Magazines
Submitting poems and short stories to magazines was something mentioned at the Creative Writing Day, so I thought we’d start a list of magazines here.
Agenda
Ambit
Anon
Blithe Spirit
The Dark Horse
Edinburgh Review
Eildon Tree
Envoi
Iota
Lallans
Magma
Mslexia
New Writing Scotland
North
Northwords Now
PN Review
Poetry London
Poetry Scotland
The Rialto
Smiths Knoll
Stand
The Wolf
Most of these titles have websites (Google them) that tell you what they publish, how often, and what their submission guidelines are. ALWAYS read the guidelines and follow them exactly. Readers are asked to suggest additions to this list.
Four journals for your New Year’s Reading Pleasure
Submissions are now open for all four journals:
Contemporary Haibun Online (January 1, 2012)
http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/
http://haibuntoday.com/
A Hundred Gourds (December 2011)
http://ahundredgourds.com
Notes from the Gean (December 2011)
http://notesfromthegean.com/currentissue.html
And a listing of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka journals:
http://raysweb.net/haiku/pages/publicationvenues.html
Earthlines magazine – detailed submission guidelines here.
Timbuktu – Call for Submissions
Received as email:
Dear Colin,
We are in the process of creating a new literary publication titled Timbuktu. This magazine is a imaginatory travel journal featuring all forms of creative writing from a variety of contributors. We are currently seeking submissions to form the basis of our premier issue.
We are particularly interested in featuring unpublished writers, to give them a platform from which their work can reach a larger audience. However, we also hope to receive works from more recognised writers who are interested in the concept of this magazine and seeing it reach its full potential.
Attached to this e-mail is a PDF of our publication’s mission statement and further information about what we are looking for from contributors.
As mentioned in the e-mail the deadline is the 23rd of February 2012. We will still consider submissions up to a week after this date but due to time and printing constraints we cannot guarantee inclusion.
The premier issue of Timbuktu will be published midway through March 2012 and will be featured as part of a new publications exhibition at The Russian Club, Hoxton, London on the 15th of March. All contributors will be invited to attend.
Thank you for your time and consideration. We hope you are as excited as we are about this project and we look forward to reading your contribution.
If you have any questions or are interested please reply directly to this e-mail or contact us via the numbers or e-mails listed on the mission statement.
Yours Sincerely,
Joseph Egan – Editor in Chief
http://timbuktumagazine.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/#!/Timbuktu_Mag
Call for submissions: an anthology of ecopoetry by Two Ravens Press
Following our recent initiative to refocus our list on ‘eco-literature’ and writing that challenges and unpicks the status quo (see www.tworavenspress.com), and the announcement of our new magazine, EarthLines, Two Ravens Press is delighted to announce that, in November 2012, we will publish a volume of collected ecopoetry that addresses the complex relationship between people and the natural world.
As we face the reality of climate change and the likelihood of irreversible damage to the biosphere, we are frequently called to alter our behaviour and lifestyles, to revisit our relationship with the environment and, somehow, to ‘reconnect with nature’. But what does reconnection mean, and, more importantly, what does it imply? And does literature, and specifically poetry, have any role to play in that reconnection? Is it ‘the song of the earth’ as has been claimed? Can a poem help bridge the growing dissociation that pervades the relationships between contemporary humans and the natural world? Is poetry in itself a form of environmental action, or can it inspire action?
In November 2012 Two Ravens Press will publish a volume of new poetry that addresses these questions. With an introduction by Dr David Borthwick (University of Glasgow) which questions the moods of estrangement, guilt and elegy which one finds in recent poetic responses to nature, the anthology will be the focus for a new wave of poetry that seeks to directly respond to the world in which we find ourselves, and that dramatises a growing hunger for a meaningful connection with the earth.
We are now requesting submissions for this volume.
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If you would like to submit your work to our ecopoetry anthology, please email up to three poems that clearly fit the brief above to editors Sharon Blackie and David Knowles at info[at]tworavenspress[dot]com. We will accept attachments in Microsoft Word format only, or poetry can be included in the body of the email. We will ONLY accept submissions by email. Please include a short biography with your submission, in the body of the email.
The deadline for submissions is March 31 2012.
We are looking for new, previously unpublished poetry – unless it appears in a very recent or forthcoming collection (in which case please note that we have no budget for permissions fees, and inclusion in the anthology would need to be agreed in writing with the relevant publisher of the collection on that basis).
Octavius is a new literary magazine aimed at students in Scotland – http://www.octaviusmagazine.com/
Octavius aims to bridge the gap between being an unpublished student and submitting to professional magazines and journals. Octavius accepts work of any genre and looks for writing which is fresh, unique and exciting. Octavius only accepts entries from students in Scotland, regardless of their studied subject. Therefore, submissions must be made from a Scottish university or college e-mail account.
Octavius invites submissions of up to 3000 words of fiction or 120 lines of poetry.
Submission details can be found at http://www.octaviusmagazine.com/submissions.html
e-zines
Here are some links to online publications (web-zines, e-zines, call them what you like). Why not try submitting poems to these sites? Members are asked to send me details of any other e-publications they come across.
Note that each of these sites will have guidelines on how and what to submit. Note also that publication on the web constitutes ‘publication’ within the definition of that word. Some magazines won’t accept work that’s previously been published online.
Karen lists the online poetry magazine Antiphon, which I’ve not come across before, but it sounds good. Link.
Another good one for poetry is Snakeskin. Link
qarrtsiluni is an ambitious zine which usually features themed issues. Link
The online presence of Poetry Scotland magazine has its famous ‘Open Mouse’ page, which I edit. Read the guidelines and send something. Link
Playwrights Studio has a monthly e-bulletin which lists opportunities for playwrights – stage, screen and radio. Link
