"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

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Friday Call For Submissions Love! Rathalla Review

Rathalla Review, the literary magazine of Rosemont College, is seeking submissions for the Spring 2016 online issue. Spring Reading period closes on March 18!

“Our mission is to give emerging and established writers and artists an outlet for their creative vision in our online and print publication. We publish the best fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, and art, culled from a nationwide community of writers and artists. Rathalla Review’s staff, comprised of M.F.A. in Creative Writing and M.A. in Publishing candidates, merges the creative arts and the business of publishing into a shared voice and vision.”

Submission Guidelines here:

http://rathallareview.org/?page_id=29

 

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New Publications :-) Thanks to the editors at The Grief Diaries!

Gratitude and Love to the editors at The Grief Diaries for giving the first Ghost poems a home ❤ These poems are from my newest as yet unpublished collection, entitled Death For Beginners. 
 

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Monday Must Read! Tasha Cotter: Girl in the Cave

tasha cotterThis week meet Tasha Cotter, the author of three poetry collections, including Some Churches (Gold Wake Press, 2013), That Bird Your Heart (Finishing Line Press, 2013), and Girl in the Cave (Tree Light Books, 2016). Winner of the 2015 Delphi Poetry Series, her work has appeared in journals such as Contrary Magazine, NANO fiction, and Booth. In 2015 she was named runner-up in the Carnegie Center’s Next Great Writer contest. A contributor to Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press, 2014), The Poets on Growth Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2015), and the 2017 Poet’s Market (Writer’s Digest Books), she makes her home in Lexington, Kentucky where she works in higher education.

Buy Tasha’s books!

http://www.amazon.com/Tasha-Cotter/e/B00AO7JBX6

Read More From Tasha Online:

Superstition Review:

https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/

Interim Magazine:

http://interim.squarespace.com/

storySouth:

http://www.storysouth.com/2015/09/the-passing-of-everyone-else.html

Hear Tasha Read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt8936wYw-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzbeoTpAQEE

Happy Reading, Y’all!

xo

Mary

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Friday Call For Submissions Love <3 Uproot

UPROOT

Uproot is a literary journal housed at the University of Illinois Springfield whose main interest lies in place–more specifically, moving from place to place. We’re interested in geological and emotional estrangement, displacement, alienation, longing, and all of the other contradictory feelings associated with moving to a new/old location. We want to read and share literature that challenges notions of genre, work that pulls you up by the roots and plants you somewhere else, somewhere unexpected.

General Submission Guidelines:
We are especially interested in hybrid works, including flash fiction, prose poetry, and the lyric essay. Our only limitation is that submissions fall under 5,000 words and contain no more than 6 individual works.
Please submit work as either .doc/.docx file or PDF file as attachments.
We do not accept work that has been copied and pasted into the body of an email.
Please submit a brief 60 word bio written in the 3rd person.
Please send only original, unpublished work.
We do accept simultaneous submissions.
If your work has been published elsewhere please let us know so we can retract your submission.
We do not accept multiple submissions. We will only accept one submission per person per submission window.

Current submission window for next issue is 2/5/16-3/5/16.
Please send submissions to uprootmagATgmailDOTcom

UPROOT Website: https://uprootmag.wordpress.com/

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Trailer Park Oracle! So Excited! My newest book released!

Special delivery today!

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Thanks to Karen Kelsay Davies and Aldrich Press for giving these crazy little poems a home ❤ Thanks to Amy Tudor, Doug Van Gundy, and Julie Brooks Barbour, for the time and lovely words they offered about this odd little book, and special eternal BIG LOVE and gratitude to my former student artist angel baby extraordinaire Aaron Persh for the unbelievably beautiful cover art! 

Trailer Park Oracle now available on Amazon, y’all! Get it here! 
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This is a book that peers from the edges of wild places: from the flickerings of a French film to the heady thrills of train trestles, from the doorways of long-abandoned houses to the quiet of the vigils at the hospital bed. With a voice both gentle and fierce, Carroll-Hackett’s poems are unafraid to see us as the aching creatures we are, to ask the hard questions of language and loss, not even flinching as they reveal the wonder and pain of our very world like the title poem’s Oracle, “calling them as they played, no cushioning of the blow.”

— Amy Tudor, author of A Book of Birds and Studies in Extinction

The needs that haunt our lives also haunt Mary Carroll-Hackett’s newest collection. In Trailer Park Oracle, there is a need for food and love, and to find the true self. But Carroll-Hackett also reminds us that among all of the shining things in this world, we might sometimes forget who we are. “So you repeat, some mantra you think you’re making, until it all just becomes shaking.” Through the rich narrative of this collection, we are reminded of the path back to ourselves, how “the seed knew, at last, its own light.”

–Julie Brooks Barbour, author of Small Chimes

These poems are anchored in love – stubborn, earth-bound, unrelenting love and the generosity that it engenders. And while Carroll-Hackett is NOT the oracle of the title, she is a diviner nevertheless, looking through the quotidian – bread & blankets, Ferris wheels & automotive transmissions, dead deer and starving bears – for clues to the mysterious nature of our human hearts.

