ST 5 submission period

 cross-posted from  stonetellingmag  

Dear Friends of Stone Telling,

I hope that you are enjoying the Labyrinth issue, brought to you by  shweta_narayan   and  seajules   . Meanwhile, the reading period for Issue 5 (mythic/international) is open. Generally speaking, I am looking for poems that work with myth and folklore around the world. I originally intended to name this the "mythpunk" issue, but after the roundtable discussion in our third issue (link and link within the roundtable), I am opting for the more general "mythic" for now. Another word I used to describe this issue is "international". Every issue of ST is, ideally, international; but for this issue specifically I'd love to see non-Western mythology and folklore referenced cluefully. Poems inspired by Brothers Grimm will be a hard sell (as usual).

For this issue, I am also hoping to accept some poetry that is not, strictly speaking, mythic, so please send me your best work!

Another thing: I am planning for Issue 6 (December 2011) to showcase Science and Science Fiction poetry. While this is still far away from us, if you have S/SF poems that you think might fit, and would like to send them sooner rather than later, by all means go ahead and submit these, just be advised that it will take me longer to decide on these pieces, as I will be dealing with Iss.5 first. (to clarify: please do not send more than three pieces per submission, regardless of whether you're submitting S/SF poetry or not).