POETS - ANNOUNCING A CALL FOR POEMS ON THE TOPIC - "WHAT MATTERS?", ALSO A FULL LENGTH POETRY BOOK CONTEST AND A POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST

Nancy Simpson, 

Feel free to pass this to any of your poet friends.

Two Book Contests and Call for Poems for an Anthology

Received from Richard K

Submissions accepted March 1 – May 1, 2013

Email submissions to   –   jacarassist@gmail.com

Anthology - WHAT MATTERS?

WHAT MATTERS  to you? Are you passionate about lovers, politics, the environment, animals, health, discrimination, war and peace?  No limit on subject matter.  First poem free.  $3 additional poems.  Previously published are fine if you own reprint rights. Fee can be paid at the Donate link on our Contact page. Attach poems as Word documents and email to   jacarassist@gmail.com

Guidelines for the 2013 Book Competitions.

Email submissions to  –   jacarassist@gmail.com

Full Length Poetry Book Contest
Full length manuscripts must be 45 – 80 pages of poems,not including table of contents, acknowledgments page, biography, etc.

The entry fee of $15 will go towards publishing the book. We will publish 1 winner for every 50 submissions. Finalists will also be considered for publication.

Final Judge will be a nationally recognized poet.  Past judges have been Dorianne Laux and Toi Derricotte. The name will be released after the competition has closed.

You may submit more than one manuscript, but there is a separate fee for each manuscript submitted.

In the subject line of the email put your last name and 2013 Book Contest (example – Krawiec 2013 Book Contest). Submit completed manuscripts  as 2 separate Word attachments, single-spaced, 12 point type. Attachment one should contain a cover page with the title of your manuscript, a short biography, publication acknowledgments, and your name, address, email, and phone.

Attachment two should contain only your poems and a table of content.  Nothing more. Do not put your name anywhere in the body of the manuscript. Do not include acknowledgments in this attachment. Finalists may be asked to submit hard copies. Please feel free to simultaneously submit this manuscript to other publishers and contests. Just let us know if you win.

Winning manuscripts will receive publication and a contract that pays them 10% of all sales, after publishing expenses are covered, from the first 200 books sold. This royalty escalates to 33% of all sales, after expenses, from copies 201-400 sold. Once the 400 sales figure is reached, writers will receive 50% of all sales, after expenses.

Poetry Chapbook Competition
Chapbook manuscript must be between 25-35 pages long, including table of contents, an acknowledgment page, and a page for your biography.

The submission process for the Chapbook Competition is identical to the process listed above for the Full Length Manuscript, with these exceptions. In the subject line of the email put your last name and 2013 Chapbook Contest(Krawiec  2013 Chapbook Contest). Entry fee for the Chapbook Contest is only $10.

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TIMOTHY GREEN for RATTLE CALLING FOR POEMS NOW

Dear Nancy Simpson,

I’m writing for two reasons—most importantly to make sure that everyone knows about our current call for submissions.  Between now and April 15^th, we want to see as many poems written by Single Parents as possible for our Fall 2013 issue.  The poems don’t have to be about parenting, but simply must be written by those who identify as single parents.  As always, the criteria is self-selecting; just be honest about how you feel.  If you’ve been a single parent for a time, but have since remarried, for example, that counts if you think it should.  Joint custody counts if you think it should, and so on—it’s not our place to judge. 

We are also looking for personal narrative essays that are about parenting, and how it relates to and influences poetry.  There’s no length limit—we just want to enjoy the read.

We still have plenty of room in this issue, so if you have friends who are single parent poets, please help spread the word.  To submit, all you have to do is follow our regular guidelines (http://www.rattle.com/poetry/submissions/guidelines/) and mention that you are a single parent.

Of course every other issue (Summer and Winter) has no theme, and we’re always looking for great poems for those issues, too—so don’t hesitate to send new work any time you’d like, no matter what kind of parent you are or are not.

I’m pasting below our production schedule, so you know what’s coming up. As you’ll see, we’ve officially become a quarterly magazine, and our first ever spring issue is just off the press.  It’s a gorgeous collection, dedicated entirely to the work of Southern Poets—frankly, it’s our best issue yet, with a broad range of brilliant poems, beautiful photography, and a conversation with Georgia State Poet Laureate David Bottoms. 

