Rattle call for submissions -- poets of faith

Issue #45 – Poets of Faith – Deadline: April 15^th

Our fall issue will be dedicated to Poets of Faith—and by that we mean poets who are adherents to a specific religious faith tradition. In a slight revision to the guidelines, the poems themselves need not be about faith, so long as the poet qualifies. After reading an early batch of submissions, we realized that your spirituality will be embodied somehow in your poetry, even if that’s not what you’re writing about explicitly, and it’s much more interesting to explore the subtle ways that faith affects the work. 

So if you consider yourself a Poet of Faith, see our guidelines page, but the gist is this: Send up to six poems on any subject and a note explaining why you qualify to submissions@rattle.com by April 15^th.

a few calls for submissions

Bellevue Literary Review is planning a special theme on "our fragile environment." Deadline to submit 2/1/14.

Cactus Heart is seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Deadline 1/9/14.



Bohemian Pupil Press seeks poetry and micro-essays. (Note: BPP is also seeking guest editors.)
 
pacificREVIEW is seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, photography, artwork and graphic narrative for our STRANGELY EVER AFTER issue.  Deadline is 1/1/14.
 
Poydras Review seeks outstanding fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and art.
 
ROAR Magazine, a print journal dedicated to providing a space to showcase women’s fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, is seeking work. "If you’re a gal, we just want your point of view."
 
Tell Us a Story wants true stories and flash [non]fiction, experimental stories, poems, and plays.
 
upstreet is looking for quality work—fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction—for the tenth anniversary issue.
 
Vine Leaves Literary Journal is calling for Issue #09 vignette submissions. They accept prose, poetry, script, and artwork/photography for the cover and/or interior of the issue.
 
Word Soup wants to end hunger one poem at a time. Send three to five of your best poems.
 
Zymbol seeks submissions of art and writing for 2014 issue. Themes for this issue: Exploration of radicalism, deviancy and surrealism. Outsider thinking and artistic expression.

call for submissions: Greenville College's new journal, Scrib

We would like to invite you, your students, and your colleagues to participate in an exciting new artistic venture. Scrib, GC’s first online literary journal, is accepting submissions for its debut issue in spring 2014. The journal accepts work from students and faculty in all schools within the CCCU network and beyond. We want to see writing, art, music, and videos that explore the human experience with authenticity, connect with the reader on a personal level, and linger in the viewer’s mind long after reaching the end. 

The journal kicks off this month with a special contest for high school and college students. The Live Arts contest encourages students to produce creative work that celebrates the interaction of art and life. Grand prize winners will be published in two of GC’s multimedia publications, Scrib and The Vista.

See the Live Arts tab at scriblerus.greenville.edu to learn more or submit work to the contest.

We look forward to working with you. For more information about the journal and how to get involved, please contact Scrib Rachel Heston-Davis (rachel.davis@greenville.edu) or Alexandria LaFaye (alexandria.lafaye@greenville.edu). 

call for submissions: josephine quarterly

Josephine Quarterly Wants to Read Your Poems

Online submission deadline: Rolling
Josephine Quarterly is accepting poems on a rolling basis. Founded and edited by Komal Mathew and Jenny Sadre-Orafai, the online literary journal is interested in work from both established and new voices. Please submit up to five poems of any length via Submittable. Acceptable file formats for poetry submissions include .doc, .docx, .rtf, and .pdf. We will only consider one submission at a time. Our response time is 7-10 weeks. www.josephinequarterly.com

call for submissions Potomac Reiew

POTOMAC REVIEW’s submission period is open. Please submit poetry or short stories via the online submission system on our website or blog.  Please give us 6 months to respond before querying. Links to the Potomac Review and blog, both with links to the online submission: Potomac Review:  http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/edu/alt.aspx?id=18937; Blog:
http://potomacreview.wordpress.com/.

Anthology Call for Fiction Submissions

The After Coetzee Project Call for Submissions

Email submission deadline: December 1, 2013
The After Coetzee Project, a print anthology, seeks short fiction (of up to twenty-five pages) that centers the nonhuman animal subject(s). The submission period is open and ends December 1, 2013. For guidelines, please see www.aftercoetzee.com.

Call for Submissions: Stone Voices

Stone Voices Seeks Writing About Art and Spirituality

Submission deadline: Year-round
Stone Voices seeks articles, essays, fiction, and poetry that relate to its focus on the connections between art and spirituality. Submissions may be about particular artists, art genres, the idea of art, the making of art, being an artist, creativity, inspiration, etc. Next review periods are November 2013 and February 2014. Visit website for submission guidelines: www.stone-voices.com.

Call for Submissions: Prairie Schooner

Prairie Schooner is now open for submissions!

