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Application Deadline: December 10, 2024 Learn more about The Kenyon Review’s Winter Online Adult Writers Workshops and apply on our website! See flyer for more info and link to our website.
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Deadline: November 30, 2024 Third Street Review, a quarterly literary journal, welcomes submissions of Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, and Photography. If you have something wild, wooly, and wonderful, we want to see it. We value the work of individual creators—show us who you are and what you can do. In addition to being a paying publication, we promote across social media platforms and nominate for awards. Jump in—we can’t wait to meet you! View our website to learn more.
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In a time when women’s rights and autonomy are under siege, Unsolicited Press is dedicating 2025 to amplifying womxn’s voices in literature. Through its “Year of Womxn” initiative, the press will release a catalog exclusively featuring works by womxn writers, all marked by bold red covers. This striking color, inspired by historic feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, symbolizes liberation and rebellion, making each cover a powerful protest and a testament to womxn’s voices. “Womxn are the backbone of publishing. They create, they support, they elevate the industry but are too often sidelined. Our 2025 Year of Womxn catalog is our way of championing their unparalleled creativity and storytelling,” said the team at Unsolicited Press.
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The Colorado Authors League (CAL) supports and promotes its community of published writers while connecting with and adding value to the reading world. Formed in 1931, authors become members to: keep up with changes in the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, gain greater visibility for their writing, join a group of like-minded people who love writing. View our flyer to see November 2024 releases by members and a link to our website.
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After a brief hiccup, in which an irate dragon must be placated, this MG/YA fantasy begins—as now told by Christie and her new co-author, Marcus A. Dragon.
In the land of Deweydaire, which is ruled by (anthropomorphic) dragons, things are not fair. Humans work while dragons play. Princess Meredith, a dragon, leads others in fighting against the injustice, supporting the human cause. How could she have foreseen that she, like her human friend, young Peter Porter, would fall afoul of her bully cousin, Prince Rupert? Or that he would go to such lengths to silence her voice? Will intrepid Peter and the underrated court-jester Felix be able to help Meredith break the power of an illegal spell? In this Year of the Wood Dragon, The Voice of the Wooden Dragon is an entertaining-yet-inspiring story of transformation and new beginnings.
This is Christie and Lane Waldman’s debut novel as an author-illustrator team. Christie’s stories for children may be read at Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things, Skipping Stones, and East of the Web. Lane is also a writer whose sci-fi/fantasy stories have appeared in Uncanny, Daily Science Fiction, and Capricious, among other places.
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Deadline: December 1, 2024 Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to the Fall Black Fox Prize with theme: Fragments of Time! Deadline: December 1, 2024! We are also accepting free submissions for our winter 2025 print issue. Free subs close on November 30, 2024! View our flyer for more info and a link to submit.
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Deadline: November 1, 2024 Submit individual poems via Submittable ($10 for two poems, 40 lines or fewer). Winner and two runners-up will have broadsides designed and printed ($250 and 50 copies to winner; 25 copies for runners-up). No particular aesthetic; we just want great poems. Winning broadsides will be designed by poet/artist Lindsay Lusby. View flyer for more information and a link to submit.
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Caesura Poetry Workshop aims to support, inspire, and energize poets and writers through a wide variety of affordable Zoom workshops hosted by award-winning poet, editor, teacher John Sibley Williams. Most workshops include poem analysis, active group discussion, and writing prompts. Some are even self-paced! Reference NewPages and get 50% off your first workshop. View flyer for more info and a link to our website. Register via email.
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Deadline: November 1, 2024 December Magazineseeks submissions for the 2025 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize. Maggie Smith will Judge. Prizes: $1,500 & publication (winner); $500 & publication (honorable mention). All finalists will be published in the 2025 Spring/Summer Awards issue. Submit up to 3 poems per entry. $20 entry fee includes a copy of the awards issue. Submit September 1 to November 1, 2024. For more information and a link to our guidelines, please view our flyer.
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Submissions open for the Futurist Debut Book Award for debut books ($1,000 prize), the Front Range Book Prize for books by Colorado authors or about Colorado ($1,000 prize), the Luminaire Prose Award for short stories ($100 prize), and book-length nonfiction and poetry manuscripts! See what’s closing at the end of October! View our flyer for more information and links to submit.
