"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 :-) Got Book? Send It Out!

I’m working on sending out a new book of prose poems, so I thought I’d share some of the calls for books I’ve found. Thanks to Poets & Writers, to all the good folks on Facebook who host Call for Submissions groups, and especially to Allison Joseph for all of the amazingly generous work she does for the writing community on her fabulous group CWROPPS!

The list here is for current open calls for poetry, for book-length collections, but many of these presses also have calls for prose and for chapbooks at other times of the year, so check them out 🙂 Some of these are contests; others are open readings periods with reading fees.

Got book? Send it out!

Michael Waters Poetry Prize for 2016

http://www.usi.edu/sir/awards-contests/waters-prize

The Cowles Open Poetry Prize

http://www.semopress.com/events/

MAIN STREET RAG Poetry Books

http://03c9c48.netsolhost.com/WordPress/contests/the-main-street-rag-poetry-book-award/

2016 FOUR WAY BOOKS INTRO PRIZE IN POETRY

http://fourwaybooks.com/submissions/index.php

New American Press Poetry Prize

https://newamericanpress.submittable.com/submit/47596

CSU Poetry Center

http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/open-book-poetry/

Etruscan Press

http://www.etruscanpress.org/index.php/about-2/

Glass Lyre Press

http://glasslyrepress.com/submissions.html

Lynx House Press

http://lynxhousepress.org/submissions

Red Hen Press

http://redhen.org/contact-2/submission-guidelines/

Terrapin Books

http://www.terrapinbooks.com/open-reading-for-poetry-books.html

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Special Sunny Sunday Call For Submissions

Even though it’s Sunday, they’re accepting submissions at Blue Monday 🙂 

http://www.bluemondayreview.com/

Submission Guidelines

http://www.bluemondayreview.com/#!submit-your-work/c1ijy

And they pay!

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Looking for Inspiration? Hundreds of Prompts!

Right here on the Writing Prompts Page! Check it out! 

Writing Prompts

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Special Blizzard Call For Submissions

Seems appropriate 🙂 

Storm Cellar

Deadline: Rolling

 

“Storm Cellar, a print-and-ebook journal of new writing and art, seeks submissions for issue 5.2. We’re looking for aesthetic ambition and risk, formally, emotionally, amazingly. We encourage especially: under-represented voices, people of color, women, and Midwesterners. Send us your space capsules, jungles, double-crosses, and secret crushes.”

Full guidelines at stormcellarquarterly.com/submit; submission manager atstormcellar.submittable.com.

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Monday Must Read! Lesléa Newman, I Carry My Mother

leslea newmanThis week meet Lesléa Newman, the author of 70 books for readers of all ages including the poetry collections, Still Life with Buddy, Nobody’s Mother, and Signs of Love. In 2012, her novel-in-verse, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, received a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association and was named a “Must Read” title by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Ms. Newman has won many literary awards including poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation; the Burning Bush Poetry Prize; the Americus Review poetry prize, and second place runner-up in the Solstice Literary Journal poetry competition. Her poetry has been published in Spoon River Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Evergreen Chronicles, Moment Magazine, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Lilith Magazine, Kalliope, The Sun, Bark Magazine, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review,  Seventeen Magazine and others. Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award Finalists and she has received four Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2008-2010 she served as the poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts. Currently she is a faculty member of Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing program. Her newest poetry collection, I Carry My Mother was published in January 2015 by Headmistress Press.

Lesléa’s website: http://www.lesleanewman.com/newbks.htm

Buy Lesléa Newman’s latest poetry book, I Carry My Mother:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0692277056/leslenewmawrite/

Buy Lesléa Newman’s novel-in-verse, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0763658073/leslenewmawrite/

Poetry by Lesléa Newman:

“How to Watch Your Father Watch Your Mother Die”

http://www.masspoetry.org/poemofthemoment4/#pomnewman

“Looking at Her”

http://www.lavrev.net/2014/12/leslea-newman.html

“I Carry My Mother”

http://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2015/06/12/i-carry-my-mother-by-leslea-newman/

“Teen Angels”

http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2013/04/leslea-newman-teen-angels.html

Interviews

“Getting to Know Lesléa Newman and her new book, I Carry My Mother

http://www.masspoetry.org/newbooknewman/

“Poet to Poet: Jane Yolen interviews Lesléa Newman”

http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/2015/01/poet-to-poet-jane-yolen-and-leslea.html

“On Poetry, Mentoring, and Writing for Adults and Teens”

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/03/leslea-newman-on-poetry-mentoring-and.html

“It’s My Job To Use My Imagination: Writing October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard”

http://www.recorder.com/home/11350058-95/its-my-job-to-imagine

Articles:

“Formally Yours: The Joys of Writing Formal Verse”

http://www.spaldingmfablog.org/?p=318

“Writing October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard: An 11 Year Journey”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslea-newman/october-mourning-a-song-for-matthew-shepard_b_1909595.html

“Dear Professor H.”

http://passagesnorth.com/2014/10/writers-on-writing-95-leslea-newman/

“Allen, Adieu: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg”

http://www.lesleanewman.com/allen_adieu.html


Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Get-Your-Write-On Promptathon! New Workshop Offering

NEW WORKSHOP OFFERING! 🙂
 
Get-Your-Write-On Promptathon!
 
Join me this spring!
 
