Seeking submissions for Words for Things: How We Learn About Sex, a collection addressing the dawning of sexual awareness and sexuality. What formal and informal messages guide our sexual formation and identity? How does this initiation—literal or metaphorical—affect us in later life? How do we look back on this induction into adulthood, if that’s what it is? From whom do we learn, and what are the consequences? Are there generational and social differences, or is such discovery a constant? We welcome the true, the gross, the mythic, and the humorous, in essays, memoir, creative nonfiction, or poetry. Please no fiction or porn/erotica.

Please email submissions to editors Ed Madden, Ray McManus, and Carl Jenkinson <words4things(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)
as a Word document (preferred), or mail to Ray McManus, Division of Arts and Letters, University of South Carolina Sumter, 200 Miller Road, Sumter, South Carolina 29150-2498.

Deadline for submission: September 1, 2010.

I am a graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and am developing an essay anthology that will feature essays by women who are in (or have been in) an interfaith relationship or marriage, in which one of the partners is Jewish (the contributors may be the Jewish or non-Jewish partner). An amorphous body of this literature is floating around the internet, notably on the websiteinterfaithfamily.com. Sociology books on the topic of Jewish intermarriage abound, as do practical guidebooks for marriage and parenting. But what is often missing from the existing literature are human stories. This collection of personal essays will focus specifically on women’s stories, about the joys and challenges of their relationships, their experiences with child-rearing, how they relate to their communities and families, how they create their own identities in the unique “liminal zone” of the interfaith relationship.
I am looking for, first and foremost, great, well-written, vivid personal stories. I welcome published and unpublished authors to submit their essays/stories. The length may be 1,000-2,000 words (but I am open to any reasonable length, shorter or longer). The tone/style should not be polemical or sentimental, just an honest and compelling non-fiction personal narrative. (You may want to take a look at the excellent anthology, Half/Life, edited by Laurel Snyder and published by Soft Skull Press, which features the stories of adults who were raised in Jewish interfaith homes.)
Notes:
– I’m focusing only on Jewish interfaith relationships, because the phenomenon in the Jewish community takes on a very particular valence that distinguishes it from the phenomenon in other communities, even as there may be some overlap
– There are many wonderful narratives told by men in interfaith relationships, but I believe it is important to highlight women in this particular anthology. An anthology of men’s essays would be a separate project.
– I invite queer women to submit—you may deserve your own anthology as well, but your interfaith experiences probably have much in common with those of heterosexual women.
– We often hear about Jewish-Christian interfaith relationships—I would love to hear from those in relationships where the non-Jewish partner is also non-Christian.
– For those of you who are poets and fiction writers, I’m looking only for non-fiction, and I love non-fiction written by poets and fiction writers.
– If you consider your relationship inter-something other than faith (culture, race), and one partner identifies as Jewish, I want to hear from you, too.

Please send submissions as a Word attachment (not .docx) to
<interfaithessay(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @ when sending e-mail). Submission deadline is July 1, 2010. Include your name, a short bio, and email address. Responses will be sent by September 1st, 2010. Thank you, and I look forward to reading your stories!
Hila Ratzabi, Editor

Redactions: Poetry & Poetics seeks poetry submissions, especially lyric poems.

Send 3-5 poems in one document or pasted into the body of the email and send to <redactionspoetry(at)yahoo.com> (replace (at) with @ when sending e-mail).

Please include a brief bio and mailing address. We read all year long.

For more information about us, please visit http://www.redactions.com/.

Beltway Poetry Quarterly seeks Mid-Atlantic Poets for Special Issue honoring Langston Hughes
http://washingtonart.com/beltway/about1.html

Beltway Poetry Quarterly seeks poems for a special themed issue celebrating the legacy of Langston Hughes, co-edited by Katy Richey and Kim Roberts. We seek contemporary poems written about Hughes’s life, in the style of Hughes, or on themes Hughes explored in his writing. We will be reading ONLY during the month of June.

To be eligible, authors must live or work in DC, MD, VA, WV, or DE. Poems may be previously published, but only if copyright has reverted to the author and the poem does not appear elsewhere on the web. Please read the guidelines carefully to ensure that your submission is not disqualified:

• Poems must be received between June 1 and June 30
• Only online submissions accepted; send to <beltwaypoetryquarterly(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)

• Up to 5 poems, any length, can be sent
• Poems must be sent in the body of your email; no attachments will be opened
• Poets must include full contact information (snail address, phones, e-address) and a one-paragraph bio

All poets will be notified by the end of July. The Langston Hughes Tribute issue will be Volume 12:1, published January 1, 2011. The issue will be published in conjunction with Hughes’s 109th birthday, and the 87th anniversary of his move to Washington, DC.

Beltway Poetry Quarterly
http://www.beltwaypoetry.com

CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS: Slipstream Magazine
http://www.slipstreampress.org/guide.html

Theme Issue Planned for 2011
Slipstream is now accepting poetry submissions for its first theme issue in several years. We seek work exploring SEX-FOOD-DEATH. Originally examined back in Issue 14, the theme was so popular we have decided to revisit it. Your interpretation may include one, two, or all three of the subjects. No previously published work. All submissions must include a SASE for response.

Deadline for submissions is: MARCH 1, 2011.

Address submissions to:
Slipstream, Dept. W-1, P.O. Box 2071, Niagara Falls, New York 14301

DOPE Magazine Issue 2 is seeking submissions!
http://tntkirk.com/Pages/blog/?cat=21

This is a one time ALL FEMALE issue.

This will be a perfect bound book with Glossy cover.

What we want:

Poetry, art, Prose, Sex, drugs, rock and roll, photography, erotica, music, burlesque, bondage, smut, any experimental art forms…pretty much anything goes.

Unlike the last issue the subject matter is not confined to drugs. Anything that is good, gets in.

I would really, really prefer only snail mail submissions, however I’ll make exceptions

email submissions must be sent in word Doc or attachment to: <sinncity66613(at)yahoo.com> (replace (at) with @)

mail submissions to:

Please send as much work as you want with a S.A.S.E.

to: Dope Magazine c/o Debbie Kirk

15 Bowen Avenue

Watsonville, CA.

95076

also, send along an email in case I need to communicate with you.

I will review poetry books, however at this time I am not reviewing novels.

Thank You, spread the Word!

LITnIMAGE fiction editor Roland Goity is co-editing a rock lit anthology with John Ottey. The anthology, which includes illustrations by LITnIMAGE art editor Kimy Martinez, will be distributed as a free e-book and is being produced in collaboration with leading musician site, OnlineRock (www.onlinerock.com).We are still looking for a few additional stories to include in the book before it’s released later this year. If you or someone you know might be interested in submitting, you can take a look at the guidelines here:

http://www.experiencedbook.com/
http://www.experiencedbook.com/