Posts made in June, 2009

Leveler Call for Submissions

LEVELER, an online poetry journal, is currently considering submissions for its inaugural issue. LEVELER welcomes your work year-round. Send only one previously unpublished poem as a Microsoft Word attachment to submissions@levelerpoetry.com. We will not read cover letters. If you’d like to be available for comment from our readers, include your email address at the bottom of the poem and, should your poem be published, we’ll post this...

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Scion Press Vampire Anthology

Can you bring your vampires to life? Do they practically leap off the page to grab your reader and make him feel passion, fear, or perhaps a new reality? If so, we are seeking your stories or poems. Scion Press is accepting new, original stories and poetry featuring vampires for an Anthology of vampire stories and poems which is planned for publication May 2010. Accent for these stories and poems should be placed on original, non-derivative,...

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2009 Thomas A. Wilhelmus Award

www.usi.edu/RopeWalk/Wilhelmus%20Award.asp Guidelines RopeWalk Press will award a prize of $1000 for a poetry chapbook written in English submitted under the following guidelines. Each submission must: Be available for exclusive book-length publication by RopeWalk Press. Poems published individually in journals or magazines may be included. Previously self-published chapbooks and translations are not eligible. Simultaneous submissions are...

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Delfino Prize for Queer Genre Fiction

collectivefallout.com/contests/ Winner receives $50 and publication in the January issue Collective Fallout Finalists will all be published in the January or following July issuesCollective Fallout Eligible stories must be queer-themes, between 3,000 and 10,000 words and fit into one or more of the following genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, or Science Fiction. Entry fee is $5 per story. Multiple submissions up to 3 stories are accepted. Make...

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Call for Submissions for Issue 3: Chickenpinata, a journal of poetry

www.chickenpinata.com Inspired by a recent trip across the Mississippi River, the editors of Chickenpinata are accepting poems for the “Bridges” theme until Friday, June 26. We want to see poems that take both literal and metaphorical approaches to bridges–what do they mean? What is crossed over? Where are you once you’ve crossed? Etc. Writers may interpret this theme broadly. Please indicate the theme in your subject...

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