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Posted 3 February 2012
Inner Art Journal. Online submission deadline: May 1, 2012
Inner Art Journal publishes tanka, haiku and short free form poetry. We are looking for work that shares perception and insight. We don't want unnecessary emotion or wordiness. We publish quarterly. Submit via submishmash at innerartjournal.com See our site for examples of the kind of work we prefer.
Anak Sastra seeks short stories (fiction or creative nonfiction) for its 7th issue due out in April 2012. Contributors and/or story themes should have some connection to Southeast Asia. For more information, please visit: www.anaksastra.com.
College Hill Review. Online submission deadline: April 3, 2012
College Hill Review (www.collegehillreview.com) invites essays in criticism, focused on the arts and humanities, for its forthcoming issue.
Sawmill. Online submission deadline: March 1, 2012
With the fiction issues, Sawmill ups the proverbial ante on webbased publications. By forging partnerships with authors, illustrators, and graphic designers, we present digital packaging as gorgeous and important as the literature housed within. We want to show you a journal created with love and attention to detail, as memorable and honest as any book you’ve ever held in your own hot hands. In other words, something worth coming back for time and again. Email submissions to wesley@typecastpublishing.com.
Symmetry Pebbles is a bi-monthly poetry e-zine continuously accepting poetry submissions of an alternative, brave, risk taking, surreal and/or experimental nature. Check out the archive on the website to get an idea of what we're into. Send up to 3 poems as an MS Word document along with a 3-4 line bio and your email address. www.symmetrypebbles.com
Posted 2 February 2012
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The Healing Muse
The annual journal of literary and visual art that is published by Upstate Medical University's Center for Bioethics and Humanities, is looking for artists and writers for this year’s fall publication! We welcome fiction, poetry, narratives, essays, memoirs, drawings, photography, and graphic art, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing. Submissions are collected and juried from September 1st through May 1st each year for publication in October. Detailed guidelines can be found at: thehealingmuse.org
Posted 1 February 2012
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The American Literary Review is now accepting submissions for its 2011-2012 reading period. A biannual journal, ALR has been published since 1990 through the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at the University of North Texas. Since the journal’s inception, we have made it a point to publish excellent poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers at all stages in their careers. Submit one work of fiction, up to five poems, or one work of nonfiction by postal mail. Please note that we do not accept online or email submissions. Visit www.engl.unt.edu/alr/ for full submission guidelines.
Arroyo Literary Review. Postmark deadline: May 31, 2012
Arroyo Literary Review is an award-winning national magazine with a West Coast orientation. We are seeking fiction, flash fiction, poetry, essays, and translation for our fifth issue. Open reading period from December 1st to May 31st. No emailed submissions. Please see our website for submission guidelines: www.arroyoliteraryreview.com
ninepatch: A Journal for Women & Gender Studies.
Online submission deadline: April 30, 2012
ninepatch gathers the work of emerging and experienced artists and strives to express gender in all of its forms, through a variety of media (print, video/audio, image). The inaugural issue will appear in June 2012 for the spring/summer season. The theme for this issue is “Awakenings,” and we will accept any of the following artwork that explores the theme through the lens of gender: written/spoken poetry, fiction, song, sculpture, paintings, fiber arts, theatrical monologues, culinary arts (e.g., a short story with a recipe), short-short films, creative nonfiction/memoir. Submission guidelines at: encompass.eku.edu/ninepatch/
The First Line. Postmark/Online deadline: May 1, 2012
Submissions for the Summer 2012 issue are due May 1. The first line: Rachel's first trip to England didn't go as planned. www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm
carte blanche literary magazine is now accepting poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translation, graphic fiction, and photography for its Spring Issue (#15). If you’ve got a narrative, we want to see it. New for this issue: Audio Submissions! Tell us a story in sound. This includes soundscape, documentary, spoken word, author readings, comedy, experimental, etc. Audio pieces do not need to contain words (although they can!) but they should have a narrative progression, i.e. a beginning, middle, and end. The submission deadline for the Fall Issue is March 1st, 2012. Contributors receive a $45 honorarium per published piece. carte-blanche.org/submissions
Lao American Speculative Arts Anthology.
