Boyne Berries Call for Submissions

Deadline: Sunday July 24th 2016 midnight

The submission period for Boyne Berries 20 is now open. Boyne Berries 20 will feature poetry and fiction or prose on an open theme.

Send up to 3 poems per poetry submission. Poems should be no more than 40 lines long.

Fiction and prose submissions should be no more than 1500 words.

Please use Times New Roman 12 and single spacing.
Please include a short biographical note.
Submissions should be placed in the body of the email and attached as a word document attachment. Submit to orla.a.fay@gmail.com only.

Submissions which fail to adhere to the above criteria will be ignored.

The magazine will be published in late September 2016.

Boyne Berries magazine was established by the Boyne Writers Group and is published twice a year accepting submissions of prose and poetry from all over the world.

Books Ireland Short Story Competition

The Books Ireland Magazine short story competition is open.

FIRST PRIZE: €400 PLUS a writing course at the Irish Writers Centre and publication in Books Ireland.

• 2nd Prize €200
• 3rd Prize €100

ADJUDICATOR: Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin

• Entry fee is €10 or €5 for subscribers or members of a creative writing group.
• The maximum number of words allowed is 2,600.
• Deadline: 31st August

Read the winning stories from 2015 here / Léigh an scéal anseo:

• Short Story Competition Results 2015
• IMRAM Books Ireland Chomórtas Gearrscéalaíochta 2015 

Link and entry details here

The London Magazine’s annual Poetry Prize

The London Magazine’s annual Poetry Prize seeks out new writers whose work is adventurous and surprising in both form and content. The judges will be:

Andrew McMillan | Rebecca Perry

All poems submitted must be previously unpublished and no longer than 40 lines. We have no criteria as to theme, form or style but are looking for diverse work which is not afraid innovate and startle. 

This competition is open to international entries.

Closing date: 30th June 2016

First Prize: £300
Second Prize: £200 
Third Prize: £150

Entry Fee

First entry: £7 
Subsequent entries: £5 (per poem)

http://www.thelondonmagazine.org/the-london-magazine-poetry-prize-information/

Prelude Magazine - Irish Issue

Prelude magazine, a NY based mag is open to submissions for it's forthcoming Irish Issue.

"For poets living in Ireland – a special feature edited by Maya Catherine Popa"

Link here for the very cool magazine. Submissions for the Irish issue are free on submittable. Usually there's a small charge.

Deadline 30th June

Mslexia Poetry Competition

This year the Mslexia Poetry Competition for single poems will be judged by ex-Makar poet Liz Lochhead, and the first prize is £2,000 – plus two optional extras: a week’s writing retreat at the writing retreat Cove Park, and a mentoring afternoon with the editor of The Poetry Review. Other winners will receive a share of the remaining £1,025 prize pot, and all winning poems will be published in the September 2015 issue of Mslexia.

Plus they’re once again offering a special $500 prize for the best poem by an unpublished woman poet. 

The entry fee of £7 allows you to enter up to three poems.

There's also the annual Poetry Pamphlet Competition? For collections of 20-24 pages of 18-20 poems, the first prize is the publication of the pamphlet by Seren Books, plus £250, 25 complimentary copies of the pamphlet and royalties from all subsequent sales. If you’ve never had a full-length collection published and want to take your work to the next level, this is the competition for you. Judge is Seren editor, Amy Wack.

Entry fee £20.

Deadline 13 June 2016 

Banshee Submissions

Banshee is a new magazine of contemporary writing which publishes twice a year. They are looking for submissions of fiction, short story length or flash or articles to their 3rd issue.

Deadline: 30th April 2016

• All submissions should be previously unpublished.
• Stories and essays should be 1500-5000 words. Flash fiction should be less than 1000 words, poems no more than 40 lines.
• We are happy to read up to two stories, up to two essays, up to four flashes and up to six poems. However, we ask that each writer submit in only one of the above categories.
• Submissions should be in one .doc or .docx format attachment, double spaced, and in a non-quirky font.
• Please include a short bio (max 50 words) in the body of your email.
• Email to bansheelit at gmail dot com, with the category of the work (flash/story/essay/poetry) in the subject line.
• We believe in paying writers. We can offer contributors a small fee as well as a copy of the journal.

