April 1 – Oct 1
Now accepting submissions. Please include cover letter with contact information & 3 – 5 poems, flash fiction/short-shorts (1000 words or less), or translations
♦ Within US: only hard copy accepted, via US mail with SASE
♦ International: submit via email with a single Word attachment
♦ Simultaneous submissions accepted if notified
Also accepting submissions for the FOUNDERS’ PRIZE, a poetry contest with $10 entry fee & cash prizes: April 1 – Oct 1
Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-made ecological catastrophes in history.
The first law of ecology states that everything is connected to everything else. An appreciation of this systemic connectivity suggests a wide range of poetry will offer a meaningful response to the current crisis, including work that harkens back to Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing regional effects.
Please submit 1-3 poems, a short bio, and credits for any previously published submissions to:
poetsforlivingwaters(at)yahoo.com (replace (at) with @)
The Survivorʼs Review, a not-for-profit online journal encouraging the creative expression of cancer survivors, is seeking stories, essays and poems by those who are intimately familiar with the cancer journey.
If you have written a piece that explores the heart of what it means to be a cancer survivor or caregiver, please consider submitting your work to us.
Submissions accepted at: www.survivorsreview.org
Our word count is flexible, but most of our features range from 100 to 1,000 words. Please visit our site and contact us with any questions.
Submissions received by June 10, 2010 will be considered for publication in our next issue.
Question: Who is a cancer survivor?
Answer: Anyone living with a history of cancer from the moment of diagnosis through the remainder of life.
Jeffrey Skinner and Leslie McGrath are working on a project about the careers of poets and literary prose writers. How do poets and other literary writers move ahead in their careers (other than via their blazing talent?) This is your chance to share the anecdotes you’ve only told your closest friends. We’re interested only in the stories, not in names and places. We offer anonymity and gratitude in exchange. And, if we use your anecdote, a free copy of the resulting book.
Please email your anecdotes to <mcgrath.leslie(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @) by July 1, 2010 under the heading “Book Anecdote.”
Is your child easy to love, but hard to parent? DRT Press is seeking personal
essays written by parents of children with ADD, ADHD and/or other mental,
emotional, and behavioral disorders for a book about the experience of parenting
children with such conditions, for publication (expected) in Spring 2011.
Compensation includes 10 copies of the completed book and unlimited discounted
copies. The book will be co-edited by author/editor/publisher Adrienne Ehlert
Bashista, Publisher, DRT Press and Kay Marner, a freelance writer who
contributes regularly to ADDitude magazine, and blogs for ADDitudeMag.com.
We’re thrilled to announce that everyone’s favorite ADHD expert, Dr. Edward
Hallowell, will write the introduction for the book. Hallowell, a renowned
psychiatrist, is the bestselling author of 16 books, including ADHD classics
Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, and the newer,
inspiration-filled Super Parenting for ADD. Hallowell’s involvement takes Bless
Your Heartone giant leap toward becoming what we dream it will be—a source of
affirmation and inspiration to parents raising kids who make it a challenge to
stay one step ahead in the parenting game.
***NEW***(Updated 5/2010) In addition to essays, we are now seeking comic strips
which illustrate the same topics. Comics will be printed in black and white
only; no color. Because creating comics requires a specific skill set,
contributions will be accepted from persons who are not parents and caregivers
of challenging children, as well as those who are, as long as the work captures
the parenting experience. Contributors will receive the same compensation, and
accept the same marketing responsibilities, as essayists (described in the
complete Call for Submissions—link below).
The deadline for submissions has been extended through June 2010. If you are
interested in contributing, but need additional time, please email
<kay(at)kaymarner.com> (replace (at) with @).
For more information visit http://www.drtpress.com/anthology.html
Questions
may be directed to kay(at)kaymarner.com (replace (at) with @), and answers to FAQ’s can be found at http://kaymarner.com/blog/category/anthology-faqs/
http://referentialmagazine.com/
Referential Magazine is open year round for “referred” submissions
but from now, until the end of June, we are open for prose submissions
that will be considered as a feature. This for fiction and non-fiction
of any genre. No length requirement but brevity is best.
Guidelines are available on our website referentialmagazine (dot) com
If you are interested in doing editorial work for Referential please send a
query to <refermag(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @) indicating
what type of work you would like to do for an online journal.
-Jessie Carty
Editor, Referential Magazine
Referential Magazine is open year round for “referred” submissions
but from now, until the end of June, we are open for prose submissions
that will be considered as a feature. This for fiction and non-fiction
of any genre. No length requirement but brevity is best.
Guidelines are available on our website referentialmagazine (dot) com
If you are interested in doing editorial work for Referential please send a
query to <refermag (at) gmail (dot) com> (replace (at) with @) indicating
what type of work you would like to do for an online journal.
Everyone, Synchronized Chaos Magazine and I invite everyone to join our international blogging day, Theano’s Day, Thursday, June 24th, where we write to celebrate women in philosophy!
Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras’ wife Theano was a scholar and intellectual in her own right. Along with helping him raise five children, she put together writings on mathematics, art, beauty, philosophy, and child raising. She is credited with developing the Golden Mean, a crucial idea in aesthetic theory.
By participating on Theano’s Day, you honor and celebrate important women by creating a blog post on June 24th concerning a female philosopher whom you admire, or who intrigues you. As with Ada Lovelace Day, spotlighting women’s contributions to technology, the woman you select may be from any nation, culture, or time period, living or dead…and you may blog in any style or format, using any software in any language.
I selected Theano as a mascot as she represents a work/life balance, an apparently decent and loving wife and mother as well as a scholar and professional. Throughout history and on average women have worked very hard in the background keeping things going by raising children, cooking, maintaining households, helping to earn a living through day-jobs…all very respectable activities. And many have made contributions to philosophy or other fields which may have been overlooked because the women are primarily known for work they have done in their other roles. So Theano’s Day celebrates the philosophical contributions of women and attempts to bring their ideas out in the open to help inform modern society.
You may define ‘philosopher’ as you choose – someone need not have specialized in the field to be discussed in a blog for Theano’s Day. For example, a female novelist, businesswoman, teacher, politician, nun, homemaker may have created a philosophical outlook worth discussing that is apparent through the values that come out through her work in other fields.
Some women to start with if you need help thinking of someone: Hypatia of Alexandria (mathematician and scholar), St. Catherine (mystic and humanitarian), Sor Juana (Mexican nun and intellectual) and Florence Nightingale and Jane Austen, each of whom developed a worldview and philosophy through their writings on various subjects.
We encourage as many people as possible from around the world to participate this June 24th. Please make your blogpost public and send us the link so we can read each other’s writing! Also, please pass on the word about Theano’s Day!