Postmark/Online submission deadline: March 1, 2012
Lao American Speculative Arts Anthology seeking submissions for the very first full-length anthology of Lao American speculative art. Whether it’s a story of Lao astronauts in a distant future, nak in ancient Lan Xang, or wild weretigers and kinnali in a Laotown filled with superheroes, they want to hear about it! The anthology aims to examine how Lao look at the fantastic and the future during the Lao diaspora. Original stories, poems, plays, experimental literature, visual art sought. The deadline to submit is March 1st, 2012. There are no entry fees. For more information: laomagination.tumblr.com
Plume’s editors read constantly and publish monthly the very best poetry available, nationally and internationally: twelve poets, one poem each issue. Issues #1 and #2 (forthcoming) include contributions from Alicia Ostriker, Stephen Dunn, Lawrence Raab, Amy Gerstler, Stuart Dybek, Carl Dennis, Denise Duhamel, Terese Svoboda, G. C. Waldrep, Thomas Lux, Nin Andrews, Kimberly Johnson, Charles Bernstein, Christopher Kennedy, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Rae Armantrout, Maureen McLane, Keith Waldrop, Peter Cooley, Peter Meinke, Elaine Equi, Cornelius Eady. Please see our submissions guidelines, and do read our Mission Statement in full before submitting: www.plumepoetry.com/
Stone Highway Review. Rolling deadline.
Stone Highway Review is a new journal of poetry and short prose. We like work that haunts, electrifies, tingles. We like creativity. We believe the imagination contains as much truth as "truth." Send your poetry and short prose, your hybrid work, creative nonfiction work, and anything else you think we would love to read. We are excited about innovative and interesting work that crosses boundaries in both genre and content. We want to be surprised. www.stonehighway.com/
The Rusty Toque is an online literary journal from the University of Western Ontario that accepts unpublished literary and experimental writing in the following genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, graphic short fiction, and unproduced short film and play scripts. Please visit therustytoque.weebly.com for submission guidelines.
Best Poem will be accepting submissions of a poet’s best, unpublished poem as of February 1, 2012. Please see guidelines for specific criteria. Visit us at bestpoemjournal.com and check out guidelines at bestpoemjournal.com/guidelines/. Accepts email submissions only: bestpoemjournal@gmail.com.
Penduline Magazine Accepting Submissions for Issue 4
Online submission deadline: February 5, 2012
Penduline, an electronic literary magazine published in Portland, Oregon, is seeking theme-relevant submissions for Issue 4: The Dastardly Issue. We consider artwork as well as previously unpublished flash fiction, sudden fiction, short stories under 5000 words, and prose poetry. Our previous and current issues are available at www.pendulinepress.com/archives/ and detailed submission guidelines can be viewed at www.pendulinepress.com/submit/
Posted 30 January 2012
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Scrivener Creative Review. Online submission deadline: February 17, 2012
Scrivener Creative Review is an annual literary magazine published in Montreal since 1982. We welcome submissions for poetry, fiction, and black and white photography and fine arts for our 2012 issue. General submissions will be accepted throughout the year and considered alongside specified calls for submissions. We encourage all forms of writing and visual art, especially but not exclusively, experimental projects. The constraints: fiction word count stands at 10,000 (send to fiction.scrivener@gmail.com) ; and no more than six poems (poetry.scrivener@gmail.com). Art to artphoto.scrivener@gmail.com. Deadline is February 17th.
Scythe. Online submission deadline: March 16, 2012
Send Scythe 3 – 5 of your best poems, the ones that haunt you and stand by you and impel you to thrive. Send the poems that burn a hole in your hand when you cannot write them down fast enough. Send these poems in the body of an email to chenelle23@gmail.com.
