"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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A VERY Special Special Call for Submissions: HeartWood: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

Why is this one special special? 

Because in the company of an amazing group of people, this Call for Submissions is coming directly from me!

😀

Allow me to introduce

HeartWood

an online literary journal in association with West Virginia Wesleyan’s Low-Residency MFA program, publishes twice yearly, in April and October. Our inaugural issue will go live April 2016.

HeartWood

 

General Submissions

We accept submissions year round through Submittable, and welcome previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, from both established and emerging writers.

What We Want:

We are interested in writing that pushes into, dares to reveal, its own truth, that takes emotional risks, that gets to the heart of the matter.

Simultaneous submissions are fine, provided you notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.

We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section.

 

Submission Details

Prose submissions, fiction or nonfiction, should be 3000 words or less.

Fiction: Fiction submissions may include short stories, flash fiction, or novel excerpts if the excerpt can stand alone. You may submit more than one piece of flash fiction, as long as the total word count does not exceed 3000 words.

Creative Nonfiction: We’re open to a wide range of nonfiction, with the exception of academic articles, or that which would be considered more traditionally journalistic. Personal essay, memoir, lyric, literary journalism, or some blurring in between, are all acceptable.

Poetry: Poets should submit no more than 3-5 single-spaced poems at a time. Include all poems in a single document for upload. Lyric, narrative, experimental, we’re open to all variations of the poetic voice.

Surprise us. Make us think. Make us feel. Make our hearts race.

 

Appalachian Arts Interviews

We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section. We define Appalachian artists as an artist who is heavily influenced by the Appalachian region and its traditions, history, and people. At HeartWood, we are looking for artists who take these traditions and speak to them in a new and unexpected way.

To query about possible inclusion in the Appalachian Arts section: Submit the following in one document (doc, docx) through the Appalachian Arts link on our Submittable page:

  • Artist bio
  • Artist statement addressing what being an “Appalachian artist” means to you, how you uniquely define yourself as an Appalachian artist, and how your connection to Appalachia as you see/define it connects (or doesn’t) to your work.
  • At least one link to where artwork or samples can be seen/heard (artist website, other publications, YouTube, etc).

If we’re interested, based on the query, editors will email requesting additional information and work sample.

 

What We’ll Do

Submissions will be responded to within three months. If you haven’t heard from us after three months, feel free to inquire by sending us a note through Submittable.

If your work is accepted, HeartWood acquires first North American rights. All rights revert to the author upon publication, but we do ask for first publication attribution in any future publications. We also reserve the right to include accepted pieces in any future anthologies or promotions.

If we have passed on a submission, please wait 6 months before submitting again.

Submit here:

http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/submit/

Write on! We can’t wait to hear from you!

 

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Two New Publications :-) Grateful to Generous Editors

My house concert tour isn’t over, but has been put on hold while my oldest sister, a tiny fierce woman named Andrea but whom we call Crickett because she’s only 4’9 and quick as all get out 🙂 and who has worked as a nurse for more than forty years, primarily attending to those at the end of their journey, those tender hands midwifing soul after soul after soul into the next life, has been battling cancer herself. Twelve years older than me, she wagged that little finger at me, touting her position as ‘the elder’ in our family now, and told me I ‘better not be neglecting that writin!’ So, while my travel has been limited mostly to running back and forth from Virginia to North Carolina, I have been sending these crazy lil prose pomes out into the world.

“A Chant Against Lonely” at Josephine Quarterly (This poem will be included in my book, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, coming out from FutureCycle Press in 2016)

http://issuu.com/josephinequarterly/docs/summer_2015_issue/5?e=6563413%2F14573219

The Girl Who Read the Land” at Sediments Literary-Arts Journal (This poem is included in my most recent book, The Night I Heard Everything, available now from FutureCycle Press)

http://sedimentslit.com/portfolio/the-girl-who-read-the-land-mary-carroll-hackett/

I’m very grateful to the kind editors who have made homes for some of them.  ❤

 

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Friday Call for Submissions: Spank the Carp: Wading Into the Stream

Spank the Carp

About

SPANK the CARP publishes unique, thought-provoking fiction and poetry that isn’t obscure or pretentious. Our goal is to invite readers to wade into the stream, not make them afraid of water for fear it’s too cold.

We look for tight, pithy Flash Fiction and Short Stories of any genre, including sci-fi and humor, except fantasy and erotica.

We also look for poetry that takes chances, including concrete or “shape” poetry.

NOTE: Each issue will include only four to six works, with a mix of fiction and poetry. There will be no set timetable; only when we feel we have a good variety will we publish an issue.

