"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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Some Call for Submissions Love! New Mag: The Forge

The Forge Literary Magazine: Call for Submissions

Submissions accepted year-round.

“The Forge Literary Magazine, a new online lit mag, seeks fiction and nonfiction submissions. While we have no formal word limit, work below 3,000 words is preferred. Send us your best! Since we are a diverse, international group of writers, our tastes and styles are wide-ranging. Submissions are read anonymously year-round. We publish one prose piece per week selected by a rotating cast of editors. There is no fee to submit, and we pay all contributors.
Visit our website for better insight into who we are and what we publish:www.forgelitmag.com.”

 

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Monday Must Read! Allison Joseph, My Father’s Kites

 

allison jospehThis week, meet one of the most amazing writers and literary citizens in our community, Allison Joseph! Allison lives, writes, and teaches in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University.  She serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review, moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List, and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a summer writers’ workshop for teen writers.

 Her books and chapbooks include What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press), In Every Seam(University of Pittsburgh Press), Worldly Pleasures (Word Tech Communications), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP), Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press), My Father’s Kites (Steel Toe Books), Trace Particles (Backbone Press), Little Epiphanies (Imaginary Friend Press), Mercurial (Mayapple Press), Mortal Rewards (White Violet Press), Multitudes (forthcoming, Word Tech Communications), The Purpose of Hands (forthcoming, Glass Lyre Press), Corporal Muse(forthcoming, Lucky Bastard Press). Her next full-length collection,Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, has been accepted for publication by Red Hen Press. She is the literary partner and wife of Jon Tribble.

I go back again and again to Allison’s work, but especially My Father’s Kites.

Buy Allison’s Books!

My Father’s Kites

http://www.steeltoebooks.com/books/39-my-fathers-kites.html

Praise for My Father’s Kites

“‘Tell me about the poet,’ urges Allison Joseph in the very first line of her remarkable new collection — and it is with insight, honesty and extraordinary technical skill that she accomplishes exactly this. My Father’s Kites is a self-revelatory collection of carefully wrought, jewel-like poems that explore the often paradoxical complexities of family relationships. Her strategy is tightly linked to her remarkable expertise as a formalist — a gift that becomes most evident in ‘What the Eye Beholds,’ a series of sonnets about her father’s flamboyant life, his gradual ‘dereliction,’ his inevitable early death, and its poignant aftermath. The arc of this sequence, flanked as it is by graceful villanelles and rondeaus. I cannot think of another contemporary poet who has done a finer job of combining form and content, to dazzling effect.” — Marilyn Taylor

Soul Train

http://www.upne.com/0887482472.html

In Every Seam

https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=34548

Wordly Pleasures

http://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/joseph.htm

Imitation of Life

http://www.amazon.com/Imitation-Life-Carnegie-Mellon-Poetry/dp/0887483860

Voice: Poems

http://mayapplepress.com/voice-poems-allison-joseph/

Trace Particles

http://backbonepress.org/chapbooks/

Mercurial

http://mayapplepress.com/mercurial-allison-joseph/

Mortal Rewards

http://www.amazon.com/Mortal-Rewards-Allison-Joseph/dp/0692657045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463483270&sr=8-1&keywords=mortal+rewards+allison+joseph

Read More from Allison Online

20 Poems from Allison Joseph

http://www.culturalfront.org/2011/10/20-poems-by-allison-joseph.html

http://www.heartjournalonline.com/joseph/2013/12/1/two-poems-by-allison-joseph

http://atticusreview.org/september-featured-poet-allison-joseph/

https://sliverofstonemagazine.com/running-while-black-by-allison-joseph/

http://rlpoetry.org/extraction-allison-joseph/

http://www.bradley.edu/sites/poet/steel/poems/joseph.dot

Interviews

http://lunchticket.org/allison-joseph-poet/

http://www.thefourthriver.com/index.php/the-mark-of-real-life-an-interview-with-allison-joseph

http://www.midwestwriters.org/2014/06/interview-with-allison-joseph/

Hear Allison Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2TEGGSxUeA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BWP3KtEXpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5E1KynLY4

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! The Collapsar

 

THE COLLAPSAR

a daily online literary and culture magazine, seeks original essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, creative criticism, and reviews. Past contributors include Amber Sparks, Cari Luna, Jill Talbot, Kathleen Rooney, Tobias Carroll, Elisa Gabbert, and Wendy C. Ortiz.

Their Guidelines

“What we want to read is work grounded in a very real sense of its own world, work that bristles with richness, deeply imagined and cunningly portrayed–whatever that might look like. We’re interested in high culture, low culture, and low-high culture, whatever that means. A generosity of spirit is what we want to present.

The best way to get an idea for what we publish is, of course, to read the magazine. We’ve published new writing by Amber Sparks, Elisa Gabbert, Wendy C. Ortiz, Michael J. Seidlinger, Robert Kloss, Kathleen Rooney, Cari Luna, Juliet Escoria, Tobias Carroll, Leesa Cross-Smith, Gabriel Blackwell, Jill Talbot, and a host of others since our inception in 2013. We’re thrilled to consider yours.

Head on over to our handy submissions manager, Submittable, where you can find genre-specific guidelines and send us things.”

Read it here: www.thecollapsar.com.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Sliver of Stone

Friday Call for Submissions Love! 

Sliver of Stone Magazine
DEADLINE: July 15, 2016

Sliver of Stone’s 12th issue is now available online.

A bi-annual, online literary magazine dedicated to the publication of work from both emerging and established poets, writers, and visual artists from all parts of the globe.

Authors featured in this issue include Richard Godwin, Gilbert King, Conor McCreery, Laura McDermott, and Will Viharo. Visual Art by Andrés Pruna and Terry Wright.

Check out past contributors, such as Lynne Barrett, Kim Barnes, John Dufresne, Denise Duhamel, Barbara Hamby, Allison Joseph, J. Michael Lennon, Dinty W. Moore, Matthew Sharpe, and many talented others. Past interviews with Paul D. Brazill, Janet Burroway, Edwidge Danticat, Beverly Donofrio, Dean Koontz, K.A. Laity, Susan Orlean, Les Standiford, José Ignacio Valenzuela, and Mark Vonnegut.

They’re now looking for submissions for the 13th issue!
Website: www.sliverofstonemagazine.com

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Friday Call For Submissions Love! Mainstreet Rag

M. Scott Douglas has been rocking the lit world since 1996, still and always producing beautiful publications filled with really amazing work. Check out their guidelines, but also peruse and purchase in their bookstore. You won’t be disappointed. 

Here’s their current call: 

Publishing Opportunities at Main Street Rag

Deadline: Rolling

 

If you’re a writer looking for opportunities, Main Street Rag Publishing Company is the place. It starts with The Main Street Rag, our quarterly independent literary magazine which features poetry, fiction, reviews, interviews, and more and has been publishing uninterrupted since 1996. We also publish themed anthologies, poetry books and chapbooks, short story collections, novellas, and novels. Visit our website and take a tour of our publishing options. Visit the Main Street Rag Online Bookstore and sample some of the books we’ve already published. Main Street Rag Publishing Company, PO BOX 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001, www.MainStreetRag.com, , 704-573-2516.

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Newest Publication! Thanks to Rogue Agent!

Thanks to Jill Khoury and all the good folks at Rogue Agent 🙂 Thrilled to be included in their anniversary issue!

http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/mcarrollhackett

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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!

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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.

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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! 
 

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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 website. Blue 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/

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