"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

Friday Call for Submissions Love! Oyez Review

August 14, 2015

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

Oyez Review

Submissions Now live!

Submission Guidelines

Oyez Review accepts previously unpublished submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction,poetry, and art. There are no restrictions on style, theme, or subject matter. Oyez Reviewis open for submissions from August 1st to October 1st each year, but please check each genre category, as certain genres may close earlier than others. The journal seeks First North American Serial Rights on all submissions, in addition to the requisite digital rights to distribute each issue of the journal as an e-book. Simultaneous submissions in any category are not accepted.

Format

All Manuscripts:

  • Standard font and font size.

  • 8.5″ x 11″ white paper is preferred.


Fiction and Creative Nonfiction:

  • Typed and double-spaced.

  • No strict length restrictions, but because of space limitations, we are unlikely to publish manuscripts longer than 15-20 pages (4,500-5,500 words).

Poetry:

  • Up to five poems, not to exceed ten pages total.

Art:

We feature one visual artist per issue, whose work appears on the front and back covers of the magazine and in an eight-page spread at the magazine’s center. We feature both color and black-and-white work. Please send us a thoughtful sampling of about thirty high-resolution images. We cannot consider work less than 300 dpi. We prefer to receive your work via Submittable, but if you are submitting by mail, please send your art on a CD or a flash drive, and be sure to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Do not send original artworks.


How To Submit

The annual reading period is August 1 through October 1. Submissions received before or after this period will be returned unread. Simultaneous submissions and previously published work will not be considered.

  • Or you can send your work via snail mail:

Oyez Review
Attn: Janet Wondra
Department of Literature & Languages
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605

If submitting via postal mail, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with sufficient postage for reply.


Need to get in touch?
If you have any additional questions, e-mail at: oyezreview@roosevelt.edu

Oyez Review Website: https://oyezreview.wordpress.com/

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Special Thursday Call for Submissions :-) Shapeshifting

August 13, 2015

Little Patuxent Review

Seeking Works that Witness Shape Shifting

Submissions

Little Patuxent Review will accept submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and artwork for the Winter 2016 Myth issue.

Mythology both shapes and reflects culture—forming a bridge between individual and universal experience. How do you cross the bridge from past to present—or from individual to universal? How do you travel the mythic quality of life? LPR seeks works that witness shape shifting in micro and macro ways. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel prize in literature suggests: “The writer who shuts himself up in a room and goes on a journey inside will, over the years, discover literature’s eternal rule; he/she must have the artistry to tell their own stories as if they were other people’s stories, and to tell other people’s stories as their own…”

Submissions are open from August 1, 2015 to October 24, 2015.

Little Patuxent Review is a community-based publication focused on writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region, but all excellent work originating in the United States will be considered.

Although our issues are organized around themes, we allow considerable leeway in how contributors interpret them in order to ensure access to the broadest range of high-quality work.

Submissions details here: http://littlepatuxentreview.org/

 

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Yay! Publication in one of my favorite journals!

So thrilled to be included in the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts from Matter Press 🙂  Thanks to the editors and rock on!

Not the Bloom

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A Lil Something Published at Life in 10 Minutes

Thanks to Valley for including me at Life in 10 Minutes  🙂

http://www.lifein10minutes.com/your-10/2015/8/11/brother-bill

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Bonus Prompt <3 For My Best Friend

August 11, 2015

8/11/2015 Bonus Prompt ❤

My baby brother Bill was my best friend in this life. He would have been 46 today. I miss him every moment. Make art about best friends.

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Sometimes the Prompt Is the Poem Is the Song

August 10, 2015

Woke up hearing someone singing this 🙂 So just had to share ❤

Daily Prompt

“We are stardust. We are golden”~Joni Mitchell

Make art about cosmic origins. Or the origin of the cosmos.

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Monday Must Read! Ellen Hagan: Hemisphere and Crowned

Monday Must Read! 

Hagan_Headshot_BWThis 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/

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I Been Thinkin…Daily Prompt <3

August 8, 2015

Daily Prompt

I keep thinkin this mornin about day to day wonder…

Make art about the mythology of ordinary life.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Sediments Literary-Arts Journal

August 7, 2015

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/

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Hey Artists! HeartWood wants to hear from you!

August 6, 2015

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/

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