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July 28, 2015
Special Tuesday Call for Submissions: A-Minor Magazine
Special Tuesday Call for Submissions
from the fabulous editors who brought out my book If We Could Know Our Bones
A-MINOR Magazine: Stories in the Chord of Am
Reading submissions for the September issue of A-Minor Magazine! Send your prose, poetry or artwork. Spread the word!
Editor Nicolette Wong says, “p.s. we have more room in the prose/fiction house at the moment.”
GUIDELINES/SUBMISSIONS
We’re now reading submissions for our next September 2015 issue.
Please submit in ONE category only. Prose and poetry should be pasted in the body of the email. If your poems require special formatting, you may send an attachment.
Simultaneous submissions are fine. Include a 50-word, third person bio. Longer bio will be subject to editing. Send your work to aminormagazine@gmail.com
Short Fiction/Prose: 1000 to 4000 words. One story/prose piece only.
Flash Fiction/Prose: 100 to 1000 words apiece. One to three pieces.
Poetry: Three to Five poems. Prose poetry and hybrid form welcome.
For fiction/prose, we are partial to surrealist, experimental and quirky writing. For poetry, we lean toward the lyrical, eccentric, ambivalent and wildly imaginative.
Art/Text: One to three flash prose pieces or poems, based on or paired with artwork by the writer or a visual artist.
Artwork: Two to five pieces of visual poetry, asemic writing or other post-literate variety. Preferences will be given to images that work as a series. Collaborations are welcome.
Prose and poetry must be entirely unpublished. Artwork may be previously posted on the artist’s web site or blog.
Please check out the list of selected back issues and features to get a sense of our editorial drift.
If your work has been featured in A-Minor, please wait at least six months before submitting again.
If your submission has been declined, please wait at least one month before submitting again.
A-Minor requires First North American Serial Rights and all archival rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If your work appears elsewhere in print or online, please give due credit to A-Minor.
Send all questions to aminormagazine@gmail.com
Check out A-Minor Magazine’s Fifth Anniversary Issue here:
http://aminormagazine.com/2015/05/28/a-minor-magazines-fifth-anniversary-issue-4/
I Forgot to Remember :-) Writing Prompt
7/27/2015
I forgot to post a prompt yesterday :-)
So make art about forgetting.
July 27, 2015
Monday Must Read! Robert Aquinas McNally, Simply To Know Its Name
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Robert Aquinas McNally, the author or coauthor of nine books of nonfiction, with a tenth in the works, and the author of four poetry chapbooks and the full-length collection Simply to Know Its Name, which won the Grayson Books Poetry Prize in 2014 and was published by Grayson Books this past April. His poems have appeared in a long list of anthologies and journals, including Ecotone, Spillway, Snowy Egret, Quiddity, RiverSedge, Blueline, Minnetonka Review, Sanskrit Literary Arts Magazine, Soundings East, and Runes. Five times his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A member of the National Association of Science Writers and the Western Writers of America, McNally has also written news, features, and essays about the wild, particularly in the American West. He wanders, wonders, and writes in Northern California.
Get Robert’s book! Simply to Know Its Name on Grayson Books:
A Reading of Poems, Plus a Commentary on Poetry and Awe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP3f8lyw50E
Read more from Robert online :-)
“Sheepshead” http://www.decompmagazine.com/sheepshead.htm
“Passage” http://minnetonkareview.com/IssueSeven/robert_aquinas_mcnally.html
“Red Fox” http://www.versedaily.org/2015/redfox.shtml
“ Great Blue Heron” http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=19848
Happy Reading!
Xo
Mary
July 24, 2015
Friday Call for Submissions: carbonate: Satisfy Your Read
carbonate
Deadline for Fall issue: August 31, 2015
About
carbonate is a quarterly literary magazine published online in January, April, July, and October. We accept submissions of poetry, essays, short fiction, novel excerpts, art, and photography year-round.
Originating in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, carbonate® is produced by The Foundry/Rocky Mountain Centre for Writing, a non-profit organization increasing access and visibility of the literary arts in the mountain regions.
We are seeking deeply human, fully realized work from far and wide, and always hope to include voices new to us and new to publication. We publish online: one story, one portfolio of poems, one essay or piece of narrative nonfiction, and visual art. Subscribers and selected contributors get the full edition electronically in a beautifully formatted, full color e-book.
We’re exceptionally partial to works that are well-written and engaging.
Please send us work that truly resonates and brings the reader to a new place. The online journal also publishes interviews with accepted authors and artists. Please inquire before submitting interviews.
