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Edythe Rodriguez and Qin Qin Win the 19th Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest Sponsored by Winning Writers
Winning Writers awarded $8,000 in prizes for poems in any style and poems that rhyme or have a traditional style
Pre-Screener’s Suite, 2022
By Anne Mydla
The Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest
The Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book
Two Sylvias Press Weekly Muse
Weekly poetry prompts along with information to help you publish your poems and manuscripts
Midst
Craft-oriented online journal publishes poems along with their previous drafts
Neon Door
Immersive multimedia lit mag
Special District: Harbin by Tim Stickel
First Place Winner of the 2021 North Street Book Prize for Genre Fiction
Subscriber News: April 2022
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Quartet Journal
Online poetry journal for women writers aged 50+
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I Am Still a Child
By Mahnaz Badihian
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Mythcreants
Fantasy and sci-fi storytelling advice blog
Feminist Book Club
Online book club promotes women and nonbinary authors and feminist businesses
Dashboard Horus
Call for submissions: rolling deadline
Afterwards
Bastards’ Tongue
Illustration by Rowan Fridley
Six Things Taygete Had To Learn Without Being Taught
I. how to scream as a doe you have no voice to speak of but you can still make a soft snorting noise when alarmed you may even still sing when in love a kazoo rasp crossed with a rusty screen door in the wind II. how to be beautiful…
Laura Theis
Laura Theis writes poetry, songs, and fiction in her second language. Her poetry debut, how to extricate yourself, was the winner of the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize, an Oxford Poetry Library Book of the Month, and an Elgin Award nominee. Her work has received accolades such as the Oxford Brookes…
Obscura
Lit mag for Lehman College students and alumni
afro/latin/a
Illustration by Malachi Lily afro like a new church, a new sabbath in bathroom mirror pews, my bonnet slid back: a confession, a rattail comb caught the holy ghost of a side part. latin like tostones. chicharron. my seasoning needs seasoning and there's no such thing as too much sofrito.…
Ghazal for the Bumps on My Spine
They appeared overnight, two knobs flowered on bone and tendon. Lumps kissing like petals on a flower. The doctor's cool hands traced across my back like a box turtle swimming through algae and flower. Medical bills, deserts we've left, your mother calling home. I always bring her flowers. I imagine…
Morning in the YMCA Pool
This seems to be the time for old women— in the shower room we stand exposed, our drooping bodies unsightly but well-used, and in that perhaps a kind of beauty. In sensible suits we swim cautiously or bounce on one leg and then the next, for a few minutes defying…
The Poem of the World
The poem of the world reveals itself like a doe's hoof tapping ice till she can drink. Startles like the rust of purple on this fall's forsythia leaves, though it may have used that small voice every year, unheard. Blinks like red and blue potatoes, dug this morning, drying in…
Aria
O half moon— Half-brain, luminosity— Negro, masked like a white… —Sylvia Plath, “Thalidomide” There is not enough light inside this poem to Lie to you. All my poems are in whiteface. Which makes me clean, bearable. Is my life viable. This poem Is not mine. Every morning I carry it…
portrait of mother as nüwa
mother sculpts me out of yellow river clay, kneads my ribcage into shape, leaves me in the afternoon sun to dry. by evening, there is already a lump in her mouth. she reaches in, finds my name tucked beneath her tongue. breathes life into my still clay hands. when I…
Room in the Bag of Stars
Golden Shovel Sestina on a Line by Ursula K. Le Guin We're all under ten and run from room to room and up the front stairs, down the back, in the pantry and out, taking measure of the whole house. It's ours now, a cornucopia, a bag we open and…
for
for Tommy, accidentally shot and killed by the neighbor boy while hunting squirrels for prep. 1 a — indicating purpose: His father and uncles taught him that hunting was for sport and for fun, but the first time he killed a squirrel sorrow snuck up his pant leg, into his…
Nikon Coolpix, S210
Once, I wanted a camera, another set of eyes to magnify the small black semicolons marching up the backyard gate. To see the ants the way prey would see them moments before their feast. I wanted to magnify the small black semicolons marching up my legs—that dark prickling of first…
Laura Villareal
Laura Villareal is the author of Girl's Guide to Leaving (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022) and The Cartography of Sleep (Nostrovia! Press, 2018). She has also received fellowships from the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts and the National Book Critics Circle. Villareal earned an MFA in Creative Writing…
