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Deadline for NZPS Magazine, a fine line, 7 August.

For submission guidelines, go to: http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/aboutsubmissionguidelines

Call for submissions: Dreadlocks Vol. 5, 2008

Deadline: Friday 15 August
Dreadlocks is the annual literary publication of the School of Language, Arts and Media at the University of the South Pacific. Dreadlocks is published as an internationally refereed journal. Electronic submissions only are solicited and should follow the journal guidelines and be in the MS-Word format.
Length: Normally short poems, short stories and one act plays are encouraged to enable multiple author publishing. Extracts from longer works may be considered if accompanied with suitable explanatory author notes.
Author Bio: Brief 75-100 word bio to be attached to submissions
Titles: Brevity and accuracy to be aimed for.
Author Copies/Offprints: Each author receives 2 copies of the journal and no Off-prints of articles are given.
Email submissions to prasad_m@usp.ac.fj

NZSA Janet Frame Award for Literature

Applications close: 1 November
 In August 2007 the Janet Frame Literary Trust generously gave the NZ Society of Authors a grant to enable it to set up a biennial award in Janet Frame's name to be given to an author of literary or imaginative fiction or poetry. Janet Frame herself had benefited from the boost given by similar, often timely, financial assistance and professional recognition. The award is offered to support a mid-career or established author to further their literary career.

The biennial award is for $3000, and may be used for travel or for purchasing computer equipment, as well as to buy time to write. The award is open to authors of literary/imaginative fiction and poetry who are members of the NZSA. Applicants should submit an outline of the purposes to which the grant will be put and a CV of their writing history.

For further information email Tina Shaw at programmes@nzauthors.org.nz or send a SSAE to: NZSA Office, PO Box 7701, Wellesley St, Auckland 1141.

New Literary Magazine

Enamel is a new lit magazine coming out of Wellington, looking to publish new and exciting work. "We are particularly interested in new voices and writing that makes us wish we had written it." For more information and submission guidelines please go to http://enamelmag.blogspot.com Submissions will close at the end of August, for publication by the end of the year.

The Deformed Paper

This is a monthly broadside published to showcase new art and poetry. Editions limited to 100 copies per month and available at Poetry Live and other venues. Contact Makyla Curtis email mickyc@xtra.co.nz for submission guidelines and info. Deadline is the 30th of every month. Paper comes out on the first Tuesday of every month.

Eclecticism - e-zine submissions

Eclecticism is an Australian e-zine determined to present the work of a growing creative community. It is free to download and read. As the name suggests, Eclecticism aims to draw a diverse range of creative minds, styles and genres. The first issue will be released late July 2007. Each issue will have themed and open sections, and we are currently seeking contributions from writers of prose and poetry, illustrators/artists, and beat-musicians. Eclecticism is free - a non-profit e-zine that hopes to showcase current writers, expose emerging writers and artists and provide an avenue for those with one or two stories within them. It will be available to download (PDF format) from the website. Readers are encouraged to subscribe to the e-zine to build its fan base and be the first to receive notification of each issue's release.
Craig Bezant [Editor] on behalf of Eclecticism. http://www.eclecticzine.com

The Electronic Poetry Network

The EPN is Looking for Your and Your Poems
If you wish to have your poems considered for The Electronic Poetry Network, please send 5-10 short poems (no longer than about 50 words each) to ccolon@shreve-lib.org The poems do not need to be haiku. They just need to be short and suitable for the general public. Previously published poems are acceptable. The poetry on the Electronic Poetry Network is displayed all day or all weekend long on an electronic message board, which is located on the first floor of the Main Branch of Shreve Memorial Library, Shreveport, Louisiana. We also post the poems on our newly updated web site: http://www.shreve-lib.org/images/Poem.htm The site features a week's worth of poems. In addition, the "Poem of the Day" is e-mailed to poetry lovers in our 20-branch library system. http://www.shreve-lib.org/poemofday.htm

The Guardian Poetry Workshop

Changes monthly
Want to have your work reviewed by a published poet? Every month, The Guardian's online poetry workshop is hosted by a different poet who sets an exercise, chooses what they consider the most interesting responses and then offers an appraisal of them. See the website: http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetryworkshop/

Ka Mate Ka Ora #5

Contributions welcomed: Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics, an on-line magazine which publishes two issues per year (September and March). Contributions of theoretical and analytic essays, comment, extended reviews, archival research, and close reading are welcome at any time. They do not publish poems.

Contributions for Issue No. 5 (March 2008) are now being considered. All contributions received will be refereed. Ka Mate Ka Ora is edited by Murray Edmond, with Assistant Editors Hilary Chung and Michele Leggott. Please send to m.edmond@auckland.ac.nz

The Lumiere Reader looking for submissions

The Lumiere Reader (www.lumiere.net.nz/reader) is currently seeking submissions of previously unpublished short fiction and poetry "of all styles and subject matter" for a regular creative writing feature. Fiction submissions should be no longer than 2000 words, and poetry submissions no more than five poems. The Lumiere Reader's books section is edited by 2006 MA graduate Amy Brown, who also co-edited Turbine 06 and was a major contributor to Salient's book review pages last year. Email amycbrown@myfastmail.com with any questions or submissions. (IIML newsletter)

Other Poetry

Go to http://www.otherpoetry.com/
Other Poetry is published three times per year, welcomes new and established poets, and accepts e-mail enquiries. Writer's guidelines are online and payment is £5 (US$9.66). There is no restriction on theme, subject, length, or style. Allow six weeks for a reply.

Poems Wanted

Poesy, a quality focused wholesale company producing gourmet food products, requires poems. "As our name suggests, as well as being about food we are about poetry. We combine the two by placing small cards containing poems inside the packets of food we produce. We have the potential to publish a large amount of poems in this way and are welcoming submissions.The poems need to be 10 lines or less. We pay anthology rates." For more information contact Alex

Wet Ink

Australian based journal Wet Ink accepts submissions on a regular basis. Poets who have work accepted are paid ($50). All submissions have to be previously unpublished and not currently under consideration elsewhere. Submissions should be made in hard copy, but if a piece is accepted you will be asked to re-send it as a MS Word document by email. For poetry:

• Please send no more than three poetry submissions.
• Only hard copies considered.
• Include a cover letter with the title of your work plus all contact details for each submission.
• Put your name on the cover letter but NOT on the poem.
• Include date and line count.
• Text should be in Times New Roman 12pt.

Submission criteria appear here: http://www.wetink.com.au/assets/pdfs/Wetink_submit_write.pdf

Writers' standard form covering letter should be used with submissions: http://www.wetink.com.au/assets/pdfs/Wetinkcoverletter.pdf

 

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