Sunday, August 23, 2009

two calls for submissions

We have two markets today in need of your submissions. The first comes from speculative poet Joshua Gage:

Many poets sent scifaiku in for the promotional pamphlet that Deborah Kolodji distributed at HNA and WorldCon. So many, in fact, that I was forced to make some really difficult decisions and only choose a few. I went with a more scifi theme, and the final results can be seen here:

http://www.sfpoetry.com/files/Scifaiku_Sampler_Aug2009.pdf

Because this project was so much fun, and because there was such interest in it, I thought I'd put together another pamphlet, this time focused on horror. Please send me your best horror themed haiku (horrorku?), published or unpublished, for this collection. If the poem has been published, please let me know where.

I look forward to reading all your great work!

Send submissions to Josh at pottygok[at]yahoo[dot]com by September 15th.

The Enchanted Conversation is a new online journal focusing on fairy tales. They want short stories, poems, artwork, and articles relating to their theme (which for the first issue will be "Sleeping Beauty") and they'll pay 4 cents/word ($10/poem) via PayPal. They'll be reading submissions until November 15th, unless they receive enough quality work before then.

Now for some unabashed bragging. One of my horror haiku just went live over at Fear and Trembling, and my short story "The Book" is part of the current issue of Sorcerous Signals (with a great illustration by Marge Simon). Bragging over.

8 comments:

  1. I definitely want to get in on the horror ku. Thanks for the heads up.

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  2. By the way, cool on the poem and short story. Congrats!

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  3. two haiku...


    blown
    kiss

    a
    frigid

    gust
    blisters

    my
    wanting
    lips

    *********************************


    harvest
    season

    a
    meth
    freak

    &

    a
    scare
    crow

    stare
    out
    across

    the
    barren
    fields

    *******************************

    ed

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  4. hey Ed! i like that second one... the same blank stare.

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  5. Hey Charles,

    Speaking of the HNA and WorldCon brochure - guess who I met at HNA? Your old friend David Lanoue!

    Josh did a great job with the scifaiku pamplet, I can't wait to see what he does with the HorrorKu one.

    Debbie

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  6. yeah, i'm sure he'll pick some great poems for it!

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  7. Greg,

    I haven't seen an e-mail from you with your horror 'ku! Please send me some stuff.

    Charles,
    I'll be looking for your e-mail!

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