PENNY DREADFUL CALL FOR SUBS

The lovely Penny Dreadful lads want your work - preferably 'ball-grabbing, punch-in-the-face writing from nice, courteous ladies and gents.' And 'no funny fonts'. Yes! Send your stories and poems here.

FLASH FRONTIER - CALL FOR SUBS

New Zealand based online literary mag Flash Frontier is calling for subs for its next international issue.

Theme: High Tide

Word count: 250

Closing date: March 31st

More subs info here.

ABRIDGED - PRIMAL - CALL FOR SUBS

The beautiful Abridged magazine wants your work, poetry and/or art:

Abridged 0 - 29: Primal

Submission Call

What first was humanity, in its primal condition, still smouldering with instinct and fear? We shift about in mind-forged manacles, the cold and viscous layer of the urban which closes us in with crusting edges. We are numbed and enveloped in the thick residue of industry and development. Lines of buildings, artificial languages and artificial lives, leave us unfeeling in unchallenged survival and a lost human heritage.

And we, low to the ground and overwhelmed in the sensurround, were marked with earth and the stench of other bodies. We were flooding inside, unlived and burning. All of our skin, naked to the air and to the movements of gravel under our pulsing palms and the balls of our feet; a charged weather encloses bare flesh, flailing bodies lit by a deep sun.  We are locked and tangled in cyclical smoke movements around the flames and we are howling.

Abridged seeks poetry or art for its 0 – 29: Primal issue exploring the roots of love, hate, fear, the animal part of us we continually wage war with. Up to three poems may be submitted. Artwork can be up to A4 size and should be 300dpi or above. Entries can (preferably) be emailed to us at abridged@ymail.com or can be posted to: Abridged c/o Verbal Arts Centre, Stable Lane and Mall Wall, Bishop Street Within, Derry BT48 6PU. Deadline for submissions is 8^th March 2013. www.abridgedonline.com

THE STINGING FLY - WINTER 2012

The new Stinging Fly dropped welcomingly (how's that for a horrible, made-up adverb?!) through my letterbox this morning. I am dying to snuggle up with it for a read.

They have changed their subs guides for 2013: they will accept submissions in February, June and October. They will effectively, from now on, be working two issues in advance. So, submissions received in February 2013 will be considered for the October issue (Winter 2013-14); June 2013 submissions will be read for the Spring 2014 issue; October 2013 submissions will be read for the Summer 2014 issue.
The postal address for submissions is: The Stinging Fly, PO Box 6016, Dublin 1, Ireland. They do not accept e-mail submissions. More here.

BARE HANDS POETRY - SUBS

A new online poetry journal is seeking submissions. They say:


Contemporary poetry from around the world. Ten poems will be published each month. Write it with your bare hands…

To submit please send max five poems to barehandspoetry@gmail.com. Please include poems in the body of the email rather than as attachments. Mark the subject field as ‘poetry submission’. Please include a short biography.

Go to Bare Hands

GREG O'DONOGHUE SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

The shortlist for the Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition has been announced by Munster Lit. Congrats to all the listees:

Stephen Beese (North Carolina, USA), 'Death of Alaska'

Marina Blitshteyn (New York, USA), 'Winding the Watch'

Mike Casey (Co. Dublin, Ireland), 'Bulloch Harbour, Winter 09'

Magdalena Cullen (Cork, Ireland), 'Two Things'

Caroline M Davies (Bedfordshire, UK), 'At Sea'

Peggie Gallagher (Sligo, Ireland), 'In Her Later Years'

Noel King (Co. Kerry, Ireland), 'Danger'

Jim Maguire (Wexford, Ireland), 'Water Ghosts'

Michael McKimm (London, UK) 'The Ice Harvest'

Patrick Moran (Co. Tipperary, Ireland), 'So Much'

Tadhg Russell (Co. Cork, Ireland), 'Superstition'

Tadhg Russell (Co. Cork, Ireland), 'The Wood'

KC Trommer (New York, USA), 'First Map'

CRANNÓG 25 - SUBS CALL

Crannóg Magazine of Galway is celebrating its 25^th issue in October and preparations are already underway to make it a landmark issue. It is now open internationally to submissions of fiction (max 2000 words) and poetry (max 50 lines) until the closing date of September 1st. Definitely the magazine to be in this autumn.

Submissions may be sent by email to editor@crannogmagazine.com or posted to:

Crannóg Magazine, Galway Language Centre, Bridge Mills, Galway, Ireland.

Before submitting please read complete submission details on their website.

Abridged 0 – 21 - Call for poetry & art subs

Abridged is a beautifully produced magazine out of Derry. They are looking for poems and art on the theme of Magnolia. Yes, Magnolia - the queen of paint colours. Closing date 21st May.
See below for their call for subs:

"In the world of colour charts and iconic English sheepdogs, Magnolia represents the fence-sitting hue that neither offends or accosts the senses. Adorning the walls of TurnKey packaged homes of first-time buyers or haunting the corners of final destination rest homes of howls and despair, Magnolia stalks us from the cradle to the grave. It is the bastard offspring of white: it is the disgraced sibling of beige. It is nothingness yet it is everywhere. It is Abridged 0 – 21.

