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For lesbians, by lesbians! We would LOVE to see more lesbian fiction, flash fiction, ghost stories, poems about nature and gardens, mysteries, humour, fantasy, and more!
Don't self reject! We can't wait to read your work.
I previously wrote marketing and business copy for creative professional firms but have been away from that for a long time. My interests now center on poetry and fiction but I also enjoy humorous essays and history, especially the American Revolution and Colonial America.
I aspire to write far more than I do as I find it very hard to maintain focus so I will write voraciously for brief periods of time and then, poof, completely forget that it was a thing I was doing. My brain is funny this way and has done a fine job of making writing progress really, really difficult.
I've mostly written free-verse poetry over the last year, or so, when I have written but think often about writing essays and book-length fiction but the brain intervenes so I mostly just cobble together fragments of things here and there. It's highly disappointing and painfully frustrating.
I'm looking to know what strategies for writing work for other people and how to feel like I deserve to prioritize my writing. This is a tall order, but I feel like if any people understand what I'm experiencing it's going to be other writers.
Hello, my name is Tina. My desire to write came about slowly. My childhood was traumatic and riddled with verbal and mental abuse. I am an adult child of an alcoholic. Even though he stopped drinking when I was quite young, Dry Drunk syndrome set in. All of those scars embedded, I finally got diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety disorder in my late thirties. I earned a Creative Writing degree in 2017 since then have been working on a novel. Within this novel, I have pulled from my past. Opening doors that I had shut long ago, however with the opening of those doors I have been diagnosed with PTSD.
Tilted House Review is a biannual arts and literary journal made by hand in small batches in the small city of New Orleans. Through this outfit, we strive to cultivate a creative and communal unit from and for the city. And while the door is wide open for New Orleans’ minds, it remains open for the rest of the world’s. Everyone is encouraged to submit.
We like both experimental and traditional work. We like dark. Surprise turns, nuance, metaphor. We want poems we can smell. Fiction that sickens. Art that double-takes. We like hard-hitting endings. Polemics. Protest. Confession that isn’t like every other confession. Sonnets, American sonnets, sonnets all splintered. We like work that has its heart on its sleeve—and nothing on the nose. Crawl into our veins and sit there a while.
The work that I've been most satisfied with was written pretty much the traditional way, with the first draft written independently, then revised (several times), and finally presented in a workshop setting for suggestions regarding craft and the overall impact of the piece. I have considerable experience in workshop settings and have attended many non-credit workshops, but I don't have an MFA.
Heyday is an independent, nonprofit publisher with a focus on California and the American West. We publish nonfiction books that explore history, celebrate Native cultural renewal, fight injustice, and honor nature. Take a look at our list of books (www.heydaybooks.com/books) to learn more about our areas of interest.
Please include the following in your submission:
For more information, go to www.heydaybooks.com/contact and under "Click a section below for more information," click on "Submission Guidelines." No follow-up calls, please.
The Twin Bill is a quarterly online literary baseball publication founded in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. We celebrate the rich history of the game while also recognizing its vibrant present through essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and visual art. We welcome writers of all levels and experiences.
We want to hear your story about baseball. It generally helps if you focus on a single game or moment as opposed to listing multiple ones.
I am a high school social studies teacher who is fascinated by the constructed nature of place in America. I use the past to fight for social awareness and equity, and I've traveled over 30,000 miles around the United States by RV to study American culture in pusuit of my passion. Other favorite pastimes include examining primary source materials and performing field research on a variety of topics, especially the Civil War. I wrote the thesis for my M.A. in American and New England Studies during an RV trip where I focused on narratives of the American West in an effort to bring fugitive landscapes--stories pushed to the periphery because they don't support the master narratives--to the forefront. I'm transitioning from academic research and writing to a focus on fiction that is historically accurate, saturated with a sense of place and time, and thought-provoking. I'm currently working on a historical novel that takes place on the Rocky Mountain frontier just after the Civil War, and I've written several short stories and poems that I'd like to fine-tune and get published.
I am a new author. I do not have experience within publishing neither have I been active within the writing community. I am looking for a group of objective people with similar interests to talk about writing and review over our each other's work. Right now, I am currently working on a multigenerational book about my family's history in Puerto Rico and the U.S. It has aspects of magical realism mixed in throughout the story.
Besides writing I enjoy reading adult fiction, fantasy, and romance books. I also have experience working with social media, so I can help with beginning to market your stories through your social media from start to finish.
