call for submissions : G U E S T [a journal of guest editors], edited by Michael Sikkema

I am lucky enough to be guest editing GUEST, a great journal project with rob mclennan at the main helm.

We are looking for poetry and hybrid lit that explore ideas of entanglement, interbeing, interconnection, echoes and ecosystems, in all their various habitats: the social and political, material reality, literary form, theory and imagination, the natural world, the body, some interworking of all of the above.

Please send 3-5 pages of work to Michael.Sikkema@gmail.com, and put SUBMISSION and your LAST NAME in the subject heading.

Deadline is August 23, 2020. I look forward to reading your work.

Call for Submissions Cut/Paste/Resist: A Pop-Up Exhibition

Call for Submissions

Cut/Paste/Resist: A Pop-Up Exhibition

In times of protest and social upheaval (and social rejuvenation) artists and activists turn to collage to make their point. Why? Collage is an accessible, fun way to make art. All you need is glue, scissors, and paper. The rest is up to you.

Presented in co-operation with the UNB Art Centre, the Student Union Building, and the Creative Writing/Writer-in-Residence program, Cut/Paste/Resist will take place at the Student Union Building on February 10^th until February 12^th 2020.

We want your collages!

All people interested in participating are welcome. We don’t care if you are an artist or not. This exhibition is open to everybody who wants to participate by making a collage – students, faculty, practising artists, non-artists, etc.

What to do?

*Make a collage (no bigger than a standard page size, 8 and 1/2 by 11 inches, but otherwise any shape or size).

*The topic of the exhibition is “Resistance”. In other words, make a collage on a topic or concern you wish to communicate. What are you resisting?

* All submissions are due January 30, 2020.

*Please provide your name and a contact email or phone number with your submission.

*If you are mailing your work, or dropping it off, and would like it returned after the show, please include a SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope) with your submission and your work will be returned. Works not returned will be donated to the UNB archives.

Mail or drop off your works (for drop offs, please put the works in an envelope) to

Writer-in-Residence, Department of English, Carleton Hall
University of New Brunswick
P.O. Box 4400,Fredericton, NB Canada
E3B 5A3

Cut/Paste/Resist is co-curated by RM Vaughan and Dr. Ken Moffatt, Layton Chair of Social Justice at Ryerson University, with support from the UNB Art Centre and the Creative Writing department.

fwd: CALL(S) FOR SUBMISSIONS: KALAMALKA PRESS + BITE HARDER PRESS

KALAMALKA PRESS

Kalamalka Press is pleased to announce the release of Angeline Schellenberg’s Dented Tubas, winner of the 2018 John Lent Poetry/Prose Award. Schellenberg is no stranger to literary accolades, her first book-length poetry collection, Tell Them It Was Mozart (Brick Books) won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, and the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Her writing has also appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and websites across Canada, and has been shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s “Poem of the Year.”

Hand-set by Writing & Publishing students at Okanagan College, Dented Tubas was printed in “The Bunker,” OC’s letterpress print shop.

To see images of the book & more details: http://www.kalamalkapress.ca/books/

24pp. $25.00

2019 Call for Entries to the John Lent Poetry/Prose Award

With the deadline quickly approaching, we’re now accepting chapbook-length collections of poetry, short fiction or hybrids thereof for our eighth annual John Lent Poetry/Prose Award! Entrants should be in the early stages their writing careers, having not published more than two full-length books. The winning work will be published as a limited edition chapbook by Kalamalka Press, designed by Jason Dewinetz and printed by Writing & Publishing students in The Bunker, Okanagan College's Letterpress Print Shop.

Submissions must be postmarked by June 15, so head to the website to get all the details!

http://www.kalamalkapress.ca/john-lent-award.html

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BITE HARDER PRESS

Bite Harder Press is pleased to announce the release of its first fine press chapbook edition, Contusion. Contusion is a collection of poems from Sylvia Plath’s Ariel that play with the concepts of bruises and wounds in their imagery. This theme is echoed in the styling of the chapbook itself, which features unique, hand-painted blue and purple watercoloured covers on St. Armand Morseby paper. The poems are letterpress printed into handmade Khadi paper and are set in Garamont cast by Jim Rimmer. The edition is limited to 50 copies and is currently selling for $50.00 a piece.