To celebrate, we’ve decided to offer a free copy of Rattle Conversations with all subscription orders this March.  This 285-page anthology includes 14 of the best interviews with poets that Rattle has published, including Phil Levine, Sharon Olds, Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, and many more.  The interviews are not dry and academic—they’re candid conversations with the greatest poets of our time, both entertaining and intimate. You can’t read it and not feel inspired. 

Anyway, it’s a $19.95 value, and it’s it’s free with all subscription orders placed this month—sorry, but I can’t send an email to thousands of people without at least mentioning it.  For $20 you’ll receive four issues of Rattle, plus theConversations anthology—there’s never going to be a deal better than that.  Order here, if interested (and ignore if not):
http://www.rattle.com/poetry/purchase/

What really matters, though, is the call for submissions.  We published several single parents poets by happenstance in 2012—including our Rattle Poetry Prize winner, Heidi Shuler—and we thought it would be interesting to dedicate a whole issue to that incredible feat.  35% of children in the U.S. grow up in single parent households—and still the poetry comes.  So if you have been a single parent poet yourself, please share some work.  And if you have friends who have been, please pass along this information.

Thanks, as always, for your support, and for loving poetry as much as we do.

Best wishes,
Tim

Rattle Production Schedule:

Issue - Release Date - Feature

#40 – June 2013 – Open
#41 – September 2013 – Single Parents (Deadline: April 15^th)
#42 – December 2013 – Open / Poetry Prize

#43 – March 2014 – Love Poems (Deadline October 15^th)
#44 – June 2014 – Open
#45 – September 2014 – to be announced…
#46 – December 2014 – Open / Poetry Prize

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Timothy Green
Editor
Rattle
12411 Ventura Blvd
Studio City, CA 91604
tim@rattle.com
www.rattle.com

LIVING ABOVE THE FROST LINE RECOMMENDS THAT YOU READ DESCENT

Louisiana State University Press published yet another full length collection of poems by Kathryn Stripling Byer, on November 5, 2012, this her sixth collection.

Descent (poetry) by Kathryn Stripling Byer

Louisiana State University Press
$17.95, paperback  ISBN: 978-0-807147504

Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer’s sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often “it’s safer to stay blind.”

Beginning with “Morning Train,” a response to Georgia blues musician Precious Bryant, Byer sings her way through a search for identity, recalling the hardscrabble lives of her family in the sequence “Drought Days,” and facing her inheritance as a white southern woman growing up amid racial division and violence. The poet encounters her own naive complicity in southern racism and challenges the narrative of her homeland, the “Gone with the Wind” mythology that still haunts the region.

Ultimately, Descent creates a fragile reconciliation between past and present, calling over and over again to celebrate being, as in the book’s closing manifesto, “Here. Where I am.”

A LOVE NOTE IN BLUE AND RED:

Lovers of Poetry, My Fellow Practicing Poets, and My Poetry Students who follow my thoughts that come from Living Above the Frost Line, you must buy Descent if you have not done already so. Well, of course, you do not have to if you do not want to buy the book. It's not my business to twist your arm. I can't stop myself.  Between the pages of this book there is immeasurable understanding of that long ago time.  You can gain much from reading it, wisdom for your life and advancement for your own poetry writing. --Nancy Simpson

Descent, a major collection is also endorsed by two of the south’s most prominent  poets: Alice Friman and David Huddle.

“From the glorious opening poem, the mourning sound of the morning train weaves through Kathryn Stripling Byer’s new collection, as much a part of the hills of home as are its sins and beauties. Oh, the longing to shed forever what we are and what made us, at the same time hugging the litany to us that brings it all back: Cullowhee Creek, Buzzards Roost, hay bales, blackberries, grandmother’s gladiolas and lace doilies, and the earth that knew us better than we knew ourselves. Such longing in these pages, such hunger, such ‘grabbing at air.’"
—Alice Friman

“A Kay Byer poem is utterly compelling from its opening lines: “Now take this, she’d say, her mouth / full of pins—a bird’s tail / of fastenings held tight / against revelation.” Even those of us who’ve read and loved her work for years scratch our heads and mutter to ourselves, How does she do that? The poems in her new book, Descent, both embrace and struggle against her heritage as a woman of the both the deep South and the southern mountains. Her work is to be cherished for its beauty, its courage, and the gift of its revelation. Her poems shine a light that we yearn for here in the darkness of the Twenty-First Century.”

