Last chance to join the Great Poetry Exchange!

90 poets are sending and getting books – Join in by Tuesday!
90 poets signed on to our 22nd annual Great Poetry Exchange so far! Join in…send your book to someone, get a book from someone else. See the list of books pledged so far, and sign up with your own book here. The Deadline to join in is this Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at midnight! (pacific)

How to submit and receive, visit: https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/great_poetry_exchange/

Narratively is currently accepting submissions for their 2023 Profile Prize contest

Deadline: April 14, 2023

They are looking for profile pieces that tell the story of ordinary people or communities doing extraordinary things. The grand prize winner will receive $3,000, and the two finalists will receive $1,000 each. Guest judges are renowned journalists Gay Talese, Lisa Lucas, and Rebecca Traister. For more information and to submit a story, use their pitch form. There is a $20 entry fee and the deadline to submit is April 14, 2023.

How to enter, visit: https://narratively.com/introducing-narrativelys-2023-profile-prize/

Last call! Letter Review Prize for Fiction, Flash Fiction, and Poetry

Deadline: February 28, 2023

The Letter Review Prize is open and accepting fiction, flash fiction, and poem entries!

The Prize is awarded in multiple categories, with a total Prize pool of $2400 USD and publication for our winners.

The Letter Review Prize for Short Stories

Letter Review is offering $1000 USD total Prize pool in a competition for short stories between 1000 – 3000 words. No genre or theme restrictions: all stories are welcome. Open to writers who live anywhere in the world. First Place receives $600 USD and publication, Second Place receives $250 USD and publication, and Third Place receives $150 USD and publication. Twenty writers will be longlisted. All entries are considered for publication, submission to the Pushcart Prize, and further anthologies. The Prize is judged blind to ensure fairness. See our Previous Winners Page here, and our Comments / Testimonials Page here. Enter via Submittable using the button below.

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The Letter Review Prize for Poetry

Letter Review is offering an $800 USD total Prize pool in a competition for poems of not more than 70 lines. No subject or style restrictions: all poems are welcome. Open to writers who live anywhere in the world. First Prize is $400 USD, Second Prize is $250 USD, and Third Prize is $150 USD. All winning entries are published at Letter Review. Twenty poets will be Longlisted. All entries are considered for publication, submission to the Pushcart Prize, and further anthologies. The Prize is judged blind to ensure fairness. See our Previous Winners Page here, and our Comments / Testimonials Page here. Enter via Submittable using the button below.

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The Letter Review Prize for Flash Fiction

Letter Review is offering $600 USD total Prize pool in a competition for short stories up to 1000 words in length. No genre or theme restrictions: all stories are welcome. The Prize is open to writers who live anywhere in the world. First Prize is $300 USD and publication, Second Prize is $200 USD and publication, and Third Prize is $100 USD and publication. Twenty writers will be Longlisted. All entries are considered for publication, submission to the Pushcart Prize, and for further anthologies. The Prize is judged blind to ensure fairness. See our Previous Winners Page here, and our Comments / Testimonials Page here. Enter via Submittable using the button below.

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Visit the website: https://letterreview.com/

Poetry Super Highway Great Poetry Exchange

The mission of the Poetry Super Highway is to expose as many people to as many other people’s poetry as possible.

What?

Send a book – Get a book. In February 2022, the Poetry Super Highway will coordinate a great free exchange of poetry publications amongst poets worldwide.

It’s not a contest. There are no judges, entry fees, winners, or losers.

Last year 89 poets participated both sending their book and receiving another poet’s book from another randomly selected participant

By agreeing to participate, someone will be exposed to your poetry, and you will be exposed to someone else’s poetry.

How?

To participate you must volunteer to mail one copy of one poetry book that you have written to one other person participating. Just one book. In exchange, you will receive in the mail one copy of one poetry book written by a different participating poet.

Please note it is a circular exchange. You will be sending your book to a different poet than you will be receiving one from.

E-books are not eligible for the Great Poetry Exchange. (Save those for our annual e-Book Free-For-All in November!) Your book must be a physical entity. Even if it’s self-published, or ‘one of one’ that you printed from your computer and stapled together…but please, no e-books.

In early March, we will randomly assign the books to each participant and email you the name and address of the person you are supposed to send your book.

We will also list your book and description on this web page along with the link to your website for all to see. In addition, we will list the new books in our weekly e-mail update which goes out to thousands of people.

Please note, as the Great Poetry Exchange is open to everyone on planet Earth, it’s possible that you will be required to send your book to someone outside of your own country which will, of course, cost you more in postage than it would to send it domestically.

Also as our readership, our primarily English speakers, included books must be written in English or at least include an English translation.

Also. we’ll ask that you send us an e-mail in March once your book has actually been sent so we can keep track and make sure that all participants who send a book also get one.