We’ll take a look at everything, but boring work will probably not find a home here. Send us your best. Try something new. We might love it.
Deadline for Fall issue: August 31, 2015
Send your submission as an attachment to: carbonatemagazine@gmail.com
Put your contact information and a short bio in the body of the email.
Submission Guidelines
Short Fiction: 5,000 words or less.
Short fiction submitted to the magazine must be original and previously unpublished. carbonate considers work that has appeared online (including on blogs and Facebook) to be previously published.
All manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced, with the author’s name, address, phone number, and approximate word count at the top of the first page, and numbered throughout and sent as a WORD attachment to the email address listed herein.
Send only your best work. Submit only one story at a time.
We are not accepting paper submissions at this time. All paper submissions will be recycled upon receipt.
All manuscripts must be written in English. Translations are acceptable, but must be accompanied by a copy of the original text.
Poetry: 3-5 poems (no more than 8 pages)
Novel Excerpts: 5,000 words or less. You must indicate that your submission is part of an unpublished novel. The ideal excerpt will be self contained in terms of characterization and storyline. We will not print setups or explanations of what is taking place. Your writing should embody a smaller version of the overall story arc.
Creative Non-Fiction: We draw heavily from unsolicited submissions. Our editors believe that providing a platform for emerging writers and helping them find readers is an essential role of literary magazines, and it’s been our privilege to work with many fine writers early in their careers. A typical issue of carbonate contains at least one essay by a previously unpublished writer.
We’re open to all types of creative nonfiction, from immersion reportage to personal essay to memoir. Our editors tend to gravitate toward submissions structured around narratives, but we’re always happy to be pleasantly surprised by work that breaks outside this general mold. Above all, we’re most interested in writing that blends style with substance, and reaches beyond the personal to tell us something new about the world. We firmly believe that great writing can make any subject interesting to a general audience.
Art: Please submit only 4-6 pieces per email. However, you may submit more than one email. We prefer to receive submissions digitally as JPEGs or PNGs sent via email to salidafoundry@gmail.com. Please make sure that your name and contact information appears in the body of the email. Each piece should be accompanied by the work’s title (if any), medium, and contact information should one of our readers want to purchase your work.
We are unable to provide critiques or feedback regarding art submissions or the selection process. If your artwork is selected for publication, you will be notified by telephone or email with further information. If you do not hear from us in 4-8 week’s time, you should assume that your submission was not a fit for our publication at this time, but we will place them in our files for potential use in future publications. We do accept professionally presented pencil or pen/ink images.
Photography: The photography published in ‘carbonate’ is very high level, professional-quality imagery suitable for commercial purposes. If you are a recreational photographer/hobbyist, unfortunately your work will likely not be a fit for our product lines.
Submission Deadlines
The following publishing deadlines are set for the forthcoming publications. If we receive a submission between deadlines, we will assume it is meant for the next issue.
October 2015 deadline August 31, 2015
January 2016 deadline October 31, 2016
April 2016 deadline February 1, 2016
July 2016 deadline May 1, 2016
October 2016 deadline August 31, 2016
Publication Rights
Simultaneous submissions must be marked as such, and you should notify us immediately in the event your work is accepted elsewhere.
We do not pay contributors for any work published in carbonate. However, accepted contributors will receive a 1-year digital subscription beginning with the edition your work appears in.
Upon acceptance, we acquire first rights for publication in our online magazine and one-time rights for pieces selected for re-publication. Following publication, all rights revert to the author. Should we desire to use your work in any other context (primarily, this might occur in an advertisement-type context), we will contact you via email requesting the appropriate permission.
Visit carbonate: http://carbonatemagazine.org/
July 23, 2015
Special Thursday Call for Submissions: That, Brand New Litmag Wants Your Work
That Literary Review
About THAT
THAT Literary Review is affiliated with the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English and Philosophy, and the College of Arts and Sciences at Auburn University at Montgomery. Published annually, THAT will be available online with print copies available at additional cost.
Submission Guidelines
All manuscripts should be in 12-point type, preferably Times Roman. All poems should be submitted in a single document. Fiction must be double-spaced, poetry single-spaced. Please send us your work as a .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file via the Submittable portal below. We do not accept submissions by post.
Our reporting time is three months; if you have not heard from us by then, feel free to query us at editor@thatliteraryreview.com.
The author’s name, address, telephone number, email address, and approximate word count should be typed at the top of the first page; all other pages should include the page number and the author’s last name in the header.