—David Huddle

Want to buy the book?  Click below L.S.U. Press or Amazon.com
and City Lights Book Store in Sylva, NC 

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http://www.amazon.com/Descent-Poems-Kathryn-Stripling-Byer/dp/0807147508

http://www.citylightsnc.com/search/apachesolr_search/Descent%20Kathryn%20Stripling%20Byer
Here is where you can get a signed copy. 

NEW POETRY BOOK HOT OFF THE PRESS

FutureCycle Press announces the release of Enough, a chapbook of poems by Netwest member, Carole Richard Thompson. You may order from the author or online through Amazon athttp://tinyurl.com/awhcfen.

 

   About the Author

Carole Richard Thompson lives in retirement with her husband in the North Georgia Mountains. Her passion for life in all its complexities is reflected in her poetry, writings and paintings. Carole’s poetry has been published in A Sense of Place, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, Women’s Spaces, Women’s Places, and FutureCycle 2011. Her short stories have appeared in the Liguorian magazine and Clotheslines anthology. Her essay, “The Common Thread,” won the 1991 NSDAR Best of Show and National Gold Honors Award in their National American Heritage Committee, Literature and Drama Division contest. Her poem, “The Whisperers,” was awarded 2nd place nationally in 2011. Carole is a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network and the Georgia Poetry Society.

A Comment on ENOUGH

These poems by Carole Richard Thompson are spoken in the voice of a woman with a rich inner life, who lived from girlhood to become a seasoned woman. She attempts to be where she is supposed to be and daily seeks art in her life, admitting she collects to memory canvas portraits of some she meets. Empathy rises strong when she finds herself in some other woman’s skin. Nature informs this poet each day of her life, whether seeing a doe without its fawn, or after the time of drought seeing the return of twin waterfalls. She has lived through tornados, lived with one husband, has been found adrift in her own life, and found herself at times in the right/wrong place.  You will not hear one whimper from her, for she concludes that whatever life has given her, it is “enough.”

--Nancy Simpson

WRITERS NIGHT OUT in the North Georgia Mountains

Friday, March 8 

7 p.m. 

Brothers Willow Ranch Restaurant, Young Harris, GA  

Writers’ Night Out 

Featured Reader: 

Robert S. King 

poet & Pushcart Prize nominee 

Open Mike 

poetry or prose 

limit 3 minutes/reader  

sign up at door 

Second Friday of each month 

Brother’s Restaurant at Willow Ranch 

6223 Hwy 76 West, Young Harris, GA 

 (706) 379-1272 

wOpen to the public w Come early to order dinner w Sponsored by the NC Writers’ Network 

for more info, contact Karen Holmes (404) 316-8466 

What's in Your Writing Folder? Poetry I hope because....

Crab Orchard Review announced a poetry prize of $2000.00. Submit your best three poems up to 100 lines each. Submission fee is $20.00 by mail or $22.00 on line. Deadline May 4, 2013. Visit website for full details. Crab Orchard Review, Literary Press, English Dept. Mail code 4503 Southern Illinois University. Carbondale, Illinois 62901 John Tribble is Managing Editor.
EMAIL: jtribble@siu.edu

PHONE: 618-453-6833

A Poetry Chapbook Contest is announced at CutBank, University of Montana English Dept. Liberal Arts 133. Missoula, Montana 59812. Get info from editor at  (editor.cutbank@gmail.com.)

The winner will receive $1000.00, publication and 25 copies. Limit 25 to 40 page manuscript with a
$20.00 entry fee. Deadline March 31, 2013

Full Snow Moon Reached Fullness Tonight - February 25, 2013

Did you see the "Full Snow Moon" of February?

February’s Full Snow Moon reached fullness tonight.

Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February’s full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon because bitter weather conditions in their areas made hunting difficult.

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans during what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. 

