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Submit work to The North magazine: go here for full guidelines

 

Let them have Cake!

A brand new, freshly-baked poetry magazine is about to burst onto the literary scene. The inaugural issue of Cake should be emerging from Let them have Cake!the creative furnace of Lancaster in October and is currently being painstakingly prepared by Andrew McMillan, Martha Sprackland and Paul Farley.

The editors are very keen to receive submissions from both new and established writers, both ones based in Lancaster and those further afield. Poetry, Flash Fiction (500 word maximum) as well as treatments for reviews and articles are needed to add to the growing list of ingredients for the first issue; a list which already includes such luminaries as Ian Gregson, Ira Lightman and Joolz Denby.

To add your own unique flavours, please submit send your work, in the body of an email to: themixingbowl@hotmail.co.uk.

(More information can be found at our Facebook group.)

Finally, the literary world can have its Cake, and eat it.

 

 

Mslexia

Mslexia welcomes submissions from women for every part of the magazine. We commission work by prominent authors and artists as well as talented newcomers.

For a clear idea of the range of material we publish, up to date deadlines, competitions and other Mslexia news, visit www.mslexia.co.uk, phone 0191 233 3860 or email postbag@mslexia.co.uk.

Poets, send up to four poems (strictly up to 40 lines each). Fiction writers, up to two stories (strictly under 2,200 words apiece).

Enclose a SAE and cover sheet complete with your full contact details (your name should only appear on the cover sheet and not on the poems/stories themselves), the title(s) of the work submitted and a full word count.

All prose submissions should be double spaced. We promise a response for New Writing submissions within three months of the closing date.

Our New Writing section pays £25 per poem and £15 per 1,000 words of prose.

 

 

Write Out Loud magazine

  • We want audio recordings of your poems - we will mix them, mash them and turn them into individual works of art in The Poetry Jam.
  • We want clever poems from fearless poets - poems that contain deep metaphors, none too obscure references that are relevant, poems that scan but don't bounce along, poems that condense so much into so few lines that they are in danger of undergoing cataclysmic collapse and sucking in weighty matter from their surroundings.  And we want to criticise and praise them in equal measure in Write Club.
  • We want you to show off your audio poems with a musical backing for our Poetry Jukebox
  • We want funny or serious but always well written and interesting Reviews of poetry books, pamphlets, events or any thing else that’s happening in the poetry world
  • We want to know what you're doing that's innovative in poetry, performance, publishing or an innovative event that you run for our What I Do That's New feature.

Send your audio poems (mp3 format only), word format works of ingenious poetry and/or your articles to dermot@writeoutloud.net.

Please ensure you have read one or two back issues of the feature you are submitting to first.  It's free and it's available here: http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/features.php

 


IRON Book of New Humorous Verse: Call for submissions

IRON Press is seeking new humorous poems for an anthology of new humorous verse for adults. Poems should have a publication date no earlier than 1990 or be unpublished.

Included poets will receive a small payment, a copy of the book and invitation to read at launch events. No prizes - this isn't a competition. Submissions of up to 4 poems by post and enclosing SAE to Eileen Jones c/o IRON Press, 5 Marden Terrace, Cullercoats, North Shields, Northumberland, NE30 4PD, postmarked on or before 31st March 2010.

Please read full submission guidelines on the IRON Press website.