May 15, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing on Film
Birds Piled Loosely / Now / All Genres
Black Sun Lit / Year-Round / Prose, Verse, Essays, Translation, Interviews, Drama, Art
Blue Earth Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
Blue Mesa Review / September 30, 2017 – March 31, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
BOAAT / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review / September 15 – December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Art, Reviews, Essays
BORT Quarterly / Now / Poetry
Brightly Press – Free Poetry Contest / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry / Prize: $100 and a Copy of Shake the Tree Volume Two
Cahoodaloodaling / Deadline: December 17, 2016 / All Genres
CALAMITY / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Calamus Journal / Year-Round / Flash Fiction, Poetry
Callaloo / Now / Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Art
Candlesticks and Daggers: An Anthology of Mixed-Genre Mysteries / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry
The Cardiff Review / Now / Prose, Poetry, Reviews, Illustrations, Photography, Comics
carte blanche / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translations, Comics, Photography, Audio
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Cheat River Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Art
Chronopolis / Now / All Genres
Cloud Rodeo / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction
The Collagist / October 1, 2016 – January 31, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction, Novel Excerpts
The Collapsar / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Reviews
Colorado Review / August 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry
The Continental Review / Year-Round / Video Poetry
Cosmonauts Avenue / Now / Poetry, Fiction
The Cossack Review / Reopens October 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation
Crab Fat Magazine / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Interviews, Reviews
CutBank / September 15, 2016 – February 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
decomP Magazine / Year-Round/ Prose, Poetry, Art
Deluge / Year-Round / Poetry, Translations, Essays, Fiction, Reviews, Criticism, Poem-films, Photography, Art
The Destroyer / Now / Poems, Prose, New Media
Devil’s Lake / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
DIAGRAM / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
DMQ Review / Now / Poetry
DREGINALD / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
Dryland / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry, Art
Duende / October 15 – November 30, 2016 / Poetry, Prose, Hybrid, Visual Art
Dulcet Quarterly / August 15 – November 15, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
DUM DUM Zine / Year-Round / Fiction, Letters, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
El Balazo Press / Now / Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays
ELKE “A Little Journal” / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
elsewhere / Now / Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction, Photography
Enduring Puberty Press / Now / All Genres
Entropy / Year-Round / Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Fiction, Poetry, More
The Felt / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art, Hybrid
The Fem / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Spoken Word, Art
Fire Poetry / Now / Poetry
Flag + Void / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Fog / Now / Poetry, Interviews
Foundry / Year-Round / Poetry
Fourth and Sycamore / Now / Essays, Poetry, Fiction
F[r]iction / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics
Fuck Art, Let’s Dance / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Art, Memes, Mixed Media, Translation, Projects
Ghost Proposal / July 11 – October 10, 2016 / Essay, Poetry, Multimedia, Cross-Genre, Post-Genre
Gingerbread House Literary Magazine / January 15 – October 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction with Magical Elements
Graviton / Now / Poetry, Art
Grimoire Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Dreams, Dead Letters, Séances
The Harpoon Review / Now / All Genres
Hardly Doughnuts / Year-Round / Poetry, Micro Fiction
Heavy Feather Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid, Comics
Hematopoiesis Press / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Visual Art
Hermeneutic Chaos / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Artwork
Hermeneutic Chaos – Milk Teeth Anthology / Deadline: November 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction About Childhood
Hinchas de Poesia / Now / Poetry, Prose, Translations, Art, Book Reviews
Hot Metal Bridge / Deadline: December 1, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Visual Art
The Hudson Review / September 1 – November 30, 2016 / Fiction
Huizache / September 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Prose, Poetry
Indiana Review / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
Indicia / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Art
Inch / Now / Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Short Poems
Jai-Alai Magazine / Essays, Poetry, Fiction, Translations, and Art by Residents of Miami-Dade County
Jokes Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
The Journal / Year-round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Photo Essays, Reviews
jmww / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
Josephine Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Art
jubilat / September 1, 2016 – April 1, 2017 / Poetry
Juked / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Kartika Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Book Reviews, Art
killing fields / Year-Round / All Genres
Kweli / September 1, 2016 – May 30, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia
Lambda Literary’s Poetry Spotlight / Now / Poetry from LGBT Poets
Lavender Review / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Lesbians
Lazy Fascist Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry
LEVELER / Year-Round / Poetry
Lime Hawk / Now / Poetry, Prose, Visual Art
Linden Avenue Literary Journal / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
LIT / Now / Poetry, Prose
The Literary Nest / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry
Literary Orphans / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
littletell / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Audio, Visual
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics
Lunch Ticket / August 1 – October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Prose, YA, Literary Translation & Bilingual Work, Visual Art
M–DASH / November 1-30, 2016 / Translations of Poetry and Prose
Mandala Journal / October 21, 2016 – February 7, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
Mannequin Haus / Year-Round / Flash Fiction, Poems, Play Scenes
The Margins / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Masque & Spectacle / Year-Round / All Genres
McNeese Review Online / Year-Round / Short Fiction, Poetry, Literary Nonfiction, Translations, Interviews, Art
The Meadow / September 1, 2016 – February 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics
Meekling Review / Now / Fake Reviews, Interviews, and Literary Polemics
Minor Literatures / October 1-31, 2016 / Fiction
MISTRESS / Deadline: November 30, 2016 / Poetry, Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Visual Work with Textual Components
Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews, Art, Videos
Moloko House / Poetry, Fiction, Visual Art, Music
Moon City Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Reviews
Moonglasses Magazine / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash, Cross-Genre
Moonsick Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by Women
Muzzle Magazine / Deadline: December 15, 2016 / Poetry
Neck Press Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction
