Category: Submission Opportunities

Submission Opportunity: The Biggest Valley

SEEKING POEMS The Biggest Valley: Poems from California’s Heartland will showcase poems written by individuals who were born, raised, or have lived or worked for at least five or more years in California’s Central Valley. The anthology will be published by Sugartown Publishing in the spring of 2016. Deadline is August 30. Download the PDF …

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Poets’ Corner Contest Deadline March 11

The Modesto Poets’ Corner contest deadline is coming up. Your poems must be in by March 11. Here’s a link that will take you to more info and to the entry form. (It’s at the bottom of the page.)  http://www.modestogov.com/prnd/poet_corner.asp

Poetry venue in “Homeless in Modesto” web site

Richard Anderson has offered Modesto poets another venue for poems, about our local homeless. He has been working with the Modesto Peace/Life center on a video documentary on Modesto’s homeless (www.modestocahomelessdocumentary.org/). There is a “Poems and Stories” button that leads to www.modestocahomelessdocumentary.org/#!poems-and-stories/c1yha  which already has nancee maya’s “7th Street Bridge”  and Cleo Griffith’s “Entrenched, He Survives” and …

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Pathways Potluck and Poetry Reading Oct. 5th

On October 5th MoSt will host a poetry reading and potluck for Pathways, an organization helping youth transition out of foster care. For more information about the merits of Pathways, and to receive the guidelines for submitting poems for a chapbook the sales of which will benefit Pathways, please contact info@mostpoetry.org. We hope you will consider …

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