Guidelines

We publish fiction and poetry from any author including as yet unpublished writers or writers with only a few publications under their belt.  

PREFERRED CONTENT
Any genre, including hard science fiction, though PLEASE no fantasy, erotica, or sappy romance. Humor is good.

Flash Fiction (around 800 words or less). 

Short stories (around 6000 words or less).

Poetry that is lyrical, where you’ve paid as much attention to the sound of the words as to their meaning. Also concrete or shape poetry.

Regardless, we prefer works that cut to the chase, that are pithy, and have a sense of importance (without overdoing it). And by that we mean, you wrote something you felt needed to be written and put out there in the world.

CONTENT NOTES
Please DO NOT SUBMIT anything erotic, sexual, pornographic, or portraying gratuitous violence. Think PG-13, maybe PG-18. Also do not submit political or religious screeds disguised as fiction or poetry. Sensitive thought-provoking actual fiction that makes a general religious or political point, like something utopian or dystopian is okay, just no preaching. It won’t even be considered. Same goes with anything erotic, sexual, pornographic, or violent.

Anything you submit must be your own original creation. It must never have been published on any website or print publication that you do not personally own. If it has appeared only on your own blog or website or your own self-published printed material it is considered self-published. In this case, as long as you are the sole copyright owner, we will accept your work for consideration for reprint.

PAST PONDS ARTWORK and PHOTOS
I’m looking for images and photos that depict Carp and Koi in artistic and natural settings. See the Past Ponds page for examples. A one sentence bio will appear under your image or photo. Submission process, compensation, and terms are the same as for written work.

Submission Process
All stories must be submitted via email. We will respond as quickly as possible. Expect a 30 to 45 day turnaround time.

Please submit one short story, one flash, or two poems at a time. Simultaneous submissions are fine but please inform us if your submission is accepted for publication elsewhere.

Please include:
– A docx, doc, or rtf formatted document. For visual poetry, png or jpg only.
– A two sentence max description of your work.
– Do not send a formal bio. If your work is accepted we will contact you for a formal bio. DO however tell us whether you have been published before.

Email to: the_carp (at) spankthecarp.com  with the word Submission as the subject.

Compensation
No compensation can be offered at this time. If accepted, your work will appear prominently on the home page, with a link to it’s own page. This can easily be linked to from a personal or other website. Also, since we seek quality over quantity, in the issue in which your work appears, you will appear with only a few other authors and not buried in a sea of screen clutter.

Terms and Agreements
If we accept your work, we ask for First Serial Rights until publication. After publication all rights revert back to the author. Also your work will remain in our past issues archives unless you ask us to remove it. Exceptions to these terms can be granted on a case by case basis, just ask.

Visit Spank the Carp here: http://www.spankthecarp.com/

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Special Tuesday Call for Submissions: A-Minor Magazine

Special Tuesday Call for Submissions

from the fabulous editors who brought out my book If We Could Know Our Bones

A-MINOR Magazine: Stories in the Chord of Am

Reading submissions for the September issue of A-Minor Magazine! Send your prose, poetry or artwork. Spread the word!

Editor Nicolette Wong says, “p.s. we have more room in the prose/fiction house at the moment.”

GUIDELINES/SUBMISSIONS

We’re now reading submissions for our next September 2015 issue.

Please submit in ONE category only. Prose and poetry should be pasted in the body of the email. If your poems require special formatting, you may send an attachment.

Simultaneous submissions are fine. Include a 50-word, third person bio. Longer bio will be subject to editing. Send your work to aminormagazine@gmail.com

Short Fiction/Prose: 1000 to 4000 words. One story/prose piece only.

Flash Fiction/Prose: 100 to 1000 words apiece. One to three pieces.

Poetry: Three to Five poems. Prose poetry and hybrid form welcome.

For fiction/prose, we are partial to surrealist, experimental and quirky writing. For poetry, we lean toward the lyrical, eccentric, ambivalent and wildly imaginative.

Art/Text: One to three flash prose pieces or poems, based on or paired with artwork by the writer or a visual artist.

Artwork: Two to five pieces of visual poetry, asemic writing or other post-literate variety. Preferences will be given to images that work as a series. Collaborations are welcome.

Prose and poetry must be entirely unpublished. Artwork may be previously posted on the artist’s web site or blog.

Please check out the list of selected back issues and features to get a sense of our editorial drift.

If your work has been featured in A-Minor, please wait at least six months before submitting again.

If your submission has been declined, please wait at least one month before submitting again.

A-Minor requires First North American Serial Rights and all archival rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If your work appears elsewhere in print or online, please give due credit to A-Minor.

