Diamond Point Press

Call for Submissions: Sonnets in the New Milennium

Benjamin C. Krause — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:56:24 +0000

Diamond Point Press is calling for submissions to Sonnets in the New Millennium, an upcoming anthology of and about sonnets (both traditional and experimental) written in the 21^st century. We are proud to announce that the editor for this anthology will be Sonnet Mondal, whose biography follows:

Sonnet Mondal is an internationally renowned Indian poet, editor and writer. He has authored six books of poetry namely ‘A Poetic Peep Into The Post Modern World’, ‘The Curse of Atlantis and Other Poems’, ’21 Lines Fusion Sonnets of 21^st Century’, ‘Penumbra of Indian Verses’, ‘Diorama of Three Diaries’ and ‘Easterlies’.

Sonnet is the pioneer of the 21 line fusion sonnet form of poetry which is a 14 line poem with new thematic and rhyming variations followed by a seven line half sonnet.

His works have been published in over 100 international literary publications and have been translated into Macedonian, Italian, Arabic, Hindi, Telugu and Bengali. He was awarded Poet Laureate from Bombadil Publishing in 2009, Leadership Award 2009, Doctor of Literature from United Writers’ Association in 2010, Azsacra International Poetry award in 2011, nominated for Pushcart prize in 2011, Included in the Dictionary of International Contemporary Poets, China and was inducted in the prestigious Significant Achievements Plaque in the museum of Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur.

He was featured in Famous Five of India Today magazine and as an Achiever in the Herald of India and United Magazine. He has also been a featured poet at World Poetry Reading Series, Canada, The Single Hound Magazine, U.S.A., Bruised Peach Press and Asian American Poetry project, U.S.A. His participation in Struga Poetry Evening 2011 was cited as an effort to increase cultural cooperation between India and Macedonia by SPE authorities.

For the past few years Sonnet has been the managing editor of the Enchanting Verses Journal of Poetry and the Sub Secretary General of Asia Unit of Poetas Del Mundo. He is also one of the Editors of Best Poems Encyclopedia, U.S.A.

For this anthology, you may submit any of the following:

Traditional Sonnet Forms: Types of traditional sonnets include Petrarchan (the “Italian sonnet”), Shakespearean (the “English sonnet”), Paolo Lanfranchi de Pistoia’s variation (disputably known as the “Occitian sonnet”), any of Dante’s variations, Edmund Spenser’s variation, Percy Shelley’s variation (in the poem “Ozymandias”), Alexander Pushkin’s variation, or any other established, historic form of the traditional sonnet from any culture. Please identify the type of sonnet in your submission.

Established Experimental Sonnet Forms: These include the caudate sonnet, the curtal sonnet, and other established, historic experimental sonnet forms from any culture. Please identify the type of experimental sonnet in your submission.

New or Non-Established Sonnet Forms: As an anthology of 21st-century sonnets, we both welcome and encourage new or non-established forms of sonnets, whether experimental/avant-garde or more “traditional,” but please specify what is new in your sonnet, as well as what makes it a sonnet.

Critical/Research Articles: All types that regard the sonnet, past and present, are welcome, but they should say something new.

All submissions should be strictly in English. Sonnets written in other languages are welcome as long as they have been translated into English. For translations, specify the name of the translator and author, and show that you have the right to submit it if you are the translator.

Submitters must include a brief bio which must include the country they belong to.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome, as long as you immediately inform us if your submission is accepted elsewhere. Reprints are also welcome, as long as you specify where the work has previously appeared.

5 poems maximum per person.

Send your submissions to sonnet@diamondpointpress.com. No postal submissions. All submissions must be strictly through email. The deadline for submissions is February 18, 2012.

Call for Submissions: Introducing the Quincouplet

Benjamin C. Krause — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:22:30 +0000

Call for Anthology Submissions

Introducing the Quincouplet

Benjameno Charlo Kraus, Editor

We are now taking submissions for the first anthology of and about the new poetic form “quincouplet” (aka “quin”).

Quincouplets are one-stanza, two-line poems with two words on the first line and three words on the second. The name comes from the fact that it has five (quin-) words on two lines (a couplet).