This full snow moon image was designed from a photo circle of earlier snow that fell on Cherry Mountain by poet Nancy Simpson.

GOOGLE, DO NOT SCARE ME LIKE THIS AGAIN

Google, Why will you not let me get into my own blog?

Poet Mary Ricketson Will come from her home in Hanging Dog, NC to Read Poems at John C. Campbell Folk School THURSDAY February 21, 2013

Mary Ricketson Then and Now

One evening I answered my phone and heard the voice of a woman asking about my creative writing class at Tri County Community College. It was Mary Ricketson. She said she had been writing and hoped she might be ready to take my class. I said, "Yes, yes." Mary took the class and I saw that she was already an accomplished writer and poet. A while later some of my students asked if I would teach a workshop on how to get a poetry book published. That was one of the highlights of my teaching career. There were six women in that class that lasted for eight weeks. It was hard work, but the program was designed to guide them in getting their poetry collection published, not self published, but to actually find a publisher who would believe in their poems and finance the publication of their book.

Mary Ricketson and the others where asked to choose a partner to work with for the eight weeks. That meant three people would proof read the proposed manuscript: the author, their partner, and myself the instructor. The poets were also asked to read their entire chapbook while it was recorded on tape. Each got comments from the group and each took their tape home with them. It worked very well for Mary Ricketson and her partner who was Glenda Barrett of Hiawassee, Georgia. A few months latere, both woman called me on the same day, both saying the same thing: "My poetry chapbook has been accepted for publication."

I Hear the River Call My Name   
is the title of MaryRicketson's chapbook

"MANIFESTO"

My body knew

before my mind

made thoughts,

before my voice

found words.

Make peace with loss.

make friends with change.

A candle flickers.

Blue light drowns

in its own flame.

Secret shards

of hope surrender.

Let me live

where crystal clear creeks

slither over small rugged rocks,

slide through the smooth,

and rain and tears are welcome

as sunlight and laughter.

Where birth and death

run the same river bed,

I run my life.

by Mary Ricketson

from I Heard the River Call My Name

Do you want to buy this book? I hope so.

Finishing Line Press

PO Box 1626

Georgetown, Kentucky 40324

or order on line

finishinglinepress.com

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COME to THE FOLK SCHOOL

                      Brasstown, NC
                  JANUARY 21, 2013

Mary Ricketson will be the fatured reader at this month's  featured literary program POETS AND WRITERS READING POEMS AND STORIES, sponsored by NC Writer Network West and John  C Campbell Folk School 7:00 p.m. in Keith House livingroom on campus.

Mary will be sure to read some poems from I Hear the River Call My Name and we're even more sure to hear

new poems from her recentlly completed full length poetry collection.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Poet Mary Ricketson will read at John C. Campbell Folk School

On Facebook 

Mary Ricketson said:

"I will be reading my poetry at John C Campbell Folk School Thursday Feb 21 at 7 pm. Come one, come all."

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Keith House Living Room.

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"I hope to be there too, Mary," said Nancy Simpson

ONE WEEK POETRY WRITING CLASS OFFERED AT JOHN C. CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL

(a message from Karen Palu Holmes about a new class) 

A POETRY WRITING CLASS AT JOHN C. CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL

Sign up Now. You may get 1/2 price discount.

The Folk School class the weekend of April 12 will get cancelled unless more students sign up (I'm the only one signed up). So that means there is room for 1/2 price local students. Here's the description:

MITAKUYE OYASIN: POETRY AND THE NATURAL WORLD

"Mitakuye Oyasin" is a Lakota Sioux prayer translated, "We are all related." It's a prayer of gratitude for all living things. In that spirit, enjoy the poetry of Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, and others as we explore the poetic voices of the natural world. Using science and history, we'll investigate how writing poetry can reveal and deepen our relationship to this amazing planet. We'll gain inspiration from early spring in the mountains by taking our classroom outdoors on peaceful walks. All levels welcome.

Teacher:

MARY CARROLL-HACKETT

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Mary earned her MFA from Bennington College in Vermont in 2003. She now teaches creative writing at Longwood University in Virginia, where she founded "The Dos Passos Review," edits for Briery Creek Press, and administers the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry. Mary's fiction has appeared in "The Carolina Quarterly," "Clackamas Literary Review," "The Pedestal Magazine," and other literary journals. She is the author of several books and chapbooks, most recently "The Real Politics of Lipstick" from Slipstream Press.