You also must agree to send out your book within 2 weeks of being notified of who to send your book to.

To submit your book, please click here —>> ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM<<–

A Forest in His Pocket by Ray Cicetti
A Forest in His Pocket includes poems of whimsy and imagination, as well as explorations of family relationships. But the poems also speak to something greater that moves and shapes us within the poems themselves.

All Shards and Paste by Joanna “Joey” Polisena
Shards are the chipped-off pieces and eroded grains of myself that I collected from my mid-20s, when I was almost homeless again (yes, again), through my 30s, when I fought through that poverty, depression, and grief to find myself as a survivor.
https://scorchedfeathers.com

Books Pledged So Far:

Anthracite Coal Country; A Bygone Era In PoetryAnd Prose by GC Smith
A poetic history of anthracite coal mining in north-eastern Pennsylvania told through the eyes of the underground miners and their families. Honors those lost to mine disasters.

Armed and Luminous by Richard Allen Taylor
Armed and Luminous riffs on the premise that “If I were running Heaven, I’d have an angel for everything, not just for annunciations and deaths, but one for chance, one for maps, one each for happiness, grief, melodrama, procrastination.”

Coronary Truth by Diane Elayne Dees
Coronary Truth (Kelsay Books, 2020), is a collection of poems that examine our shared experience of fragility through such diverse subjects as the lifespan of a dragonfly, the shock of a friend’s heart attack, the navigation of blind fish, and the mystical waters of baptism.
https://dianeelaynedeesauthor.blogspot.com/

Drowning the Boy by Daniel McGinn
Published by SurVision Magazine in Dublin Ireland, Drowning the Boy was the winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize 2021.

Hogwash Too by Daniel Irwin
A digest size book of forty pages of off the wall, humorous, irreverent, sometimes insane poetry in colorful blank verse. A tribute to life; sex, drugs, rock and roll…toned down for the masses.

I Am Not Writing a Book of Poems in Hawaii by Rick Lupert
Rick Lupert’s 26th collection and latest book of travel poems written in the “holei” land.
https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/

In Search Of The Wondrous Whole by Lara Dolphin
In Search Of The Wondrous Whole “is a book of joyous, juicy, necessary observations of the crucial stuff of everyday life, from the nature of waiting to Linus Pauling choosing a flavor of ice cream. Smooth and knowing, wise and open, these are the poems we need–right now.”– Robert Fromberg
https://www.amazon.com/Search-Wondrous-Whole-Lara-Dolphin/dp/B09RM8GGHM

Invitation to the Dance by June Sanders
A chapbook of Poems of the Fairy Folk, in villanelle, rhyme, un-rhyme, and free verse.
The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.
– Joyce Kilmer

Mirror, Mirror by Cathy MacKenzie
An eclectic collection of poems; some of my favourites, most of them printed here for the first time. Darkish poetry about life and death, although there are a couple of happier ones. Free verse, rhyming, prose-poetry. Several written in collaboration with A.I.
https://writingwicket.wordpress.com/

Music Speaks by Bill Cushing
A chapbook of poems focused on music with illustrations to accompany selected pieces. The is a re-formatting of a book that won awards from both Southern California (2019) and New York City (2021). Topics cover classical to rock but mostly jazz.

Nebraska–Conflicting Reports by Charles Peek
Poems and occasional short essays taken from the award-winning author’s life-long experience of the people and places in the nation’s heartland state, with topical photos.

Opaque Melodies that Would Bug Most People by Corey Mesler
While each poem recounts a snippet of life, together the poems create an earthy blanket that connects readers to a single mind whose voice throughout remains delicate, concrete, and vital, like an old friend. The verse engages the commonplace and the abstract with equal measures thoughtfulness.

Stumbling in CrazyTown by Peggy Gerber
Winner of the 2021 Open Contract Challenge, Stumbling in CrazyTown takes you on a journey from mental illness to back again, and all the lessons learned along the way.

Swimming in the Shallow End by Ron Kolm
A collection of recent poems, many of them dealing with the bookstore I worked in before and after the pandemic of COVID-19.

Trumpets in the Sky by Jerry Garcia
Trumpets in the Sky is a collection of poems that point to the universe while proclaiming the complexities of living on planet earth. These poems are full of astonishment, absurdity, reverence, and social science. Some are surreal, some are staid, all are sincere.
https://www.gratefulnotdead.com/

How to submit your poetry book, go to the online submission form at:

Great Poetry Exchange Book Submission Form

Resident Artist with Mission First Housing Group (F/T, 40 weeks, $40,000)

Deadline: Only submissions received by Friday, February 24, 2023, 11:59pm will be considered.