Aside from having two words on the first line and three words on the second, the most important rule of a quincouplet is that it must be a poem, not just a five-word sentence.

A quincouplet need not have a title. If it does, the title should be only one word, which cannot be the first word of a sentence that is continued by the poem itself. That would be cheating the form by making it a 6-word poem. Other than that, if the poem has a title, it can be used for any purpose.

The keys to a good quincouplet are word economy and word precision. Every word should be there for a reason, and should be the best possible word to use. The words should be in the best possible order and the imposed line break should make sense. If the poem would benefit from a different structure, it is not a good quincouplet.

From Quincouplet.org, a publication of Poems Without Borders.

We are taking submissions of quincouplets and articles about quincouplets. We are not taking submissions of any quincouplet-derived forms (no backquins or dequatrains, for example). However, visual quincouplets are perfectly acceptable, and encouraged, if they fit the form.

The anthology will be multilingual, so feel free to submit in any language.

No simultaneous submissions. Reprints both accepted and encouraged, but please also submit original quins.

For full details on the Quincouplet, including translations of the name of the form into many languages, please consult Quincouplet.org.

Submit to Introducing the Quincouplet at Submishmash

Call for Submissions: twenty20 Journal Fall 2011 Issue 2

Benjamin C. Krause — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:47:30 +0000

Fall 2011 Issue 2 will be a double issue. We plan to mix the old and the new to create a very interesting issue.

Our categories are a little bit different from usual this time. They are:

Things With Words: Anything with words–whether it’s poetry, fiction, nonfiction, experimental prose, poetry or prose in the form of image files, flash files, or audio files, and even haiku–as long, of course, as there are words, and the number of words does not exceed 20. Submit up to 6 Things With Words total. We aim to publish 10 Things With Words from previous contributors (see restriction below), and 10 Things With Words from brand-new contributors.

Visual Art (Without Words): Any visual art that does not contain any words. Submit up to 10 pieces of visual art (without words) total. We aim to publish 2 pieces of visual art (without words) from a previous contributor (see restriction below), and 2 pieces of visual art (without words) from a brand-new contributor.

No simultaneous submissions. No reprints.

No one who is scheduled to be published in Fall 2011 Issue 1 is eligible for this issue, as is standard (this is the aforementioned restriction). The Guest Editors are eligible, however.

Payment is 5 USD per accepted piece, paid within 15 days of the issue’s release.

Read on…

Call for Submissions: Muscle & Blood Issue 3

Benjamin C. Krause — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:42:28 +0000

We are now taking submissions of black-and-white photography, creative nonfiction in all of its various forms, essays, articles, third-party interviews, literary short fiction, literary flash fiction, and well-rounded, well-executed poetry for Issue 3 of Muscle & Blood.

The best way to get an idea of what we’re looking for is to purchase an issue. They are available both in reasonably-priced print formats, and extremely affordable e-book formats for various devices. Our current issue is Issue 2. There are also samples from Issue 1 currently available on the Issue 1 page.

Please submit only once per reading period. If your work appeared in Issue 2, please wait until Issue 4 before submitting again. Exceptions: photography, essays, and articles.

We encourage simultaneous submissions, but recommend that you tell us up front that your work is a simultaneous submission, and require that you inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. No reprints. We ask for First Worldwide Serial Rights to any work we accept.

Contributors are guaranteed a free PDF copy of the issue in which they appear. After that, we will offer whatever is within our budget. Issue 2 contributors received a 50% discount on as many copies of the print edition as they wanted.

Include a third-person bio of 100 words or fewer with your submission, listing no more than five previous journal publications, if you list any. You may additionally list up to two chapbooks or full-length collections (incl. e-books and e-chapbooks) if you have them. We are serious about our upper bounds on listing publications. If you go above them, we reserve the right to reject your pieces immediately without reading them.

Above all, write in your authentic voice. We’re not going to accept anything that seems inauthentic. But we also will not accept poorly-written writing, or anything that does not fit into our aesthetic. As stated above, the best way to understand our aesthetic is to read an issue.

Read on…