Apple Valley Review
Online submission deadline: March 15, 2012
Apple Valley Review, a semiannual online journal, will be reading submissions of short fiction, personal essays, and poetry for the Spring 2012 issue (Vol. 7, No. 1) until Thursday, March 15, 2012. The current issue, previous issues, subscription information, and complete submission guidelines are available online. www.applevalleyreview.com
quarter after is now accepting submissions!
Looking for poetry, visual poetry, asemic writing, art, poetics statements, artists statements, and art writing essays for our inaugural issue. We are interested in art that pushes, or rather forcefully shoves, the boundaries. If your art exudes thought, we want it. Please send all submissions to quarterafter@live.com. The subject line of your submission should include the type of submission, followed by the word “submission” and your name (example: Poetry Submission: Calvin Pennix). Please include a brief bio in the body of the submission’s email, outlining what you’re into and any previous publications. quarterafter.org
Heavy Feather Review. Online submission deadline: August 15, 2012
Heavy Feather Review needs work for it's second issue. HFR is an independent, biannual electronic journal dedicated to publishing the finest in short fiction, poetry, short comics, creative nonfiction, or any hybrid thereof. The HFR homepage sees updates on a rolling basis. These updates may include, but are certainly not limited to, essays, guest posts, book reviews. Please review our guidelines before submitting. The deadline for our inaugural issue is August 15, 2012. HFR is also actively looking for people willing to write reviews, essays/posts, and conduct interviews. www.heavyfeatherreview.com/
Posted 23 January 2012
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Cumberland River Review, a new print journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, welcomes submissions from both emerging and established writers. While payment is in contributor copies at this time, we are pleased to nominate work for the Pushcart Prize, the Best New Poets anthology, and the O. Henry Prize Series. Guidelines are available at crr.trevecca.edu.
South85. Online submission deadline: April 30, 2012
South85 is holding a call for submissions for its inaugural issue, Spring 2012, and subsequent Fall 2012 issue. Poetry, fiction, and non-fiction will be considered for publication in our new online journal. Visit: www.south85journal.com.
Posted 20 January 2012
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great weather for media is a new publisher looking for poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, and creative nonfiction for an upcoming print anthology. Our focus is on edgy and experimental themes and styles. We are based in New York City and welcome submissions from national and international writers. The deadline for submissions is April 30th 2012. Full guidelines at www.greatweatherformedia.com
Posted 19 January 2012
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Airplane Reading: Nonfiction about Flight
Airplane Reading (edited by Mark Yakich & Christopher Schaberg of Loyola University New Orleans) is an online, ongoing anthology dedicated to people's ordinary and extraordinary stories of air travel. The site features creative nonfiction, anecdotes, and observations about everyday experiences and misadventures of modern flight. Now accepting submissions here: airplanereading.org
The Cincinnati Review is hoping you'll submit
to us. Your stories, poems, and nonfictions, that is. Click on the flyer (at
left) for a list of where your work could end up if you do–after a stint in
our own handsome pages, of course. Reading submissions September through
May, now more than ever through our new online submission manager. Please
visit
cincinnatireview.com for details.
PRAIRIE SCHOONER, based in the University of
Nebraska, is the tenth oldest literary journal in the country. It
publishes the best poems, short stories, essays, and book reviews
from emerging and established writers. It has printed work by Eudora
Welty, Octavio Paz, Tennessee Williams, Rita Dove, Joyce Carol
Oates, Sharon Olds, Cornelius Eady, and others. NEW IN 2011:
Prairie Schooner welcomes Kwame Dawes as its new
Editor-in-Chief. NEW IN 2012: Prairie Schooner will begin
accepting online submissions alongside hard copy submissions via
Submittable. Visit
prairieschooner.unl.edu for more information about submission
guidelines, subscriptions, and the annual Prairie Schooner
Book Prize Series.
