UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
December 11 @ 2-3pm (Saturday, today) – Asian American Poets and Community Dialogue with Srinivas Mandavilli, author of Gods In The Foyer, a collection of poems, and his work has appeared in CT River Review, Caduceus, Long River Run, Theodate, JAMA, Freshwater, Drunken Boat, and SN Review. Free to attend, but registration required. December 12 @ 2-3:30pm (Sunday) – The International Women’s Writing Guild presents All Voices Open Mic with featured poet Jerrice Baptiste. Jerrice J. Baptiste is a native of Haiti, and has published eight books, and her poetry has also been published in the Grammy Award-winning album Many Hands Family Music for Haiti. Free to attend online, but registration required, both for listening to the featured guest and/or for the open mic afterwards. December 14 @ 7pm (Tuesday) - Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host a reading by Jennifer Jean from her poetry collection Object Lesson, which explores the commercial sex trade of human trafficking, stripping, porn, and other methods of exploitation. A Q&A will follow, as well as an open mic. Free to attend online, but registration required. December 15 @ 7:15-9:15pm (Wednesday) – The Chicago Poetry Center presents Blue Hour, a free monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop featuring Elana Bell and Rich Villar, facilitated by Marty McConnell. Reading from 7:15-8:15pm, workshop from 8:15-9:15pm. Workshop will include discussion and prompt writing. Free to attend online, but registration required. December 16 @ 7-8pm (Thursday) – The Art of Poetry Webcast with James Morehead, poet laureate of Dublin, CA. Free to attend, registration required. Morehead’s poem “tethered” was transformed into an award-winning hand drawn animated short film. Free to attend online, but registration required. December 16 @ 7-9:30pm (Thursday) – Wintonbury Poetry Series presents “Two Poet Laureates” – Barb Jennes and Rhonda Ward, presented by Tom Nicotera. Open mic follows the readings by the featured poets. Free to attend online, registration required. January 7 @ 2-4pm (Friday) – Poetry Lit! featuring Claudia Toutoungi and David Bleiman. Poetry Lit! features international poets and readers. There will be an open mic following featured poets. Free to attend online, but registration required. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: table//FEAST Literary Magazine Deadline: December 15, 2021 Running a special contest called “sweettooth/HONEY” for micro poems. Sub up to 3 micro poems of any theme. Simultaneous submissions okay. Free to enter, $40 prize for winner. Publisher: Judith Wright Poetry Prize Deadline: December 20, 2021 Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks outstanding poetry by writers who have published no more than one collection of poems under their own name (i.e. writers who’ve had zero collections published, or one solo collection published). It remains one of the richest prizes for emerging poets, and is open to poets anywhere in the world. The major prize is $6000, with a second prize of $2000 and a third prize of $1000. All three winners will be published in Overland’s Autumn 2022 issue. Entry fee: $12 for subscribers and $20 for non-subscribers. Publisher: Many Nice Donkeys Deadline: December 31, 2021 Send up to 5 poems of no more than 8 pages total. Blind read, simultaneous submissions welcome. No reading fee, no payment. Publisher: Society of Classical Poets 2022 Poetry Competition Deadline: December 31, 2021 Submit 1-3 poems on any topic, with all poems together being 108 lines or less. Previously published poems okay, as long as they were published in 2021. Rhyme and other traditional techniques are encouraged, but not required. Simultaneous submissions okay. Submission fee: $20. First prize: $2k plus publication. Also includes a $200 high school prize and $100 translation prize. Publisher: Curious Curls Publishing Deadline: No deadline They accept manuscripts for all creative works, but are most interested in full-length fiction and poetry projects. Novels, collections, and chapbooks are some of the most common submissions. Minimum length 40 pages. Simultaneous submissions okay. No fee to submit, unspecified payment of a “small base award and fair percentage of sales.” Publisher: Bullshit Lit! Deadline: No deadline They want to see the work you haven't sent to other lit mags because you know it's just not working. Your shitty prose, messed-up line breaks, abandoned sketches, nonsensical plots, and so on. Everybody else wants your best—they want your worst. They especially like it when shit gets weird. Published twice a week. No reading fee, no payment.
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About Us:The Poets' Salon is an all-inclusive group that gets together the second Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m in the Memorial Room at the Fairfield Public Library. We read our poetry aloud, politely critique each others' work (upon request), highlight publishing opportunities, and also talk about local poetry readings. Meeting Notes
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