Good morning!
I’m beginning to schedule weekend and one-day workshops for the Fall 🙂
Check out my workshop and contact page for details.
https://marycarrollhackett.com/contact/
If you’re in the Mid-Atlantic area and you’re interested in having me teach a workshop in your area, email me and let’s make your beautiful work even better!
Hope it’s beautiful where you are today!
xo
Mary
I was out of town with sick family (good thoughts, good energy, prayer in whatever your fashion appreciated), so we’re gonna pretend it’s still Friday, and get some
Call for Submissions Love!
Apogee
About
“Apogee is a literary journal specializing in art and literature that engage with issues of identity politics: race, gender, sexuality, class, and hyphenated identities. We currently produce a biannual issue featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Our goal is to publish exciting work that interrogates the status quo, providing a platform for unheard voices, including emerging writers of color.
The word “apogee” denotes the point in an object’s orbit that is farthest from the center. Our mission combines literary aesthetic with political activism. We believe that by elevating underrepresented literary voices we can effect real change: change in readers’ attitudes, change in writers’ positions in literature, and broader change in society.”
Submit
Submissions for Issue 6 are now open! Issue 6 will be published in print fall/winter 2015. Here are our guidelines:
Apogee Journal’s dual purpose is to showcase writers from the periphery and to provide a platform for all writers to thoughtfully engage with issues of race, class, and identity. Our goal is to publish exciting work that sits at some distance from the mainstream and to provide a forum where unheard issues and voices can rise to the fore. To get a sense of what we publish, please browse our previous two issues or click here to order a hard copy of our current issue: http://www.apogeejournal.org/issue-three/
Year Round on the Blog
Submissions for our blog Perigee are open year round. We will consider completed interviews, critical and lyrical essays, book reviews and flash fiction for publication.
http://www.apogeejournal.org/blog/
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Julie Brooks Barbour, the author of Small Chimes (Aldrich Press, 2014) and two chapbooks: Earth Lust (2014) and Come To Me and Drink (2012), both from Finishing Line Press.
She is a recipient of an Artist Enrichment Grant from Kentucky Foundation for Women and a residency at Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Waccamaw, Four Way Review, diode, storySouth, Prime Number Magazine, burntdistrict, The Rumpus, Midwestern Gothic, Blue Lyra Review, and Verse Daily.
She is co-editor of the journal Border Crossing and an Associate Poetry Editor at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. She teaches composition and creative writing at Lake Superior State University.
Julie’s website: http://www.juliebrooksbarbour.com
Where to get Julie’s book Small Chimes:
Check out Earth Lust!
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=2113
Come to Me and Eat
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=723
More from Julie online:
At Connotation Press: http://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/1793-julie-brooks-barbour-poetry
At Negative Capability: http://www.negativecapabilitypress.org/blog/2015/3/22/featured-poet-julie-brooks-barbour
At Verse Daily: http://www.versedaily.org/2012/aboutjuliebrooksbarbour.shtml
A Great Interview with Julie:
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Special Monday Call for Submissions: HOAX
Only two weeks left to submit for Issue 6!
HOAX
About
“We strongly encourage submissions from women, PoC, LGBTQIA people, differently-abled people and other underrepresented people and minorities.
HOAX is a counter-argument to the commonplace notion that art and creative writing are mutually exclusive. We champion all creative work that incorporates text in some way. HOAX is an artist-run, printed journal dedicated to publishing creative works incorporating text. Issue 6 will be available in galleries, bookshops and creative spaces across Europe, North America and Asia.
Started in early 2012, HOAX is an independent, artist-led project providing a space in print and online to show all forms of creative work incorporating text alongside each other without prejudice or predefined “rules” about the look, format, content or execution of the work. Our output is the weekly publication of new work to our website, alongside a free-of-charge, one-sheet print edition featuring works by artists/writers throughout the world, of which each issue is curated to be strong, dynamic, interesting and innovative.
We publish new work to our website every Thursday and a new printed issue every 6 months, with side-projects in between.”