Printed twice a year in perfect bound and
digital format, Silk Road takes readers places – real or
imagined, minute or vast, evolving or timeless. Now accepting
creative nonfiction, poetry, short stories, translations, first
chapters of novels, reportage, flash fiction.We publish new and
established voices from around the world. Recent issues include work
by Ahmet Uysal, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Dinty Moore, Dorianne Laux,
Masha Hamilton, Marvin Bell, Xu Xi, and Pete Fromm.
silkroad.pacificu.edu
Posted 18 January 2012
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Yew is currently reading for the summer issues and encourages submissions from women of writing, photography, art and these forms in combination. Full guidelines are here: yewjournal.com/guidelines.html
Each monthly issue will feature three poets. Past issues include work by Andrea Baker/Doro Boehme/Laynie Browne/Carol Berg/Rebecca Gayle Howell/Genevieve Kaplan/Maureen Alsop/Grace Cavalieri/Carolina Ebeid. Visit the site at yewjournal.com.
Posted 15 January 2012
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Architrave Press prints poems on individual cards using antique letterpress methods, but sells them individually, like songs. Readers collect and curate their own collection. Submission guidelines and more information available at architravepress.com
Bayou Magazine, literary journal published by the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans, accepts Nonfiction, Poetry and Fiction submissions year round. Note: submissions between June and August have a longer response times. Please submit previously unpublished stories and creative nonfiction work up to 7500 words, or no more than five poems. Flash fiction is welcome. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, if noted. Send an SASE for notification. See cola.uno.edu/bayou/ for detailed submission guidelines. Bayou Magazine, Dept. of English, University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Dr. New Orleans, LA 70119. Checks payable to: UNO Foundation.
Inertia Magazine Accepting Submissions for Issue 12.
Online submission deadline: February 15, 2012
Inertia Magazine, an electronic literary journal published in New York, is seeking submissions for our next issue to appear Spring/Summer 2012. We consider poetry, short fiction and critical prose as well as personal essays, art, and music. For poetry, please submit no more than five poems. No more than one work of fiction/prose or nonfiction may be submitted at one time. Submit art in JPEG (up to 500k) and music in MP3 format. Please take a look at us, including our latest issue, #11: www.inertiamagazine.com. Submission guidelines at www.inertiamagazine.com/submissions.php
Poydras Review. Online submission deadline: May 1, 2012
Poydras Review, print and online, accepts year-round submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and art. Prose should be under 7500 words. Poetry is accepted exclusively for our online blog. We only accept submissions through Submittable, no email submissions please. See our guidelines on poydrasreview.submishmash.com or visit our website www.poydrasreview.com.
Posted 12 January 2012
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THRUSH Poetry Journal is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions. We read on a rolling basis, and will never be closed to submissions. THRUSH is a journal of poetry that will appear 6 times a year, with one yearly "best of" print issue. We believe in showcasing the best work we receive, therefore we will present no more than ten poems per issue. For guidelines, please visit thrushpoetryjournal.com/submissions/
The Boiler Journal.
Online Submission Deadline for our February issue: January 31st, 2012
The Boiler Journal publishes poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction essays/short memoirs each month. For each issue, we challenge writers to write a succinct piece of prose in 500 words or less. Visit www.theboilerjournal.wordpress.com for more information.
Posted 10 January 2012
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Jelly Bucket. Online submission deadline: June 1, 2012
Jelly Bucket, now distributed to bookstores nationwide, is accepting your best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Reading period remains open until June 1. To submit, please use our online submission form: jellybucket.submishmash.com/submit
Writer’s Bloc. Postmark deadline: February 29, 2012
Writer's Bloc is the only literary magazine at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Published once a year, it accepts poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, one-act plays, interviews, and essays from the student body, faculty, and staff of TAMUK, and from writers around the nation and the world. Mail work to: Writer’s Bloc MSC 162, Fore Hall 110, 700 University Blvd., Kingsville, TX 78363-8202 For more information, visit: www.tamuk.edu/artsci/langlit/writers_bloc.html
Oaken Transformations Sculpture & Poetry Walk is currently seeking poems by Michigan writers for the art walk. We recommend coming to the art walk and seeing the poems that are here to get an idea of the kinds of work we are interested in. Of particular interest is the intersection of art, wilderness, Michigan & community. Submissions will be accepted via email or US mail. Please include your name, contact information, and if by email please attach the poems in a Word or PDF document.