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Application deadline: December 15 (priority); January 15 (final) UNC Greensboro’s MFA is a two-year residency program offering fully funded assistantships with stipends. Students work closely with faculty in one-on-one tutorials, developing their craft in a lifelong community of writers. UNCG offers courses in poetry, fiction, publishing, and creative nonfiction, plus teaching opportunities and editorial work for The Greensboro Review. Note our 12/15 priority consideration deadline! View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.
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Set in a provincial capital, in the penultimate throes of the Greek Civil War, New Moon: Day One is semi-autobiographical, a tale of two protagonists on the brink of manhood. They speak in bluntly human tones, but in precincts that echo of death the impulse to life is declared.
The elements of a screenplay are recast by Valtinos as a novel. Interposed with bursts of dialogue, and reading like stage directions, intimate scenes alternate with a wide-screen view. Fade-outs, as blank pages, punctuate the whole. Though the gaze is that of a camera—of pristine detachment—the energy is propulsive. The thread of a breathless suspense is drawn through a complex collage. It seems to precisely catch the rhythm of human becoming.
“Thanassis Valtinos is a masterful storyteller who has vividly captured in his novels and short stories some of the most turbulent and tragic periods in Greece‘s recent history. In “New Moon” he tells a coming-of-age tale of two boys who struggle to deal with their emerging sexual impulses as they try to survive the brutalities of a vicious civil war. A searing story by Greece’s premier living novelist at the top of his game.” —Nicholas Gage
Forest Avenue Press’s Liz Prato and Laura Stanfill are hosting two online classes in October about submissions and small presses. Each class costs $30. Forest Avenue is also beta testing a $100/month DIY Publicity Cohort for authors with 2025 books. See flyer on both programs which includes a link to sign up on our website.
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Deadline: November 30, 2024 Haiku Crush’s 4th annual international search for the best haiku is underway now! Entries for the 2024 search are now being accepted. $350 USD of honorariums will be awarded. Haiku Crush’s panel of judges will give a top award of $150 to the best of the best! Up to 50 winners will be published in this year’s anthology. Submit your four best haiku! View flyer for more info and a link to our website.
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Deadline: October 1, 2024 Permafrost is very happy to announce Pulitzer Finalist and Alaskan author Eowyn Ivey as the final judge for this annual contest. Submissions in fiction may include novels, short story collections, or novella collections. More info can be found at our website and on our flyer.
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Registration Deadline: December 1, 2024 Based in the historic pueblo mágico of Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico, TSWW offers workshops for writers at all levels. Written works are read and critiqued in a supportive, participatory setting, with one-on-one mentoring sessions. Special events include guest speakers, craft discussions, and Fiesta Night featuring regional food and music. Discount for NewPages applicants before October 15. View flyer for a link to our website and to learn more.
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Submit published or unpublished poems to the 22nd annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by Duotrope. We will award $3,500 for the best poem in any style and $3,500 for the best poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. The top 12 poems will be published online. Final judge: Michal ‘MJ’ Jones. Fee: $22 for 1-3 poems. View flyer for more information and a link to submit.
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This guide to publishing poetry is designed for the poet on a journey from facing a pile of poems to celebrating at a book launch. If you have been writing poetry for some time and have accumulated a volume of work, this guide is designed to meet you where you are in your book creation or publication process. It is organized into five sections to mimic the distinct phases of conceiving, arranging, editing, publishing, and promoting a poetry collection. Each section provides a mix of theoretical materials and practical assignments to demystify and ground the publication process.
The Wilson College MFA program is designed for working professionals with a low-residency schedule tailored to meet the needs of artists allowing them to reach the next level in their field. View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.
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Deadline: December 15, 2024 Apple in the Dark is reading for the Winter 2024 issue. Free submissions; tip jar donations accepted. We publish works of short fiction and creative nonfiction up to 1,500 words per piece. Multiple and simultaneous submissions are OK. Up to 3 pieces per submission. See flyer for more information and link to submit.
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Submissions now open for the Futurist Debut Book Award for debut books in any genre ($1,000 prize), the Spark Translation Prize for translated books ($1,000 prize), several anthologies, book-length nonfiction manuscripts, and more! See what’s closing at the end of August, and plan ahead for what’s opening in September. View our flyer and learn more at our website.
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Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Portraits of Failure Writing Contest! Deadline: August 31, 2024! We are also accepting free submissions for our Winter 2025 print issue. Free subs close on November 30, 2024! See flyer for more information and link to our website.
