Calls for Submission

Here you will find information on where to submit poems and poetry manuscripts. Please check the web site before submitting, and good luck! Please let OSPA know when and where your poems have been published! Please feel free to let us know about your journal and/or press and its submission guidelines so that we can share that information with all of our members.

CURRENT CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

http://encompass.eku.edu/ninepatch/

Call for Submissions

The inaugural issue of ninepatch will appear in June 2012 for the spring/summer season. The theme for this issue is “Awakenings,” and we encourage writers and artists to interpret this broadly and creatively. We are accepting submissions from February 1 through April 30, 2012.

Like the quilt pattern it’s named for, ninepatch: A Journal for Women & Gender Studies,  gathers the work of emerging and experienced artists who strive to express gender in all of its forms. We will accept quality work that deals with gender through words, images, sounds, mixed media, or other types of the human experience that can be reproduced in an online format.

Our definition of art is flexible, and the journal will accept traditional literary forms and traditional artwork, as well as representations of domestic arts and contemporary and experimental forms that blur genres. ninepatch is looking for variety in the expression of gender. 

The Details

Please, no simultaneous or multiple submissions. Unpublished work only. Limit of 5 pieces per submission.

Written work should be in a 12 point font. Poetry should be single-spaced, and prose should be double-spaced.

Please submit written work as a Microsoft Word, RTF, Word Perfect, or high-quality PDF file. Please submit artwork as a jpeg. If you are submitting video or film, please see the web site for submission instructions. 

All submissions will be considered without the artist’s name or contact information being sent to the editors. Please do not include your name and contact information anywhere on your work; that information will be stored in the online submissions manager, and your submission will be assigned a number for reference purposes.

Response Times

People submitting work should hear back within 3 months of their submission time. However, some response times will be much shorter.

Payment

Unfortunately, ninepatch cannot pay its contributors at this time.

Types of Submissions Considered: 

*written poetry

*spoken word/slam poetry

*fiction

*nonfiction essays

*memoir and other forms of creative nonfiction

*academic articles that are written for a general audience

*reviews of gender-related books, art shows, and other media

*interviews of artists, activists, community leaders

*short-short plays

*theatrical monologues

*short-short films

*song

*sculpture

*paintings

*fiber arts

*photography

*culinary arts 

*mixed media

*work that is hybrid, experimental, and/or difficult to classify

*did we forget to mention your medium? submit it!

The Online Submission Manager

Once on the site, you will need to click the “Submit Article” link, which will ask you to create an account. After you do that, you will receive an immediate confirmation via email, and you may return to the site, log in, and submit your work. 

Because the system is set up to accept academic articles, the submission manager will ask you to provide an institutional affiliation. If you are not currently working at a college or university, just type in any college you like--the one from which you graduated, the one from which you wish you graduated, your mother’s alma mater, the college down the road, etc., or NA. We are working to make the entire submission process more artist-friendly soon.

You will receive an email after your submission is received. Please note the following, which will be part of this conformation email:

            The manuscript has been assigned #----. Please refer to this number in any   correspondence related to the submission. Authors may check the status of the submission and contact editors via the following link: 

            http://encompass.eku.edu/cgi/preview.cgi?article=1000&context=ninepatch

You will be assigned a number as ninepatch is going to read all submissions blind. Please do not put your name and/or contact information directly on your work.

Rights

ninepatch retains first rights for publication. Upon publication, all rights revert to the author. ninepatch reserves the right to reprint work at a later date in digital or hardcopy if we wish to create an anthology at a later date and want to include your work. We ask that published authors and artists acknowledge ninepatch in the event of further publication.

We appreciate you considering ninepatch, and we look forward to seeing your work

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We are pleased to announce the birth of a new poetry publication, Fault Lines Poetry.  It is named after the Cascadia earthquake fault line that runs from San Francisco all the way to Vancouver, BC.  We hope
that its selection of poems will rock your world and make you all wobbly at the knees.

We invite poems of all kinds, addressing all types of themes.

