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Calls for Submissions

Arroyo Literary Review, an award-winning, national magazine invites submissions for poetry, fiction, flash fiction, essays, and translation pieces for its fourth issue. Short plays will be considered. Prose pieces should be a maximum of 4,000 words each, and there is no limit on submission of multiple poems. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but magazine must be notified if work is accepted elsewhere. No electronic submissions accepted. For questions related to submitting artwork, contact arroyoliteraryreview @ gmail.com. To submit, enclose a SASE and mail submissions to: Arroyo Literary Review, Department of English, MB 2579, California State University, East Bay, 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., Hayward, CA 94542. Entries may be submitted from December 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012. For more information, visit www.arroyoliteraryreview.com.
Canary, A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis, seeks poetry, essays, and short fiction. Submit a maximum of five poems or up to 1,500 words for essays and short fiction. Submissions open year-round and simultaneous submissions accepted. Submit material to: gailentrekin @ gmail.com as a Word attachment or in the body of the email. For more information on Canary, see www.hippocketpress.org/submit_canary.php.
The Destroyer, a new online magazine open to various unconventional aesthetics of text and art, seeks poetry and other genres of writing, video, audio, and other new media. Simultaneous submissions accepted. No page limit required for text submissions. Do not include a cover letter or biography. For 2D/3D artwork, a minimum of five images; for video/performance/installation artwork, submit a minimum of two pieces. To submit, written work must be submitted through http://manager.submishmash.com/login. For video media, a two MB maximum sample and/ or a URL address of work must be emailed to editor @ the destroyermag.com for consideration. For artwork, all materials should be sent to arteditor @ thedestroyermag.com. Entries for publication in the first issue must be received by October 31, 2011. For more information, visit: www.thedestroyermag.com.
Fearless Poetry Series seeks poems and prose-poems for its upcoming, third anthology Turning the Page: Poems of Trauma, Healing, and Transcendence. Submit one to three poems as Word file attachments with name and biographical only on the cover letter. Include a $10 reading fee made payable to Fearless Poetry Series. Deadline: December 15, 2011, before midnight. Online submissions should be sent to poetry @ fearlessbooks.com. Hard-copy submissions may be sent to Fearless Books, P.O. Box 1292, Berkeley, CA 94701. Hard-copy submissions are required to include an email address for correspondence. For more information on guidelines, visit www.fearlessbooks.com/Poetry.htm#desc.
Foothill, A Journal of Poetry, the only journal that exclusively publishes the work of graduate students, seeks poems from graduate students throughout the United States for its print and online issues. Submit up to three poems in any form along with a cover letter that includes name, email address, and titles of the poems submitted; each poet should also include the name of the program and the university currently enrolled and briefly about their field of study and research interests. Submissions are read year-round. To submit, send poems as a Word document file with name, email address, and page number in the upper right-hand corner of each page to foothill @ cgu.edu with “poetry submission” as the subject line. Please allow three or four months for a response. For complete guidelines, visit www.cgu.edu/foothill.
Omnidawn Publishing’s Open Poetry Book Competition deadline has been extended to November 15, 2011. Recipient of the prize will receive $3,000 and publication; the book will be published in the spring of 2013. Advertising for the book will be placed in Poetry Flash, American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and more. The manuscript should be paginated, and electronically submitted manuscripts should not include a bio, cover letter, acknowledgements page, or headers or footers with the poet’s name. Include a $25 reading fee, paid by check or money order made out to Omnidawn. Add $3 to receive any Omnidawn book of your choice or the winning book. Submissions will be accepted online (visit omnidawn.com) or by mail: Omnidawn Open Book Contest, Omnidawn Publishing, 1632 Elm Avenue, Richmond, CA 94805.)
Penumbra: The Art & Literary Journal of CSU Stanislaus seeks poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and artwork. Submissions are open to anyone. Send no more than a total of five submissions. Include a cover letter with a list of submitted, work, a brief biography in first person that doesn’t exceed three lines, as well as name, address, email, and telephone number. Deadline: February 1, 2012. Mail to: Penumbra, English Department, CSU Stanislaus, One University Circle, Turlock, CA 95382. No hard copies needed for art submissions: your artwork CD should have a title and include a .jpg format of the work. All art submissions are printed in black and white. For more information, visit www.csustan.edu/english/penumbra/submissions.html, or email penumbra @ csustan.edu.
POECOLOGY, a new literary e-journal and online resource for poetry and writing about place, ecology, and the environment, is accepting poetry, fiction, or nonfiction for its next issue. Up to ten pages should be included for each genre and a two to three line biographical. Simultaneous submissions are accepted but email immediately if work is accepted elsewhere. Submit online year-round for free at poecology.submishmash.com/submit. Deadline: May 15, 2012 for entries to be included in the August 2012 issue. For more information on submission guidelines, visit poecology.org/submissions.
Windfall, A Journal of Poetry of Place is accepting poems about places in the Pacific Northwest for its spring issue. Submit up to five short poems that should not exceed fifty lines each. Enclose a SASE with first-class postage. Your name, address, and email address should appear on every submitted page. Email submissions may be sent as one Word file attached to an email and sent to bsiverly @ comcast.net. For hard-copy submissions, send your poetry submission to: Editors, Windfall Press, P.O. Box 19007, Portland, OR 97280-0007. It is encouraged to send poems close to the deadline date. The journal Entries for the spring issue must be received by February 1, 2012. For guidelines, visit www.hevanet.com/windfall/submissions.html.