Link here

Editors are Laura Jane Cassidy, Claire Hennessy and Eimear Ryan (none poets as far as I know. Ladies if you want some poetic editorial input, let me know. I have form...)

They say:

Some of our favourite themes include coming of age, sexuality, gender, mortality, complicated relationships of all shapes, the joys and frustrations of the creative life, our relationship with technology, and the extended adolescence of young adults in the 21st century. While our outlook is literary, we’re open to genre elements. 

Poetry & Politics Poetry Competition

Holland Park Press invite you to write a political poem

Task: The theme of this poetry competition is poetry and politics, so in order to enter your poem it must be about any aspect of politics. Your poem can be about international politics or instead be about something political much more closer to home. We don’t have to agree with your opinions, but we do want to be touched in some way by your poem, inspired by its imagery and, of course, we look for a beautiful use of language.

Prize: £200 and publication in the Holland Park Press online magazine

Length: 50 lines or less

Entry fee: none

Deadline: 31 August 2016

Eligibility: poems written in English by writers over 18 from any country

To submit: email your poem as a Word or PDF attachment to submissions@hollandparkpress.co.uk
Organizer: Holland Park Press

Webpage: complete guidelines are available from http://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/magazine_detail.php?magazine_id=407&language=English where  you can also see some examples.

Boyne Berries 1916 Launch

Boyne Berries 1916 will be launched by Gallery Press Poet Tom French.

http://www.gallerypress.com/authors/a-to-f/tom-french/

This issue commemorates the centenary of the 1916 rising. It features poetry and prose by members of the Boyne Writers Group as well as work by James Lawless, Deirdre Hines, Clare McCotter, Iseult Healy, Phelim Kavanagh, Amanda Bell, John Saunders, Andy Jones, Bernadette Gallagher, Patrick Devaney, Eamonn Lynskey, Peter Goulding, Tim Dwyer, Carolyne Van Der Meer, and more.

Castlearch Hotel, Trim, co Meath

Thursday 31st March 8pm.

All Welcome

5 × 7

Abridged 0 - 45: Why is it always December? Submission Call

After Lethe and Floodland comes ‘Why is always December?’ the third of our (very loose) trilogy exploring oblivion, memory and the fear of losing identity. Why is it always December? interrogates our need to memorialise even the most slightest thing. Social media allows us to share even the most banal aspect of our existence creating for us personas that beg for connectivity, that fear of being alone, indeed that are absolutely incapable of being alone without informing the world of the fact. The private and the public are now one and the same, every portrait a self-portrait. Our biographies now selfies; intimacy now a need for infinite verification, to be ‘liked’ and applauded by friends, ‘virtual’-friends and strangers so that our immortality is assured. It’s as if we are afraid that silence or invisibility equates with not existing or non-being. Our constant and continual commemoration and celebration occurs not because we are necessarily happy but because we fear that things will end. Memory becomes microscopic yet somehow concurrently mythic.

Abridged in 0 – 45: Why is it always December? explores the fear that we will be forgotten and the need for continual celebration and remembrance. Submissions may be up to three poems and can be sent to abridged@ymail.com For this issue poetry only is required.

Deadline is 17th March 2016.

Bare Hands Magazine open for submissions

The beautiful new Issue 20 of Bare Hands is now online. Featuring poetry from Simon Lewis, Jackie Gorman, Ciaran Hodgers, Laura-Blaise McDowell, Stephanie Conn, Kathy D'Arcy, Alicia Byrne Keane & James O' Leary along with photography from Simon Prunty, Rafael Joaquin, Miroslav R. Mitrovic, John Iona, Tiffany Hearsey, Fran Rodriguez, Clare Coyle & non-fiction from D.F. 

Read it here.

They are now open for submissions to Issue 21. They say:

We seek work that is beautiful and different

Deadline: March 31st 

Check out the submission guidelines here. 

Submissions sought for The Level Crossing magazine

Dedalus Press is looking for previously unpublished poems for a feature in its new occasional journal, THE LEVEL CROSSING.

• Theme: Poems on the subject of place (home place, strange place, imagined place …) 
• Length: a maximum of 20 lines
• Form: Poems may be in any form. Prose poems are welcome. 
• Poets may submit up to three poems each, but no poet will have more than one poem chosen for publication.
• They pay a one-time fee of €30 for each poem published.

