Poetry Opportunities

Opportunities for sharing your work abound. This page is updated frequently - please check back often.

**Deadline for NZPS Magazine, a fine line: 7 April**

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

Bravado 19 Call for submissions

Closing date: 14 March
This is your invitation to submit short fiction (up to 3000 words) for Bravado 19, due out in July 2010. Guidelines are clearly set out on the website: www.bravado.co.nz
Bravado is a literary arts magazine from the Bay of Plenty, and contributions are restricted to writers from New Zealand and Australia, whether living at home or abroad.
Fiction for Bravado 19 will be guest edited by writer Jack Ross. Poetry and prose is welcome too.

Bravado 19 Haikai Submissions

Closing date: 14 March
Barbara Strang will be guest editor for Bravado 19's four haikai pages. Please submit up to 5 of any form of Japanese poetry to: bravadopoetry@bravado.co.nz Make sure you include a 50-word bio and contact details. Bravado 19 is due out in July 2010.

Right Hand Pointing (Online)

Deadline: 15 March
"This year I asked for submissions for a humor issue and, unfortunately, it didn't come together. We've done a couple of others with good results, but I just didn't get enough submissions to feel good about it. We have a couple of pieces we've accepted but haven't yet published and I ran a couple of others in regular issues after the humor issue fell apart. Time to give it another shot. So, we're opening up for submissions of humorous poems, fiction, and art. Length requirements for poems and fiction are the same as for regular issues. <500 words for poems. Not more than 16 lines for humor although we'll go up to 20 lines if the poem is <75 words.

"Target date for publication is April 15th. Get writing. And get funny."

Website for submission details: http://www.righthandpointing.com/

The Manawatu (New Zealand) International Poetry for Performance Competition 2010

Deadline for submissions: 5pm Friday 19 March
Massey University, The Palmerston North City Council and Palmerston North City Library, announce an open call for poets for the 2010 Manawatu (New Zealand) International Poetry for Performance competition. The competition provides an opportunity for winning writers to have their poems developed and presented at the Biennial Manawatu Festival of New Arts in Palmerston North, New Zealand in October 2010.

We are seeking poetry that not only reads well, but also crosses the boundary between page and stage, to intrigue and involve an audience in performance (by which, we mean a presentation that goes beyond simple reading). Therefore, in addition to the poem itself, we ask poets to submit an overview of their performance concept in up to 200 words; concepts might include multiple voice pieces, the incorporation of dance, music, film or visual images: the scope is limited only by your imagination. This overview should not be prescriptive; it should communicate your vision, but leave room for directorial interpretation.

The theme of the 2010 festival is 'Back to Earth'. The first 6 poems will be fully developed and produced at the Manawatu Festival of New Arts, Palmerston North, New Zealand in October 2010. There are cash prizes also.

For more information please contact: C.A.Seelye@massey.ac.nz.

JAAM 28 call for submissions

Closing date for submissions: 31 March
The 28th issue of JAAM will be the DanceDanceDance issue, edited by Clare Needham and Helen Rickerby. We are looking for: poetry - short fiction - creative non-fiction - images
Writing that dances - literally, conceptually, metaphorically. Writing about dance - dancing writers - life as a dance. Dance reviews will be considered, as will: programme notes - choreographic poetry, short stories about dancing the fandango on a moonlight night in Ngaio...
Anything, in fact, that can be tied (loose or tight) to our theme...
...if there's something magic in the way it moves us.
For publication in: September 2010.

Please send your work to: jaammagazine@yahoo.co.nz
or: JAAM
PO Box 25239
Panama Street
Wellington 6146
New Zealand

NZPS publication a fine line - call for submissions

Deadline: 7 April
The editor welcomes your contribution. We currently pay a small fee for Feature Articles. See publication guidelines for these and other sections of the magazine at http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/aboutsubmissionguidelines We also welcome submissions of members' poems, though there is currently no payment available for these. For that reason, we do not insist on First Publishing Rights. However, if you submit a previously published poem, please advise, so that correct attribution of the original publication details can be made.

PressPress Chapbook Award (Australia)

Deadline: 31 May
The PressPress Chapbook Award is for an original manuscript of poetry between 20-40pp. The winning manuscript will receive $600 and chapbook publication with PressPress. The Award will be announced in July 2010 on the PressPress site.

The manuscript must be unpublished and not on offer to another publisher in Australia or elsewhere (except that individual poems can be already taken or on offer to journals, sites or anthologies where you keep the copyright).

Have a look at the site to see what sort of thing we've done in the past and what the judges said last year. Website: http://www.presspress.com.au/

Redheaded Stepchild (USA)

Accepting submissions throughout August only
The Redheaded Stepchild only accepts poems that have been rejected by other magazines. We publish biannually, and we accept submissions in the months of August and February only. We do not accept previously published work. We do, however, accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted somewhere else. We are open to a wide variety of poetry and hold no allegiance to any particular style or school. If your poem is currently displayed online on your blog or website or wherever, please do not send it to us before taking it down, at least temporarily.

Submit 3-5 poems that have been rejected elsewhere with the names of the magazines that rejected the poems. We do not want multiple submissions, so please wait for a response to your first submission before you submit again. As is standard after publication, rights revert back to the author, but we request that you credit Redheaded Stepchild in subsequent republications.

