WINDDRIFT PRESS IS NOT SEEKING POETRY MANUSCRIPTS AT THIS TIME

Winddrift Press is not seeking poetry manuscripts at this time,

KITSUNE CLOSED FOR NOW

Kitsune Books, a publisher which actually pays advances for poetry collections is temporarilly closed to new projects.

A CORRECTION

I had an attack of typoitis when I reviewed the Turzillo/Simon collections.  For some obscure reason I called Marge Simon Meg Simon.  My apologies.

AN AUSTRALIAN MARKET THAT DOESN'T EMBRACE NON-AUSTRALIANS

AFTER THE RAIN anthology project is neither open to poetry or non-Aussies. 

A CANADIAN MARKET THAT EMBRACES NON-CANADIANS

PRISM (http://prism.ca.ubc.ca/ ) is a well paying Canadian market that accepts work from non-Canadians.  Another well paying market is POETRY MAGAZINE (http://poetryfoundation.org/ ) is another at $10 per line.

A MARKET SLITHERS OUT TO POETS

Though their guidelines dont mention it the new df/h audio magazine PSEUDOPOD (http://pseudopod.org/ is a market for poetry but editor Ben Phillips pointed out that the poems have to be straight forward .  So if you send a poem to them it better not be wiggly.  The new general fiction magazine VARSITY PRINTS is not open to poetry.

One reader thinks I should start covering flash fiction markets.  What say you others?

FURTHER COMMENTS ON ROYALTIES

An academic poet contacted me away from the blog and told me that in her experience, poetry collections published by academic presses had no problem paying herroyalties.  For anyone who is reading this  who has a similair experience please post the reasons why academic presses do well in this category.  I have my theory but I want to hear from others begore I comment on it.  However I am still disinclined to report on anthology markets that are royalties only in payment.

AN APOLOGY

I made a slight error/typo in the last post.  Somehow I overlooked the fact that I did not mention that Turzillo was the co-author of the DRAGON SOUP collection.

THREE REVIEWS

YOUR CAT & OTHER SPACE ALIENS by Mary Turzillo, Berlin CT and Cleveland OH; 2007. vanZeno Press Professional Reading Series, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-9789244-0-9, pb

THE DRAGON DICTIONARY by Meg Simon and Mary Turzillo, Cedar Rapids, IA; 2010,Sam's Dot, $6.00, ISBN 978-1-935590-14-9, pb

DRAGON SOUP by Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo, Cleveland OH and Berlin CT, 2008, vanZeno Press Professional Reading Series,$19,95, ISBN 978-0-9789244-5-4, pb

First let me make this clear.  All three of these collections are well worth the price and well worth ordering, which you can do through Amazon the last I knew.  These collections are excellent showcases for something thats gets overlooked too often in poetry, humor.

The first collection is a whimisical which I know is an over used term but in this case well deserved.  The poems are about observations on the behavior of critters that are not human.  As you can tell from the title, cats and their moods are the focus of many of these poems.  It is not all humorous poetry.  For example there is a fine poem about Wayne Gacy titled 'Gacy' that is neither cute or cuddly.

'In Jack's dream
we live with John Wayne Gacy.
Something is wrong, Jack says, but I don't seem to care..."

However this first stanza from the poem 'Oath of the Moon' is more typical of the collection

"Whiskers smelling of milk and tuna,
he slink's into his mistress's bedroom
intent on rubbing against her legs
and,since he is tonight her same species,
further up.  Beware werecat's mistress,
the front claws,the barbed penis. ''"

THE DRAGON DICTIONARY is what it says it is.  Its basically a light hearted twist on Ambrose Bierce's  THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY.    Only its aimed at D & D'ers and fans of light fantasy novels that have dragons on their covers.  Most of these definitions rvolve dragons and all their quibbles and dragony ways.  The definitions are interspered with poetry and the artful ilustrations created by Marge Simon..  It can be a little too cutesy for some but I enjoyed it and I usually have a low tolerance for cutesy.  However Simon'sketch of a lady dragon singing 'the hills are alive.." won me over.  Your daughter/female relative/female offspring of friends are going to love it.  Maybe it get their minds off of undernourished boy vampires.

DRAGON SOUP is not a collaboration but rather a collection of poems and flash fiction by Simon and a collection of poems and flash fiction.  Almost all the pieces are humorous work about dragons and illustrated by Simon.  As I said before I have a low toleration of whimsey but I enjoyed the poems and flash fiction.  You dont have to be a dedicated dracophile to enjoy this collection.  Like the previous collection it would make a great gift to wean young females from their fascination with wain male vampires and young lads with buxum vampirettes.  It is well worth buying it for tour self.

