"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

Posts tagged ‘poetry’

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

Sometimes the Prompt Leaves Us Alone

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“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

Make art about solitude, about needing solitude, about the solace in solitude.

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Sometimes the Prompt Reminds Us Who We Are

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Make art about the flow of energy.

Sometimes the Prompt Keeps Us Company

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Did you ever think that, maybe, a child’s imaginary playmate might actually be there?

Make art about an imaginary friend.

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Sometimes the Prompt Rebuilds Us

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Today I’m building myself/from the bones/of flowers”~Mary Carroll-Hackett

Make art about the self as a seed, a growing thing requiring nurturing, a blossom.

(from a poem that originally appeared in Tar River Poetry, one that will be my book coming out this spring, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming from FutureCycle Press).

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Sometimes the Prompt Leads You Astray

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I’m personally fighting with keeping my focus and motivation where they need to be. I keep hearing this quote from Infinite Jest:

“Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.” ~David Foster Wallace

Make art about detours, or being detoured, or being distracted, or fighting for focus. 

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HeartWood Literary Magazine!

HeartWood Literary Magazine
Poetry! Fiction! Creative Nonfiction!
 
Our inaugural issue goes live April 1st!
We’re now reading for the October issue. Send us that beautiful work!
 
HeartWood

Monday Must Read! Teow Lim Goh: Islanders

TeowThis week meet Teow Lim Goh, the author of Islanders (Conundrum Press, 2016), a book of poems on the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Her writing has appeared in PANK, The Toast, Guernica, The Rumpus, Winter Tangerine Review, and Open Letters Monthly, among other publications. She also makes letterpress and art editions of poetry and other writings at her imprint Black Orchid Press. She lives in Denver.

Visit Teow’s Website: http://teowlimgoh.com/

Purchase Teow’s beautiful book! Islanders

Black Orchid Press Limited Edition! Teow’s work was the inaugural Black Orchid Press title, her work featured in a series of six letterpress postcards of poems. These were produced in a Limited Edition of 100, with all copies numbered and signed. Visit and purchase these Faraway Places.

More from Teow Online:

Selected Poems and Essays:

Three Poems at The Toast.

Split at Guernica Daily.

Flowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz at Open Letters Monthly.

The Stories that Bind Us at The Philadelphia Review of Books.

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Grief, Gratitude, and Finding Best Friends

3 /4/2016

I have Complicated Grief-Related PTSD. Some days I’m okay. Some days I think I’m okay, then I’m just—not, not okay at all.

Make art about grief.

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3/5/2016

The only way I have survived the extreme loss I’ve experienced in my life is by making a choice every day, sometimes every moment, to live not in grief, but in Gratitude.

Make art about Gratitude.

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3/6/2016

Both my sons were home this weekend, and one of my greatest joys is to see them together as grown men, not just brothers, but friends. My best friend was my brother, and my oldest son once said, “How cool it is—to find your own best friend right in your family!”

Make art about siblings as friends.

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Sometimes The Prompt Is Scary

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The Virginia General Assembly this week put forth House Bill 516 that requires high school teachers to notify parents if they’re going to teach books that parents might find objectionable (sexual content mostly) and gives those parents the right to object and demand alternative materials be taught. 

Make art about censorship. 

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