Athena Kildegaard
Athena Kildegaard lives and teaches in Morris, Minnesota, in prairie pothole country. Her sixth book of poems, Prairie Midden, has just appeared from Tinderbox Editions. She is the co-editor, with Margaret Hasse, of the anthology Rocked by the Waters: Poems of Motherhood, which won the Midwest Book Award for best…
Taylor Byas
Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is now a third-year PhD student and Yates scholar at the University of Cincinnati, and an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. She is the first-place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway Contest, the 2020…
Edythe Rodriguez
Edythe Rodriguez is a Philly-based poet who studied Africology and creative writing at Temple University. She loves neo-soul, battle rap, and long walks through old poetry journals. Her research focuses are Africana Womanist theory, Ebonics languages, and traditional African poetry. Edythe writes in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole and her…
Peaco Todd
Peaco Todd is an award-winning cartoonist, journalist, author, and illustrator, as well as a relatively newly-minted poet. For several years she served as an assistant professor of humanities, management, and liberal studies for Lesley University and the Union Institute and University. Her current projects include her poetry practice and a…
Scudder Parker
Scudder Parker grew up on a family farm in North Danville, VT. He's been a Protestant minister, state senator, utility regulator, candidate for Governor, consultant on energy efficiency and renewable energy, and is now a full-time poet and writer. He's a passionate gardener and proud grandfather of four. He and…
Tawanda Mulalu
Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. He is the author of Nearness (The New Delta Review, 2022) and Please make me pretty, I don't want to die (Princeton University Press, 2022). His poems appear or are forthcoming in Brittle Paper, Lana Turner, Lolwe, The New England Review, The Paris…
Fiona Lu
Fiona Lu is a high school junior from the Bay Area. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Princeton University, and Ringling College, and has appeared in Kissing Dynamite and Sine Theta Magazine, among others. She is an alumni of the California State Summer School…
Maurya Kerr
Maurya Kerr is a Bay Area-based writer, educator, and artist. Maurya's poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears in multiple journals, including Magma Poetry, Poet Lore, Southern Humanities Review, and an anthology, The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. Much of her artistic work,…
Qin Qin
Qin Qin (Xavier Qin Youngdale) is a Chinese-American adoptee currently studying towards their bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and Critical Identity Studies at Beloit College. Being queer, trans/nonbinary, and disabled, the arts have been the only constant that has allowed Qin Qin to synthesize and imagine different ways of being.…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2021
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Ode to the Forty Year Patient
By Andrew Mercado (writing as Chris Smith)
Two Gifts from Tom Sheehan, winner of the 2021 North Street Book Prize for Poetry
Read “A secondhand wagon for Christmas, and a gift that came later”, and download an award-winning book for free.
BLR Literary Prizes
Bellevue Literary Review’s annual prizes recognize exceptional writing about health, healing, illness, the body, and the mind.
The Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award
MoonPath Press, an imprint of Concrete Wolf, will award $2,500 and publication to a poet who lives in Alaska, Oregon, or Washington.
The Masters Review Anthology XII Seeks Emerging Writers
Every year The Masters Review opens submissions to produce our anthology, a collection of ten stories and essays written by the best emerging authors.
The Herd by Ryan Poirier
First Prize, Graphic Novel & Memoir, 2021 North Street Book Prize
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Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
OLD-Critiques for Children’s Picture Books
Expert private critiques of children’s picture books, published or unpublished
Michal ‘MJ’ Jones
Michal 'MJ' Jones (they/he), final judge of our Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, is an award-winning poet, parent, and editor living in Oakland, CA. Their poetry has appeared in the American Academy of Poets, Obsidian, Split This Rock, Muzzle Magazine, TriQuarterly Review, ANMLY, and elsewhere. Their debut collection of poetry,…
Publications That Pay Freelancers for Book Reviews and Interviews
Writer and editor Adam Morgan compiled this list of paying markets in 2022
