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Monday Must Read! Ellen Hagan: Hemisphere and Crowned

Monday Must Read! 

This weeek, meet Ellen Hagan, writer, performer, and educator. Her latest collection of poetry Hemisphere was released from Northwestern University Press, Spring 2015. Ellen’s poems and essays can be found in the pages of Creative Nonfiction, Underwired Magazine, She Walks in Beauty (edited by Caroline Kennedy), Huizache, Small Batch, and Southern Sin. Her first collection of poetry, Crowned was published by Sawyer House Press in 2010.

Ellen recently joined the po­etry faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan in their low-residency MFA program. She teaches Memoir, Poetry & Nature, and co-leads the Alice Hoffman Young Writer’s Retreat at Adelphi University. She is Poetry Chair of the DreamYard Project. A proud Kentucky writer, Ellen is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, Conjure Women, and is co-founder of the girlstory collective. She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.

Website

 http://www.ellenhagan.com

Buy Local

Hemisphere: Poems | IndieBound

Review

BOOK: Ellen Hagan’s ‘Hemisphere’ – LEO Weekly

Duende Literary Magazine

http://www.duendeliterary.org/ellen-hagan/

I Been Thinkin…Daily Prompt <3

Daily Prompt

I keep thinkin this mornin about day to day wonder…

Make art about the mythology of ordinary life.

Friday Call for Submissions Love! Sediments Literary-Arts Journal

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

Sediments Literary-Arts Journal

About

Sediments Literary-Arts Journal is a quarterly online literary journal that features work from new and emerging writers and artists as well as the established ones who inspire them. We understand how hard it is to get that first publication under your belt. The process can sometimes be disheartening. Unsure of what publishers really want, new artists can be blown with the wind, changing their aesthetic and losing their passion in order to conform to standards they think publishers want. Here at Sediments, we provide a platform where you can deposit your artistic style.  We want your submissions to be compelling, thought-provoking, and force us to question our reality. We love diversity, and we are obsessed with controversy. Help us build a rock of unpublished artists whose voices are finally scratching the surface of the literary sphere. We accept poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and art.

Submit to Sediments

Sediments Literary-Arts Journal accepts poetry, short stories, and art. Accepted work will be published to the homepage every Sunday at 11AM, as well as be collected into a quarterly, digital zine. View previous issues here.

What We Want…

Art

Please submit your paintings, illustrations, drawings, digital media, photography, etc.
You may submit up to 15 pieces. We most likely will select more than one, and we want a lot to choose from.
Include your preferred name, third-person biography, the preferred title(s) of your piece(s), and the medium you used (photography, acrylic on canvas, etc.) in your cover letter.
Artwork should be high-resolution digital copies.
Images of your artwork must be in  jpeg, png , or  tiff  format.
All submitted artwork will automatically be considered for the cover art of that issue.

Poetry

Please submit 3-5 poems of any length (keeping in mind that shorter poems have a higher chance of being published) in  ONE  Word document (DOC or DOCX only).
Separate ONE poem per page.
We’d love to see prose/narrative or lyrical poems and poems that experiment with form.
Submit your poems about anything. We accept poems on a variety of topics, humorous or serious. We’re not against love poems, but give those love poems some edge, something we’ve never seen before!

Fiction

Please submit  ONE  short story up to 3,500 words or no more than  THREE  flash fiction pieces up to 1,000 words each.
Flash fiction pieces should be in  ONE  document. Each story should start on a new page.
Submit your fiction in Word documents only (DOC or DOCX).
Your pieces should be well-written, adult literary fiction.
Although we welcome genres like science fiction, horror, fantasy, and even erotica, your stories should be written within the scope of adult literary fiction with elements of the aforementioned genres very subtle.
Formatting should be in 12-point Times New Roman or a font that is easy to read, with one-inch margins and double-spaced.
Please include the word count in the top left-hand margin of the first page.

Read Current Issue of Sediments Literary-Arts Journal: http://sedimentslit.com/project-type/issue-four/

Hey Artists! HeartWood wants to hear from you!

Hey Artists! HeartWood wants to hear from you!

Check out the guidelines for our

Appalachian Arts Interviews

We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section. We define Appalachian artists as an artist who is heavily influenced by the Appalachian region and its traditions, history, and people. At HeartWood, we are looking for artists who take these traditions and speak to them in a new and unexpected way.

To query about possible inclusion in the Appalachian Arts section: Submit the following in one document (doc, docx) through the Appalachian Arts link on our Submittable page:

Artist bio
Artist statement addressing what being an “Appalachian artist” means to you, how you uniquely define yourself as an Appalachian artist, and how your connection to Appalachia as you see/define it connects (or doesn’t) to your work.
At least one link to where artwork or samples can be seen/heard (artist website, other publications, YouTube, etc).