Not only do I want to class to make for selfish reasons, I also hate to see writing classes at the Folk School cancelled. 

Also, mark your calendars: Next Writers' Night Out is March 8 and features Robert S King. 

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Karen Paul Holmes

Poet Robert Bly is awarded the 2013 Robert Frost Medal

The Poetry Society of America announces
the 3013 ROBERT FROST MEDALIST - Poet Robert Bly

https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/blog/announcing_the_2013_frost_medali/

click URL to read about award and read poem
"Keeping Our Small Boat Afloat," by Robert Bly

On February 13, 2013, Poet and Writer Linda M. Smith will be the featured Poet.

Wednesday, Coffee with the Poets has

                     Linda Smith

reading at the new location at the Blue Mountain Restaurant in Murphy (corner of Hwy 141 and US 64 Alternate) near the Murphy Medical Center. 

Time is 10:30 AM so you cannot complain about getting up too early.  

Note: This is a restaurant with really good food; you’ll like it.  Stay for lunch.(announced by Lucy Cole Gratton)

February - CELEBRATE LOVE MONTH with new anthology titled ...and love...

   

Friday, February 1, 7:00 pm

Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Ave., Wilmington

Chocolate, wine, music, and poetry—pre-Valentines celebration of the …and love…. anthology, edited by Richard Krawiec, Debra Kaufman, Allison Elrod. Poems about lovers and spouses. Sons and daughters. Parents, friends, strangers, pets. First love, last love, dying love, passionate love, sad love, wasted love, devoted love; love of body, love of spirit, love of self, love of place, love of time, love of moments, love of love. Related events will be held:

• Sunday, February 3, The Arts Center, 300 E. Main St., Carrboro

• Saturday, February 9, 2:00 pm, Barnes & Noble, Northline Dr. (Friendly Shopping Center), Greensboro, followed by a workshop and an Open Mic

Want to buy the book?

...and love.... Edited by Richard Krawiec, 

Allison Elrod, and Debra Kaufman

Jacar Press
$15.95, paperback

Available from the publisher click

Poems by Marge Piercy, Sam Hamill, 

Dorianne Laux, Ron Rash, Lola Haskins, 

Stuart Dischell, Doris Davenport, 

Fred Chappell, Kathryn Stripling Byer, 

Alan Michael Parker, Michael Chitwood, 

Betty Adcock, Joe Millar, Nancy Simpson, 

David Huddle, Holly Iglesias, Dannye 

Romine Powell, and 100+ other poets.

Jacar Press website: www.jacarpress.com.

ROBERT PAUL CASARETTI, Editor of Ginosko Literary Journal is Calling for Short Fiction, Poetry and more.

Nancy-

Accepting short fiction and poetry, creative nonfiction, 

spiritual insights for Ginosko Literary Journal.

Editorial lead time 1-2 months; accept simultaneous 

submissions & reprints; length flexible, accept 

excerpts. Receives postal submissions & email—

prefer email submissions as attachments.  Authors 

retain copyrights.  Read year-round.

Publishing as semiannual ezine. Check 

downloadable issues on website for 

tone & style, http://GinoskoLiteraryJournal.com/.   

ezine circulation  8000+. Website traffic 

1000+ hits/month. Ad space available.

Also looking for books, art to post on website, 

and links to exchange.

Ginosko (ghin-océ-koe) 

To perceive, understand, realize, come to know; 

knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an 

attainment. The recognition of truth from experience.

Member CLMP.  Est 2002.

Listed in Best of the Web 2008, 2010.

Publish annual print anthology.

Ginosko Literary Journal

Robert Paul Cesaretti, Editor

PO Box 246 

Fairfax, CA 94978

Inaugural Poem read at Second Inauguration of President Barak Obama on Jan 21, 2013

"One Today"  

by Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco

One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces
of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.
One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story
told by our silent gestures moving behind windows.