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Deadline: October 1, 2024 We seek nonfiction & fiction work for publication in Spring 2025 on the theme Habitat: Planet Earth. Chosen authors will receive $1,000 and 50% of net sales. Each year we will publish two books, one fiction (speculative, utopian, historical, etc.) and one nonfiction (creative nonfiction, memoir, scientific, historical, etc.). A new theme will be chosen each year. Submissions now open. View our flyer for more information.
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In the close-knit community of Hentsbury, racism and the local paper mill’s oppressive control over the town collide in a gripping tale set in the 1990s in southern Arkansas along the fictional Mud River.
Rae-Ann, owner of a convenience store and unofficial mayor of Hentsbury, finds her life intertwined with Vernon’s when a budding romance between them hits an unexpected roadblock. Their love story takes an abrupt turn when chemicals from the mill’s runoff claim the life of Rincon, a young black boy battling acute asthma. In a harrowing failed rescue attempt, Vernon, the plant’s Environmental Officer, relives the trauma of holding the dying boy in his arms.
As the community grapples with this tragedy, Vernon stumbles upon a back-door deal between state and local officials who ask him to suppress critical information about the mill’s dangerous hydrogen sulfide emissions. With the rising tensions, Rae-Ann begins to question whether Vernon will stand by his principles.
In the end, it’s Rincon’s determined grandmother, along with Rae-Ann and her older sister, who rallies the town to take action. Their efforts lead to the arrival of an EPA investigatory team, but not without consequences. When the dust settles, Vernon loses his job, but he and Rae-Ann embark on a new chapter in life together.
Wrongland balances on an edge of migration and return. It crosses from an Albania recently rid of Hoxha to a Greece riven by tensions that ultimately drive the protagonist on to America. But homecoming is the pivot — one stuck in an unavoidable vying between alternate worlds.
The reader, a simple stranger, is introduced to Ters, a city configured by remnants from the past, a locale scored by evil — at times, gripped by good.
Gazmend Kapllani is the author of two collections of poetry in Albanian and four published novels (written in Greek and Albanian). His literary work centers on borders, totalitarianism, migration, identity, and how Balkan history has shaped private and public narratives and memories.
Deadline: July 31, 2024 We won’t be prescriptive beyond the decade in question, except to say that poets and writers should reflect on a subject through a sporting lens. Our guest judges, both SL veterans and contest winners, are also former state Poet Laureates. SL editors read through submissions and send anonymous finalists to Jack Bedell and Sydney Lea, who will pick their favorites. View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.
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Deadline: Year-round The Bluebird Word, an online literary journal for poetry, flash nonfiction and fiction, seeks new writing for our upcoming 2024 publishing calendar. We publish new issues each month and are looking for emerging and established writers. We are a non-paying market. Please send your crisp flash and poignant poetry for consideration in a future issue. View our flyer and visit our website for more information.
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Deadline: August 15 Inverted Syntax will be publishing and debuting between 3-5 full-length poetry books in the fall of 2026. Starting in 2024, we seek to identify up to five exceptional manuscripts for publication. We look for work that risks everything. We favor the hybrid but welcome all writing. If it’s well-crafted, uses language in daring ways, we want it. View guidelines and submission details on our flyer and at our website.
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On Spec (onspec.ca) is an award-winning Canadian journal of short genre fiction and poetry. Since 1989, On Spec has featured original works of science fiction and fantasy from writers around the world, with a mandate to showcase the best in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Now’s the time to try an issue, and you may win a subscription! View flyer to learn more.
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Deadline: August 1, 2024 The election is looming, and all those thoughts and emotions are getting sharper and at time produce fear and depression. Now is the time to have art be your voice and presence. Visit our website for full information and to submit your work.
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Deadline: August 1, 2024 The Greensboro Review invites submissions for our annual Robert Watson Literary Prizes in Poetry and Fiction. Winners in each genre receive a $1,000 award and publication in the spring issue of the journal. Send us your previously unpublished poems and short stories, now through August 1! To learn more, read past prizewinners, and submit your work, visit our website and view our flyer.
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Unsolicited Press is set to release enchanting literary fiction this year including THE HEDGEROW by Anne Leigh Parrish, LINES by Sung J. Woo, and DEVIL ON MY TRAIL by Danial DiFranco. See our flyer and learn more at our website.
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The summer issue of Kaleidoscope takes a closer look at the ebbs and flows of life, and we hope you will find some treasures in the work we’ve selected. Each issue of the magazine explores the experience of disability through the lens of literature and fine art. Submit your best work to us today! Visit our website and see our flyer for more information.