Guidelines
Issue 6 submissions deadline Monday 6 July 2015
We are always accepting submissions to the HOAX website.
“We are constantly seeking innovative and interesting new submissions for both our website and the publication itself. The website features a new work every Thursday; the printed publication currently comes out bi-annually but is set to increase to quarterly- please bear with us as our reach grows!
Anyone can submit creative work incorporating text for either the publication or the website at any time by emailing it to hoaxpublication@gmail.com, providing the work is previously unpublished and created relatively recently. We strongly encourage submissions from women, PoC, LGBTQIA people, differently-abled people and other underrepresented people and minorities. There are no themes or briefs, however we do recommend that you read our manifesto before submitting work so that you have a good understanding of the project and its intentions.
All submissions for the print publication will be printed only in black ink and must be able to be confined to one side of A5 paper (if your work can’t fit this, please see below). Any work that doesn’t fit the print guidelines for the publication itself (above) will be taken as submissions for the website. Submissions for the website can take the form of images, text, video or sound files. There is no minimum or maximum size.
Image files must be large and of good quality; text files must be properly formatted as you would like them to appear to a viewer- we recommend that you also send a screenshot of the text file so that this can be as accurate as possible; video files are best uploaded to a hosting site (e.g. Youtube) and then the links sent to us.
When submitting work, please include (where possible):
– Your name
– The title of the piece
– A link to your professional website
Please send submissions to hoaxpublication@gmail.com
Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we will only contact you if and when we would like to publish your work, however all submissions will be held onto for possible future publishing as appropriate to the project’s curation. Please do not expect an immediate reply. If you would like to withdraw a submission for any reason please notify us via email.
Thank you!”
Website: hoaxpublication.co.uk
Guidelines: http://goo.gl/11ltc1
Donate towards HOAX at http://goo.gl/0D1xb1
HOAX on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1376281546025771/
This week, meet Annie Finch, an American poet, author, playwright, spiritual writer, and entrepreneur, author of six books of poetry, many books and anthologies on poetic form, and numerous verse plays and poetic collaborations with composers, dancers, and artists.
Annie’s most recent books are Spells: New and Selected Poems, Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, and A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, The Norton Anthology of World Poetry, and The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.
A mesmerizing performer of her work and a beloved poetry teacher, Annie is the founder of PoetcraftCircles.com (on Facebook as Poetcraft Circles), where she loves to hang out, teach, and discuss poetic meter and form.
Praise:
”Annie Finch’s Spells is a pure tone that calls us home to the first impulse of poetry. We link to mystery. We lift off.”~Joy Harjo
About Spells
Spells: New and Selected Poems brings together Annie Finch’s most memorable and important poems written over forty years. Finch’s uniquely mysterious voice moves through the book, revealing insights on the classic themes of love, spirituality, death, nature, and the patterns of time. Finch is celebrated for her extraordinary love and knowledge of poetic craft, and Spells displays her virtuosity in a broad range of genres and forms. The book also includes a number of new and previously unpublished poems.
Annie’s website: http://www.anniefinch.com/
More about Annie’s most recent book Spells:
http://www.anniefinch.com/spells-new-and-selected-poems/
Annie also writes about feminism and women’s spirituality for The Huffington Post and elsewhere, and is completing a book on her spiritual path called American Witch.
She is the founder of American Witch Community & Marketplace, a craft collective of witchy products and online membership community based in female-centered spirituality.
Learn more about American Witch at www.americanwitch.com, or on Facebook as American Witch.
Magical Tools for Your Inner Goddess https://american-witch.myshopify.com/
More Annie online:
Annie’s Work at The Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/annie-finch
Hear Annie read her work: http://www.anniefinch.com/audio/
Annie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Arcfinch
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
This week, meet Diane Lockward, author of The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop (Wind Publications, 2013) and three poetry books, most recently Temptation by Water. Her previous books are What Feeds Us, which received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve’s Red Dress. A new poetry collection, The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement, is scheduled for publication in 2015. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Against Perfection and Greatest Hits: 1997-2010. Her poems have been included in such anthologies as Poetry Daily: 360 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times, and in such journals as Harvard Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Gwarlingo, and The Writer’s Almanac. She is the Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey, where she runs two annual poetry events: The West Caldwell Poetry Festival and Girl Talk. She publishes a free monthly e-mail Poetry Newsletter and is happy to have new subscribers.
