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CALYX

A Journal of Art & Literature by Women

PO Box B

Corvallis, OR 97339

Phone: (541) 753-9384 Fax: (541) 753-0515

E-mail: calyx <at> proaxis <dot> com

Reading period:CALYX Journal is open once annually from October to December 31st Response time: 6-9 months Payment: depends on grants, always receive copies (see website) Founded: 1976 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals, Small Press Dist. Small Changes Average pages: 128-160 Copy price: $10.00

Sample price (postpaid): $14 Subscription (individuals): $23 per volume (3 issues), add $13 per volume for Canada/Mexico, $23 per volume for Int'l Subscription (institutions): $29, add $13 per volume for Canada/Mexico, $23 per volume for Int'l

Publisher’s description: CALYX Books and CALYX Journal provide connections between a community of readers and emerging authors. CALYX, Inc. publishes work by authors who are often not published by mainstream presses as well as work from diverse backgrounds. As a non-profit organization CALYX, Inc. is able to prioritize literary values in genres not considered marketable. CALYX, Inc. is known for recognizing and publishing emerging authors and for discovering authors first or early in their careers. A partial list of authors published early or first in their careers includes Julia Alvarez, Barbara Kingsolver, Olga Broumas, Eleanor Wilner, Kathleen Alcalá, Natalie Goldberg, Sharon Olds, and Linda Hogan among over 3,500 authors and artists published. John Berry, editor-in-chief of Library Journal said about CALYX, “From here will come our literary heritage.” CALYX Journal editors try to respond to submissions within 6 to 9 months, but because an editorial collective reads all work received it can take longer. CALYX operates two contests the Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize (for CALYX Journal, annually) and the Sarah Lantz Memorial Poetry Book Prize (first year 2009 & will be held every other year). Please check the web site for guidelines. We do not accept email submissions.

Recent issues:

Winter 2010: The contributors (including Colleen McElroy, Linda Strever and Susan Planalp) of CALYX explore many themes through their work including personal empowerment, identity, aging, grief, birth and motherhood, friendship, the outrage and sorrow of a society at war.

Summer 2009 features poetry by Sara Dailey, Theresa Whitehall, Helen Wickes, Lois Rosen; fiction by Sukie Brown, Barbara A. Fischer, and Felicity Shoulders; creative nonfiction by Leslie What and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick; and art by Andi Calliope Linden, Brenda Roper, Susan Jarvis, Cathy Wysocki.