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Stephen C. Pollock’s poetry collection Exits explores the beauty and frailty of life, the cycles of nature, and the potential for renewal. It also responds to contemporary anxieties surrounding death and the universal search for meaning.
Musical and multilayered, Exits features a potpourri of styles, ranging from traditional forms to free verse to hybrid works. Many of the images are drawn from nature. In addition, each poem is paired with a piece of artwork intended to resonate with the writing and enhance the reader’s experience.
Exits has been honored with the Gold Medal for poetry in the 2023 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards and the Silver Medal for poetry in the 2024 Feathered Quill Book Awards. Echoing these accolades, Midwest Book Review declares: “Exits is a book that has profoundly impacted the literary world.”
“Pollock’s poetry is brilliant” —Kristiana Reed, editor-in-chief, Free Verse Revolution
“Exits exemplifies the musicality of language” —Foreword-Clarion Reviews
“Full of wit, insight and provocative imagery, Exits is a masterful collection” —IndieReader, 5.0 stars
Caesura Poetry Workshop aims to support, inspire, and energize poets through a wide variety of affordable Zoom workshops hosted by award-winning poet, editor, and teacher John Sibley Williams. Most workshops include poem analysis, active group discussion, and writing prompts. Some are even self-paced! We also offer critiques of poems and manuscripts, as well as ongoing mentoring. Visit us at our website and view our flyer for more information.
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Deadline: July 15, 2024 The Tenth Gate Prize honors mid-career poets writing in English. Entry is open to authors of at least two previously published full-length poetry collections. A prize of $1000 and publication of the collection is awarded annually. See our flyer for more information and a link to submit.
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Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $10,000 in its tenth annual North Street competition, and $20,400 in all. The top nine winners will enjoy additional benefits from co-sponsors BookBaby, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Book Award Pro, Self-Publishing Made Simple, and Laura Duffy Design. New this year: Everyone who enters online will receive a brief commentary from one of the judges. Submit books published in any year and on any self-publishing or hybrid-publishing platform. $79 entry fee. Enter online or by mail by July 1. Learn more at our website and share our flyer.
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At the age of seven, Jennifer Coleman is severely burned in a house fire that kills her sister. Despite the barriers of her scarred face and her tragic childhood, she reaches the pinnacle of achievement as a classical concert pianist, but at a deep psychological cost.
During Jennifer’s meteoric rise as a virtuoso pianist, her disfigurement takes on mythic proportions. She is internationally loved and admired, but unable to love herself. At a pivotal point in her career, she meets an extraordinarily creative, suicidal musician named Felix, who challenges Jennifer’s beliefs and falls deeply in love with her. Will Jennifer be able to learn from Felix’s example before she self-destructs?
Cadenza is symphonic. It succeeds not only as an absorbing, psychologically nuanced novel, but also as a tragic fable of ambition and virtuosity. Its extraordinary heroine offers profound truths about purpose, memory, trauma, and the transcendent powers of art and love.
— Lauren Acampora, author of The Hundred Waters
“An engrossing epic of artistic triumphs and personal disasters, unflinching in its depiction of scars both physical and emotional, Cadenza reads like a piano concerto playing in a house on fire.”
Garcia-Gonzalez’s work forays into numerous aspects of our existence to probe into the constraints of the human experience. What is reality? What incites the disparity between one individual’s observation of reality and another’s? As the author dives deeper into his immense understanding of what is, he provides a series of intriguing, thought-provoking insights that cut right to the core of one’s belief system, yet he does so with grace and knowledge that impels readers to at least consider what is being proposed.
Mark Cox pulls no punches in these poems about family, relationships, loss, regret, growing older and our human condition, generally. Sometimes wry, sometimes tender, always thought provoking, Knowing is the seventh volume of poetry from a lauded veteran poet who has been publishing prominently for almost 40 years.
Previous Praise for Mark Cox:
On Readiness
Thrilling prose poems from a cherished writer . . . . Cox gives lie to the common notion that prose poetry is too formless to count as real verse . . . . [He] is as careful with diction, rhythm, and even rhyme as one might be if they were writing strict alexandrines-and yet, his poems are as fluid and readable as Jack Kerouac’s novels.
Kirkus Reviews
On Sorrow Bread
Tony Hoagland has said Mark Cox is “a veteran of the deep water; there’s no one like him,” and Thomas Lux identified him as “one of the finest poets of his generation.” No one speaks more effectively of the vital and enduring syntaxes of common, even communal, life.
