Updated Call for Submissions: Essays & Cartoons!
http://www.drtpress.com/anthology.html

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 Heart one 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.

-Jessie Carty
Editor, Referential Magazine

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