Author of Eat, Pray, Love:

http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

If Poetry Journal Seeks Poems for Third Issue

www.ifpoetryjournal.blogspot.com

If Poetry Journal is now seeking poetry for its third issue. The theme is tentatively “music,” though I’m interested in seeing a variety of poetry about any subject.  If you would like to submit 1-5 poems, please e-mail them to me (Don Illich) at ifpoetryjournaleditor at gmail dot com. No attachments, please put your poems in the body of your e-mail. Basic cover letter preferred. No previously published poems. Each contributor will receive one contributor’s copy. The deadline for poetry submissions is April 25, 2008.

The journal’s Web site is

www.ifpoetryjournal.blogspot.com.

From US Poets in Mexico

http://www.uspoetsinmexico.org/index.html

Poetry Workshops ~ Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
May 23 to May 30, 2009
Jerome Rothenberg, Mary Jo Bang, Lisa Alvarado, Marc Weiss, Susan Rich

In May, 2009 we will bring our program to the culturally sophisticated, lush mountain town of Xalapa, State of Veracruz.  Our program will focus on Poetry Workshops, nightly readings and may also include lectures.

Our distinguished faculty poets will include Jerome Rothenberg, Mary Jo Bang, Marc Weiss, Susan Rich, and Lisa Alvarado.  Our free public readings will include all faculty poets, and two notable Mexican poets currently living in  Mexico City,  José Vicente Anaya (born in Villa Coronado, Chihuahua) and Luis Cortés Bargalló (born in Tijuana, B.C.).  Spanish lessons are optional, as are two  Day Trips.  During the week of our program, the city of Xalapa will host the Annual International June Music Festival (which starts during the last week of May and continues until the beginning of July).

This week’s article is the first place winner in the winter 2009 No-Contest Contest. We’d love to read your responses to the essay as well as any questions you have about what makes an effective narration essay.

Details for the  Ernest Hemingway Festival short story contest 2009 Prose For Papa:

http://www.visitsunvalley.com/static/index.cfm?contentID=555

Non-refundable $15 entry fee must be sent with the entry.  Checks should be made out to the Community Library.

Cash prize of $500.

First place winner will be published on this website.

Stories will be judged by _______________.

Entries must be previously unpublished, original work, typed double spaced,

and no longer than 2600 words or 10 pages. One entry per person.

Attach a separate cover sheet with title, author name, address, email, and telephone numbers.

The story itself should not bear anything but the title and page numbers.

May re-submit a non-winning entry from 2008.

Deadline for submission: May 31, 2009

The symposium reserves one-time rights to print the winner on the website.

Mail entries to Prose for Papa ATTN: Sue Bailey PO BOX 2420 Sun Valley, ID 83353

CALL FOR POETRY: Her Mark 2010

deadline March 6, 2009

Entry form available at

http://womanmade.org/pdfs/hermarkpoetry2010.pdf

WMG is looking to showcase a variety of compelling, sensitive, and provocative
poetry by women for the annual HER MARK publication. All themes and styles are
welcome. Selected poems will be featured together with visual art in a bound
publication. The publication is 5x 7; poems submitted should be able to
fit on one page of this size.

Poetry Juror: Maureen Seaton. Maureen Seaton has won numerous prizes for her poetry, including an NEA
fellowship, the Lambda Literary Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Audre Lorde
Award, and the Pushcart Prize. She has facilitated poetry workshops at Columbia
College Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and at Woman Made Gallery. In
1995/1996, she curated a reading series entitled “Woman As Culture” for the
Gallery. Maureen Seaton teaches poetry and literary collage at the University of
Miami, Florida.

Subscriber Mary Long suggests:
http://virtualteahouse.com

http://sacredfiremagazine.com

She says: “They both look like generous publications with opportunity for submissions.”

Writer’s Digest’s 78th huge writing contest!  Deadline May 15th. Big money prizes!

This week Sheila interviewed Jack Heffron on what goes into writing interview articles.  After you read the article, take some time to think about (and offer others) your own ideas on how you might go about building a publication history by doing interviews. What view into our personal contacts might help you figure out interesting interviews and places to publish them?  If you have had experience submitting interviews to publications, what has that been? Let us know.

Barbara Sjoholm’s Author-Editor Clinic exists to provide effective and reasonably priced editing for your book project. We believe in working with you to shape your manuscript into its best possible form. Thoughtful, respectful communication is at the core of our philosophy, and we strive to make the editing experience positive and encouraging. Our editing services have been used by satisfied authors of literary and commercial fiction, memoirs and travel tales, as well as other works of nonfiction, since 2004. We provide substantial critiques that can help take your book project to the next level.

2009 Spring and Summer Clinics receiving manuscripts now.