Please see our website for where to send work: www.miartwalk.com/index.html
Limit 5 poems per writer.
Posted 9 January 2012
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Cigale Literary Magazine is seeking submissions for its debut issue. We look for writing that portrays the intricacies of character set against the landscape of a wider world, prose that looks out rather than in. We are dedicated to the continuity of art as a tradition, to literature that aesthetically explores universal themes: through innovation, through allusion, through metaphor.
Please visit cigalelitmag.com/submissions for additional information.
Posted 7 January 2012
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South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art accepts submissions year-round. We do not accept work that is more than 8-12 text pages or has been previously published. Experimental forms of creative nonfiction, i.e. segmented essays, montage memoir, illustrated/graphic memoir, blended genre, are welcome. Photographers/artists are encouraged to submit narrative/documentary art/photography—pieces that tell a story. For full guidelines and to submit via email, visit Tell It Slant at tellitslant.com/home/journal_details/9. Hard copies with cover letter and SASE may be sent to: South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art, Columbia College Chicago, English Department, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
Western State College Press, the literary press
of Western State College of Colorado, invites submissions for our
regionally-themed literary humor anthology. We welcome poems,
fiction, and creative nonfiction that is focused on western
locations and themes, and that has a quirky or humorous bent. We
seek literature that is both high-quality and that makes us giggle,
guffaw, or fall out of our chairs and laugh manically on our office
floor. There is a 25-page limit. Previously published works will be
considered, though we prefer unpublished submissions. Submissions
can be made through the Submishmash manager:
westernstatepress.submishmash.com/submit
Posted 5 January 2012
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Able Muse. Postmark/Online submission deadline: March 10, 2012
Able Muse is now accepting submissions for our forthcoming, summer 2012 issue. Submit poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, art and photography. Although Able Muse reads submissions year-round, be sure to submit by March 10, 2012, to be considered for next issue. Read our guidelines and submit at www.ablemuse.com/
Posted 4 January 2012
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TINGE Magazine Call for Submissions
Online Submission Deadline: March 1, 2012
TINGE Magazine, Temple University's online literary journal, is now accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Submissions for our spring issue will be read through March 1, 2012. All submissions are accepted online via Submittable (Submishmash). There are no fees to submit. Please visit our Submission Guidelines page for more information about how to submit: www.tingemagazine.org/submission-guidelines
Arcadia. Online Submission Deadline: March 1, 2012
Arcadia is seeking fiction, poetry, and drama for its Spring 2012 issue. Complete guidelines and online submission manager can be found on our website (www.arcadiamagaine.org). Send us your best!
Call for Submissions—Young Writers
If you are a teenager currently enrolled in high school, grades 9-12, Crashtest, the new online literary magazine for high school writers, would like to hear from you! Crashtest publishes poetry, stories and creative non-fiction in the form of personal essays, imaginative investigation, experimental interviews, or whatever else you would like to call it. We’re looking for writing that has both a perspective and a personality. We’re looking for authors who have something to say. Check us out at www.crashtestmag.com. Crashtest only accepts email submissions. Send submissions, .doc or .rtf attachment only, and any queries to editor@crashtestmag.com.
Seattle-based literary magazine The Monarch Review is accepting submissions year-round via our Web site www.themonarchreview.org. We publish a variety of poetry, fiction, essays, music and visual art 3-5 times per week. We also release a print edition every six months we call Monarch. Submitting is free. The Monarch Review is a magazine created in the spirit of the Monarch Apartments: a Seattle home to generations of poets, writers, musicians, visual artists, pranksters, cranks and the curious. The publication aims to sustain the Monarch’s vibrant, vagabond culture by creating a forum for emerging and established artists and thinkers.
