"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

Brand New Litmag Seeking Submissions

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

 

 

 

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 ❤

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!

https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/

Happy writing!

xo

Mary

Monday Must Read!

Author_Photo_MargaretMackinnonThis 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

Special Thursday Call for Submissions Love!

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/

 

Mac's Backs, June 2014, by Jen PezzoThis 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.

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

Houseguest

About

Houseguest: House, Guest. As our name implies, we are interested in the juxtaposition of the common and the strange: the stranger that enters, that invades even as it’s invited, that may never truly leave. As a culture, we are ambivalent about houseguests, and ambivalent about ambivalence.

Here at Houseguest, we value ambivalence. We appreciate uncertainty. We espouse contradiction. We love thresholds—liminal spaces and surreal situations—and watching what gets through, what gets in. We welcome the Welcome Unwelcome.

We welcome anything you see fit to send us, provided it has not been previously published elsewhere.

 

Submissions

Houseguest is published three times a year in March, July, and November. We accept submissions year-round. We allow simultaneous submissions, but we ask that you let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Prose submissions should be typed, double-spaced, in an easy-to-read 12 pt font. Please limit your submission to 1000 words. Technically, we accept micro-nonfiction and flash fiction, but we aren’t overly concerned with categories. Be our guest: blur the lines.

Poetry submissions should be typed, single-spaced, in an easy-to-read 12 pt font, and formatted as a single document. Please limit your submission to five or fewer poems and include your contact information in the header of each page. All lengths and styles of poetry will be considered.

We acquire first serial rights for all work we publish. All rights revert to the author upon publication, though we ask for acknowledgement upon reprinting.

We currently accept submissions through our online submissions manager, known more commonly as email.

Submit to submission@houseguestmag.com

 

Website: http://www.houseguestmag.com/issue-03/current.php

Guidelines: http://www.houseguestmag.com/submission.php

I’m never gonna stop the rain by complaining 🙂

It won’t be long til happiness steps up to greet me ❤ Hope it’s finding you too, wherever you are ❤

New poem publication up at HOUND Lit 🙂 Thrilled to be included. Love this publication 🙂

http://www.houndlit.com/mary-carroll-hacket-when-dirt-is-hunger

ericaMust Read Monday! Erica Plouffe Lazure, Heard Around Town

This week, meet Erica Plouffe Lazure, author of the flash fiction collection, Heard Around Town, winner of the 2014 Arcadia Fiction Chapbook Prize. Another fiction chapbook, Dry Dock, was published by Red Bird Press in Spring 2015.

Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Greensboro Review, Meridian, American Short Fiction, The Journal of Micro Literature, Fiction Southeast, Flash: the International Short-Short Story Magazine (UK), and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Exeter, NH

Erica’s website: ericaplouffelazure.com

Erica’s books!

Pre-order Heard Around Town:

http://www.arcadiamagazine.org/#!product/prd15/4198023721/heard-around-town-pre-order

Get Dry Dock: http://www.redbirdchapbooks.com/store/p181/Dry_Dock_by_Erica_Plouffe_Lazure.html

Interview with Erica at American Short Fiction: http://americanshortfiction.org/2014/09/07/online-fiction-interview-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Interview with Erica at One Bike, One Year, by the fabulous Devi Lockwood:

https://onebikeoneyear.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/interview-with-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Read more from Erica online:

MadHat Lit: http://madhatlit.com/red-thread-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Smokelong Quarterly: http://www.smokelong.com/smoking-with-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Black Heart Magazine: http://blackheartmagazine.com/2014/11/06/hickory-wind-by-erica-plouffe-lazure/  

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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