New Delta Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Other
New Ohio Review / September 15 – December 15, 2016 / All Genres
New Orleans Review Special Issue – The African Literary Hustle / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid / Guest Editors: Mukoma wa Ngugi and Laura Murphy
Nightblock / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Ninth Letter – Writing from the American South / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction by Writers from or Living in the American South
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry / January 1 – November 30, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction / Submit by Post
Nonbinary Review / Now / All Genres
The Nottingham Review / Now / Short Stories, Flash Fiction, Poetry
One Throne Magazine / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Pacifica Literary Review / September 15 – December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Photography and Visual Art, Author Interviews
Passages North / Deadline: April 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Writers on Writing
‘Pider / Now / Poetry
Pinball / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics
The Pinch / August 15, 2016 – March 15, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash, Poetry, Art & Photography
PLINTH / Now / All Genres
Poet Lore / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction
The Pokemon Anthology / Deadline: December 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction About Pokemon
Polychrome Ink / Now / All Genres
Posit / September 1, 2016 – May 31, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Visual Art, Film and Animation
Potluck Magazine online / Now / Poetry, Prose, Criticism, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Short Films, Songs, Photographs
Pretty Owl Poetry / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Prisma – Zeitblatt für Text & Sprache / Deadline: September 30, 2016 / All Genres
Puerto del Sol – The Publication Issue / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Art, Criticism
Quarter After Eight / September 15, 2016 – April 15, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Quarterly West / Deadline: April 30, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, New Media
Queen Mob’s Tea House / Now / Poetry, Art, Fiction, Essays
Rattle / Year-Round / Poetry
Reality Hands / Now / Short Stories, Poetry
Requited / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Performance Text, Visual, Video
Reservoir / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Salamander Magazine / September 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
SAND, Berlin’s English literary journal / November 1, 2016 – January 15, 2017 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Photography, Translations
SHANTIH Journal / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama, Art, Photography
SiDEKiCK / Year-Round / Poetry
Sinker Cypress Review / Now / Poetry, Music
Sinister Wisdom / Now / Poems, Stories, Essays, and Art by Lesbians
Sixth Finch / Deadline: October 5, 2016 / Poetry, Art
Slant / September 1 – November 15, 2016 / Poetry
So and So / Now / Poetry
The Southampton Review / August 15 – October 15, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama
Southeast Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Storm Cellar / Deadline: December 15, 2016 / Prose, Poetry, Visual Art, Hybrids / Currently Reading for an Issue Featuring Women-Identifying and Genderqueer Authors
Subjugated Knowledge / Now / Reviews, Interviews, Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Art
Sugar Rascals / Deadline: December 15, 2016 / Poetry, Art, Prose, Reviews, Hybrid, and Mixed Media from Teen Writers
SUSAN / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction
Swarm / August 15 – October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry
Sycamore Review / September 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017 / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art
T A G VV E R K / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Art
The Talking Book / Deadline: February 3, 2017 / All Genres
TENDE RLOIN / Now / Poetry
Thank You for Swallowing / Now / Protest Poetry
Third Coast / September 15 – December 15, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama
Third Point Press / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / Fiction, Poetry, Art
Threadcount Magazine / Year-Round / Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Timber / August 30, 2016 – March 1, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art, Cross-Genre, Essays, Reviews, Interviews
The Timberline Review / Deadline: July 1 – October 15, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Tiny Donkey / Now / Essays Related to Fairy Tales
TL;DR / Now / All Genres
TQ Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Interviews by Trans and Queer Writers
Trafika Europe / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Translation
Transition / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Reviews and Visual Art about Africa and the African Diaspora
Two Lines / Now / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays
TYPO / Now / Poetry
Unbroken Journal / October 1 – November 30, 2016 / Prose Poems, Poetic Prose
Union Station Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Ursus Americanus Press – Landfill / Year-Round / Poetry
Vagabond City / 1st-15th of Every Month / Poetry, Prose, Art
Vanilla Sex Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Vector / Deadline: October 31, 2016 / All Genres
velvet-tail / Year-Round / Poetry
Vinyl / Deadline: November 1, 2016 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Reviews
Voicemail Poems / Year-Round / Audio Poetry
Washington Square Review / Deadline: October 15, 2016 / Poetry, Fiction, Translations
Waxwing / August 1, 2016 – May 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays
Welter / Deadline: October 7, 2016 / All genres
The White Elephant / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry
Wildness / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art, Photography
Willow Springs / September 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry (Open Until May 31), Nonfiction (Open Year-Round)
Window / Now / All Genres
Word For/Word / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Poetics, Criticism, Visuals
The Woven Tale Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Memoir, Flash Fiction, Experimental
Wreck Park / Now / Prose, Poetry, Criticism
Yemassee / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Yes Poetry / Now / Poetry
Zone 3 / August 1, 2016 – April 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
ZYZZYVA / September 1 – November 30, 2016 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / Submit by Post
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Got Poet’s Block? Check out these writing exercises from Albany Poetry Workshop . . .
Posted: October 5, 2016 Filed under: Poetry/Writing Prompts, Self-taught MFA, Writing Resources | Tags: Albany Poetry Workshop Classroom, APW, Dorianne Laux, Free Online Poetry Workshop, Janet Holmes, Online poetry classroom, poetry prompts, poetry self-taught MFA, William Ferriter Leave a commentAlbany Poetry Workshop’s online classroom provides “five exercises that we hope will inspire, cajole, and tease you into writing new work.”
The exercises themes include:
If these five exercises aren’t enough, check out their other sessions, including a Seven-Session Writing Exercise, a Thirty-Session Writing Challenge, and additional writing exercises from guest teachers:
This is a great resource if you need ideas for conducting a writing workshop for your own poetry group or just to get the poetry wine flowing.
I love this quote shared on their site, “The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” — Czeslaw Milosz
Enjoy and get writing!
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