Send all questions to aminormagazine@gmail.com

Check out A-Minor Magazine’s Fifth Anniversary Issue here:

http://aminormagazine.com/2015/05/28/a-minor-magazines-fifth-anniversary-issue-4/

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Friday Call for Submissions: carbonate: Satisfy Your Read

Friday Call for Submissions: carbonate: Satisfy Your Read

carbonate

Deadline for Fall issue: August 31, 2015

About

carbonate is a quarterly literary magazine published online in January, April, July, and October. We accept submissions of poetry, essays, short fiction, novel excerpts, art, and photography year-round.

Originating in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, carbonate® is produced by The Foundry/Rocky Mountain Centre for Writing, a non-profit organization increasing access and visibility of the literary arts in the mountain regions.

We are seeking deeply human, fully realized work from far and wide, and always hope to include voices new to us and new to publication. We publish online: one story, one portfolio of poems, one essay or piece of narrative nonfiction, and visual art. Subscribers and selected contributors get the full edition electronically in a beautifully formatted, full color e-book.

We’re exceptionally partial to works that are well-written and engaging.

Please send us work that truly resonates and brings the reader to a new place. The online journal also publishes interviews with accepted authors and artists. Please inquire before submitting interviews.

We’ll take a look at everything, but boring work will probably not find a home here. Send us your best. Try something new. We might love it.

Deadline for Fall issue: August 31, 2015

Send your submission as an attachment to: carbonatemagazine@gmail.com

Put your contact information and a short bio in the body of the email.

Submission Guidelines

Short Fiction: 5,000 words or less.

Short fiction submitted to the magazine must be original and previously unpublished. carbonate considers work that has appeared online (including on blogs and Facebook) to be previously published.

All manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced, with the author’s name, address, phone number, and approximate word count at the top of the first page, and numbered throughout and sent as a WORD attachment to the email address listed herein.

Send only your best work. Submit only one story at a time.

We are not accepting paper submissions at this time. All paper submissions will be recycled upon receipt.

All manuscripts must be written in English. Translations are acceptable, but must be accompanied by a copy of the original text.

Poetry: 3-5 poems (no more than 8 pages)

Novel Excerpts: 5,000 words or less.  You must indicate that your submission is part of an unpublished novel.  The ideal excerpt will be self contained in terms of characterization and storyline.  We will not print setups or explanations of what is taking place.  Your writing should embody a smaller version of the overall story arc.

Creative Non-Fiction: We draw heavily from unsolicited submissions. Our editors believe that providing a platform for emerging writers and helping them find readers is an essential role of literary magazines, and it’s been our privilege to work with many fine writers early in their careers. A typical issue of carbonate contains at least one essay by a previously unpublished writer.

We’re open to all types of creative nonfiction, from immersion reportage to personal essay to memoir. Our editors tend to gravitate toward submissions structured around narratives, but we’re always happy to be pleasantly surprised by work that breaks outside this general mold. Above all, we’re most interested in writing that blends style with substance, and reaches beyond the personal to tell us something new about the world. We firmly believe that great writing can make any subject interesting to a general audience.

Art: Please submit only 4-6 pieces per email. However, you may submit more than one email. We prefer to receive submissions digitally as JPEGs or PNGs sent via email to salidafoundry@gmail.com. Please make sure that your name and contact information appears in the body of the email. Each piece should be accompanied by the work’s title (if any), medium, and contact information should one of our readers want to purchase your work.

We are unable to provide critiques or feedback regarding art submissions or the selection process. If your artwork is selected for publication, you will be notified by telephone or email with further information.  If you do not hear from us in 4-8 week’s time, you should assume that your submission was not a fit for our publication at this time, but we will place them in our files for potential use in future publications. We do accept professionally presented pencil or pen/ink images.

Photography: The photography published in ‘carbonate’ is very high level, professional-quality imagery suitable for commercial purposes. If you are a recreational photographer/hobbyist, unfortunately your work will likely not be a fit for our product lines.

Submission Deadlines

The following publishing deadlines are set for the forthcoming publications.  If we receive a submission between deadlines, we will assume it is meant for the next issue.

October 2015   deadline August 31, 2015

January 2016  deadline October 31, 2016

April 2016  deadline February 1, 2016

July 2016 deadline May 1, 2016

October 2016 deadline August 31, 2016

Publication Rights

Simultaneous submissions must be marked as such, and you should notify us immediately in the event your work is accepted elsewhere.

We do not pay contributors for any work published in carbonate. However, accepted contributors will receive a 1-year digital subscription beginning with the edition your work appears in.

