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SUMMARY:PFN - Blood & Bourbon Seeking Submissions on the Theme of Home
DESCRIPTION:What is Home?\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere is home? Is it a place\, a feeling\, a kinship with a group of people\, or your mother’s heart? Do you feel far from it or near? Did you move or stay in the same city for your entire life? Do you regret one or the other? Is it a house\, an apartment\, or a backpack? Do you keep it neat or messy? Do you care to call something “home”? \nWe want to read about all of it. \n\n\n\nSubmissions\n\n\nBlood & Bourbon is here to showcase all things hard\, gritty\, and raw. That time you got in a bar fight\, that time you went to an S&M club\, that time you had an opinion that sparked a heated argument over a family dinner. We’re actively seeking submissions in the following categories: \n\nShort fiction or non-fiction\, 5000 words or less\nOpinion pieces or essays on any subjects\, 5000 words or less\nPoetry\, up to three pieces per submission\n\nWe accept simultaneous submissions and reprints. We provide author copies upon request with a small donation of $5. \nWe are now open for submissions until April 28\, 2024. The theme of the next issue is going to be Home. \nWe’re interested in diverse voices and want to hear from you regardless of what you look like\, where you’re from\, what you believe\, who you like to fuck\, et cetera. \nSend your material to bandbsubmissions (AT) gmail.com. Your submission should be attached as a .doc\, .docx or .rtf file\, with your name\, address\, email address\, the story title (if applicable) and total word count at the top of the first page. Visual art submissions should be attached as hi-res .jpgs or .tiffs. Include a 50-word bio in the body of the email or in the Word doc. \nOUR PROCESS\nWe are usually open for submissions for 2-2.5 months at a time. We will send you an email at the end of the submission period\, letting you know if your work has been accepted. Please don’t expect to hear from us sooner\, but let us know if your work has been accepted anywhere else during this submission period. We accept about 30 submissions per issue. \nWe then assign one of our editors to work with you to polish your submission and apply our house style guide. Keep in mind that we are a Canadian publication\, so Canadian spelling will be applied to all work. Editing phase usually lasts about 2 months. \nOnce we receive all the final documents from our editors\, we’ll work on layout. You will have a chance to see and approve the print proof before the launch of the issue. Layout and proofreading phase takes about a week. \nWe will share the links to the issue with you\, so you can spread the word to your peers and followers. We currently publish on Amazon and Kobo\, in print and e-book format.
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SUMMARY:P - Frontier Poetry's 2024 Nature & Place Prize.  Theme: Nature & Place
DESCRIPTION:2024 Nature & Place Prize\nFebruary 22\, 2024\, to April 28\, 2024\nIn our pursuit of gentleness\, nostalgia\, and a reimagining of “home\,” Frontier Poetry is reviving the Nature & Place Prize. In her poem “Drowning Creek\,” Ada Limón takes us into the countryside\, “Past the strip malls and the power plants\, / out of the holler\, past Gun Bottom Road / and Brassfield and before Red Lick Creek\, / there’s a stream called Drowning Creek….” On her journey\, she has the strong urge to stop the car and observe the kingfisher perched on the transmission wire “eyeing the creek / for crayfish\, tadpoles\, and minnows.” She has aptly combined the urge to be in communion with nature\, with the visceral landscape of place observed from the loneliness of a car ride. In this same vein\, we invite you to submit work to the 2024 Nature & Place Prize. \nWe’re looking for poems rich and robust in language\, technique\, and form that pay homage to the natural world and all of the small marvels that occur in nature. We’re also interested in poems that observe geography and the landscape of home. Frontier Poetry warmly encourages poets of all backgrounds\, identities\, and ethnicities to enter. \nThe first-place winner will receive $3\,000 and publication. Second- and third-place winners will receive $300 and $200 respectively\, as well as publication. All shortlisted writers will also be considered for paid publication in New Voices. \n\nAbout the Guest Judge:\nFlower Conroy is a LGBTQIA+ artist\, NEA and MacDowell Fellow\, and former Key West Poet Laureate. Conroy’s books include Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder (winner of the Stevens Manuscript Prize)\, A Sentimental Hairpin (Eric Hoffer Finalist)\, and Greenest Grass (winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry prize). Her work has appeared/is forthcoming in New England Review\, American Literary Review\, The Yale Review\, and elsewhere. Currently she is curating a series of Ephemeral Altars that celebrate poetry collections through assemblage art. \nWhat Flower Is Looking For:\nWhen I initially heard the theme “Nature & Place\,” I had a confident (albeit vague) idea what that might mean; however\, the more I thought about it\, my sense of nature and place became excitingly less certain\, amorphous\, vast. I want (from these submissions) what I’d want from any poem: I want to encounter that which I didn’t know I needed to encounter; I want surprise of detail and syntax\, for a microcosm of a perspective and language (or languages) to flesh out a world I get lost in\, to be entranced by keenness of being and experience retold; I want nuance\, subtext\, and imagery to awe me. The theme of “Nature & Place” strikes me as abstractly concrete and concretely abstract—it conjures landscape\, yes\, but perhaps landscape as a presence in relation to a self or selves. It’s flesh and dirt\, past and future\, internal and external. I’ve no preconceived notions of what the poems should be beyond being visceral. \n\nGuidelines:\n\nSubmissions are open to all poets\, regardless of publication history.\nSend us only your best\, polished work—unpublished poems only\, please.\nAs part of our dedication to the pursuit of a more inclusive publishing world\, we are offering a free submission window for poets from historically marginalized groups at the beginning of the contest until we reach our cap of fifty. Please note the free portal will close when we hit our submission cap.\nPlease do not include any identifying information in the body of your document.\nWe accept simultaneous submissions\, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.\nWe ask for no more than three poems (five pages) per submission. Please submit all your poems in ONE document. We have no particular aesthetic or formal requirements and consider all styles of poetry.\nEach entry requires a submission fee of $20.\nMultiple submissions (of up to three poems apiece) are allowed\, but each requires a separate entry fee.\nPlease include a brief cover letter with your publication history and personal bio. Also include any content warnings in consideration of our reading staff.\nWork generated by AI will be automatically disqualified.\nSubmissions are open internationally\, to any poet writing primarily in English. Some code-switching/meshing is very welcome.\nPlease do not submit work if you have a close relationship with the guest judge.\nIf you have any questions\, please visit our FAQ page. If you don’t find the answer to your question\, email us: contact (at ) frontierpoetry (dot) com.\nThe deadline is April 28\, 2024. We plan to announce winners and finalists in Summer 2024.\n\n\nEditorial Feedback Option:\nThis option costs $59 and will provide you with two pages of detailed and actionable feedback on your submission\, including suggestions for future submissions. The $149 option will provide you with three letters from three different editors. Our guest editors are paid a significant portion of the fee and all are astute and professional poets. Please allow eight to ten weeks after the contest closes to receive your feedback letter.
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