–Doug Van Gundy, author of A Life Above Water 

 

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Friday Call For Submissions Love! EXPERIMEMENTOS

Call for Submissions: EXPERIMEMENTOS, Third Issue

Deadline: February 29, 2016

Formerly based in San Francisco, EXPERIMEMENTOS has relocated to Rochester, NY and is preparing its third issue. The primary focus is poetry, though short prose works, as well as pretty much any type of writing/art, are considered. We are attracted to experimentation, so give us your envelope pushers, your external boxers, your noodle scratchers.
For more information about our editing process (which is very different from most magazines!), please read the submission guidelines found here: www.experimementos.com/submissions/.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submit a poem, story, excerpt, essay, e-mail, chat log, whatever! Strong preference toward experimental works and/or a desire to obtain an experimental work through the editing process. Anything deemed not experimental or “good” enough may be edited. [see below]*. Artwork submissions will also be considered (and possibly edited).

Please limit submissions to 500 words, unless it’s REALLY REALLY REALLY good. There is not much space in this magazine and each page adds a headache. Submissions over 500 words are liable to being thrown out.

*By submitting, you agree to many things:

  • Your piece may be edited into an entirely different work, though you will receive credit as the primary author. [NOTE: no words will be added to your piece without your permission; they will only be subtracted and/or rearranged.]
  • EXPERIMEMENTOS acquires first serial rights. After publication, all rights revert to you, except in cases involving editing like the above, in which rights will be shared jointly by author and editor.
  • Your piece will be featured in print and on this website, in the form of an online magazine and possibly quotes in the SCRAPS section.

Submissions and questions go to here:
experimementos@gmail.com

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Monday Must Read! Hilary Rogers King; The Maid’s Car

bio picThis week meet Hilary Rogers King, author of The Maid’s Car. Hilary was born and raised in Virginia, lived in Atlanta for the last twenty years. In Atlanta, Hilary was active as a poet and playwright. She helped found The Atlanta Women’s Poetry Collective and Atlanta Women in Theatre, two groups created for women artists to connect and collaborate. Hilary’s poems have appeared in Blue Fifth Review, The Cortland Review, PANK, Gertrude,Vinyl Poetry and other fine publications. Hilary is also an accomplished playwright. In December 2015, Hilary moved with her family to the Bay Area of California for her husband’s job. She looks forward to discovering the poetry scene in Silicon Valley, or creating one.

Buy Hilary’s Book!

Her first book of poetry, The Maid’s Car was released last summer by Aldrich Press.

http://www.amazon.com/Maids-Car-Hilary-King/dp/0692498397/ref=sr_1_1

Visit Hilary’s website!

http://hilarykingwriter.com/

Hilary also blogs about podcasts at

www.hilaryhearssomething.com

Read more from Hilary online!

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/53/king.php

http://vinylpoetry.com/volume-3/page-35/

https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/third-snow-atlanta-georgia-2011-by-hilary-king/

http://www.gravelmag.com/hilary-king.html

Interview at Pank

http://pankmagazine.com/2011/04/26/ask-the-author-hilary-king/

Happy reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

 

 

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Friday Call For Submissions Love! Tallow Eider Quarterly

Tallow Eider Quarterly Seeks Submissions

Submissions accepted year-round.

 

“Tallow Eider Quarterly seeks to publish engaging work from emerging and established writers worldwide and remains open to submissions year-round. We accept poetry, flash fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, reviews, and artwork. We have a penchant for the strange, surreal, and experimental. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere. All rights to published material are reverted back to the artist or writer upon publication. There is no fee to submit. ”

tequarterly.com/submissions/

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Sometimes The Prompt Takes a Little Faith

Daily Prompt
Been workin a lot on feeling worthy, puttin myself out there, makin myself do things that just a year a go I wouldn’t have done.
 
Make art about having faith in yourself.believe-in-yourself-a-little-more

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Monday Must Read! Carla Panciera: One of the Cimalores

 

Carla Panciera headshotThis week meet Carla Panciera, author of two collections of poetry: One of the Cimalores (Cider Press) and No Day, No Dusk, No Love (Bordighera). Her collection of short stories, Bewildered, received AWP’s 2013 Grace Paley Short Fiction Award and is available from the University of Massachusetts Press. Her work has appeared in several journals including The New England Review, Nimrod, The Chattahoochee Review, Painted Bride, and Carolina Quarterly. 

A high school English teacher, Carla lives in Rowley, MA, with her husband and three daughters.

Buy Carla’s Books!

Bewildered:

http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/bewildered

or http://www.amazon.com/Bewildered-Stories-Grace-Paley-Fiction/dp/1625341334/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452528946&sr=1-2&keywords=one+of+the+cimalores

No Day, No Dusk, No Love:

http://www.amazon.com/Dusk-Love-Bordighera-Poetry-Prize/dp/159954024X

One of the Cimalores:

http://www.amazon.com/One-Cimalores-Carla-Panciera/dp/1930781008/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452528946&sr=1-1&keywords=one+of+the+cimalores

Read Carla’s Work Online

Poetry:

http://euphonyjournal.org/2015/02/27/poetry-memoir-by-carla-panciera/

http://pbq.drexel.edu/carla-panciera-the-memory-i-would-have-chosen/

http://www.masspoetry.org/poemofthemoment5/ (scroll down the page)

http://bryantliteraryreview.org/index.php?page=selected-poems (scroll down the page)

Fiction: 

http://www.nereview.com/2013/03/20/all-of-a-sudden/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carla-panciera/featured-fifty-fiction-it-cant-be-this-way-everywhere_b_3362348.html

Follow Carla’s Blog!

http://carlapanciera.com/

 

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

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