Upon acceptance, we acquire first rights for publication in our online magazine and one-time rights for pieces selected for re-publication. Following publication, all rights revert to the author. Should we desire to use your work in any other context (primarily, this might occur in an advertisement-type context), we will contact you via email requesting the appropriate permission.

Visit carbonate: http://carbonatemagazine.org/

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Special Thursday Call for Submissions: That, Brand New Litmag Wants Your Work

Brand New Litmag Seeking Submissions

That Literary Review

About THAT

THAT Literary Review is affiliated with the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English and Philosophy, and the College of Arts and Sciences at Auburn University at Montgomery. Published annually, THAT will be available online with print copies available at additional cost.

Submission Guidelines

All manuscripts should be in 12-point type, preferably Times Roman. All poems should be submitted in a single document. Fiction must be double-spaced, poetry single-spaced. Please send us your work as a .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file via the Submittable portal below. We do not accept submissions by post.

Our reporting time is three months; if you have not heard from us by then, feel free to query us at editor@thatliteraryreview.com.

The author’s name, address, telephone number, email address, and approximate word count should be typed at the top of the first page; all other pages should include the page number and the author’s last name in the header.

Fiction

We’re looking for excellently written fiction between 100 and 5,000 words in length.
It should be surprising, relentlessly engaging, fun, and humming with vibrancy. Include compelling characters, lively but minimal dialogue, and plots charting the unexpected.

Poetry

The poetry that we prefer is alive and idiosyncratic and that opens new vistas to the reader. We stay away from rhyming poetry, conventional forms, and love poetry unless brilliantly revisited. Three poems may be submitted (as a single document) at a time, with a total maximum of twenty pages.

General Guidelines

– We are interested only in work that has not appeared previously in either electronic or print format.

– Submit only one story or three poems at one time. If you have material under consideration with THAT, please do not submit additional work until you have heard back from us.

– Simultaneous submissions are permissible, but notify us if the work you’ve sent to us has been accepted elsewhere.

– It is recommended that all interested writers take a look at a sample issue of THAT. It really helps.

-THAT acquires first serial rights, including both print and electronic rights. Copyright remains with the author.

Payment

Authors published in THAT will receive a print copy of the issue in which they appear.

Website for That: http://www.thatliteraryreview.com/home.html

 

 

 

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Special Thursday Call for Submissions Love! Longridge Review: The Mysteries of Childhood

Special Thursday Call for Submissions Love!

Nonfiction writers, check out this call from a brand new publication!

Longridge Review

“Our emphasis is on literature that explores the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan.”

Reading Opens Sept 1-Sept 30

ABOUT

Longridge Review is an evolution of the Essays on Childhood project.

Our mission is to present the finest essays on the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan.

We are committed to publishing narratives steeped in reverence for childhood perceptions, but we seek essays that stretch beyond the clichés of childhood as simple, angelic, or easy. We feature writing that layers the events of the writer’s early years with learning or wisdom accumulated in adult life.

We welcome diverse creative nonfiction pieces that depict revealing moments about the human condition.

We look forward to reading your work!

Founder and Editor: Elizabeth Gaucher, Middlebury, edg@longridgeeditors.com

Contributing Editors: Laurel Gladden, Sante Fe, and Beth Newman, Asheville

Creative Advisor and Muse: Suzanne Farrell Smith, NYC

SUBMIT

Longridge Review has one annual reading period each calendar year: September 1-30. Please read the submission guidelines before submitting. We recommend that you also read work on this site to see what we publish.

Our emphasis is on literature that explores the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan.

We are committed to publishing narratives steeped in reverence for childhood experience and perceptions, but we seek essays that stretch beyond the clichés of childhood as simple, angelic, or easy. We want to feature writing that layers the events of the writer’s early years with a sense of wisdom or learning accumulated in adult life.

We welcome diverse creative nonfiction pieces that demonstrate perceptive and revealing moments about the human condition.

We will not consider trite, light narratives; genre nonfiction; critical analyses; inspirational or motivational advice; erotica or pornography; or any writing that purposefully exploits or demeans.

We encourage established, unpublished, or emerging writers to submit their best work to Longridge Review.

We will consider one creative nonfiction piece (up to 6,500 words) during the reading period. Please do not submit more than once during the reading period.

We accept only electronic submissions through e-mail. Submit only one double-spaced creative nonfiction piece pasted into the body of the e-mail to edg@longridgeeditors.com.

The title of your submission should be included with your name (e.g., Jane Doe “My Essay Title”). Include a short biography (five to seven sentences) with your submission.