If we’re interested, based on the query, editors will email requesting additional information and work sample.

Complete guidelines here: 

http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/submit/

A VERY Special Special Call for Submissions: HeartWood: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

Why is this one special special? 

Because in the company of an amazing group of people, this Call for Submissions is coming directly from me!

:-D

Allow me to introduce

HeartWood

an online literary journal in association with West Virginia Wesleyan’s Low-Residency MFA program, publishes twice yearly, in April and October. Our inaugural issue will go live April 2016.

 

General Submissions

We accept submissions year round through Submittable, and welcome previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, from both established and emerging writers.

What We Want:

We are interested in writing that pushes into, dares to reveal, its own truth, that takes emotional risks, that gets to the heart of the matter.

Simultaneous submissions are fine, provided you notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.

We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section.

 

Submission Details

Prose submissions, fiction or nonfiction, should be 3000 words or less.

Fiction: Fiction submissions may include short stories, flash fiction, or novel excerpts if the excerpt can stand alone. You may submit more than one piece of flash fiction, as long as the total word count does not exceed 3000 words.

Creative Nonfiction: We’re open to a wide range of nonfiction, with the exception of academic articles, or that which would be considered more traditionally journalistic. Personal essay, memoir, lyric, literary journalism, or some blurring in between, are all acceptable.

Poetry: Poets should submit no more than 3-5 single-spaced poems at a time. Include all poems in a single document for upload. Lyric, narrative, experimental, we’re open to all variations of the poetic voice.

Surprise us. Make us think. Make us feel. Make our hearts race.

 

Appalachian Arts Interviews

We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section. We define Appalachian artists as an artist who is heavily influenced by the Appalachian region and its traditions, history, and people. At HeartWood, we are looking for artists who take these traditions and speak to them in a new and unexpected way.

To query about possible inclusion in the Appalachian Arts section: Submit the following in one document (doc, docx) through the Appalachian Arts link on our Submittable page:

Artist bio
Artist statement addressing what being an “Appalachian artist” means to you, how you uniquely define yourself as an Appalachian artist, and how your connection to Appalachia as you see/define it connects (or doesn’t) to your work.
At least one link to where artwork or samples can be seen/heard (artist website, other publications, YouTube, etc).

If we’re interested, based on the query, editors will email requesting additional information and work sample.

 

What We’ll Do

Submissions will be responded to within three months. If you haven’t heard from us after three months, feel free to inquire by sending us a note through Submittable.

If your work is accepted, HeartWood acquires first North American rights. All rights revert to the author upon publication, but we do ask for first publication attribution in any future publications. We also reserve the right to include accepted pieces in any future anthologies or promotions.

If we have passed on a submission, please wait 6 months before submitting again.

Submit here:

http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/submit/

Write on! We can’t wait to hear from you!

 

Two New Publications :-) Grateful to Generous Editors

My house concert tour isn’t over, but has been put on hold while my oldest sister, a tiny fierce woman named Andrea but whom we call Crickett because she’s only 4’9 and quick as all get out :-) and who has worked as a nurse for more than forty years, primarily attending to those at the end of their journey, those tender hands midwifing soul after soul after soul into the next life, has been battling cancer herself. Twelve years older than me, she wagged that little finger at me, touting her position as ‘the elder’ in our family now, and told me I ‘better not be neglecting that writin!’ So, while my travel has been limited mostly to running back and forth from Virginia to North Carolina, I have been sending these crazy lil prose pomes out into the world.

“A Chant Against Lonely” at Josephine Quarterly (This poem will be included in my book, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, coming out from FutureCycle Press in 2016)

http://issuu.com/josephinequarterly/docs/summer_2015_issue/5?e=6563413%2F14573219

The Girl Who Read the Land” at Sediments Literary-Arts Journal (This poem is included in my most recent book, The Night I Heard Everything, available now from FutureCycle Press)

http://sedimentslit.com/portfolio/the-girl-who-read-the-land-mary-carroll-hackett/

I’m very grateful to the kind editors who have made homes for some of them.  

 

Monday Must Read! Marcene Gandolfo: Angles of Departure

Monday Must Read!

This week, meet Marcene Gandolfo. Her debut book, Angles of Departure, recently won Foreword Reviews’ Silver Book of the Year Award in Poetry. Marcene’s poems have been published widely in literary journals, including Poet Lore, Bellingham Review, Bayou, DMQ Review, and Paterson Literary Review. She has taught writing and literature at several northern California colleges.