Additionally, Bite Harder Press is having its first call for submissions. The press is looking for poems for its broadside series entitled The Feral Broadsheets. Poems should interact with the notion of ferality (not quite tame, not quite wild) though this theme can be broadly interpreted to mean a state of being in between. The author, in exchange for their work, will receive five of the letterpress-printed broadsheets to distribute, retain, or sell as they wish (edition is to be determined but likely around 60 copies). More information and instructions are available on our blog at https://biteharderpress.com/

call for interviews : queen mob's teahouse,

Interviews editor rob mclennan seeks interviews! Queen Mob's Teahouse is open to submissions of interviews with poets, fiction writers, comic book creators, non-fiction writers, etcetera.

Is there someone you know who hasn't been interviewed lately, or even at all? Who haven’t we heard from yet? What writer, in your opinion, deserves further attention?

If you are sending a query, include what else you’ve done and about the subject of your interview. If you are sending a finished interview, please send as .doc with a short introduction, a bio of the interviewer and a photo of your interview subject to include with piece.

See here for a link-list of recent interviews posted at Queen Mob's Teahouse.
 
Send submissions to rob [at] QueenMobs.com.

 

fwd: The Poets’ Pathway Poetry Competition

The Poets’ Pathway is asking for new poems about Ottawa, to bring together today’s poets and the poets of yesterday.

The Contest Judge is James Deahl, Poet, Publisher, Editor, Teacher

·        The contest is open to writers who live, or have lived, in Ottawa, or who have a strong connection to Ottawa

·        1^st Prize $ 200., 2^nd Prize $150., 3^rd Prize $100

·        Up to Ten Honourable Mention Awards

·        Each H.M. will receive $25.

·        All winning poems will receive a certificate

·        All winning poems will be published in a chapbook and on the Poets’ Pathway website

·        Each winner will receive a free chapbook and will be able to purchase additional copies at cost

·        Deadline:  Entries must be postmarked no later than Feb. 10, 2018

·        The Award Ceremony will be held in Ottawa in April, 2018

Rules and Guidelines: The Poets’ Pathway Challenge

·        Poems must be inspired by one or two of the lines in the Lampman poem Winter Uplands (below)

·        Poems should in some way reflect the city of Ottawa today

·        The line(s) inspiring the poem should be used in the poem, or used as the title, or as an epigram

·        Poems are not to exceed 40 lines; the stanza breaks count as lines.

·        All styles, subjects, forms and tones are welcome.

·        Poems may not be previously published

 

·        Blind Judging: No author ID can be anywhere on the same page as the poem, back or front

·        . Each contestant should enclose a cover page with

§  The poem title (or first line if there is no title)

§  Writer’s name; address; phone number; email address

·        Entry fee: $10. for a maximum of three poems. Additional poems $2. each.

·        Send entries with payment to:

The Poets’ Pathway Poetry Competition

1217 Maitland Ave

Ottawa, ON

 K2C2C4

 
Questions: Jane Moore at jmoore1217 (at) rogers.com

The poem that inspired the creation of the Poets’ Pathway and its fourteen monuments is Archibald Lampman’s Winter Uplands. 

Lampman, who spent much of his time outdoors, became ill writing this poem in the snow and cold. He died ten days later, on February 10, 1899.

He was 37

WINTER UPLANDS
Archibald Lampman, (1861-1899)

The frost that stings like fire upon my cheek,
The loneliness of this forsaken ground,
The long white drift upon whose powdered peak
I sit in the great silence as one bound;
The rippled sheet of snow where the wind blew
Across the open fields for miles ahead;
The far-off city towered and roofed in blue
A tender line upon the western red;
The stars that singly, then in flocks appear,
Like jets of silver from the violet dome,
So wonderful, so many and so near,
And then the golden moon to light me home--
The crunching snowshoes and the stinging air,
And silence, frost and beauty everywhere.