We will consider simultaneous submissions as long as you let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. We will not consider previously published materials, including online publications, personal blogs, social media sites, etc.

Longridge Review acquires first electronic and indefinite archive rights. Upon publication, all other rights revert to the author. Please credit Longridge Review as first publisher if you reprint elsewhere. Longridge Review reserves the right to reprint work at a later date if we have the opportunity to occasionally make a print anthology and want to include your work.

Longridge Review is published three times a year: November, March, and July.

The submission period is September 1 through September 30 of each year. We try our best to respond to submissions within four weeks. If you haven’t heard from us within six weeks you may inquire about your submission via edg@longridgeeditors.com, but please not before.

Longridge Review website: http://longridgereview.com/

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Monday Must Read! Lennart Lundh, So Careless of Themselves, and Poems Against Cancer

 

Mac's Backs, June 2014, by Jen PezzoThis week, meet Lennart Lundh, the author of six poetry chapbooks. Four Poems, Pictures of an Other Day, and So Careless of Themselves were published by Writing Knights Press. Fifth April 1975, an extended poem written during the American bombing of Cambodia, is self-published. Poems Against Cancer 2014 and Poems Against Cancer 2015 were written and distributed as fundraisers for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation and its research into childhood cancers.

Len’s poetry has appeared in print since 1967, and online since the turn of the century. In the last year and a half, his work has been found in the real or virtual pages of Binnacle, Children Churches and Daddies, Copperfield Review, Crisis Chronicles, Drunk Monkeys, Hessler Street Poetry 2015, Liminal Age, NonBinary Review, Poetry Quarterly, Poetry Storehouse, River Poets Journal, Silver Birch Press projects, and anthologies from Writing Knights Press. He reads regularly at Lit by the Bridge, Traveling Mollies, Waiting for the Bus, and Waterline Writers in the Chicago area. Three or four times a year, he can be found featuring at various venues in Ohio.

He is also a historian (five books and a score of articles between 1984 and 2002) and short-fictionist. His fiction has appeared in Coffee Shop Blues, Ethereal Tales, Flashquake, Inkburns, Jet Fuel Review, Liar’s League, Litro, Mocha Memoirs, NonBinary Review, Page & Spine, postcard poems and prose, Quotable, River Poets Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Song of the Siren, Stray Branch, and Weird Lies. A short-fiction chapbook, After the Wolves, is scheduled to appear from Writing Knights Press this year.

Len and his wife of 47 years, Lin, live in northeastern Illinois.

One of these days, Lennart will have a Web site.

He is on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/lennart.lundh.5

Audio and video files of his work can be found on YouTube and Soundcloud.

To order his books from Writing Knights Press, go http://writingknights.bravesites.com/

To order his self-published chapbooks, contact Len at lenlundh@aol.com. Please note that all proceeds from Poems Against Cancer 2014 and Poems Against Cancer 2015 will go to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Houseguest: The Common & The Strange

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

Houseguest

About

Houseguest: House, Guest. As our name implies, we are interested in the juxtaposition of the common and the strange: the stranger that enters, that invades even as it’s invited, that may never truly leave. As a culture, we are ambivalent about houseguests, and ambivalent about ambivalence.

Here at Houseguest, we value ambivalence. We appreciate uncertainty. We espouse contradiction. We love thresholds—liminal spaces and surreal situations—and watching what gets through, what gets in. We welcome the Welcome Unwelcome.

We welcome anything you see fit to send us, provided it has not been previously published elsewhere.

 

Submissions

Houseguest is published three times a year in March, July, and November. We accept submissions year-round. We allow simultaneous submissions, but we ask that you let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Prose submissions should be typed, double-spaced, in an easy-to-read 12 pt font. Please limit your submission to 1000 words. Technically, we accept micro-nonfiction and flash fiction, but we aren’t overly concerned with categories. Be our guest: blur the lines.

Poetry submissions should be typed, single-spaced, in an easy-to-read 12 pt font, and formatted as a single document. Please limit your submission to five or fewer poems and include your contact information in the header of each page. All lengths and styles of poetry will be considered.

We acquire first serial rights for all work we publish. All rights revert to the author upon publication, though we ask for acknowledgement upon reprinting.

We currently accept submissions through our online submissions manager, known more commonly as email.

Submit to submission@houseguestmag.com

 

Website: http://www.houseguestmag.com/issue-03/current.php

Guidelines: http://www.houseguestmag.com/submission.php

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New Work Up at Hound Lit

New poem publication up at HOUND Lit 🙂 Thrilled to be included. Love this publication 🙂

http://www.houndlit.com/mary-carroll-hacket-when-dirt-is-hunger

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