POETRY CALLS — BE QUICK!

 

Some poetry submission opportunities:

March 5

Quick! The fabulous Cordite Poetry Review's current submission call is for Cordite 109: No Theme 12, with guest editors Caitlin Maling and Nadia Rhook. Closes 11.59 pm Melbourne time, March 5.

April 28

Rabbit: A Journal of Nonfiction Poetry — always fascinating — is calling for submissions on the theme of Archive: 'How can we, as poets, return to the archive and reanimate voices and lives silenced through time and the resolve of official record-makers?' Closes April 28. Check the guidelines here and consider this: 'Name a poem that you like that draws on/relates to archival research/thinking and why you like it.' That's got you thinking! Send brief response with your poems and bio. Guest editors are Anne Casey and Jason Wee.

Open

Go to https://www.poetryfoundation.org for information on submitting to the Poetry Foundation's Poetry Magazine. Submissions seem to be open. Poetry has been running for 110 years. The Poetry Foundation also publishes essays, interviews, profiles and podcasts on its website.

Palette Poetry is open all year. Guidelines here: https://www.palettepoetry.com/submit/ Palette says: 'The world is eager for poets. In 2016, more people spent their hard-earned money on poetry books than in any other year on record.' Good news — I'd love to know more about those stats ... 

Photo: Ask a Rabbit by Lizz Murphy 

(acrylic and found text, 10 x 10 cm); private collection of Brad Scowcroft; 

from the solo exhibition Piece of Place 2022 with thanks 

to the Rabbit journal for the text (found in their Contents pages)

NOSTALGIA COMES IN BLACK & WHITE

 

Abridged is an exquisitely produced poetry and art magazine available in print and online. The poetry and visual work is so splendid that their launches often feature exhibitions of the visual work. Submissions are currently open and the theme is TERMINUS. Closing date: March 10. (I'm assuming it's still open to international contributors.)

The theme outlines are a delight in themselves: When the end feels all too near, the old lines, walls and boundaries ...  ... Nostalgia comes in black and white. Just some of many possibilities and prompts should you need them.

This issue is a collaboration with the Belfast Photo Festival. Submit your photos for exhibition, publication (Abridged) and cash prize opportunities.

Abridged is supported by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Image: detail of charcoal drawing by Lizz Murphy

MAY DAY MAY DAY POETRY CALL OUT

 

If you’re writing about Antartica here’s a new opportunity to be published. Send up to four poems (of up to two pages each) to Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World (published in partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division) by May 13, 2022. Real Cool World will explore Antarctica as a place and as a canvas for imagination. This vast, dry continent drives much of the Earth’s weather, part litmus test for change at the world’s extremities and part canary in the coalmine...

Island Magazine — premium literary magazine of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and arts features — open to submissions from Australian and New Zealand writers until May 15. Island pays a fee of $125 (less cost of Island subscription if not currently subscribed). The current issue includes the winning entries of this year’s Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. 

The Australian Centre for Leadership for Women (ACLW) is calling for prose and poetry submissions for a fund-raising anthology titled Prose and Poems for Ukraine by Women of the World. Deadline: May 22. 

Rabbit is currently accepting submissions of nonfiction poetry for Issue 36: the ART Issue. Think not: what does 'non-fiction' do to poetry; think: what can poetry (+ art) do to non-fiction? What do poetry and art bring to one another? How does one open and enlarge the field of the other? How do they enliven the 'real world'? More information here. Deadline: May 31.

Photo: Mini snowman by granddaughter Ruby (Belfast, January 2022)

POETRY OPPORTUNITIES

 

MYSLEXIA

Myslexia is a UK magazine for women who write. It publishes feature stories by well-known women writers and poetry and fiction by new and established. Submissions closing October 11 (I think) include: 

 

Eyeverse — a short poem of up to four lines on any subject, plus an original illustration related to the poem. 

 

Poems for the Planet — poems up to 40 lines. Theme for the next issue is 'Birds.' Judged by Climate Writer Linda France. NB This one is for subscribers only. 

 

Poet Laureate — poems up to 14 lines on news items and issues of topical importance. They’re interested in local news as much as world news. Include a link to your topic or news item of choice if possible. 

 

The next Showcase theme is to be announced — submissions will open in December. Meanwhile their Women’s Poetry Prize closes on December 6. First prize 2000 quid with 2nd and 3rd prizes. Poems can be any length.  

 

 

QUARTET

Quartet is a quarterly poetry journal featuring work by women over fifty. Send three poems between October 8 and November 8 to be considered for the next issue.They say: 'We want to read poems that tackle difficult themes, that bend or honor traditional forms, that surprise and illuminate, that are genuine, that have momentum and play with language.'