9 Poets and Writer Submission Calls - National
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ANTHOLOGY: RELATIONAL AGGRESSION IN FEMALES. Seeking essays from women of all ages, races, and sexual orientations who have experienced bullying during their developmental years from other girls or who have been victims in their adulthood of aggressive, demeaning, or disempowering behavior from other women. The ideal essay will include observations about the emotional impact such experiences have had. Word limit: 1,000. Visit www.changesinlife.com to submit your essay. Put “Anthology” in the title line and the title in the body of the essay.
CALLING ALL POETS to submit an original poem to be included in the 2019 Poetry Leaves Exhibition. Submit poems: www.poetry-leaves.com/submit-your-poem. Poems will be published in the 2019 Anthology. The exhibition is an outdoor exhibit in Waterford, MI, designed to bring poetry into the everyday lives of people. Go to www.poetry-leaves.com.
CALLIOPE POETRY and Bass River Press seek poems for an anthology exploring Cape Cod and the Islands—their specific landmarks, industries, people, environment, history, heritage, and spirit. Send up to 5 poems (previously published OK) in a Word document by June 30 to calliopepoetryanthology@gmail.com. Guidelines: www.cultural-center.org/about/#bass-river-press. No submission fee.
HOME: AN ANTHOLOGY. Flexible Press is seeking MN-connected short stories, essays, poetry, and plays focused on home, in any of its possible meanings. We are looking for a wide range of voices, especially from underrepresented communities. All proceeds go to a housing nonprofit. Deadline: May 15. Website: www.flexiblepub.com.
NEW RIVERS PRESS seeks submissions for the anthology Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Lyric Prose. Though “ecstatic” is often used as a synonym for “joy,” our application of the term embodies the entire emotional palette and is open to any ego-effacing experience of one-ness. Profound grief or outrage can access the ecstatic—as can experiences of extreme pleasure, pain, and wonder. It can explore the profane as much as the sacred and is often an expression of both. So, whirl like a dervish and send us your yawps, pleas, prayers, and curses. Your untamed and uncontained. Submit 3 to 5 poems, prose poems, or lyric nonfiction shorts to https://newriverspress.submittable.com/submit. Author must own the rights to previously published works.
POETRYSOUP.COM—Poetry community with the most poetry resources in the world. Free online poetry contests. All competitions are free. Enter as many contests as you want. You keep copyrights on all your poems. Some poetry contests even have prizes! Run your own poetry contests. Visit: www.poetrysoup.com/poetry/contests.
RATTLE SEEKS submissions by children for our annual Young Poets Anthology—poets must be age 15 or younger. Deadline: June 15. Children, parents, or teachers may send up to 4 poems using our online submission manager. Website: www.rattle.com/children.
SEROTICA: a sex-positive anthology of erotic short stories featuring men who are living with HIV/AIDS and have hot & juicy sex with men in the age of PrEP and U=U. Deadline: April 30. For guidelines: seroticaanthology@gmail.com.