We do not accept email attachments; therefore, in the body of your email, please include the following:

· a brief bio

· 3-5 poems

- the publication(s) that rejected the poems

Send your submission to redheadedstepchildmag (at) gmail.com. Change at to @.

Eclecticism - e-zine submissions (Australia)

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 was released late July 2007. Each issue has 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 is 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 (USA)

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

Fractured West (USA)

Fractured West, a new journal of flash fiction, prose poetry, microfiction, sudden fiction, vignettes, and short short stories, seeks submissions up to 500 words for its premiere issue. Enter by email. Send only one entry and wait for a decision before sending another. Submissions accepted year-round. Editors say, "We like: Honesty, fury, humiliation, and unusual beauty; stories that hurt to write, that are uncomfortable to read; literary, genre, and experimental/non-narrative works." See website at http://fracturedwest.com/

The Great American Poetry Show (USA)

- is a hardcover serial poetry anthology open year-round to submissions of poems in English on any subject and in any style, length and number with a SASE. Email poems only by one attachment to: info@tgaps.net. We have three editors who can handle a lot of submissions. So please send us a lot of poems.

If we do not accept your poems, please send us another group to go through. Simultaneous submissions and previously published poems are welcome. Response time is usually 1-3 months but can take much longer if we get sidetracked doing other things in our busy lives. If you submit poems to us and don't hear back from us in three months, please contact us to find out what's happening with your submission.

Each contributor receives one free copy of the volume in which his/her work appears. Volume 2 is scheduled to appear in June, 2009. Please take a look at our website where you can preview Volume 1 of TGAPS and also purchase a hardcover copy for $US35 or an ebook copy for $US7.50. *The ebook is priced especially low for use in poetry and creative-writing classes. * Also take a look at our links page with hundreds of interesting sites to visit. And please use our message boards where you can view interviews, reviews, essays, articles, and recommended poetry books. Larry Ziman - tgaps

Volume 2 of the Great American Poetry Show is now taking submissions by email info@tgaps.net and by regular mail at:

The Great American Poetry Show
P.O. Box 69506
West Hollywood, California 90069

Check out the colourful website at www.tgaps.net

The International Association of Poets, Essayists & Novelists (IAPEN) - call for submissions (India)

The IAPEN, India, sponsored international literary journal Kohinoor invites poems, short stories, book reviews, research papers and interviews globally from reputed scholars with short literary achievements, for publication. Email for prompt reply: arbind442002@yahoo.co.in or kohnoor@rediffmail.com (sic)

The Lumiere Reader looking for submissions

The Lumiere Reader (www.lumiere.net.nz/reader) is seeks 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 in 2007. Email amycbrown@myfastmail.com with any questions or submissions. (IIML newsletter)

Prima Storia

A new literary and art magazine is calling for innovative and talented writers of good quality to contribute. The web-site is: http://primastoria.com/. It is a web journal and the editors are enthusiastic and committed. One of the co-editors, William Robertson, is the son of NZPS member and 2nd Prize winner of our 2008 International Poetry Competition (Open Section), Elizabeth Robertson.

Other Poetry (UK)

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 at alex@poesy.co.nz

Poetry Ark (USA)

Literary forum edited by Dirt Press founder Brian Lemond and writer William Keens offers over $2,000 in prizes for poems featured on the site, as determined by reader vote. Previously published work accepted. The work they accept is more sophisticated than the typical offerings at amateur poetry forums. http://www.poetryark.org/

Poetry Sz: demystifying mental illness

Submissions accepted year-round.
We are calling for original, previously unpublished poetry written by people who have experienced mental illness. Poems of all topics and styles are welcome. Website: http://poetrysz.blogspot.com Submission guidelines at http://www.poetrysz.blogspot.com/2006/04/submission-guidelines.html

Send 4-6 poems and a short bio in the body of your email to poetrysz@yahoo.com

Tabletop Greeting Cards (USA)

We are representing a Greeting Card company who is interested in reviewing writings for publication on greeting cards. We are looking for freelance writings capable of writing highly original and creative submissions on friendship, family, special occasions, positive living, and other topics one person might want to share with another person. Submissions may also be considered for inclusion in printed book anthologies. We pay up to $300 per poem for all rights to publish it on a greeting card and $50 if your poem is used only in an anthology. Please note that this is a call for submissions rather than a traditional position. We are looking for authors who have the ability to express emotion into words that other people don't always know how to express. If you feel that you have the necessary skills please email us a short poem on love for a hypothetical Greeting Card for lovers. Please note that your poem will not be used, or distributed in any way (unless we offer you the job and decides to use the poem on an actual greeting card).
http://www.freelancejobopenings.com/job/1a5b2cce9003d0497d63b8dc11b8e7a5/?d=1&source=rss_page

The Threepenny Review (USA)

Quarterly Literary Magazine. Critical articles should be about 1500 to 3000 words, stories and memoirs 4000 words or less. Pays $US400 per story or article, $US200 per poem. Go to: http://www.threepennyreview.com/submissions.html

Weirdyear Daily Flash Fiction (USA)

Online journal publishes flash fiction, poetry, and hybrid experimental fiction on a daily basis. Humor, fantasy, sci-fi, and other genres are welcome. Website: http://www.weirdyear.com/

Wet Ink (Australia)

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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