Abridged, the poetry/art magazine is looking for submissions for its Magnolia issue. A maximum of 3 poems may be submitted of any length. Art can be up to A4 size and can be in any media. It should be at least 300 dpi. Submissions can be emailed to abridged@ymail.com or posted to: Abridged c/o The Verbal Arts Centre, Stable Lane and Mall Wall, Bishop Street Within, Derry BT48 6PU. Closing date for submission is May 21st."

WRITE FOR SUCCOUR - TOMORROW ONLY

I love this challenge from Succour and I hope to try it. Eek! I'm breaking out in a sweat just thinking about the PRESSURE!

DETAILS:

For the next issue of Succour, we would like to invite submissions which pertain not to a theme, as has hitherto been the case, but which adhere to a pair of conditions.

 

Condition 1: All submissions should be written on Saturday February 6th, 2010.
Condition 2: What you write should not be an attempt to execute an idea – for a story, for a poem, etc – that has previously occurred to you. Rather, we would prefer you to write whatever happens to come into your head at that particular time.

 

The idea for this issue was inspired by 20 Lines a Day by Harry Mathews, in which the author sets out to follow a rule Stendhal once set himself, to write ‘Twenty lines a day, genius or not’. Mathews undertakes this project in an attempt to overcome ‘the anxiety of the blank page’; it becomes part of his writing practice, his way of starting off, getting in the zone, before going on to whatever his main writing project may be. We would like submissions to February 6th, 2010 to be written in the same spirit.

 

We will be accepting submissions to February 6th, 2010 from Saturday February 6th 2010 until Monday February 8th 2010 – thereby allowing a couple of days for typing up etc.

 

Maximum word count: 400

 

Please send your work to: succourdublin@gmail.com

REVIVAL - CALL FOR POETRY SUBS

Revival, the poetry journal of the WhiteHousePoets, is calling for submissions from local, national and international poets for the next issue which will be published in Limerick, January 2010.

The deadline for submissions is the 30th Nov 2009

Send to: The Editor, Revival, Moravia, Glenmore Ave., Roxboro Rd., Limerick.

Email: revival1@eircom.net

Submission guidelines here.

CALL FOR SUBS - THE CATHACH

This arrived into my inbox yesterday:

THE CATHACH is a new online literary magazine, to be published twice yearly in a summer and winter edition by Sligo County libraries, with the aim of showcasing quality new writing in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. While honouring the literary traditions of Sligo and the Northwest, THE CATHACH will feature work from both new and established writers throughout Ireland and abroad. At a time when many smaller literary magazines are facing difficulties, it aims to provide a vital outlet for the best contemporary writing, making exciting new work freely available to a vast online readership around the world.

Submissions to THE CATHACH are now invited. The next issue is: July 09. Submission deadline is May 22nd.
Short Fiction or Non Fiction up to 4000 words will be considered. Poems may be any length.
Work to be submitted by email to: editorthecathach@sligococo.ie
Authors retain all copyright in their work.

WEST 47 - CALL FOR SUBS

My 100th post! Yay!

The 22nd edition of West 47 will be published online by Galway Arts Centre in September. They are inviting work by Friday 29th August 2008. Prose: 2000 words, or 75 lines in total for poetry.

For postal submissions, include a cover letter giving your name, address, phone number and email address; a 75-100 word biographical note and an SAE (please note IRC’s are NOT accepted in Ireland). You must also include a word version of your submission on floppy disk. No identifying information on the submission itself. Postal submissions can be sent to west47, Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, Galway, Ireland.

For email submissions: a cover message with all the info as for postal entries; submission should be included in the body of the email AND as an attachment. Email submissions can be sent to miles@galwayartscentre.ie.

SHORT ON SUGAR

Here's a fun call for subs from the Vestal Review site. A 7 to 13 word bittersweet love story:

Maybe you've heard about the success of "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs" anthology? (Amazon rank 532 as of 4/1/08, probably unheard of for an anthology).

Would you like to participate in a similar anthology, "Short on Sugar, High on Honey. Bittersweet Love Stories?" All stories are between seven words (lucky number) and thirteen (bad luck). Original stories only. No titles.

We already have a NYC agent for this project and would like to move ASAP.

Submit to SHORTONSUGAR at VESTALREVIEW dot NET as pasted text. No attachments. Include your physical and your e-mail addresses. Submit as many stories as you want, but each in a separate e-mail. Put "Short on Sugar" in the subject line. Please do not use any other subject lines or your submission will be deleted by the system.

We will only reply to accepted submissions.

Erotic Issue of The Stinging Fly

The Stinging Fly literary magazine is looking for submissions for a special erotic edition.
Guest editor Seán O’Reilly is ‘seeking short stories and poems - and anything in between - which explore the excesses of sexual desire as their explicit theme or that simply seek to stimulate sexual arousal for their own ends.’
Submissions for this special issue should be marked for the attention of Seán and posted to PO Box 6016, Dublin 8 to arrive on or before Friday, March 14th 2008.
See: The Stinging Fly