sundress.net/grainshortgrainlong/ The inaugural issue of grain short/grain long (http://www.sundress.net/grainshortgrainlong) is now available, featuring excellent work by Suzanne Grazyna, Virginia Reeves, Elizabeth Kate Switaj, & C. R. E. Wells in response to the theme “grain short/grain long.” Our next issue will center around the theme “Collaboration / Stimulus / Response.” We are looking for works that...

Poppyseed Kolache, a small-press poetry journal, seeks non-rhyming poetry for a 2nd issue. The editor will consider any well-written poem, including prose poetry, but prefers visual poetry (about 60 lines or less) about or from everyday life. Wants to see poems that move both the heart and the mind and connect a reader’s life to the lives of others. Open to most subjects, but does not want to see rhyming poetry, first drafts, erotica,...

A River & Sound Review, a live literary entertainment program, is expanding to include an online literary journal! We’ve featured writers from around the nation with our free podcasts and live shows. Now, we want to showcase the best writing we can find on our upcoming online magazine. We invite quality submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and humor. There are no limitations on form or subject matter. www.riverandsoundreview.org/...

Mirage Books, a Pune-based publishing house, that has recently released the novel titled ‘Square Circles’ has announced another project – a book of experimental short stories. The stories will be selected from open entries submitted by both, amateur and established writers. There is no entry fee nor any formality. A publishing house set up to combat the monopoly that exists in today’s publishing world where only known...

www.umbrellajournal.com Umbrella, the supremely rereadable electronic journal, is now reading for our winter issue, online December 1st. www.umbrellajournal.com/submit.htm In addition to reading works of a general nature, our theme for the Winter edition will be popular culture. Movies, TV shows, music, fashions, trends, pop icons and iconography: intrigue us with poems that recognize the depths beneath the shallows. Deadline: November 10,...

SEVEN KITCHENS PRESS is excited to announce a new chapbook series: the ReBound Series will further expand our mission to bring new and/or underappreciated writers to a broader audience by reprinting out-of-print chapbooks in select new editions. Each title in the series will feature an introductory foreword by a nominating writer (who will be given the opportunity to edit the introduction); all works submitted for entry must be nominated by a...