CALLS FOR SUBMISSION

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SUBPRIMAL POETRY ART is interested in prose and poetry, art, and essay and “looks for poetry and flash fiction that is crafted, urgent, lyrical, compelling, mythical, concerned with spiritual revelation, uses rhythmic sensual, vivid imagery and deals with fundamental truth.” Submission period for the next issue is from September 1 – October 16. Submissions guidelines are HERE.How We Make Selections by Victor D. Sandiego, Editor

FIGROOT PRESS announced a call for a special issue, for my lover she is air: a Sappho tribute. Demographic restrictions. Deadline August 15. Details HERE.  Calls for general submission will reopened on September 1st for the October issue and November 1st for the December issue.

STARWHEEL MAGAZINE, Bite-sized Literature and Art“is a project of The Riding Light Review. SW was created as a platform for writers and artists to showcase their work:…

THE LAST WEDNESDAY WRITING PROMPT June 21: Times and places of peace leave no scars to jog our memories and stoke the fires of our hope. Remember peace or imagine it: What would a world at peace look like?

My own poem that accompanied the prompt was about re-imagining a war torn place – Syria – into peace. Some have taken the prompt and pointed it at inner peace or the personal experience of a peaceful moment, both of which would be the everyday norms of a peaceful world. S.E. Ingram writes about explaining peace to a child … and it is peace to that child when he and his brother stop hitting one another. And so it is with the world at large.

Thanks to all who came out to play.

EXPLAINING A PEACE-SIGN TO A TODDLER

It never occurred to me how impossible
it might be to…