My face, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors,
each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day:
pencil-yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights,
fruit stands: apples, limes, and oranges arrayed like rainbows
begging our praise. Silver trucks heavy with oil or paper—
bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us,
on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives—
to teach geometry, or ring-up groceries as my mother did
for twenty years, so I could write this poem.

All of us as vital as the one light we move through,
the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day:
equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined,
the "I have a dream" we keep dreaming,
or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain
the empty desks of twenty children marked absent
today, and forever. Many prayers, but one light
breathing color into stained glass windows,
life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth
onto the steps of our museums and park benches
as mothers watch children slide into the day.

One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk
of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat
and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills
in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands
digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands
as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane
so my brother and I could have books and shoes.

The dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains
mingled by one wind—our breath. Breathe. Hear it
through the day's gorgeous din of honking cabs,
buses launching down avenues, the symphony
of footsteps, guitars, and screeching subways,
the unexpected song bird on your clothes line.

Hear: squeaky playground swings, trains whistling,
or whispers across café tables, Hear: the doors we open
for each other all day, saying: hello, shalom,
buon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos días
in the language my mother taught me—in every language
spoken into one wind carrying our lives
without prejudice, as these words break from my lips.

One sky: since the Appalachians and Sierras claimed
their majesty, and the Mississippi and Colorado worked
their way to the sea. Thank the work of our hands:
weaving steel into bridges, finishing one more report
for the boss on time, stitching another wound
or uniform, the first brush stroke on a portrait,
or the last floor on the Freedom Tower
jutting into a sky that yields to our resilience.

One sky, toward which we sometimes lift our eyes
tired from work: some days guessing at the weather
of our lives, some days giving thanks for a love
that loves you back, sometimes praising a mother
who knew how to give, or forgiving a father
who couldn't give what you wanted.

We head home: through the gloss of rain or weight
of snow, or the plum blush of dusk, but always—home,
always under one sky, our sky. And always one moon
like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop
and every window, of one country—all of us—
facing the stars
hope—a new constellation
waiting for us to map it,
waiting for us to name it—together.

Where to Submit Your Poems --Call For Poems Now

Unshod Quills 

Unshod Quills accepts submission of art and writing based upon themes 

SUBMISSIONS TO OUR SEVENTH ISSUE ARE NOW OPEN. 

Themes: Elvis, Your Very Flesh, Gratitude, Groceries, Rivers, or Salt.

Deadline February 15, 2013 Midnight PST

Complete details: http://unshodquills.com/submit-to-uq/

Kudzu, the literary magazine of Hazard Community 

and Technical College, is accepting submissions for our 
Spring 2013 issue until January 15, 2013. 

•No more than 5 submissions in any genre 
•Each piece should be submitted separately 
...Follow these Guidelines: http://legacy.hazard.kctcs.edu/jy5/academicaffairs/Kudzu/Kudzu2006/subguides.html

Kudzu Submission Manager  kudzu.submittable.com

A NEW YEAR MESSAGE FOR WRITERS AND POETS

HAPPY NEW YEAR FELLOW WRITERS.

Here Above the Frostline, the hard freeze has arrived. Gone now are the roses. Even the hardiest Camellias have faded. But you know the truth.  The flowers are not dead. Trees are not dead. They inform us year after year that they are still alive, still as busy as they can be, doing what they must do until spring.

It is the same for us writers and poets. Even though we must hunker down for the winter, we do not hibernate. There is work for us to do, stories and poems to write. 

This is the ideal time to tidy up our writing rooms. It is time to revise and to complete older works that have been stored away. It is time to evaluate and ask ourselves,"Is there a magazine that wants my story?" or "Is my poem ready for publication? Have I given it to the reader?"   If your answer is "yes," submit it, mail it. By the time spring arrives, when flowers push up through soil and leaves sprout on the trees, your stories and poems too will live.

In the spirit of sharing markets for writers and poets, I'm posting my most recent info about FutureCycle Press. It is still in operation and quite active. They published the work of ten individual writers last year and in their anthologies, published the word of over one hundred other writers.  I had two of my poems published there last year, so I trust this press. Check it out. FutureCyclePress http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=1E932C0&e=255CB1&c=36D6C&t=0&l=246E98C&email=zER5P4AKNgsFCVzmKbknuQ%3D%3D