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HeartWood Literary Magazine Inaugural Issue Live!

Thrilled to announce the first issue of HeartWood, a literary magazine in association with the Low-Residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College!

Check out the beautiful first issue, including beautiful words from Rita Quillen, Ace Boggess, Abby Chew, Brent House, Bill King, Denise James, Roy Bentley, Faith Holsaert, Dorie LaRue, Michelle Lyle, Meggie Royer, James Engelhardt, Valerie Neiman, Marc Harshman, Ronald Jackson, C.A. Cole, Madhla Khan, Ron Burch, George M. Lies, Rhonda Browning White, Alma Luz Villanueva, Brent Watkins, and R.T. Castleberry. 

Also don’t miss our Appalachian Arts Interview with multitalented artist Kopana Terry! 

Let’s get to the heart of the matter! 

http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/

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Thanks and BIG gratitude to the amazing editorial staff!

Managing Editor: Danielle Kelly

Fiction Editors: Danielle Kelly, Chris Chapman

Poetry Editors: Jessica Spruill, Mary Imo Stike

Nonfiction Editors: Susan Krakoff, Beth Feagan

Appalachian Arts Editor: Vincent Trimboli

Blog Manager: Allison Pugh

Technical Advisor: J Hackett

Y’all rock!

Friday Call for Submissions Love! A Lonely Riot

A Lonely Riot Magazine Seeks Submissions for Inaugural Issue

Deadline: Rolling

 A Lonely Riot Magazine is opening inaugural submissions for their online magazine. They’re looking for literature that’s more than just prose; writing that challenges  assumptions and beliefs. Writing that makes us grow. They pay $7 for poetry/flash fiction and $20 for fiction with no reading fees.
See full guidelines at: alonelyriotmag.com/submit.

Newest Publication! Thanks to the Editors of Birch Gang Review

Thrilled to be included and in such fine company at Birch Gang Review! Thanks and Love to the editors! Great publication! Check em out, y’all! 
 

Call For Submissions Love! GFT All Year Round!

GFT Press Call for Submissions

Submissions accepted year-round.

 GFT Press and GFT Presents: One in Four are seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, visual art, and interviews for print and online publication. No submission fees! We’re working to benefit charity through our publication and hope that you will submit your best work! Whether it’s a journey through our priceless existence, a struggle to achieve personal contentment, a heart-wrenching brush with defeat, an intelligent observation on humanity, a deep desire for your voice to be heard, stirring inspiration, or just pure entertainment, we want it and will strive to share it.

GFT website: www.gftpress.com

Sometimes the Prompt Is How We Connect

Daily Prompt

Building the first issue of HeartWood 🙂 So excited to be part of bringing these beautiful words out into the world. Thinking about how art lets connect in ways unlike anything else, how it lets us reach across space, across time, across history, and commune with each other.

Communion defined: the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental, emotional, or spiritual level.

Make art about communion. Or about art as communion.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Blue Mesa Review

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

Blue Mesa Review

2 weeks left!

GENERAL READING PERIOD: September 30 – March 31

Blue Mesa Review accepts previously unpublished work in Fiction (up to 6,000 words), Nonfiction (up to 6,000 words), Poetry (3-5 poems), and Visual Art. We have a rotating editorial board, so each issue is fresh and unique. In general, we are seeking strong voices and lively, compelling narrative with a fine eye for craft. We look forward to reading your best work!

“We only considered unpublished work. Please do not submit anything that has been published on your blog, through your Facebook page, in other magazines including those online, or in an anthology or chapbook.

*We only accept submissions online through Submittable. We do not accept submissions via email or postal mail. Any submissions received by means other than Submittable will be returned to the submitter unread or recycled if a stamped, self-addressed envelope was not provided.

*We gladly accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere and withdraw your submission through the Submittable system. If a poem in a group of 3-5 poems is accepted, simply add a note identifying the piece that is no longer available.  

*Individuals previously affiliated with the University of New Mexico (students, staff, and/or faculty), should not submit to Blue Mesa Review until they have been unaffiliated for five full years.

*Due to the high volume of submissions we receive, response time can be longer than our standard two-six months. Please be patient. If you have not heard from us in six months, you can email us at bmreditr@unm.edu. “Submission Query” should be the subject line. 

*Submissions should be saved in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Prose submissions should be double-spaced. Poetry can be single-spaced. Please use a standard typeface and font size (12 pt). Pages should be numbered and a brief cover letter should be provided.  Pages should be numbered and a cover letter should be provided. 

Rights: We ask for first North American serial rights and non-exclusive electronic rights for our websiteBlue Mesa Reviewdoes not consider work that has been previously published in print or online. Rights revert to the author upon publication. Each piece is published in our online issue and considered for our Annual Print Issue.”

Blue Mesa’s Website: http://bluemesareview.org/

Friday Call for Submissions Love! Apeiron Review

Issue 11 | Apeiron Review

Deadline: March 1- 31, 2016

Send us beauty, dirt, despair, and hope. Make us feel with the depth of your words and art. 3K word limit on fiction & nonfiction; flash up to 1K; submit no more than 3 poems – free verse is favored along with other styles that showcase skill more than simply rhyme. Genre fiction is not encouraged. Novice writers welcome. Full cover letter not needed.

Guidelines from their website:

Please make sure to read our terms. By submitting to Apeiron Review you are agreeing with our Terms.

What We Want

We want something real, something beautiful, something ugly, and something that sings to the far reaches of our being. Make us laugh or make us cry, but we want something visceral. Free verse poems are generally favored over those that rhyme. Experimentation is encouraged. There are no limits on form, but please keep short stories and nonfiction to 3k or less.

We do accept flash fiction with 1k word counts or less.
We are open to submissions for our main issue two times a year.

General submissions:

Open March 1-31: Publication will occur in September.

Open September 1-30: Publication will occur in March.

 Weekly Featured Content: Currently Closed

Seasonal poems, short short stories, and creative nonfiction are accepted on a rolling basis for publication on our site. This is a completely separate feature from our bi-annual magazine. Continue to our Submittable page (by clicking on the giant Submit buttons at the top and bottom of this page) for more information.

Photography

We are looking for brutal, surreal, experimental, and/or beautiful photography. Send us your best (high resolution) photos.

Terms

Apeiron Review takes one-time non-exclusive electronic rights and archival rights to your work.

We are always eager for nonfiction pieces, however we ask that the writer be prepared to support their story and assist, if necessary, with verifying statements of fact. The writer assumes all responsibility for inaccuracies. Essentially, we will do our very best to make sure that no one will be harmed in the publishing of a true story, but in the end, it’s on the writer to avoid slander and untrue statements.

Accepted submissions may be edited for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. We will not make large changes without first providing you with a proof for your review prior to publication.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know if a piece is published elsewhere. We do not accept reprints.

At this time we do not mail out contracts. Currently, by submitting to us you are agreeing to the above terms.

Payment

Currently there is no payment for publication. We’re working on this.

Website: apeironreview.com

New Publication! Thanks to The Blue Heron Review!

Grateful to the fine editors at Blue Heron Review for including me.

The poem here will be part of A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming later this spring from FutureCycle Press

Scroll down to read all of the wonderful writers. I’m honored to be in their company ❤

My poem “It Is Not What Waits At the Door, This Love” 🙂

http://blueheronreview.com/blue-heron-review-issue-5-winter2016/

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

 

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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