Please participate in this home grown Portland project by submitting

your poems to our web site:  www.faultlinespoetry.org.  The journal will be published Spring of 2012 and copies will be distributed to bookstores throughout the West Coast. 
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PHANTOM DRIFT: A JOURNAL OF NEW FABULISM
Call for Submissions.
Phantom Drift Limited announces that we are accepting submissions for our second issue, “Writing the Weird, Wyrding the Word,” beginning December 1, 2011. We will be reading through March 31, 2012. Our first issue, "Perfect Conditions for Magical Thinking," was a perfectbound, 160 pg. literary journal released October 1, 2011, and included an outstanding field of diverse and talented writers from around the country and overseas. We encourage you to read a copy so you can familiarize yourself with the range of work we are seeking. We enjoyed meeting a number of Oregon writers at Wordstock and hope you will favor us with a submission. We’re looking for flash fiction, short stories, poetry and prose poems, work readers might label as new weird, slipstream and/or fantastic, work our poetry editor, Matt Schumacher, says “shatters or valuably distorts reality, whether this means surrealism, magic realism, fantastique, or bizarrerie.” Fiction editor Leslie What likes stories “that favor the unusual over the usual…stories that create a milieu where anything can happen.” We pay on publication ($10-$25 for flash fiction up to 2,000 words and $50 for short stories 2001 – 6500 words, $10 per poem, $10-$50 for interviews and critical essays—plus one contributor copy). Submissions can be made on our website at: http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/pd.html Just click on SUBMIT button and you can use Submittable.com to submit your story, poem or article in Word or Rich Text Format. Phantom Drift 1 may be purchased from our site for $15 postage paid. Subscriptions to #2 can be made by sending payment to: Phantom Drift, c/o Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC, PO Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850. There are no submission fees.
Phantom Drift Limited is a non-profit organization dedicated to building an understanding of and appreciation for New Fabulism and a Literature of the Fantastic. The journal will be published in the fall of each year. Donations are deductible.
Fiction inquiries can be sent to Leslie What at phantomdriftfiction@yahoo.com
Poetry inquiries to Matt Schumacher at phantomdriftpoetry@yahoo.com
All other inquiries can be made to David Memmott, Managing Editor: phantomdrifteditor@yahoo.com
We're looking forward to seeing your best work.
David Memmott, Managing Editor
 

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Bunchgrass Poetry Prize
$500 and publication in basalt
Submit up to three unpublished poems (100 line limit for each), any subject, any style or form, postmarked between October 1 and December 31, 2011.

Guidelines:
Author’s name must not appear on any manuscript page. Include a cover sheet with name, address, phone, email, and title(s) of poems submitted.
Submissions must be accompanied by a SASE for announcement of winners. Include a stamped postcard if you wish to be notified of receipt of ms. MSS will be recycled.

All manuscripts must be in 12 point font.
Writers may submit as often as they wish. We do accept simultaneous submissions as long as the author informs us immediately should a piece be accepted elsewhere.

There is a $10.00 nonrefundable reading fee per submission (three poems). Make checks payable to basalt.
No relatives of or employees of basalt and EOU are eligible for these prizes.

The winner of the Bunchgrass Poetry Prize will be announced on our webpage and published in the Spring issue 2011. All manuscripts will be considered for possible publication.
Winners will also be announced in the electronic media.
Judge will be announced at the time the winner is named.
Send submissions to:
basalt—Bunchgrass Poetry Prize
One University Blvd.
Eastern Oregon University
La Grande, OR 97850

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 Poetry Marquee downtown CorvallisPoetry for the Public

The next time you are strolling along the Corvallis downtown waterfront, be sure to take a peek at the Madison Street side of the Great Harvest Bread building – you'll be treated to periodically-rotating examples of local poetry. Read some past selections below.

The History of the Poetry Marquee
In 1998, Linda Modrell, the Benton County Commissioner, was presented with the sign of the defunct Midway Theater (formerly located on Hwy 20). Modrell wanted the sign to be preserved and enjoyed by the public. David Livingston of Endex Engineering generously volunteered to restore and hang the sign on an Endex-owned building at the corner of Southwest First Street and Madison Avenue.

Once the sign was in place, David Livingston approached The Arts Center about filling the sign with artwork. Hester Coucke, The Arts Center's Curator, suggested that poetry would be an art form true to the original purpose of the sign: a means for displaying words. The Arts Center formed a committee to select the poems, and Endex Engineering continues to provide volunteer help in hanging the new poems periodically.

Send in Your Poetry for Consideration!

Guidelines:

• Poems should be a maximum of 6 lines long
• Poems can be of any style but they should be appropriate for all audiences
• Poets of any age can submit
• Poets must reside in Linn or Benton County
• Email submissions are preferred, but hard copies are accepted (though they will not be returned)
• Submissions are reviewed all year long, please limit to three poems max.
• Poets can only be on the marquee ONCE per calendar year. 

Email poetry submissions to Mary VanDenend.

Mailing address:
     Mary VanDenand
     Poetry Marquee
     The Arts Center
     700 SW Madison Ave
     Corvallis, OR 97333

Visit the Poetry Marquee in person! 
Go to Great Harvest Bread at 134 Southwest 1st Street, Corvallis, OR -- the sign is hung on the South side of the building

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 ****CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*****

Greetings Fellow Writer,

It is my great pleasure to announce the opening of the reading period for
the fourth issue of Mason's Road, an online journal for literature and the
arts. As someone who has considered Mason's Road as a potential home for
your work in the past, I wanted to let you know that we are once again
accepting submissions. Our theme for this issue is "Image", and as
always, we will be looking for broad interpretations and exciting new
takes on
this element of craft.

