Beautiful Bare Hands Poetry out now

And we should also mention that Issue 20 of Bare Hands is now open.

Bare Hands is also accepting submissions for issue 21 until the 21st March 2016.

You can view Issue 20 here http://barehands20.tumblr.com/ and find out how to submit here http://barehandspoetry.tumblr.com/post/10993445898

Abridged 0 - 45: submission call

Why is it always December?

Take a look at the inspiration for this issue of Abridged and then send them some stuff. Deadline 17th March 2016. Easy as that.

You can find details here http://abridgedonline.com/abridged-0-45-why-is-it-always-december/ and the muse here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOu1OCvhUw0

The Big Syria Gig needs you

Are you a spoken word artist and available to do a short set in Stow, Scottish Borders on Saturday 30th January 2016 to raise money for children in Syria via Unicef?

Get in touch with us at Stowed Out at info@soundout.org.uk. Thanks.

Abridged 0-14: Floodland Submission Call

Abridged have been in touch with p&g to tell us that they are exploring paranoia and fear in the 0 – 14: Floodland issue. 

They need poetry (up to three poems) and art (up to A4 landscape size and 300 dpi or above). Deadline for submissions is 22nd January 2016. 

You can find out more here http://www.abridgedonline.com/

Send your stuff to The Pinch

Wow! A pretty home page for you to enjoy and a call for submissions.

What they say:

The Pinch was founded in 1980 as the Memphis State Review by William Page. In its first few years, the journal published such well-known writers as Robert Bly, Phillip Levine, Mary Oliver, Robert Penn Warren, and Margaret Atwood.

Enjoy responsibly here http://www.pinchjournal.com/

Kent & Sussex poetry society open poetry competition 2016 call for poetry

My inherent Sussex girlness means this is a competition I always look forward to entering. It has agood prize too (£1000+). And is judged Anne-Marie Fyfe this year.

And plenty of time to get sorted. Closing date is 31st January 2016.

More details here http://kentandsussexpoetry.com/

Call for poetry Pure Slush Five

Pure Slush celebrates their 5 year anniversary in December 2015 ... by publishing a print anthology based on the theme ‘five’.

'Five' cover image by Allen Forrest

Your poetry submission must be:

• original, so previously unpublished online or in print
• 500 words max
• somehow incorporate 5 - that bit is up to you

 
And remember submissions close on 15th December 2015.

Please submit via Submittable with Five, the Story title and Word length in the submission title here https://pureslush.submittable.com/submit.

Abridged seeks oblivion

Memories and the things we forget - Abridged next issue Lethe 0  43 is seeking submissions now.

Deadline is 1st October 2015 so that is not much time in any body's book.

You can find more here http://abridgedonline.com/abridged-0-43-lethe/

Hot Tub Astronaut

...is an e-zine for contemporary words, images, sounds currently seeking submissions.

Deadline 31st Jul 2015.

More here http://hottubastronaut.com/submissions/

Seeking spoken word...

Early call for a new spoken word stage at the Stowed Out Festival 28th and 29th August Scottish Borders. Interested - ideas - ready to slam?

Get in touch in the usual way and let's talk; and we can also add you to the mailing list for more information about this event.

Call for poetry Kalyna Review

Submissions requested for the Kalyna Review - this includes poetry and  fiction (including translations), photography, prints and art.

The act of reading allows us to migrate on a brief looping journey into someone's imagination, someone else's culture. The poetry and prose collated [in the Kalyna Review] open several different worlds to the reader. ...So step into our leaky little linguistic boat and enjoy the ride. Who knows where you might go and who might lounge in the bows beside you?

You can find full details here http://www.kalynareview.com/submissions/4574690274

Last days of petrol

Open Mouse (Poetry Scotland) is open for submissions again editor Colin Will has announced. But he adds on Facebook "...please don't all rush to submit. The slots are full until mid-May, so there's plenty of time."

And this apocalyptic poem - actually more of a liminal drive through the edgelands - is on now from p&g's own Bridget Khursheed.

You can read the poem and find out how to submit your own here https://theopenmouse.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/bridget-khursheed-3/

Clear Poetry

A new kind of online magazine has arrived - Clear Poetry's tagline is:

ACCESSIBLE. APPROACHABLE. ASTONISHING.

I caught up with Editor Ben Banyard, who like many was inspired by Jo Bell's 52 (https://about.me/jobell) and this is what he told me.