POSITION SUMMARY

coLAB Arts is looking to hire a trained and experienced socially-engaged artist for a nine-month residency in Edison, NJ with partner agency, Mission First Housing Group (MFHG). This individual should have a passion for community and civic engagement and in telling local, relevant, and resonant stories. This is not a discipline-specific position. Artists of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply including but not limited to performances artists, visual artists, social practice artists, musicians and composers, art therapists, writers, and storytellers.

This is a full-time in-person position over 40 weeks, split between office, studio, and outreach work. Salary will be set at $40,000 for the full term. Artist will also have their own production budget for use through the residency term.

The artist will be working in partnership with MFHG at their two Edison, NJ locations, Imani Park and Amandla Crossing. Studio, office space, and equipment will be made available for the full term of the residency at coLAB Arts’ New Brunswick location. The position is administered by coLAB Arts and supervised by Dan Swern, Producing Director for coLAB Arts.

BACKGROUND

coLAB Arts engages artists, social advocates, and communities to create transformative new work. coLAB Arts and MFHG are committed to cultivating and sharing person-centered narratives from our communities.

MFHG POSITION DESCRIPTION

The coLAB Arts Resident Artist with MFHG in Edison, NJ will be responsible for the development of new work responding to the communities of residents at both the Imani Park and Amandla Crossing permanent supportive housing facilities. The Resident Artist will work in collaboration with service providers of MFHG and their partner organizations, engaging in services and advocacy in support of their residents.

 

DELIVERABLES FOR THE POSITION

Full project deliverables will be developed alongside the applicant in response to their practice and experience but will include:

1. Conduct regular oral histories with service providers, stakeholders, and community members.
2. Facilitate regular monthly public workshops in response to applicant’s practice and experience.
3. Facilitate and attend regular outreach programs with MFHG and partner organizations.
4. Develop and facilitate a final (or series of) creative intervention in collaboration with the coLAB Arts producing team and MFHG in response to the outreach and engagement of the residency, as well as residency goals to be outlined between Residency Artist and partners.

Regular responsibilities include:

1. Public documentation on weekly project and engagement work.
2. Hour tracking and reporting on weekly work deliverables.
3. Public digital archive development and maintenance of produced oral histories.
4. Curriculum development and lesson planning for regular monthly workshops.
5. Weekly meetings and quarterly evaluations with coLAB Arts and MFHG staff.
6. Logistics and attendee management for all facilitated workshop and outreach events.
7. Regular contact with MFHG and coLAB Arts communications teams including sharing of creative content and developing materials based on artist’s work for internal and external communications use.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

Competitive applicants should have demonstrated experience and strength in the following areas:

1. Applicant should have a portfolio of new work, with recent credits indicating continuous production. 
2. Applicant must have a background in socially-engaged art through either a studio or public art practice.
3. Applicant should have demonstrated experience with community engagement and community organizing, and will be expected to lead workshops, classes, and outreach events.
4. Applicant should be able to demonstrate strong writing and communication skills.

Additional Requirements:

1. BFA/BA/BM degree, MFA/MM, and/or MSW preferred
2. At least 5 years of professional experience in socially-engaged creative work
3. Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Suite
4. Preferred that the candidate be bilingual in English and Spanish
5. Have access to a personal computer
6. Be able to work independently
7. Applicant is responsible for their own transportation. Please note that both site locations are not near public transportation.
8. Applicant is responsible for their own procurement of and logistics for specialized equipment for their personal artistic practice.

coLAB Arts does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, age, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, or authorized alien status, or veteran status.

coLAB Arts’ Anti-Racism Action Statement.

Full Land Acknowledgment, accessibility information, and location directions.

To submit, applicant should send resume with three references, artist website (portfolio if available), and cover letter with artist statement to coLAB Arts using the registration form below. Only submissions received by Friday, February 24, 2023 at 11:59pm will be considered.

MANAGING ORGANIZATION, coLAB Arts:

coLAB Arts engages artists, social advocates, and communities to create transformative new work. coLAB Arts facilitates creative conversation through innovative programs and artist infrastructure, connects artists with community partners and mentors, and executes productions that challenge perceptions and inspire action. http://www.colab-arts.org | @colabarts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

PARTNER AGENCY, Mission First Housing Group:

Mission First Housing Group is a nonprofit organization working to ensure everyone has a safe, affordable place to call home. We develop and manage affordable, equitable, safe, sustainable homes that support residents and strengthen communities. Mission First provides housing and services across the Mid-Atlantic to a diverse resident population that includes low-income individuals and families as well as veterans, survivors of domestic violence, homeless, seniors and individuals with disabilities. Today we provide affordable, safe housing to 6,000 residents in nearly 4,000 rental apartments. In Edison, NJ Mission First operates two permanent supportive housing developments, providing a critical combination of housing and services to 46 homeless households.

How to submit your registration application, visit: https://colab-arts.org/jobs/mfhgapplication