Fiction
We’re looking for excellently written fiction between 100 and 5,000 words in length.
It should be surprising, relentlessly engaging, fun, and humming with vibrancy. Include compelling characters, lively but minimal dialogue, and plots charting the unexpected.
Poetry
The poetry that we prefer is alive and idiosyncratic and that opens new vistas to the reader. We stay away from rhyming poetry, conventional forms, and love poetry unless brilliantly revisited. Three poems may be submitted (as a single document) at a time, with a total maximum of twenty pages.
General Guidelines
– We are interested only in work that has not appeared previously in either electronic or print format.
– Submit only one story or three poems at one time. If you have material under consideration with THAT, please do not submit additional work until you have heard back from us.
– Simultaneous submissions are permissible, but notify us if the work you’ve sent to us has been accepted elsewhere.
– It is recommended that all interested writers take a look at a sample issue of THAT. It really helps.
-THAT acquires first serial rights, including both print and electronic rights. Copyright remains with the author.
Payment
Authors published in THAT will receive a print copy of the issue in which they appear.
Website for That: http://www.thatliteraryreview.com/home.html
July 20, 2015
Sometimes Food Is the Poem…or a Pickle :-)
This planet is so amazing, and so generous :-) My garden’s overflowing :-) so, Bread’n’Butter Pickles. For me, gardening and food, preparing it, preserving it, cooking it, eating it, sharing it, food is one of my most important creative resources, and one of the most important ways that I pray
Writing Prompts Updated Daily!
Good Morning!
I’ve been on the road, home only three days in the last three weeks–whew! But now, I’m home and it’s time to get a little writing done!
Join me!
Check out my page of writing prompts, updated daily!
Get that beautiful write on, y’all!
http://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/
Happy writing!
xo
Mary
Monday Must Read! Margaret Mackinnon, The Invented Child
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Margaret Mackinnon, author of The Invented Child, for which she received the Gerald Cable Book Award and was given the 2014 Literary Award in Poetry from the Library of Virginia. Her work has appeared in Image, Poetry, New England Review, Georgia Review, Quarterly West, RHINO, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Poet Lore, and other publications.
Margaret Mackinnon grew up in the South, influenced by a lush landscape and a family that emphasized a deep connection between language and meaning. Her mother wrote poetry as a young woman (and generously encouraged all her earliest literary efforts). Her father was a Presbyterian minister, so every Sunday, she watched him try to give shape to beliefs and questions through the words of sermons, prayers, and creeds.
In college, at Vassar and the University of North Carolina, Mackinnon studied art history and religion, thinking about how image and pattern intersect with what we see as significant. And then came five years in Japan, where she taught English and studied textile design in a small circle of Japanese women artists. She learned something there about the discipline of a craft, and how that kind of focus can take one into a deeper attention to the everyday world. Back in the United States, she entered the graduate program in creative writing at the University of Florida.
Her awards include the Richard Eberhart Poetry Prize from Florida State University, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She teaches at a private girls’ high school and lives in Falls Church, Virginia.
She lives with her husband and daughter in Falls Church, Virginia.
More about The Invented Child
Margaret Mackinnon is a compelling voice in American poetry. Her début collection, The Invented Child, is beautifully poised between reticence and candor. Frequently inspired by visual art, she writes lovingly of her parents, her husband, her child, but also of Sophia Hawthorne and Walt Whitman and Grant Wood, reminding us of the “sweet amplitude” of life. These are splendid poems of feeling that look far beyond the self to the miraculous other. Brava! — Kelly Cherry
Four Poems from The Invented Child
http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/invented-child/
“For Grant Wood” at The Poetry Foundation
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/29417
“Mary Shelley’s Dream”
http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v12n1/v12n1poetry/mackinnonmary.php
More poems and reviews at Verse Daily
http://www.versedaily.org/2013/aboutmargaretmackinnon.shtml
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
July 16, 2015
Special Thursday Call for Submissions Love! Longridge Review: The Mysteries of Childhood
Nonfiction writers, check out this call from a brand new publication!
Longridge Review
“Our emphasis is on literature that explores the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan.”
Reading Opens Sept 1-Sept 30
ABOUT
Longridge Review is an evolution of the Essays on Childhood project.
Our mission is to present the finest essays on the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan.
We are committed to publishing narratives steeped in reverence for childhood perceptions, but we seek essays that stretch beyond the clichés of childhood as simple, angelic, or easy. We feature writing that layers the events of the writer’s early years with learning or wisdom accumulated in adult life.