Posted 3 January 2012
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Rufous Salon is a literary salon/journal situated in Uppsala, Sweden. We welcome submissions on a rolling schedule and consider flash fiction and poetry. See www.rufoussalon.net/#!submissions for submission guidelines. L'art pour l'art! www.rufoussalon.net/
Wordrunner eChapbooks. Online submission deadline: February 21, 2012
Wordrunner eChapbooks publishes four online collections annually of fiction, poetry or memoir, each featuring one author, and the occasional anthology. Submissions are open for the mid-March 2012 fiction e-chapbook (short stories or novel excerpt) from January 1 through February 21, 2012. At least 1/4 of the collection should be previously unpublished. No fee to submit. Payment: $65. Detailed guidelines are posted at www.echapbook.com/submissions.htm.
Passages North is looking for Hybrid Essays and Spoken-Word Poetry. In addition to standard (whatever that means) submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, send us your hybrid essays—your orphans, your bastards, your bumpings, and your grindings, whether whimsical, grave, or neither. We're also looking for video and audio poems for our website that shock us, that grab us by our shirt collars, that take us on a ride and leave us somewhere we've never been before. We want that dirty secret, that gasp for air, that pulse of you that can't just be written down. Submit here: passagesnorth.submishmash.com/submit.
Posted 2 January 2012
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StepAway Magazine. Online submission deadline: March 14, 2012
StepAway Magazine is holding its 5th call for submissions. Our magazine is hungry for literature that evokes the sensory experience of walking in specific neighborhoods, districts or zones within a city. We accept poetry and prose under 1000 words. This is flânerie for the twenty-first century. Please submit your work and a press-ready biography to: submissions@stepawaymagazine.com
Buddhist Poetry Review. Online submission deadline: February 29, 2012
Buddhist Poetry Review is a quarterly online magazine dedicated to publishing fresh and insightful Buddhist poetry. BPR is accepting submissions for Issue Four through February 29th, 2012. Please visit our site for submission guidelines: www.buddhistpoetryreview.com/submit
Barely South Review. Online Submission Deadline: March 31, 2012
Barely South Review is the literary journal of the Creative Writing M.F.A. program at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. We publish three issues each year. The spring submission/reading period is from 1 January – 31 March. We seek general works of nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and art for the September issue. We welcome original and previously unpublished works that interpret the pleasures of writing to discover both meaningful structure and the pathways to surprise. Submissions are made online via the link found at barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com/submission-guidelines/
Reprobate Rag is a print and online literary
and visual arts magazine made by and for the weak, weary, and unwashed
masses. Accepting submissions in poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and
visual arts. For further information, find us at
reprobaterag.tumblr.com Submit all entries to
ReprobateRag@gmail.com. Your
submission must include your name and contact info, as well as a brief
artist bio.
All written work must be 5,000 words or less and in a .doc format.
We allow simultaneous submissions. Rights will revert back to artist/author upon publication. Recipient of “Best Written” will be notified upon publication, and awarded $40.
Gemini Magazine has no rules. Send your very best fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction or anything else you think might capture our interest. We read work year-round: www.gemini-magazine.com/
The Letter Project seeks letters about the creative life. Letters are an important artform. We want to explore everything that a letter can be. All letters must pass through the snail mail system in order to qualify. Please visit the site: theletterproject.wordpress.com. Address your questions to Theresa Williams at theresarrt7@aol.com.
Psychic Meatloaf Poetry Journal.
Online submission deadline: March 1, 2012
Psychic Meatloaf Poetry Journal is now accepting submissions for Issue 5. We are interested in original, quirky, eccentric, idiosyncratic, unconventional, unorthodox, offbeat, edgy Experimental Poetry and Visual Art. Submit up to 6 works online, simultaneous subs are acceptable (see our submissions page for guidelines). We are focused primarily on poetry that is experimental and/or free verse. Psychic Meatloaf is published semi-annually online and in print.
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