Do yourselff a favor for the gift buying season buy all three from Amazon and lo and behold this site has a portal to Amazon (hint).

STILL ANOTHER WELCOME

First a welcome to my 15th follower.  Secondly I now have a tweeter account but I still have to figure out how to access it.  Lastly before the day is finished I am going to do three book reviews; two are joint collections by Mary Turzillo and Marge Simon and the thirsd is a collection by Turzillo only which brings up a beef.

Mary is one of the most important poets working within the sf/f/h genres and she doesnt get much buzz.  I think the reason is an odd one at first.  She has many appearences in the major newsstand and commercial markets like ANALOG, ASIMOV'S and WEIRD TALES but that is also her problem.  Relatively few sf/f/h poetry fans read the major genre magazines.  Just check out how few poems that appear in ASIMOV'S gets nominated for the Rhyslings.  The other matter is that much of her work is humorous and humorous poems dont get the respect they deserve though she does get her fair share of Rhysling nominations.

There I feel better getting it off my chest.

A BIG HELLO

A big hello to my 14th follower.  I am glad to see you here.  Please feel free to comment

YOUR OPINIONS PLEASE

I want your opinions.

First do you find that the smallest poetry markets seem to have the most elaborate procedures for submitting material.

The second is what you folks think of flash fiction.  Is it really poetry and should I start covering flash fiction markets ?

GENERAL RAMBLINGS

If anyone wants to have a link to my blog from another website they are welcome to do so just let me know at my email address sgreen@grolen.com . Secondly by the end of this week I should have portals up for Barnes & Noble, Borders, Horror mall and Powell's Books.  I also plan to have a facebook page for my blog and a twitter account to gently herd poets to this blog.  You always can enter and order from Amazon (hint!!) at this blog.

MARKETS DEAD, MARKETS JUST CLOSED FOR NOW

NUMINOUS SPIRITUAL POETRY is dead.  FLASHQUAKE is closed to submissions for now.

ALAS ANOTHER CLOSED MARKET

The anthology project PANVERSE 3 is closed to poetry.

CAST YOUR EYES OVER HERE

DARK EYES GLANCES http://darkeyeglances.com/ is looking for dark poetry that rhymes.  Yes there are still editors who like to ryhme.

On a completely different note, has anyone reading this ever got royalty payments from their poems appearing in an anthology?  I never did.  Please post your experience post haste!!!!

FOR AUSTRALIANS ONLY

There are two new markets  but unfortunately one is open only to Australians, SMALL ROOM (http://smallrom.co.au/ .  The other is a df/h/mystery webzine LITERARY HATCHET http://www.literaryhatchet.com/ .

GRANTING A WISH

The Speculative Literature Foundation is awarding $800 travel grants to speculative writers (prose,poetry.playwriting) For details go to http://www.speclit.org/ .

ITS NOT HALLMARK BUT

The greeting card publisher Blue Mountain Arts,has a program by which they publish collections of the poems and other sayingsthey buy for the cards and they pay a separate fee for them.  You can go to their website for more info http://www.sps.com/  .

If anyone has a strong handle on selling to the greeting crd market please feel free to post it here.

CANADIAN MARKET

OUEEN'S QUATERLEY is a Canadian general literary quarterly.  For submission and payment policies check www.queensu.ca/quarterly.

FLYING AGAIN

The monthly webzineMINDFLIGHTS is ready to take on new submissionsso try to get a boarding pass ie sale and come on board !!!!.  There I have done my cloyingly cutesy entry for the month.  but dont forget to query them at editor@mindflights.com .  I promise I wont be cutesy again for at least a month.

THREE MARKETS OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND ONE CLOSED FOR NOW

Three magazines are now open to submissions, GRASSLIMB ,www.grasslimb.com ,PARIS REVIEW http://www.parisreview.com,lorelei/ SIGNAL http://www.loreleisignal.com/.  Another market is closed to submissions for now, PEN AMERICAN JOURNAL.

RAY GUN WILL HAVE AN EMPTY CLIP

The webzine RAY GUN which is being restructured to become RAY GUN REVIVAL will no longer be a paying market.    Yeeeccchhhh.

