Octopus Books will hold an open reading period for full-length poetry manuscripts in April of 2009. Manuscripts must be submitted between April Fools day and April 30, 2009. We prefer you submit your manuscripts electronically. To submit, purchase the $10 reading fee through paypal from the button on the Octopus Books website on the “Submit” page, then attach your manuscript in an email to octopusbooks@gmail.com. In the subject line...

MATERNALSPARK.COM/WP/?PAGE_ID=336 MATERNAL SPARK IS NOW ACCEPTING FLASH FICTION SUBMISSIONS. PIECES SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN 500 WORDS AND MUST BE A COMPLETE STORY FROM BEGINNING TO END WITH CHARACTERS AND A PLOT. PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE MATERNAL SPARK IS ALL ABOUT CREATIVE MOTHERHOOD – YOUR FLASH FICTION CAN BE ABOUT WHATEVER TOPIC YOU LIKE. IN FACT, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO WRITE ABOUT SOMETHING OTHER THAN MOTHERHOOD. Please copy and paste your...

Texas Poetry Calendar 2010 www.dosgatospress.org/submissions.html Guidelines: Submit 1-3 typewritten poems, 35-line limit per poem, including title and spaces. No email submissions; no previously published poems. Do not place your name or other identifying information on the poems themselves. Poems with a Texas connection preferred. Submit a cover letter that includes: the title of each poem (first line for an untitled poem, although we...

River Poets Journal seeking submissions for “Special Edition” in editorial collaboration with Joseph Reich, poet, philosopher, social worker, dreamer, family man… riverpoetsjournal.com/SeekingSubmissions.html Title: Jukebox Junction USA: a poetic history to how music moved you Deadline: August 31, 2009 Theme: Please consider that song you recall from your adolescence and youth, which significantly and profoundly moved you from a...

Babel Fruit online journal is currently inviting submissions of poems and short prose for the Summer/Fall issue. web.mac.com/renkat/BABEL_FRUIT/BabelFruit.html We are looking for work that shows what happens “under the influence of the other”. Take a look at previous issues to see what we mean. (Note that the Winter/Spring Issue had a section of poets under the influence of poets—we won’t be doing that this time around.) The Winter/Spring Issue...

Introducing The Country Dog Review: a Journal of Poetry Now accepting submissions for our first issue. Please visit us at www.countrydogreview.org Submission Guidelines: Poetry: We accept submissions via email only. Please email your submission (3-5 poems) as one attachment in Microsoft Word format. The subject of your email needs to read as follows: last name, date, poetry. Make sure you include a bio with either in the file or in the body of...