Deadlines: May 31, 2024; June 2, 2024 Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Montage of Misfortunes Fox Tales Prize! Deadline: June 2, 2024! We are also accepting free submissions for our summer 2024 print issue. Free subs close on May 31, 2024! View our flyer for more information and links to our submission guidelines.
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Deadline: July 1, 2024 It is our responsibility to give marginalized groups the opportunity to establish literary legacies that feel rich and vast. Why? To sustain hope for the world to become a more loving, tolerable, and open space. It always begins with art. That is why we invite you to enter the 2025 International Voices in Creative Nonfiction Competition. Visit our website and view our flyer for more information.
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Deadline: July 31, 2024 We are pleased to announce that Dana Levin will judge the second annual Charles Simic Prize for Poetry. Dana is the author of five books of poetry and teaches for the Bennington Writing Seminars, the MFA program at Bennington College, and serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. Dana recently published a recollection of Charlie as friend, teacher, and mentor in The Yale Review. View our website and our flyer for more information.
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Join Writing Coach & Author Lynne Golodner for five glorious days October 20-24, 2024, in the Redwood forests of northern California for a writers retreat that will change your life! Includes daily craft lessons, guided hikes and yoga in an intimate setting plus daily breakfast, two lunches and a celebratory final night dinner. NewPages readers are eligible for EARLY BIRD PRICING. View flyer to learn more and apply here. ONLY TWO SPOTS LEFT!
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Now in its 7th year, the Catamaran Poetry Prize is open to previously unpublished poetry manuscripts across a range of styles, themes, and forms. The prize is only open to West Coast poets living in California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii. See our website and flyer for full details.
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We are now accepting poetry manuscripts of 48-80 pages for our May-June Reading Period at The Word Works! Four to six books are selected for publication in the next two years. Single-author collections, collaborations, prose poetry, hybrid works, etc. are welcome. View our flyer for more information and a link to our submissions manager.
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Deadline: May 25, 2024 Livingston Press is accepting submissions of unpublished manuscripts for its annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. There is no entry fee. Winner receives $500, publication, twenty copies, and a standard royalty contract. View our flyer and visit our website for guidelines.
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Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $10,000 in its tenth annual North Street competition, and $20,400 in all. The top nine winners will enjoy additional benefits from co-sponsors BookBaby, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Book Award Pro, Self-Publishing Made Simple, and Laura Duffy Design. New this year: Everyone who enters online will receive a brief commentary from one of the judges. Submit books published in any year and on any self-publishing or hybrid-publishing platform. $79 entry fee. Enter online or by mail by July 1. Learn more at our website and share our flyer.
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“Eugene Stevenson’s Heart’s Code is a work of true wonder. Ever since my introduction to his poetry, I have awaited his first collection and it is nothing short of magnificent. With deft precision and a keen eye, Stevenson captures ‘the places of great joy [and] the places of great pain’ with a tender grace and moving beauty that will leave readers’ hearts aching for more.”—Michelle Champagne, Susurrus, A Literary Arts Magazine of the American South
“Filled with snapshots of compassion, the poems in Heart’s Code explore both the grand and pocket-sized experiences that drive us apart and bring us back together again, transformed into something greater than before.”—Maxwell Bauman, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine Editor-In-Chief
“Expansive and stirring, Heart’s Code carries us through complex landscapes of generational love and loss. A study in impermanence, anchored to nature’s juxtaposed cycles of rebirth, Stevenson’s verse offers redemption through the very journey itself. A poetic atlas of life’s gutting transience, not to be missed.”—Kelly Easton, Editor, Compass Rose Literary Journal
“Eugene Stevenson’s debut collection of poetry ruminates on points of origin and journeys in sharply observed language. Simultaneously plain and artful, poem after poem draws us into dislocated people finding their way, following their own path, as a sensuous realism that conducts its own exploration, both familiar and unfamiliar, without constraining, as the ‘world / recede[s] in the distance.’ Heart’s Code is a meditation on a world balancing at the edge of its own disappearance.” —Geoffrey Gatza, author of Disappointment Apples
Deadline: June 15, 2024 Entry fee: $25 The annual Akron Poetry Prize is now open. The winner receives $1,500 and publication of their book as part of the Akron Series in Poetry. Matthew Olzmann will judge. Other manuscripts may be considered for publication in the series. Submit manuscripts via Submittable from April 15 – June 15, 2024. View flyer and visit our website for complete guidelines.
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