https://fenlandpoetryjournal.co.uk/

https://fenlandpoetryjournal.co.uk/

https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/competitions/

I’m Guest Editing the May issue of the online poetry journal Snakeskin. The theme is BREATHE. Details here (and you can also check out other issues of Snakeskin). Deadline April 5th 2021.

I look forward to reading some excellent work.

Best wishes,
Rosie Miles

We have an Underwater Haiku Collaborative Competition currently underway and are seeking submissions from anyone who finds inspiration in our prompts. The activity is collaborative in that all submitted works will be integrated in a digital artwork by artist Daphne Giannoulatou, and it is a competition as contributors will vote to identify 5 best haiku about each prompt to be printed in a booklet designed by Daphne.

There are more details via the link, and you can also view the prompts and make your submissions on the form via the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pstsVMse47jkl2lAWUSX1afukXOeiOUPWNsvTJ98nk8/edit?usp=sharing I have also attached an image file of the details here.

If anything is unclear please get in touch here or at s.r.januchowski@swansea.ac.uk.

Thank you!

 
“The Napkin Poetry Review” is an online journal now accepting submissions for its inaugural issue. Across history, the most skilled poets could encapsulate a life-story on the back of a cocktail napkin and we want to bring creation stories––sparks of brilliance––to life. Combining poetry with photography, we are collaborating with art directors and photographers who have worked for magazines such as Vanity Fair, W Magazine, and Vogue to explore storytelling and the creative process. Alongside poetry, the review will include a behind-the-scenes profile of each poet. We also seek to demonstrate how poetry fits into our daily lives and will include regular research articles highlighting the physical, social, and mental benefits of poetry, inviting professors and researchers to comment.

For submissions, please send up to five 2-4 stanza poems in one PDF along with a cover letter and bio (<150 words) to: napkinpoetryreview@gmail.com

Instagram: @napkinpoetry_review
https://www.instagram.com/napkinpoetry_review/

More details here: https://npc.poetrysociety.org.uk/

The website has a link to the survey form. It is anonymous unless you chose to be named by the way.

thank you so much.

Justine Newport

https://www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/entries-for-this-year-s-fenland-poet-laureate-competition-are-now-open-1-6125473

Then perhaps you could rustle up a haiku or two to be posted in support of these guys… We’re looking at the possibility of an anthology at the end of the voyage as well so please message or email Clean Seas Odyssey (info@cleanseasodyssey.org) with your wonderful haikus!!      https://www.cleanseasodyssey.org/

I would really appreciate all suggestions on how to improve my poem and how it is in general. Please do not hesitate to point out any mistake and critique my work, if it will help me. Thank you.

Here is one of my poems.

 
Lunchtime Escape
 
I hear loud cursing over the chatty bustling,
Of uniformed students in the outdoor canteen.
Sunlight reflects on the curious eyes that turn to our table.
Situated near the plants, disturbing our little bubble.
 
5 I flinch at the attention but my friend is busy;
Celebrating her new position as Student-body President.
The ugly green monster, in me, invades the moment.
Churning up unwanted feelings and leaving a bitter taste in my mouth.
Caging me in, and suffocating me with reminders of my loss.
10 Oh no! The monsters are teaming up.
 
Projections, of when I performed in front of a live audience, play in my mind;
My fingers plucking at the guitar strings with ease,
my voice loud and melodic.
The crowd cheers, that once ignited an addictive euphoria in my veins,
But now choke me from the inside out, blocking my air supply.
 
15 I blink to clear my mind. Sweaty palms chipping the wooden table.
I listen to my friend’s cheers, over the loud thumping of my heart,
To regain my bearings, before all the monsters meet up.
I need to run!
 
I run to my safe haven; my room.
My fingers pluck at the metallic strings of the mahogany guitar,
20 My voice perfectly synchronised with the chords to sing, The Strumbellas’s “Spirits”.  
I sing with all my heart, in the confines of my dark room.
And with each line, I feel my breathing normalise, and the monsters disappear.
 

 
If you are unfamilar with the magazine, The Fenland Reed is an East Anglian poetry magazine, published biannually, with one themed and one non-themed issue each year. Issue Six was launched recently to great fanfare. Poets include: Jill Abram, Jane Burn, Rachel Burns, Jim Conwell, Ananda-mayi dasi, Sarah Doyle,  Chris Fields,  Martin Figura,  Donna J. Gelagotis Lee,  Jonathan Greenhause,  Hilary Hares, Keith Hutson, Joanna Ingham, Helen Ivory, Lisa Kelly, Rebecca Le Marchand, John Lyons, Roy Marshall, Eric A. Mecklenburg, Jill Munro, Joanna Nissel, Kate Noakes, Kathy Pimlott, Anna Saunders, George Szirtes, Claudine Toutoungi, Peter Wallis, J.S. Watts, Jane Wheeler.
 

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https://www.thefenlandreed.co.uk/blog

Poems, prose, and artwork currently being accepted on the theme of ‘the body’. Submissions by writers/artists from un-/under-represented places or populations are particularly welcome.

https://www.thefenlandreed.co.uk/submissions

 
https://tonguesandgrooves.com/2017/03/08/international-prose-poem-2017/

Hope you’re rattling along nicely.

I’d like to invite you to contribute to a print zine I’ve recently launched. It’s called Ghostland and collects poetry, prose and non-fiction centred on city limits, edgelands, hauntings and other uncanniness. Our first issue is in print and we’re looking a little prose-heavy at the moment.
I’d welcome your submissions. The loose theme is ‘concrete and stone’.

I would gladly welcome your contributions. We can be reached at ghostlandzine@outlook.com and on twitter @ghostlandzine
Very much hope to hear from you all. Thanks!