Poetry Submission Opportunities

P.C. McKinnon has sent me the following poetry submission opportunities:


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MERIDIAN EDITORS’ FICTION AND POETRY PRIZE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Award: $1000
Deadline: January 7, 2009

The $16 entry fee includes a subscription to Meridian. Submit electronically through www.manuscripthub.com.

Poets can upload four poems per entry. Fiction writers may submit one story of 10,000 words or fewer per entry. Please do NOT put your name on the work you submit so that it stays "blind" to our readers. ManuscriptHub links the submission to your contact information, so there is no need to put your name or address on the submission itself.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS ANTHOLOGY
Deadline: March 1, 2009.

For a forthcoming anthology, Sixteen Rivers Press is seeking poems of place set in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. We interpret place broadly: it may be natural, cultural, or psychological space. And we interpret the region broadly as well, to include the cities, suburbs, towns, rural and wilderness areas that make up the entire Bay Area watershed.

Please send up to three unpublished or published poems, plus an SASE, to Anthology, Sixteen Rivers Press, P.O. Box 640663, San Francisco, CA 94164. For published poems, please include the place and date of publication and the name of the copyright holder.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NEW PLAINS REVIEW
Deadline: February 17, 2009

The New Plains Review seeks writing on the theme of Service for its spring issue. We interpret "service" broadly: military and community service, school service requirements, jury duty, all forms of volunteering, religious services, food service, customer service, serving a subpoena, etc. We're interested in poetry, fiction, essays and creative nonfiction that is thoughtful and compelling, and we'll reprint previously published (provided the author controls the copyright).

New Plains will also run a "letters" column of short, informal pieces relating experiences of "service." The editors are looking for detail, honesty and brevity in these letters.

Submit by email (as a Word attachment) to Executive Editor Douglas Goetsch at doug@janestreet.org, or send hard copies to New Plains Review, Submissions, Box 184, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK 73034. Please put email, phone and postal contact on the first page of each piece you submit.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RED WHEELBARROW LITERARY MAGAZINE

Postmark deadline: February 1, 2009

Red Wheelbarrow, De Anza College’s Student literary magazine features fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction, and visual art, invites you to submit for their spring "national" edition.

Email submissions are preferred, but snail mail is possible. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please include a brief bio and your email, even if you are submitting by snail mail.

Also, the magazine is put together as a course at De Anza and students help edit it. They are looking for student editors. There is still time to register for winter quarter of Red Wheelbarrow course.

Ken Weizner
weisnerken@fhda.edu

Red Wheelbarrow
c/o Language Arts Division
DeAnza Community College
21250 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Cupertino, CA 95014

http://www.deanza.edu/redwheelbarrow/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: WHILE THE HE/ART PANTS, AN ON-LINE ANTHOLOGY

Theme:Poetic Responses to the 2008 American Elections

Artistic representations, responses, and interrogations of electoral events are very important expressions of the endless conversation between art and historical experience. The 2008 American elections stimulated a lot of artistic responses and there were, in the campaign discourses, some subtle invocations of the postures of presidential aspirants to literature and cultural productions generally. What, as a poet (defined broadly), is the meaning of this whole experience of the 2008 elections?

Send us your previously unpublished works (poems, paintings, manipulated photographs, etc) about the 2008 US elections for inclusion in While the He/Art Pants (a title derived from Walt Whitman's poem reproduced below), to soon appear on the Poet's Corner, Fiera Lingue. Images should be on Jpeg format. As this promises to be a very interesting project, we request that you send up to five of the most uncompromising and stylistically surprising of your works and a short bio. Other works that do not necessarily focus on the 2008 US elections but are relevant to the dialogue between art and democratic politics will be considered.

Submissions are to be made electronically to: Obododimma Oha (Guest Editor) obodooha@gmail.com , udude@full-moon.com
or:
Anny Ballardini (Editor, The Poet's Corner)
anny.ballardini@gmail.com
Link to the main index of the site:
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POPPYSEED KOLACHE, FOR THEIR SECOND ISSUE

Seeking strong visual poetry of the human experience from everyday life; poems that move both the heart and the mind that connect a reader’s life to the lives of others.

Please send up to 5 typed poems (plus SASE) to:

MaryAnka Press
P.O. Box 102
Huffman, TX 77336
www.maryanka.com