I hope that you will once again submit your poetry, fiction, creative
non-fiction, drama, artwork, and even essays exploring the utilization of
image in writing. The submission period will close on November 15, 2011,
and the issue will go live shortly after the new year. Please share this
information with your fellow writers, and know that my team and I are
anxiously awaiting your exciting new work.

Further details, and our online submission manager can be found at:

www.masonsroad.com/about-2/submission-guidelines/

Of course, if you have further questions, please feel free to contact me.

Happy writing,
--
Colin D. Halloran

Editor in Chief, Mason's Road
www.masonsroad.com

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Airlie Press announces an open call for book-length poetry manuscripts. One or two manuscripts will be selected, to be published in the fall of 2013.

Deadline: September 24, 2011.

For more information about Airlie Press, visit http://www.airliepress.org

Airlie Press is a nonprofit poetry collective based in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. We seek manuscripts from poets who live within driving distance of the Monmouth area (where we hold our monthly meetings) and who are willing and able to commit to a three-year term of doing the shared work of running a collective press.

Each member’s book is published in the second year of his or her term. Authors have the final say about the content and presentation of their books. All profits are returned to the collective.

Submission guidelines:

Manuscripts are to be submitted electronically to airliepress@yahoogroups.com and sent no later than Sept. 24, 2011.

Manuscripts should be 65-80 pages in length, with the line spacing set at 1.5. Documents may be sent as .doc, .rtf, or .pdf files. The manuscript file should be paginated, with a title page, a table of contents, and an acknowledgements page. Your name and contact information should not appear anywhere on your manuscript.

The subject line of the e-mail should read: manuscript submission.

Please submit with your manuscript file a second file that includes 1) a personal statement page explaining why you would like to join the group and what interests and skills you might bring, and 2) a copy of your manuscript’s title page that includes your name, address, phone number, and email address.

If we are interested in publishing your manuscript, we will invite you to meet with us in early December 2011 to talk about how the group works and to answer your questions. The meeting is a chance for both you and the Press to decide if our collaborative approach is right for you at this point in your writing life. We’ll announce our decision as soon as possible.

The selected manuscript(s) will be published in the fall of 2013.

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Seeking submissions for haiku anthology … SW focus

I have some excellent haiku for the ‘small canyons 6 anthology’, but I still haven’t heard from many of you and do need at least 15 to 20 more people to submit. The rules are simple just send me about 12 haiku or related poems and a 3 line bio by email asap. I want to compile and get ready to print by the end of August so please submit.

small canyons 6 anthology’

Send in 10 to 20 haiku or haikuesk poems haiku, traditional, modern, or experimental, senryuu, tanka, cinquain, haibun, SciFaiku, rengay or sequence to me by email if possible and a 3 to 4 line bio. Send to japple@dfn.com asap, deadline Aug.15 Write ‘small canyons' in the subject place, place the haiku and bio in the body of the email, it comes through better that way. The haiku will be published in a chapbook with a folded color cardstock cover with (I hope) 50 to 60 pages

If you want a copy of the book it will cost $10 which includes postage which you can order from me at.

Jim Applegate [japple@dfn.com]

601 Fulkerson Drive

Roswell, NM 88203-4127

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Your Daily Poem (www.yourdailypoem.com) is looking for poems that are entertaining, amusing, inspiring, or thought-provoking; for specific guidelines, go to http://www.yourdailypoem.com/page/guidelines.

The site launched two years ago with a goal of reaching out to those who think poetry is boring. Founder and host Jayne Jaudon Ferrer believes "people who think they don't like poetry simply haven't been exposed to enough of it." The South Carolina author is trying to make poetry a part of ordinary people's everyday life by e-mailing them a daily, weekly, or monthly poem—along with a few lines of relevant commentary. Shocked but delighted at the site’s success, Ferrer says it confirms what she's suspected all along: "People do enjoy poetry if they understand it."

YourDailyPoem.com features contemporary and classic poetry, along with international poetry, ancient poetry, cowboy poetry, and even experimental poetry. "I'm open to whatever I think my subscribers will enjoy." When they don't enjoy a poem, subscribers are quick to say so, but they're equally quick to pay compliments. Seldom does a day pass without Ferrer hearing from her readers. "We love the feedback, and it directly impacts the poems we feature.”

Ferrer stresses that Your Daily Poem is an anomaly among poetry publishers. "Our goal is to leave people feeling good about what they read. A happy ending's not mandatory, but we’re not the right venue for angst-filled dirges or dark, profane rants.” She suggests browsing the site's archives to get a feel for the tone of poetry preferred.

Submissions to www.YourDailyPoem.com should be sent in the body of an e-mail to info@yourdailypoem.com. A jpg of a head shot or candid photo may be attached. Copyright information and publication details, if applicable, should be included in the body of the e-mail, along with an author bio of 100 words or less giving personal details rather than a list of awards or publications. “Our audience doesn’t know or care what a Pushcart is. They’re much more interested in knowing you were inspired to write by your fourth grade teacher or that you collect comic books or raise cockatiels."