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Last call for winter issue submissions, see our ezine for full guidelines: www.thesmokingpoet.net
Deadline is Monday, November 30 at midnight. Send submissions to thesmokingpoet@gmail.com
Poetry is now full; we may still have room for fiction, nonfiction, cigar reviews.
Look for the winter issue to go online in mid December.
Thank you!
THE SMOKING POET: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Winter 2009-2010
http://www.thesmokingpoet.net
THE SMOKING POET publishes flash fiction; fiction; nonfiction; poetry; feature author; feature poet; book and cigar reviews. We publish work that ignites our imagination, inflames our passion, leaves us with a smoky aftertaste. The Smoking Poet also shares an extensive list of links and resources for writers and the cigar aficionado.
Submissions open year round. Send with category in subject line: poetry to Zinta Aistars; fiction/non-fiction and cigar reviews to J. Conrad Guest. Suggestions for “A Good Cause” to Lorena Audra Rutens, A Good Cause editor. If you wish your book reviewed, please query first.
For full submission guidelines and contact information, visit:
http://www.thesmokingpoet.net
Winter 2009-2010 Issue Deadline: November 30, 2009
Please send your submission to thesmokingpoet@gmail.com. We look forward to reading your best work!
Just signed up on a fascinating social networking site for women writers and editors: shewrites.com
Perhaps some of you will join me?
Enjoy!
Zinta
Looking forward to reading your work, Micci!
THE SMOKING POET: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – FALL 2009
http://www.thesmokingpoet.net
THE SMOKING POET publishes flash fiction; fiction; nonfiction; poetry; feature author; feature poet; book and cigar reviews. We publish work that ignites our imagination, inflames our passion, leaves us with a smoky aftertaste. The Smoking Poet also shares an extensive list of links and resources for writers and the cigar aficionado.
Submissions open year round. Send with category in subject line: poetry to Zinta Aistars; fiction/non-fiction and cigar reviews to J. Conrad Guest. Suggestions for “A Good Cause” to Lorena Audra Rutens, A Good Cause editor. For book reviews, please query first, attention to Skye Leslie, assistant editor.
For full submission guidelines and contact information, visit:
http://www.thesmokingpoet.net
Fall 2009 Issue Deadline: August 31, 2009
Please send your submission to thesmokingpoet@gmail.com. We look forward to reading your best work!
www.thesmokingpoet.net
Gluttony of riches, I’d say. Awash in it. Rolling in literary mud. And if you think about it, mud is good earth with just enough spit, and maybe a bit of blood, perhaps a drop of sweat, added to make it into a clayish goop that you can mold into whatever shape you wish. Yes, even Art. And what do we not have here?
We have mesmerizing Trash, the kind that wins first prize (Dan Skelton). We have Good Luck Charm (Emily Burns Ross) in second, and Mum in Decline (J. Louise Larson) in third. Jorro’s Emancipation (Stephen Joseph) earned Honorable Mention.
We have American Salvage, spanking new story collection by our feature author—and honorary judge of our short story contest—Bonnie Jo Campbell. For added spice: an entire, glorious, raucous page of Bonnie’s poetry. “Fiction is like a marriage; poetry is like a quick, exciting affair.”
We have A Good Cause: The V3 Campaign. It’s about Voice, Value and Votes by Lorena Audra Rutens, newest treasure added to our editorial masthead. Lorena will bring you new good causes every issue. Do your part.
We have the lush colors of summer in the artwork of Viestarts Aistars. Nearly every page.
We have poet Shaindel Beers, chatting it up with us.
We have book reviews, where we slander and praise, pages updated throughout the coming weeks. New assistant editor Skye Leslie will tell you just exactly what she thinks of American Salvage.
We have the Cigar Lounge smoking up the place. Rich, fragrant smoke. Sniff out the stogies and light your own fire.
Glory in it all. As we do. Summer is bounty and this issue certainly is that.
With a good word,
Zinta Aistars
Editor-in-Chief
The Smoking Poet
Nina wrote: "I read the interview with Shaindel and it is wonderful. "
Thank you, Nina. I very much enjoying interviewing Shaindel, and we are proud to feature it in our summer issue, online now at www.thesmokingpoet.net
Zinta
We are in our final week (less than, actually) to deadline for the summer issue. Not only general submissions, but also Second Annual Short Story Contest entries - cash prizes. Have you sent yours in yet? Last chance...
Among other features in the summer issue, going live in mid June, is an interview with author Bonnie Jo Campbell ("American Salvage") and poet Shaindel Beers ("A Brief History of Time"). And, of course, the Winners Circle: 1st, 2nd, 3rd prize winners of our short story contest.
Please also welcome two new editors: Skye Leslie, assitant editor, and Lorena Audra Rutens, editor of "A Good Cause," a new page appearing in each issue featuring, well, a good cause.
The Smoking Poet is growing. Be a part of it.
http://thesmokingpoet.net
Where does the time go? Up in smoke!