Postmark/Online submission deadline: May 1, 2014
Looking for a home for a terrific short story, poem, essay, or book review? Send your work to Prairie Schooner, an international literary quarterly based out of the University of Nebraska. Prairie Schooner, now in its 87th year of continuous publication, delivers the best fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews being published today by beginning, mid-career, and established writers. Accepting submissions during the months of September through April only. To learn how to submit electronically or by hard mail, visit prairieschooner.unl.edu.

Thin Air Magazine

From the Editor-in-Cheif of Thin Air Magazine:

"Thin Air is celebrating our 20th anniversary this year, and we have taken great strides to expand our magazine’s outreach for submissions and generate a wider presence for our 20th volume. For full submission guidelines and to see excerpts from last year’s magazine, please visit our website at thinairmagazine.com."

Call for Submissions: Crux Literary Journal

 Crux Literary Journal is a new online literary magazine seeking to publish writing with Christian themes. 

from their call for submissions:

What we DON'T want: sappy, cheesy, watered-down, "greeting-card" Christian writing

What we DO want: poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction that is raw, real, gritty, bold, daring, excellent, and beautiful-- with Christian themes that are either subtle or blatant.

you can read more about the magazine and their submission guidelines here:

www.cruxliteraryjournal.com

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* note to students-- be aware that this is a Start-Up literary journal--they have not yet published their first issue--so it is hard to be certain what their style will be like or if the caliber of work is what you would want your work associated with. That to say, submit with caution!

call for submissions: switcheroo 3013

 from the newpages website:

Broadsided has posted two images online. Writers respond to the visual pieces in poetry or prose in a way that creates a relationship between art and literature and that fits with the Broadsided format. There are plenty of past years' selections to see as well. The editors will read all submissions, and the winning entries (one for each piece of art) will be published on May 1, 2013 as a Broadsided collaboration.

Deadline: April 15, 2013.

Silver Boomer Books: Anthology Call for Submissions!

Silver Boomer Books is the publisher of several anthologies on topics such as aging, roads not taken, mentors, and childhood memories.  They are currently seeking submissions for their newest anthology entitled Longest Hours -- Thoughts While Waiting (working title):

"In this culture of instant gratification, we can hardly stand waiting. We have to have our iPads or iPhones so we can surf the internet or play games while we wait.

We wait for babies to be born and for classes to begin or end. We wait for test results – medical  tests, English tests, eye exams, employment tests, personality tests, assessment tests of all kinds. We wait to be served in restaurants. We wait for people important to us to make decisions or get jobs or get well or get pregnant or get up and do something.

We wait in line – oh, do we ever wait in line. Someone once wrote that by the time people are 70 years old, they have waited in line a total of about five years. Can that be true?

All waiting is hard. What kind is hardest? Stories and poems might share emotions and experiences during long, excruciating waits. Sometimes waiting involves deep heartache and pain, anticipation of great joy, worry and anxiety, fear of danger, with dread or hope or happiness hinging on outcomes.
Waiting is very often a big part of suffering. Maybe through it we can gain the strength to transcend suffering and pain – not just to survive. Understanding how other people deal with waiting can help and strengthen us. Send us your stories or poems."

Deadline: April 15, 2013
Click here for submission guidelines.

Harpur Palate Call for Submissions

We are now calling for submissions for our upcoming issue 13.1! The theme for this issue is country living. We are looking for essays, stories, and poems that take us away from city skyscrapers and closer to the eclectic American countryside. We want to be taken to the apex of an Adirondack Mountain, to the front porch of Aunt Bernice's goat farm, to the bayous of Mississippi. Tell us what it was like to plow a field in the 1900's, what it feels like to milk a cow with your hands. And while you're at it, we've always marveled at the art of fly fishing.

We want to see more than the archetypal moonshiners who drive beat up pick-up trucks, and men who play fiddles that are lost in their beards, so give us more than “hillbilly” stereotypes and “hick” dialogue. Give us essays that will haunt us, stories with raw characters that we cannot forget, and poems that hum with nature. Bring the sounds of the American country alive and surprise us by what we find there.

The deadline is April 15. General submission guidelines apply. Check our blog for more details!<http://harpurpalate.blogspot.com/>

Click here to submit electronically<https://harpurpalate.submittable.com/submit>. 

Call for Submissions: The Oklahoma Review

The Oklahoma Review, now in its 11th year of publication, is currently seeking submissions in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. You can read the full submission guidelines { here }

Call for Southern Poetry and Essays on Southern Poetry

"Every issue of Rattle gathers poems from a specific ethnic, vocational, or social group, comprising a special section of about 30 pages. We’re currently seeking submissions from poets of the American South for our Spring 2013 issue. We will define Southern Poets as those who have lived at least half of their lives in: Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, or Texas. The poems don’t have to be about the South, or relate to the region in any way–as always, we want to publish a representative sample of what the featured group happens to be writing.

We’re also seeking essays on Southern poetry. For more information, see our call for submissions page. To submit poems or essays, just follow the regular guidelines and note that it should be considered for the tribute. The deadline for this issue is November 15th, 2012."