She blogs at Blogalicious, http://www.dianelockward.blogspot, and keeps a website at www.dianelockward.com.
Crafty Link to Amazon:
For information about The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
http://www.dianelockward.blogspot.com/p/the-crafty-poet-portable-workshop.html
Description: The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop is a poetry tutorial to inform and inspire poets. It contains model poems with prompts, writing tips, and interviews contributed by fifty-six poets, including thirteen former and current state Poets Laureate. An additional forty-five poets contributed sample poems. Geared for experienced poets and aspiring poets, this book is ideal for individual use at home or group use in the classroom or workshop.
Review by Lynn Domina
Review by Christine Veladota
http://maybesopoetry.com/2014/12/20/the-crafty-poet-a-portable-workshop-by-diane-lockward/
Comments from readers:
I LOVE the poet interviews sprinkled in with the craft tips. These alone are worth the price of the book. I highly, highly recommend it to any poet writing today. It brings forth much fruit! Do go and secure a copy immediately. (C.A. LaRue)
Here is a must for teachers of poetry. . . a feast of poems and instructions. (Grace Cavalieri)
Sample Bonus Prompt
http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/2013/10/prompt-166-word-chain-poem-by-guest.html
Sample Prompt with model poem
http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/2014/11/prompt-210-loveliness-of-words-by-guest.html
Happy Reading—and Writing!
xo
Mary
Bonus Call for Submissions 🙂
Because I love that they want “postindustrial bioluminescence” 🙂
Jellyfish Highway is postindustrial bioluminescence, we’re abyssal gigantism. We are a press for work that floats and undulates and lingers and stings, literature that shines from the deepest blue.
We are on Twitter at @JHighwayPress. We will be announcing our first title soon. We are everywhere. We want all of your mind.
We want full-length books of fiction (novels, collections), poetry, or nonfiction. Also, we are looking for chapbook-like works to publish on an indeterminate schedule as ebooks and such.
Website: http://www.jellyfishhighway.com/
Submissions: http://www.jellyfishhighway.com/submissions/
Friday Call for Submissions Love!
Rhino
About
The Poetry Forum/RHINO Poetry is a non-profit literary organization, primarily devoted to the publication of RHINO Poetry, an annual high-quality print journal featuring well-crafted, diverse poetry, flash fiction, and translations. While remaining committed to our print journal, beginning with the 2014 issue, all poems will be placed online throughout the year. We also feature audio versions of our poems.
RHINO Poetry occupies a niche somewhere between academia and the emerging poetry scene – devoted to creative work that tells stories, provokes thought, and pushes the boundaries in form and feeling – while connecting with our readers and audience.
We invite traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction, and a love affair with language. We encourage emerging and established writers throughout the United States and around the world. Submissions are read by multiple editors with various tastes, all looking for quality work. Sometimes we call ourselves “eclectic” in the best sense of the word. We are proud of the content and variety of each issue we publish.
Guidelines
“We are reading for general submissions: April 1 – August 31.
Founders’ Prize submissions are accepted September 1 – October 31. Reading Fee: $10
We accept one submission per each reading period.
We strongly prefer online submissions.
Our diverse group of editors looks for the very best in contemporary writing, and we have created a dynamic process of soliciting and reading new work by local, national, and international writers. We read for previously unpublished poems, translations, and flash-fiction.
We welcome all styles of poems, and look for work which is well-crafted, reflects passion, originality, engagement with contemporary culture, and a love affair with language. All entries considered for the Editors’ Prize.
Our basic editorial principle, however, is unwavering—we’re looking to publish the best work we can find.”
Rhino’s full detailed guidelines here: http://rhinopoetry.org/submit/guidelines/
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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