Yes, I'm very fortunate in that being part of the whole Jo Bell/52 thing meant that I felt comfortable stepping straight into the middle of the poetry scene. It's also the secret behind attracting some really good work early on because I was able to ask poets I already knew if they had material they could lend me!
The ethos comes from feeling like an outsider who's happy to point out when I feel that the emperor's clothes are missing. It was a reaction to a lot of writing which I didn't personally enjoy but which a lot of others feel obliged to praise and which seemed to be cropping up in a lot of lit mags. I also felt that trying to show people who perhaps have no real interest in poetry a small selection of a poet's work which can be read in 10 minutes or so somewhere in their hectic day would give it real value and resonance.
Clear Poetry is very personal - it's entirely my choice. Having resolved to only publish work that I enjoy makes the business of being an editor much less daunting, if that makes sense. Hopefully people like it, and the quality of submissions that I'm getting shows that people writing great work want to be featured - that makes me very proud.
Thankfully the volume of submissions is still manageable, and I can work through them wherever I am thanks to the wonders of a Smartphone! I read everything several times, at different times of the day and in various locations. I often find something I didn't enjoy at first which I read while at work suddenly jumps up at me while I'm standing in the kitchen at home waiting for the kettle to boil!
I generally respond to all submissions within ten days or so, although that will inevitably increase if more people send work in. Being a poet who's always submitting work, I know how frustrating it is when it takes months to receive a generic response so as well as trying to giving people a rapid yes or no I try to make even the straight no emails as friendly and personal as possible.

p&g also works on the personal response; our magazine is what we like so I enjoyed hearing about Ben's approach and his reading tips - now perhaps it is up to poets to write stuff that holds up robustly in a world where our work could be read anywhere and any time. So the reading aloud in different places might help as part of the editing process too...

You can read Clear Poetry here https://clearpoetry.wordpress.com/ and find out how to submit here and there is another rather interesting article about Jo Bell's 52 here http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=43306.

Last call for poetry Issue 10 p&g

Seeking the finest poetry in the most stretched and frayed forms...

We experimented with prose poems in our last issue and that is perhaps what you want to send us. Send in jpg form if necessary to preserve the formatting. Maybe you want to try something else and that is fine. But the deadline is hovering close at your shoulder. This all ends on March 30th 2015.

As ever p&g offers you, the poet, the full deluxe experience with breakfast excluded.

The magazine is due out in May but make of that what you will. Full information on submission and the joy of our previous editions available here http://www.poetandgeek.com/magindex.html

Call for poetry Issue 10 poetandgeek.com

This is an exciting one. Into double figures for poetandgeek.com.

Issue 9 contributors will be hearing from us shortly. And you have until March 30th next year to send us your new and wonderful work for Issue 10.

Up to you to provide the poetry. Full details and the back catalogue of the magazine are here as ever http://www.poetandgeek.com/

Submissions for poetandgeek.com issue 9

There is about a month left now to submit your work.The deadline this time is the 30th September 2014.

Thanks to all of you who have submitted already - we appreciate it and apologise again if you are waiting for a confirmation.We don't do things like that. Can't. But we will try and get back to you in October promptly once the deadline has passed.

Hope to hear from the rest of you soon!

You can take a look at past issues and find out how to submit here www.poetandgeek.com.

StAnza's map of Scotland in poems

The poetry map of Scotland - as seen by StAnza - is starting to take shape.

This is just a taster image above.

You can find and explore the interactive map here https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=zlqrqfPpHmPI.ki3k4OoDqFXQ or go here http://stanzapoetry.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/the-map-revealed/ to find out how to add your own poem.

Call for poetry poetandgeek.com issue 9

Getting away from it all? Seeking something to do over the holidays?

poetandgeek.com is looking for poetry (4 poems or less), images and reviews (technical only) for Issue 9 - due out at the end of this year. Send an outline of ideas for longer articles to the Editor first. The deadline for copy is September 30th 2014. The usual contact details of course...and we are particularly looking for experimental approaches in work for this issue.

Take a look at the magazine here  http://www.poetandgeek.com/ to see what p&g is.

Call for poetry Southlight 16

Look out for the beautiful new edition of Southlight poetry magazine.

And you can be a part of the edition 16 by sending work to the editor poet Vivien Jones.

You can find out the whats and wheretos here http://www.southlight.ukwriters.net/

Last call for poetry poetandgeek.com issue 8

We need your stuff and we need it now. Deadline for copy for Issue 8 is March 30th 2014. Thanks to all who have already sent work in and we will be getting in touch with you soon.

More details and a chance to catch up with previous editions here http://www.poetandgeek.com/