Persimmon Tree’s Western Region poetry contest is now beginning and will run until June 15. Winners will be published in our Fall 2011 issue. Check out the submissions guidelines at http://persimmontree.org/submissions.php. Poems will be accepted from WA, OR, CA, AK, HI, NV, ID, AZ, UT, MT, WY, CO, and NM.
is an award-winning online ezine published quarterly and loaded with writing articles, poetry, flash fiction, interviews, and more…. Please READ AND FOLLOW the submission guidelines (general and specific) before sending anything!
For Poets: We want vivid, deep, bold poems, with a clear voice, stripped of clichés. Engage all our senses. If you rhyme, use fresh images. Every word, every syllable, must work.
You may submit a MAXIMUM of 40 lines of poetry TOTAL – *excluding stanza breaks* – divided among up to FOUR poems, per submission period. Poems submitted must be the original work of the sender. Reprints are accepted; please include where and when your poem was published.
Send to Michele M. Graf at this email address:PoetryEditor.ApollosLyre@gmail.com
BTW – Apollo’s Lyre has several nominations in the Preditors & Editors Voting Polls. Deadline to cast your votes is January 14th, 2011. If you like what you see, please vote for us. Details are on our home page.
(Poetry Zine — Apollo’s Lyre http://www.critters.org/predpoll/poetryzine.shtml)
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The Annual $5,550 Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for Traditional Verse is now open! And the annual $5,550 Tom Howard Short Story, Essay and Prose Contest continues open for entries! http://www.winningwriters.com
The latest issue of High Desert Journal includes a couple of new poems by LLG member Charles Goodrich, along with prose and poetry by many other fine writers. Great photos and artwork, too.
High Desert Journal is dedicated to further understanding the people, places and issues of the interior West. They invite submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, memoirs, interviews, essays, book reviews, letters to the editor and visual art from residents of the region working with any theme and from anyone living outside the region creating work with high desert themes and elements.
Oblongata Contest — check the web for details http://www.themedullareview.com/Oblongata_Contest.html
The Medulla Review is offering a unique opportunity. During approximately the first three weeks of each month the editor-in-chief will review poetry, flash fiction, and fiction submissions for contests. First, second, and third place winners will be chosen for publication out of each category. Works will be published on the first day of every month.
First place winners will receive publication, payment based on 10% of the entry fees per category, and a link with their name on the homepage of The Medulla Review for one year. The winning writer’s web-page containing their winning piece may also include artwork, lengthy bios, promotions of books, blogs, links to other sites, or a myriad of other things, depending on the specific wishes of the writer.
Second and third place winners will receive publication of their work and a short-bio for one year on a homepage link entitled “Oblongata Winners.”