ANOTHER MARKET TO HARVEST

The Canadian literary quarterly GRAIN MAGAZINE is always looking for poetry.  Go to for more info at http://www.grainmagazine.ca/ .

ADDITIONAL MARKET NEWS

The mainstream literary quarterley THE OXFORD AMERICAN is open to poetry.  Info at http://www.oxfordamerican.org/  .

A new Philippine literary annual,  PHILIPPINES RIPE LITERARY MAGAZINE is open to poetry.  For submission info go to http://asiawrites.blogspot.com/2010/06/paying-market-philippines-ripe-literary.html  .

MARKET NEWS

BYLINE is closed to submissions indefinitely.

A NIGHTLY CONFESSION

The NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS anthology project is closed to poetry.

AND THEY CALLED IT ELFISH LOVE

First a shout out to the 13th follower of this blog.  Remember if you feel a desire to buy something at Amazon  please consider accessing it through this blog.

ELF LOVE is an anthology project being put together by Pink Narcissus Press.  For prose they pay shared royalties butr payment for poems has to be negotiated.  hmmm.  I always have deep problems with royalties only payments because I was burnt twice by this.  However if you want to take a chance query the editor at rose@pinknarc.com  .

ANEW MARKET IS LAUNCHED AND ANOTHER RELAUNCHES

FLAGSHIP a new ezine/audio zine sf/f has been launched .  For more details mailto:flagship@flyingislandspress.com.
GHOSTLIGHT MAGAZINE a tri-annual df/h print magazine has come back to haunt us.  More details can be found a  www/greatlakeshorror.com .

THE LONG AND WINDING SUBMISSION PROCESS

According to a very good source WEIRD TALES should not be open to poetry until Jan., 2011.  So start holding your breth now.

THE CORRECT DECISION

Recently the sf/f/h poet as bwell as outstanding children/ya writer was elected the newest Grand Master by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association over df/h/Lovecraftian poet Richard Tierney.   Both poets were major poets in their own particular segments of sf/f/h literature.  Yolen was the right decision on purely pragmatic grounds.  A much wider audience is familiar with Yolen's work and career than with Tierney's.  Simply put you could do more in pr with Yolen than with Tierney.

NO MORE FURROWING IN THE LITERARY FIELDS OF HORROR

The df/h webzine THE HARROW is alas closed down.

A PECULIAR NOTE

THE MADAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION does not mention poetry in its guidelines yet it does use poetry.  When I emailed them directly in response I got what seems to be a form letter restating that they are actively looking for poetry and not directly answered my question.

SO DONT TELL THEM

The flash story magazine MISFIT MAGAZINE does not buy poetry at this time. o fib and say your prose poem is a flash story. Can anyone answer the question what's the difference between a prose poem and a flash story.

SOMETHING CLOSES SOMETHING OPENS

The ezine VULGATA MAGAZINE is open again for submissions.  For details query editor@vulgatamagazine.org.  On the other hand the audiozine WHISPERING SPIRITS is indefinitely closed.  BTW if you have comments about other poetry marketing sites please feel free to post them here.

ITS HOT,ITS MUGGY AND I HAVE NEGATIVE MARKET NEWS

The MALICIOUS DEVIANCE anthology project is closed to poetry.

POETRY FOR ALL PURPOSES

A new poetry piblisher Scott Norman is publishing an ongoing series of poetry collection.  They include poetry for dogs, poetry for chocolate and so on.  It appears to be a paying market.  Check out his web site at http://www.poetryfor.com/  .

ITS SMARTER THAN THE AVERAGE MAGAZINE

BEAR DELUXE  is a semi-annual print magazine that focuses on environmental and natural science issues.  Yes it does buy poetry.  For more details go to their website at http://www.orlo.org/  .

THE HORROR OF IT

The webzine THE HORROR ZINE is closed to submissions.

I HAVE A QUESTION

I want know what the readers say when an editor tells you that they dont buy poetry because they dont know whats good.  Your comments please.

SOME GOOD AND BAD NEWS

First the bad news,the 2013; THE AFTERMATH anthology project is closed to poetry.  Now the good news the anthology project 2020 VISION is open to poetry.  For more details query the editor Rick Novy at ricknovy@gmail.com  .BTW I made a silly error in the previous post I meant to write UNDISCOVERED not DISCOVERED.

BAD NEWS

The DISCOVERED anthology publisher reversed itself and has ecided to close the anthology to poetry.  Sometimes its not worth getting out of bed.