This blog is kept by Shelly Bryant as an extension of her of Poetry and Writing Coach service. Here, you will find updates on courses and services offered, news about new literary magazines, calls for submissions, discussions about poetry and writing, updates about upcoming activities (courses, readings, launches, etc.), insights from other writers and artists with whom Shelly has worked or is currently working, and maybe some creative writing, from time to time.
Posted By Shelly on May 17, 2012
Diagram is an online journal featuring both art and text. The guidelines page offers good suggestions for what the editors are looking for.
Even more importantly, the content is all online, so you can read back issues and get a good feel for what they want the good old fashioned way — by reading.
Posted By Shelly on May 14, 2012
ADULTERY, idolatry, and dismemberment!
This anthology is seeking poems that explore the Bible’s sexy, gritty, glittery side. In the Biblical Sense: An Anthology of ApocryphalPoetry invites you to submit up to 3 poems to inthebiblicalsenseanthology@gmail.com.
Submission guidelines and prompts at http://inthebiblicalsense.weebly.com.
Posted By Shelly on May 11, 2012
The Golden Key, a journal of stories inspired by the Grimm brother’s fairy tale “The Golden Key,” is open for submissions.
The magazine wants fiction and poetry that is both literary and speculative, realist work sensitive to the magical and strange, the fantastical, slipstream, fabulist, and gothic.
For this issue, The Golden Key is looking for things that are sharp: knives and scalpels, cutting remarks, pins and needles, shards and jagged edges, sudden turns and abrupt drops. The submission period for the sharp things issue is May 1 to July 31, 2012.
To submit, send an email to submissions[at]whatwonderfulthings[dot]net with “Submission: Your Title Here [Fiction/Poetry]” in the subject line. Your work should be emailed as an attachment; we accept documents in .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf formats. One story (under 6000 words) or three poems (under 100 lines each).
Posted By Shelly on May 8, 2012
I’ve recently had a couple of poems appear at Eunoia Review. ”In Captivity, by the Streams of Babylon” is a reprint of a piece that was exhibited at Things Disappear in Shanghai in 2011. ”Random Access Memory” is published at Eunoia Review for the first time.
Both of these poems are in a form I call “erasure,” for reasons that will be clear when you have a look at them. (Or, if it isn’t immediately clear, then highlight the text at those sites and you’ll see how the form works.) I like how the form says something by taking away, how it speaks through the negative spaces.
I came to the form via Edwin Morgan, one of my favorite poets. I don’t know that he ever referred to it as “erasure,” but it is what I call it. His poem “Message Clear” is one that just floored me when I first read it. He was not the only (nor the first) poet to write using this technique, but that particular piece made an especially deep impression on me, and it was the one that compelled me to experiment with the form myself.
I’ve experimented with erasure on several occasions, with varying degrees of success. What I love most about it is the way it forces you to discover poetry in words not (at first) your own. In doing so, it provides you with the opportunity to find yourself in the words of others in a unique way.
Posted By Shelly on May 5, 2012
Fickle Muses is open to submissions. You can see the online submission manager for more details.
Fickle Muses is an online journal of poetry and fiction engaged with myth and legend. A poet or fiction writer is featured each week, with new selections posted on Sundays. Art is updated monthly.
Fickle Muses welcomes submissions of poetry, fiction and art. Submissions are considered year-round and are open to all mythic traditions. Simultaneous and previously published submissions will be considered.
Fickle Muses is a nonpaying market.
Posted By Shelly on May 2, 2012
South 85 magazine is open to submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
See the magazine’s online submission manager for more details on how to submit within each genre.
Posted By Shelly on April 29, 2012
I’ve begun a new project over at HubPages. I am posting regular interviews with authors, especially those who have enjoyed some success in a niche market. You can have a look at those interviews, if you’d like to find some insights into the minds of writers in various fields. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been able to feature:
science fiction writer: Patrick Todoroff
romance writers: Delia Latham, Pamela S. Thibodeaux
Christian fiction writer: N. T. McQueen
magical realism writer: Malcolm Campbell
There will be more coming up. Watch for updates next month.
And, if you are an author and would like to be interviewed, you can get in touch with me either here or at HubPages to arrange an interview.
Posted By Shelly on April 26, 2012
ARTFUL DODGE is an Ohio-based literary magazine that publishes work with a strong sense of place and cultural
landscape.
Besides new American fiction, poetry and narrative essays, the magazine is also interested in contemporary literature in
translation from all over the globe.
Pays $5/page.
Posted By Shelly on April 23, 2012
In Other Words: Merida is looking for submissions of previously unpublished poetry or fiction.
Get more details on how to submit from the website linked above.
Translations and some nonfiction are also welcome.
Posted By Shelly on April 20, 2012
Sufi Journal is calling for submissions.
Sufi is devoted to the study of mysticism in all its aspects – literature, history, poetry, philosophy and practice – irrespective of religious denomination. We welcome submissions of written and artistic works for publication in the journal. Visit Sufijournal.org for more information on how to submit.
