Outsider Writer publishers and promotes zines and journals in need of good, alternative writers. Apply within! Got an announcement? Contact our red hot fire engine of poetry, Marissa Ranello .
Compete with poets all over the world to win the honor of Poetry Idol 2007!
The winner of this Poetry Idol contest will have their own book of poetry published by Mystery Island Publications.
NOTE: Authors who have already had a bookpublished by Mystery Island Publications are not eligible for this contest. This contest is absolutely FREE to enter.
On Saturday, March 17 the hard drive of RedFez.net's founding editor, Leopold McGinnis, bit the big black biscuit, losing about three weeks worth of data including, horror of horrors, several submissions to the e-zine as well as those submittor's emails!
If you or a loved one submitted fiction, poetry, whatever sometime between late february and March 17th, it is most likely gone. Red Fez kindly asks you to resubmit at www.redfez.net
Tightrope Book sseeks graphic poems from contemporary Canadians for a collection to be published in early 2008. The works "should be proportionately disengaged from strategies such as Dada or concrete poetry, and play up the narrative tropes of the contemporary graphic novel and/or comics... A graphic poem is contemporary verse combined with multiple images."
Theme: Boredom. Deadline: April 1, 2007. No word or image limit.
Best Gay Erotica 2008 Edited by Richard Labonte and Emanuel Xavier Deadline: April 30, 2007
Short stories, novel excerpts, memoirs, narrative artwork, essays - original or reprint - are now being accepted for Best Gay Erotica 2008, to be published by Cleis Press in late fall of 2007. Maximum length preferred: 6,000 words; no minimum.
BGE is not a "theme" anthology, so anything goes - any fantasy, all flesh, any kink, every genre - as long as the work is intensely erotic, lusciously literary, and quite, quite queer.
Emanuel Xavier is the founder of the HOUSE OF XAVIER and the annual GLAM SLAM. For more info: www.emanuelxavier.com.
White Chimney is a new London based literary magazine, specialising in unpublished poets, short story writers and artists. The first issue is due out for publication in May 2007.
If you'd like to submit to this A4, black & white, 32 pages print magazine, please see as follows:
Poetry Up to 5 individual pieces.
Short stories: Up to 2.
Reviews and Articles: No limit but please lay out clearly and site any other works used.
Artwork: Up to 2 pictures. Please send as jpegs or zipped files.
Please email your work as word attachments where applicable, or paste into the body of the email. Payment is one contributor's copy.
We look forward to receiving your work.
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