Get Marcene’s Book: http://www.amazon.com/Angles-Departure-Marcene-Gandolfo/dp/1625490658

Marcene’s Website

http://www.marcenegandolfo.com/

Reviews of Marcene’s Book:

http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/archives/v17/e7/gandolfo.htm

http://thewideningspell.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=3

More from Marcene Online:

Bellingham Review

http://bhreview.org/2014/10/05/after/

http://bhreview.org/2014/10/05/again/

http://bhreview.org/2014/10/05/broken-chord/

Jet Fuel Review

http://www.jetfuelreview.com/previous-issues/issue-8-fall-2014/poetry/marcene-gandolfo/

DMQ Review

http://www.dmqreview.com/15Spring/index2.h

Featured Author Profile at Spank the Carp :-)

Thrilled to be included as the Author Profile in Pond 11 over at Spank the Carp :-D If you haven’t checked out this great pub, then do :-) Great work, and great fun! Ken. the editor, is a blast! :-)

http://www.spankthecarp.com/profile_carrollhackett.html

Friday Call for Submissions: Spank the Carp: Wading Into the Stream

Spank the Carp

About

SPANK the CARP publishes unique, thought-provoking fiction and poetry that isn’t obscure or pretentious. Our goal is to invite readers to wade into the stream, not make them afraid of water for fear it’s too cold.

We look for tight, pithy Flash Fiction and Short Stories of any genre, including sci-fi and humor, except fantasy and erotica.

We also look for poetry that takes chances, including concrete or “shape” poetry.

NOTE: Each issue will include only four to six works, with a mix of fiction and poetry. There will be no set timetable; only when we feel we have a good variety will we publish an issue.

Guidelines

We publish fiction and poetry from any author including as yet unpublished writers or writers with only a few publications under their belt.  

PREFERRED CONTENT

Any genre, including hard science fiction, though PLEASE no fantasy, erotica, or sappy romance. Humor is good.

Flash Fiction (around 800 words or less). 

Short stories (around 6000 words or less).

Poetry that is lyrical, where you’ve paid as much attention to the sound of the words as to their meaning. Also concrete or shape poetry.

Regardless, we prefer works that cut to the chase, that are pithy, and have a sense of importance (without overdoing it). And by that we mean, you wrote something you felt needed to be written and put out there in the world.

CONTENT NOTES

Please DO NOT SUBMIT anything erotic, sexual, pornographic, or portraying gratuitous violence. Think PG-13, maybe PG-18. Also do not submit political or religious screeds disguised as fiction or poetry. Sensitive thought-provoking actual fiction that makes a general religious or political point, like something utopian or dystopian is okay, just no preaching. It won’t even be considered. Same goes with anything erotic, sexual, pornographic, or violent.

Anything you submit must be your own original creation. It must never have been published on any website or print publication that you do not personally own. If it has appeared only on your own blog or website or your own self-published printed material it is considered self-published. In this case, as long as you are the sole copyright owner, we will accept your work for consideration for reprint.

PAST PONDS ARTWORK and PHOTOS

I’m looking for images and photos that depict Carp and Koi in artistic and natural settings. See the Past Ponds page for examples. A one sentence bio will appear under your image or photo. Submission process, compensation, and terms are the same as for written work.



Submission Process

All stories must be submitted via email. We will respond as quickly as possible. Expect a 30 to 45 day turnaround time.

Please submit one short story, one flash, or two poems at a time. Simultaneous submissions are fine but please inform us if your submission is accepted for publication elsewhere.

Please include:

– A docx, doc, or rtf formatted document. For visual poetry, png or jpg only.

– A two sentence max description of your work.

– Do not send a formal bio. If your work is accepted we will contact you for a formal bio. DO however tell us whether you have been published before.

Email to: the_carp (at) spankthecarp.com  with the word Submission as the subject.

Compensation

No compensation can be offered at this time. If accepted, your work will appear prominently on the home page, with a link to it’s own page. This can easily be linked to from a personal or other website. Also, since we seek quality over quantity, in the issue in which your work appears, you will appear with only a few other authors and not buried in a sea of screen clutter.

Terms and Agreements

If we accept your work, we ask for First Serial Rights until publication. After publication all rights revert back to the author. Also your work will remain in our past issues archives unless you ask us to remove it. Exceptions to these terms can be granted on a case by case basis, just ask.

Visit Spank the Carp here: http://www.spankthecarp.com/

Sometimes YOU Are the Poem <3

Extra prompt for today

Line from the pome I just drafted this morning :-)

“You are radiant

always, already, although you fail to believe”

Make art about how beautiful, how radiant, you are