14 DAYS remaining to summer issue deadline. Best yet. We welcome two new editors to our staff: Skye Leslie, assistant editor, who is helping us read through short story contest entries, and Lorena Audra Rutens, editor of a new regular feature to appear in each issue - "A Good Cause." It is our way of making a difference and working to make our world a better place.
Have you sent in your short story contest entry yet? Cash prizes! Honorary judge is author Bonnie Jo Campbell, whose just published story collection, American Salvage, is earning raves. Bonnie will be our summer issue feature author.
The Smoking Poet Second Annual Short Story Contest:
http://www.thesmokingpoet.net/id14.html
General submission guidelines:
http://www.thesmokingpoet.net/id13.html
A Good Cause
http://www.thesmokingpoet.net/id1.html
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/American-S...
The Smoking Poet on Twitter
http://twitter.com/thesmokingpoet
We are looking forward to reading your work - and finding out who will be in TSP's winners' circle! You?
Zinta Aistars, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Poetry Editor
Bonnie Jo Campbell, Honorary Judge, TSP Story Contest
J. Conrad Guest, Non-Fiction & Cigar Editor, Co-Founder
Skye Leslie, Assistant Editor
Lorena Audra Rutens, "A Good Cause" Editor
Barbara Vey blogs about The Smoking Poet on Publishers Weekly:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/880...
THE SMOKING POET's SECOND ANNUAL SHORT STORY CONTEST
http://thesmokingpoet.net
The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, established in 2006, and published online on a quarterly basis. TSP’s first annual short story contest is open to all writers, whether they have been past contributors to TSP or not, and in any genre.
Prizes will be awarded to the top three stories: first prize, $200; second prize, $100; third prize, $50. All of the winners will be published in the summer issue of The Smoking Poet, online in mid June, 2009.
An entry fee of $10 per submission is required, payment to be made through PayPal. Once you have sent in your submission and we determine it meets our contest guidelines, we will send you the PayPal link for payment with an invoice for your records.
Entries must be submitted as a Word doc file, one per e-mail, in Times New Roman, 12-point font, and double-spaced. The author’s name, address, and telephone number must appear in the upper right hand corner. Word count must not exceed 5,000. Please include a short bio statement, not to exceed 100 words, in the body of your e-mail.
The judges for the contest are Zinta Aistars, managing editor of The Smoking Poet; J. Conrad Guest, fiction editor of The Smoking Poet and author of January’s Paradigm. And, we are thrilled to announce - the honorary judge of TSP's Second Annual Short Story Contest is Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of "American Salvage," hot off the presses this May 2009, and "Q Road," "Woman and Other Animals." Bonnie is also our summer issue feature author.
http://thesmokingpoet.net
Submission deadline for the contest is May 31, 2009. Please send your submission with the subject line stating CONTEST/Last Name to thesmokingpoet@gmail.com If the subject line does not state CONTEST, then we will assume it is a submission for the ezine.
We look forward to reading your best work!
General submissions for Summer 2009 are also open; see ezine for guidelines.
THE SMOKING POET - SPRING 2009
Spring is traditionally the time of new beginnings—or perhaps more accurately, a time when that which has grown dormant, comes to life again. And not just as it was, but renewed, stronger, with the evidence of growth. Not all awakes with a new spring. Some hibernation becomes death. That, too, is as it should be. We leave behind what no longer serves us well, or what holds us back. We prune so that new life can thrive...
See the spring-fresh issue of The Smoking Poet now:
www.thesmokingpoet.net
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews (posted throughout the season), author interview, cigar reviews, more!
The Smoking Poet fiction editor, J. Conrad Guest, has posted a book review ...
"On New Year’s Eve, 1989, Father Perry Burns sits, haunted by his many regrets. Fifteen years have elapsed since he fled, without a word, from the woman he loved, the result of a shameful indiscretion. Father Burns has just received a letter from No...more On New Year’s Eve, 1989, Father Perry Burns sits, haunted by his many regrets. Fifteen years have elapsed since he fled, without a word, from the woman he loved, the result of a shameful indiscretion. Father Burns has just received a letter from Noel, who managed to trace his whereabouts. Recently widowed and a mother, Noel fills in Perry on her life and also expresses the hurt with which Perry left her. She is over him, she writes, but still loves the memory of what they shared...
Read the entire review here or on The Smoking Poet .
Jan 11, 2009 08:28AM
We have posted a new book review on TSP as well as on Goodreads - The Real Reason the Queen Hated Snow by Annette Marie Hyder.
"The Real Reason the Queen Hated Snow by Annette Marie Hyder is a collection of short stories, poems, recipes and essays. For the most part, all are built on and around the feminine (and feminist) experience, and the structure is reminiscent of fairy tales and fables, folklore and mythology. At the end of many of these pieces are citations, short explanations, recommended reading..."
To read the review in its entirety, visit The Smoking Poet at www.thesmokingpoet.net and click on Z's Reviews!
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