www.motesbooks.com/MOTIF-Call-For-Submissions.html MOTIF is an anthology series published annually by MotesBooks of Louisville, Ky. Volume 1: Writing By Ear featured 116 writers, including Patty Griffin, SilasHouse, Buddy & Julie Miller, Maurice Manning, Evie Shockley, Neela Vaswani, Frank X Walker and Pamela Duncan. Each volume in the MOTIF series focuses on a theme – for Volume 2 the theme is CHANCE. Submissions may be poems, short...

Soupy Stories is a new online literary magazine devoted to publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers of the Midwest. The intention of the magazine is to help writers build their portfolios and get their names out. As of right now, we cannot offer any payment except for online publication. Our purpose is not to generate revenue, and we do not ask for reading/entry fees. However, all published works will be considered for our upcoming...

slashpinepress.blogspot.com Slash Pine Press is pleased to announce our first call for chapbook-length manuscripts of poetry or mixed-genre. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our mission and submission procedures. If our aesthetic and philosophical ambitions line up with yours, please send us the best work you’ve got. Mission: Slash Pine Press aims to publish two chapbook-length manuscripts a year. The press locates itself...

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 Send only one previously unpublished poem as a Microsoft Word attachment to submissions@levelerpoetry.com.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...

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,...

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...