The feature will appear in THE LEVEL CROSSING, number 1, in both print and download editions (the latter available free from the Dedalus website) in April/May 2016; a selection will also feature on the Dedalus blog at the same time.

Deadline: End March 2016 

Submissions may be made only through Submittable.com. 

To ensure a fair and unbiased reading of all submitted work, the author’s name should NOT appear on the uploaded text file but only in the online Contact form.

The Penny Dreadful at Salon Nights

DLR Lexicon are hosting regular Salon Nights showcasing various Irish magazines and presses. This time it's the turn of Penny Dreadful.

Wednesday March 2, 8.00pm 

Studio (beside the Café), Ground Floor, dlr LexIcon

This month’s Salon Night hosted by dlr writer in residence Selina Guinness features The Penny Dreadful, a biannual, literary magazine, based in Cork, publishing poetry, fiction and reviews. It recently launched its own imprint, The Dreadful Press, and hosts The Penny Dreadful Novella Prize each summer. Editors John Keating and Mark O’Connell will be joined on the night by writers Dean Browne and Jessica Traynor.

Link here 

Penny Dreadful Submissions

Now open for submissions.

Submit your work but clicking on one of the categories below.

Stories (Up to 2 of up to 3000 words each)

Poetry (6 of whatever length you like as long as you don’t take the piss. Note: Please include all submitted poems in the same file, or they may not be considered for publication)

With your entry, please include a short bio (100 words max) and any internet website linking things which are suitable for good, Christian eye-balls.

What we do want: Ball-grabbing, punch-in-the-face writing from nice, courteous ladies and gents.

What we do not want: Funny fonts.

Deadline: March 12th 2016

As always, please support small magazines by buying a copy first, if you possibly can. You can purchase a copy of our fine periodical here.

Stinging Fly Submissions - Fear & Fantasy

Winter 2016 issue - Fear & Fantasy

The Winter 2016 issue has a special theme and it will be guest-edited by Mia Gallagher.

Submissions for this issue are now being accepted. The last day to post your submission is Friday, February 5th 2016. All submissions that are postmarked on or before this date will be considered.

Link to a note from the ‘Fear & Fantasy’ issue guest editor:

As well as fiction, they are looking for poems and essays – any piece of text that resonates with the theme. They welcome essays from people working outside literature or lit criticism – history, psychology, biochemistry, philosophy, geophysics, forensics etc.

The postal address for submissions is: The Stinging Fly, PO Box 6016, Dublin 1, Ireland.
More details on the link above.

In each issue they also do a Featured Poet, publishing a number of poems by a poet who is working towards a first collection. To be considered, send 6-10 previously unpublished poems. If they want to see more, they will get back to you. If submitting for this slot, do not make a separate poetry submission.

Publisher: Declan Meade
Editor: Thomas Morris
Poetry Editor: Eabhan Ní Shúileabháin
Eagarthóir filíochta Gaeilge: Aifric Mac Aodha
Contributing Editors: Emily Firetog, Dave Lordan, and Sean O'Reilly

Poetry Salzburg

Another English speaking journal looking for submissions.

Poetry Salzburg Review publishes poems, translations, interviews, essays and reviews of recent collections of poetry. Our intention is to publish the best available writing from a variety of writers.
All submissions should be typed and on one side of the paper only. Make sure that your name is on each page of the manuscript. Please include a bio/biographical note (up to 100 words).

 As Poetry Salzburg Review is a bi-annual magazine, authors are requested to send us only one submission (4-6 poems) per issue.

Due to the amount and high quality of work we receive, potential contributors are strongly encouraged to read the magazine prior to submitting their work.

All contributors are going to receive a complimentary copy of the issue that contains their work.

However, we would like to point out that Poetry Salzburg Review lost its small grant from the Austrian government at the end of 2011. This is why we would also ask our contributors to support the magazine by either taking out a subscription or by ordering a gift subscription for one of their friends.

Link here

Poetry Salzburg also publish poetry pamphlets. Link here for submissions

Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2015/16

The prize is for a single poem written by an adult for children (aged 7–11). They say:

 

What we are looking for is a stand-out poem to which we can award a prize of €1,000 to celebrate the richness of children’s writing.   

