Orbis Literary Journal

 

Orbis is a long-standing quarterly international literary journal, based in the UK, and edited by Carole Baldock.  Associate editor (Book Reviews): Nessa O'Mahony.

 
In every issue: poems, prose, articles, reviews, letters, featured writer section.
Plus the Orbis Poetry Index: magazine reviews, news items, competition listings.

Poems from the magazine are submitted annually to the Pushcart Prize in America and the UK’s Forward Prize. Although few UK Small Press publications are able to offer feedback, Orbis provides proofs with editorial suggestions.
 
It's also one of the few magazines to offer payment, via the Readers’ Award (results and readers’ feedback in each issue): £50 for the piece receiving the most votes, plus £50 between four runners-up.

Submission is easy....
 
By post:
Four poems; two prose pieces (500-1000 words). Please enclose SAE with ALL correspondence. Overseas: 2 IRCs.
Via email, Overseas only:
two poems/one piece of prose in body – no attachments

Copies of Orbis may be perused online at the Poetry Library website: 
And here's the Facebook Page   

There's also... the jam- packed- with- writing -opportunities  Kudos Magazine who are running a special offer to celebrate the 100th issue.

It’s an excellent resource for those interested in UK publication - it features competitions, small presses, festivals, literary events etc... and you can check it out Here

Abridged - In Blue

Yves Klein

Abridged 0 – 34: In Blue Submission Call

Abridged, the poetry/art magazine is looking for submissions for its In Blue issue. 

A maximum of 3 poems may be submitted of any length. (I love that its any length, the usual 40 line limit can be a pain for the long winded amongst us.)

Art can be up to A4 size and can be in any media. It should be at least 300 dpi. 

Submissions can (preferably) be emailed to abridged@ymail.com 

or posted to: Abridged c/o The Verbal Arts Centre, Stable Lane and Mall Wall, Bishop Street Within, Derry BT48 6PU. Closing date for submission is 30th September 2013.

'This issue encourages the consideration of the vital connotations of the concept of ‘blue’ to the human condition and the individual’s contemplation of place, purpose, self and essence. The strong association of the colour blue with the natural (the sea and sky), the broken (melancholy) and the forbidden (pornography) have led to said colour concurrently evoking ideas of apparent wholesomeness, failure and seedy delinquency. Blue runs underneath us and domes above us; it is what bore us and what we aspire through imagination to return to: another dimension, another means of perceiving, breathing, moving, experiencing… It is the colour of the most subtle moods of pain, not burning with the disarming immediacy of horror or despair but throbbing in mellow multiplicity and tonal diversity, slowly moving through the depths of reflection. Blue dances with dappled light, altering perception and renewing reflection. In creative discourses we take it from outside us and hold it as our own, making our subtle moods of humanity material by weaving them through its soft, swelling diversity. Blue was our home, to blue we long to return. We wish to wallow in its mellow discontent hoping for a return to the good old days. Days that never did or could have existed: days that define us.

You can find out more HERE

Crannog 33

Crannóg is one of Ireland's leading and longest running literary magazines; the closing date for Crannóg 33, the summer issue, is March 31st.  They accept submissions of poetry (no more than three poems under 50 lines) or prose (one story of under 2000 words). Submissions by email only, for more details click here

Clothes Poems for Magma 56

Magma want your clothes (poems...)

"In the introduction to her anthology of clothes poems Out of Fashion (Faber, 2004), Carol Ann Duffy wrote ’[these poems] examine, in their different ways, how we dress or undress, how we cover up or reveal, and how clothes, fashion and jewellery are both a necessary and luxurious, a practical and sensual, a liberating and repressing part of our lives. I hope that the anthology forms an entertaining dialogue between the two arts of poetry and fashion’.This push and pull between cover up and revelation, necessity and luxury is what we’d like to see in your clothes poems for Magma 56, whether you’re writing about dress uniforms or haute couture, morning suits or suits of armour. Tell us about your little black dresses and your lucky pants, your wedding dresses and your weeding gloves and we’ll send the best of your poems down the catwalk of Magma 56.

 The deadline is 28 February 2013. 

This is one of my favorite clothes poems at the moment, found at Poets.org

What do women want
by Kim Addonizio

I want a red dress. 
I want it flimsy and cheap, 
I want it too tight, I want to wear it 
until someone tears it off me. 
I want it sleeveless and backless, 
this dress, so no one has to guess 
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store 
with all those keys glittering in the window, 
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old 
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers 
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly, 
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders. 
I want to walk like I'm the only 
woman on earth and I can have my pick. 
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm 
your worst fears about me, 
to show you how little I care about you 
or anything except what 
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment 
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body 
to carry me into this world, through 
the birth-cries and the love-cries too, 
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin, 
it'll be the goddamned 
dress they bury me in.

The Galway Review Wants You

Here's a call for submission from The Galway Review for their print anthology coming out in January 2013. This printed and bound work will be the  first print venture for The Galway Review -

To submit simply send poems, reviews, short stories, or journals tothegalwayreview@gmail.com with ‘Anthology Submission’ in the subject field. Please send your writings within the body of the email and attach the photographs as jpegs. We can’t wait to see your work! Please keep your submissions clear and sharp. 

Remember  that:

• readers who lack your particular background, may need a simple and clear context;
• the writings ought to make sense to readers anywhere in the world, not just to your own self.

If you want to bounce an idea off the editor before you write it up, then please do. Just get in touch, we at The Galway Review would be happy to help! 

Our deadline is December 1st 2012 – that gives you loads of time.

By supporting The Galway Review you are supporting creativity. We provide a platform for showcasing incredibly talented writers and photographers in Galway.

good news...

The ROPES Team are launching the 20th Issue at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature on 26 April 5 pm in Busker Brownes, Galway. It will be launched by Marina Carr. I'm thrilled that my story, Saving Grace will be published in this issue. If I can wangle my way to Galway I will, I love Marina Carrs writing, the rich midlands Gothic, dark language, and earthy female characters.
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The Hennessy Literary Awards are on Tuesday 24th, and my poem made the Emerging Poetry shortlist! (Cocktail dresses for the women, and suits for the men, I wish it was the other way around, wish I was a man. Please tell me I'm not the only one who had to google 'cocktail dress'! How is a cocktail dress different to any other kind of dress?) Anyway, I'll bring my camera, and a sack and report back :)

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And finally, (I know - me, me, me...) saving the best bit till last - as a result of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair I've just signed with The Book Bureau Literary Agency, and am thrilled to be represented by the wonderful Ger Nichols. So thanks to the Irish Writers Centre, and thanks to Ger for taking me on:)

The Moth Magazine

I received a lovely email this morning from The Moth Magazine accepting my poem "Mister Grey Hair, Yellow Teeth, Finish Me" for their March edition. It's a beautifully produced magazine so I'm thrilled!