We welcome diverse creative nonfiction pieces that depict revealing moments about the human condition.
We look forward to reading your work!
Founder and Editor: Elizabeth Gaucher, Middlebury, edg@longridgeeditors.com
Contributing Editors: Laurel Gladden, Sante Fe, and Beth Newman, Asheville
Creative Advisor and Muse: Suzanne Farrell Smith, NYC
SUBMIT
Longridge Review has one annual reading period each calendar year: September 1-30. Please read the submission guidelines before submitting. We recommend that you also read work on this site to see what we publish.
Our emphasis is on literature that explores the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan.
We are committed to publishing narratives steeped in reverence for childhood experience and perceptions, but we seek essays that stretch beyond the clichés of childhood as simple, angelic, or easy. We want to feature writing that layers the events of the writer’s early years with a sense of wisdom or learning accumulated in adult life.
We welcome diverse creative nonfiction pieces that demonstrate perceptive and revealing moments about the human condition.
We will not consider trite, light narratives; genre nonfiction; critical analyses; inspirational or motivational advice; erotica or pornography; or any writing that purposefully exploits or demeans.
We encourage established, unpublished, or emerging writers to submit their best work to Longridge Review.
We will consider one creative nonfiction piece (up to 6,500 words) during the reading period. Please do not submit more than once during the reading period.
We accept only electronic submissions through e-mail. Submit only one double-spaced creative nonfiction piece pasted into the body of the e-mail to edg@longridgeeditors.com.
The title of your submission should be included with your name (e.g., Jane Doe “My Essay Title”). Include a short biography (five to seven sentences) with your submission.
We will consider simultaneous submissions as long as you let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. We will not consider previously published materials, including online publications, personal blogs, social media sites, etc.
Longridge Review acquires first electronic and indefinite archive rights. Upon publication, all other rights revert to the author. Please credit Longridge Review as first publisher if you reprint elsewhere. Longridge Review reserves the right to reprint work at a later date if we have the opportunity to occasionally make a print anthology and want to include your work.
Longridge Review is published three times a year: November, March, and July.
The submission period is September 1 through September 30 of each year. We try our best to respond to submissions within four weeks. If you haven’t heard from us within six weeks you may inquire about your submission via edg@longridgeeditors.com, but please not before.
Longridge Review website: http://longridgereview.com/
July 13, 2015
Monday Must Read! Lennart Lundh, So Careless of Themselves, and Poems Against Cancer
This week, meet Lennart Lundh, the author of six poetry chapbooks. Four Poems, Pictures of an Other Day, and So Careless of Themselves were published by Writing Knights Press. Fifth April 1975, an extended poem written during the American bombing of Cambodia, is self-published. Poems Against Cancer 2014 and Poems Against Cancer 2015 were written and distributed as fundraisers for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation and its research into childhood cancers.
Len’s poetry has appeared in print since 1967, and online since the turn of the century. In the last year and a half, his work has been found in the real or virtual pages of Binnacle, Children Churches and Daddies, Copperfield Review, Crisis Chronicles, Drunk Monkeys, Hessler Street Poetry 2015, Liminal Age, NonBinary Review, Poetry Quarterly, Poetry Storehouse, River Poets Journal, Silver Birch Press projects, and anthologies from Writing Knights Press. He reads regularly at Lit by the Bridge, Traveling Mollies, Waiting for the Bus, and Waterline Writers in the Chicago area. Three or four times a year, he can be found featuring at various venues in Ohio.
He is also a historian (five books and a score of articles between 1984 and 2002) and short-fictionist. His fiction has appeared in Coffee Shop Blues, Ethereal Tales, Flashquake, Inkburns, Jet Fuel Review, Liar’s League, Litro, Mocha Memoirs, NonBinary Review, Page & Spine, postcard poems and prose, Quotable, River Poets Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Song of the Siren, Stray Branch, and Weird Lies. A short-fiction chapbook, After the Wolves, is scheduled to appear from Writing Knights Press this year.
Len and his wife of 47 years, Lin, live in northeastern Illinois.
One of these days, Lennart will have a Web site.
He is on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/lennart.lundh.5
Audio and video files of his work can be found on YouTube and Soundcloud.
To order his books from Writing Knights Press, go http://writingknights.bravesites.com/
To order his self-published chapbooks, contact Len at lenlundh@aol.com. Please note that all proceeds from Poems Against Cancer 2014 and Poems Against Cancer 2015 will go to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
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