June 3-5, 2016
at the beautiful historic writers retreat The Porches, in Norwood VA
5 Sessions of Diverse and Intriguing Prompts
designed to inspire, incite, and ignite your creativity!
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Come write with us! Let’s make some beautiful work together!
4 Spaces available–Reserve your spot now!
This workshop will be a fun and generative weekend of inspiration focused on generating new writing in a supportive and easy environment. The weekend is open to writers of all genres – poetry, fiction, nonfiction– even to those who think they’re not writers! As a group, we’ll go through five different sessions of prompts and exercises designed to ignite creativity, inspire new ideas or reinvigorate old ones, maybe even giving ourselves the push to finish something we are currently working on!
After writing, participants will have the option to share what’s created for gentle feedback, if desired. Perfect for those who want some inspiration, and to write to generate and gather new material!
Join us for a weekend of freewheeling creativity and encouragement! And I cook for you! 🙂
 
$275 – includes described three-day workshop, one shared evening meal prepared by instructor, light breakfast fare Saturday and Sunday mornings, and the beautiful relaxing accommodations at The Porches.
Message me on Facebook, or email carrollhackettma@gmail.com
Pass this on, please, to any you think might be interested! Thanks

 

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Monday Must Read! Sarah Nichols: Edie (Whispering)

Monday Must Read!

sarah nichols monday must readThis week meet Sarah Nichols, a writer living in Connecticut. Her chapbook, Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens, was recently published by dancing girl press. Her first book, The Country of No, was published in 2012 by Finishing Line Press. Her poem, “My Stepmother Responds to My Recovered Memory,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Thank You for Swallowing. Her poems have also appeared inYellow Chair Review, Found Poetry Review, Right Hand Pointing, and Porkbelly Press’s Emily Anthology (2015).

Links to Sarah’s beautiful books

Edie (Whispering)(dancing girl press): Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens | Sarah Nichols

Country of No (Finishing Line Press) https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=971

Read Sarah’s work online

“My Stepmother Responds to My Recovered Memory,” thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/my-stepmother-responds-to-my-recovered-memory

“Batman’s Wife,” Yellow Chair Review: Yellow Chair Review – Pop Culture Issue 2015  (Pg. 60)

“The Secret,” Found Poetry Review, Volume Eight:volumeeight.foundpoetryreview.com/855

“Smoke Horse,” in Right Hand Pointing: www.righthandpointing.net/#!sarah-nichols/ci1b

Interview with Sarah

http://www.nicolerollender.com/carpe-noctem-blog/chapbook-interview-with-sarah-nichols

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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Editing & Critique Services

Got book?

Via mail or face to face at The Porches, I offer a range of editing and consulting services for writers.

Let’s work together to make your beautiful work even better!

Details here!

Editing/Consultation Services

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Gratitude! A Couple of Publications to Start 2016 :-)

Thrilled and thankful to the editors for including my crazy lil prose poems in their beautiful publications ❤ 

Special Thanks to Clare L. Martin for being a consistent and beautiful light in this world!

MockingHeart Review

http://mockingheartreview.com/vol1issue1/mary-carroll-hackett/

and to the editors of

Milk Journal 

http://www.milkjournal.net/#!a-private-mythology—mary-carroll-hacke/duuv7

 

Check out and support these fine publications, y’all! 

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Monday Must Read! Shaindel Beers: The Children’s War

 

 

 

Monday Must Read!

WhiteAuthorPhoto ShaindelThis week meet Shaindel Beers, the author of two full-length poetry collections, A Brief History of Time (2009) and The Children’s War and Other Poems (2013), both from Salt Publishing. Her awards include First place Karen Fredericks and Frances Willitts Poetry Prize, Grand Prize Co-winner Trellis Magazine sestina contest, First place Dylan Days Poetry Competition, and others. She currently serves as English department chair at Blue Mountain Community College, as Poetry Editor forContrary Magazine, and on the executive board of PAWS, the Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter. She lives in Pendleton, Oregon, with a zoo of pets and a wild four-year-old son.

Learn more

Official Site of Shaindel Beers

Buy Shaindel’s beautiful books!

A Brief History of Time

http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/a-brief-history-of-time-9781844715053

The Children’s War and Other Poems

http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-children-s-war-9781844719303

Read More From Shaindel Online:

“Death, Sleep, Beauty” by Shaindel Beers | Pine Hills Review

poemeleon – Shaindel Beers

http://www.voiceinjournal.com/shaindel-beers-the-imprecision-of-language/

An American Meditation — Poetry by Shaindel Beers

http://www.theenchantingverses.org/uploads/4/6/1/6/461698/shaindelbeers.pdf

http://ithacalit.com/shaindel-beers.html#.Vm7AYEorLDd

http://www.shadowgraphquarterly.com/shadowgraph-quarterly-winter-2015/shaindel-beers/

Essays by and about Shaindel:

“Creep”: Thoughts on Abuse and Survival » Real Pants

Hundreds of Dollars | i believe you | it’s not your fault

Hot Teachers, Gaslighting, and Sexual Abuse in Academia: Reflecting on Essays by Shaindel Beers by Leslie Salas

https://thegloriasirens.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/hot-teachers-gaslighting-and-sexual-abuse-in-academia-reflecting-on-essays-by-shaindel-beers/

Hear Shaindel read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1wdbxsNAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2tucUP8yYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-ETvj3LeE

 

 

 

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