A quick reminder, folks: today is the final day to submit poems to “Eye to the Telescope 2”, the online anthology of speculative poetry from New Zealand and Australian poets that I’m editing. Submissions close at midnight today, New Zealand time.
I’m looking forward to reading all the submissions once the deadline has passed – if you want to make sure yours is among them, check out the first issue of Eye to the Telescope and the submission guidelines.
Two calls from submissions that may be of interest to New Zealand writers:
1) An Anthology of Writing about Canterbury
Wily Publications invites submissions of poetry and short prose (up to 2000 words) for an anthology featuring writings about Canterbury – coast, plains and high country. Fiction and non-fiction, current and historical works are welcomed, but copyright must be held by the person submitting the work. Work may be previously published, but not anthologised.
Submissions must be typed, double spaced (poetry may be single spaced), on one side of A4. Please ensure that name, postal and email addresses are included, a statement of ownership of copyright, as well as a stamped self-addressed envelope. Submissions will not be returned, and unaccepted work will be destroyed. Following publication, a small payment will be made for accepted work.
Please send submissions to: Canterbury Anthology, 37A Holly Road, Christchurch 8014
Submissions must be received by 28 February 2009.
2) US poetry journal looking for New Zealand poetry
Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture
Reconfigurations is seeking excellent contemporary New Zealand poems for its November 2009 issue. Edited largely in the U.S., Reconfigurations is an electronic, peer-reviewed, international, annual journal for poetics and poetry, creative and scholarly writing, innovative and traditional concerns with literary arts and cultural studies.
Bryan Walpert will make the initial selection of poems. These will then be peer-reviewed by a panel of editors at Reconfigurations, who may opt to take all or only a selection of these. Please send up to five of your best poems by 15 April 2009 in a single Word file attachment to Bryan Walpert at b.walpert (at) massey.ac.nz along with a bio in the body of the email of up to 75 words. Please simply use “Reconfigurations” as your subject line. Unpublished work is preferred and will be given priority, but work published only in New Zealand will be considered. If you include published work, please indicate which poems have been published, where, and when.