The Prize is open to everyone over the age of 18. The work must be original and previously unpublished

The entry fee is €12 per poem.

Deadline: 30 March 2016

1st Prize €1,000 plus publication in the summer 2016 issue of The Caterpillar. The prize is for a single unpublished poem written for children aged 7-11 years.

The competition will be judged anonymously by the publishers of The Caterpillar and The Moth, Rebecca O’Connor and Will Govan.   

Abridged 0-14: Floodland Submission Call

Abridged, the Northern Irish Poetry and Art magazine is looking for submissions on the theme of Floodland. This is what they say:

The chaos of water in water: transformation – from Lethe to Floodland. A process manifested on many levels – physical, social and psychological. The untamed advances its borders and floods the land and fear overwhelms our psyche. We buckle under, the weight of a wild, alien and apathetic element. We fear for our borders, our habitats, and convince ourselves that the flood blatantly undermines our very occupancy of the spaces over which we have asserted an order, drawing lines and making rules. We fear it will return those in its wake to the primordial mess, engulfing earth, obscuring sky, bombarding all sense of the foundational order. Floods are the sky falling. It seems the flood is the mindless purging of the earth and the heavens, scraping out a vacuum between them. All floods are mindless, and fully charged with the violence of mindlessness. In the midst of the reflective flatness and the rubble, there are the minds of individuals shaken out from the trauma of the flood into a strange and vulnerable newness. We are flooded with panic and paranoia: time, economy, global crises, and fear are made immediate, vital and simultaneous. We go blind with saturation and buckle under it in a great inevitable giving-way. Why would the world make war with us? Our eyes ask of the sky, our bodies of the ocean, our minds of our bodies, our art, our institutions. Our old stories knot colossal floods up with beginnings and re-beginnings. Born from the water we are swallowed and reborn of it, stripped to infancy by the huge indifference of the elemental.

Abridged is exploring paranoia and fear in its 0 – 14: Floodland issue. We are looking for poetry (up to three poems) and art (up to A4 landscape size and 300dpi or above). Submissions can be sent to abridged@ymail.com 

Deadline : 22nd January 2016

ROPES 2016 submissions

Ropes, the Galway based annual anthology edited and published by the students in the MA Literature and Publishing at NUI Galway, is looking for submissions for their 2016 issue. 

This years theme is independence in all its guises and they seek your most innovative, daring, experimental and gutsy writing.

Contributions are welcome in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and artwork. This includes flash fiction, genre fiction, graphic stories, memoirs, essays, visual art, photography, page decorations and illustrations.

All proceeds of ROPES 2016 will benefit the Galway Simon Community, a charity
that provides housing, support and health care services for people who have
become homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless in the West of Ireland.

Please submit to ROPES2016.submissions@gmail.com

Deadline: December 18th

Crannog Submissions

Get your submissions in for Crannog magazine from Galway.

Submissions for Crannóg February 2015 issue are accepted all through November. They have reduced the submission time for each issue to one month which means submissions are not tied up for long and a decision will be reached quickly. 

Deadline: 30th November 2015

Writers selected to appear in Crannóg will receive:
* A contributor's copy and €30 per story, €20 per poem.
 * An invitation to attend/read at the launch of Crannóg at The Crane Bar, Galway, Ireland.

Please read full submission rules HERE first!

Magma revolution

Magma poetry Magazine are looking for submissions on the theme of Revolution.

They say:

For Magma 65 we’re looking for poems that respond to the idea of revolution in the here and now. Perhaps your poem will show a new form breaking though or reflect on politics and conflict. Or perhaps you will focus on the strangeness of living in the 21^st century, on “the revolutionary potential of everyday life” as Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre put it, writing squarely in the tradition of Baudelaire, the first poet to see daily life in the streets of Paris as revolutionary.
We’d be delighted to receive poems in which the revolutionary intervenes in daily life whether politically as in Heaney’s The Toome Road or even A Constable Calls; or personally as in Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me”, Frost’sThe Road Not Taken, Bishop’s Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore or Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman; or stylistically as in Paul Stephenson’s poem in Magma 58 where all 25 lines end perfectly logically with “beetroot”.

Please send us your poems by Submittable 
Deadline: 31^st January 2016