Emma Press enters politics with calls for poems on election and voting
Anthology and pamphlet publisher the Emma Press is seeking poems about UK politics in the run-up to the general election, as well as poems about voting.
The poems about UK politics will be published as Campaign in Poetry and the voting poems as The Emma Press anthology of voting. The independent publisher is calling for poems about “the coalition, MPs, party politics, party leaders, the electio...
26th August 2014
Paragram seeks anthology submissions
The Surrey-based writing group Paragram has launched a call for submissions to a new anthology of poetry and short fiction, with the theme Remember, and a deadline of 31 August. Entry is free, with those whose work is published invited to buy a copy of the anthology at a pre-publication price. More ...
18th August 2014
Prolific poetry publisher branches out into pamphlets
A publisher that already publishes around 30 individual collections of poetry each year is branching out into pamphlet publishing. Indigo Dreams has formed a new poetry pamphlet division, Indigo Pamph...
6th July 2014
Wanted: poems about ageing for new anthology
Specialist anthology publisher The Emma Press has launched a call for poems about age, for an anthology to be edited by Sarah Hesketh. The publisher hopes the book will address common fears about grow...
27th June 2014
Bolton festival anthology wants submissions from north-west poets
Organisers of Bolton’s first poetry festival, Live From Worktown, next month are looking for submissions from poets living in the north-west of England to appear in the festival anthology. They want p...
18th May 2014
Magazine wants Benn tributes and miners' strike poems
The radical poetry and arts magazine Citizen 32 is calling for submissions that to pay tribute to the former Labour MP Tony Benn or mark the 30th anniversary of the miners' strike for its special edit...
16th May 2014
Let's dance: Emma Press seeks submissions for new anthology
The Emma Press is inviting submissions for its next anthology, on dance, aimed at capturing its “exhilaration and joy”. They say: “We want poems about first dances, last dances, slow dances, panicky d...
30th April 2014
Forget Barbie: women seek poems for anthology celebrating the body
Four women editors are inviting submissions to a new poetry anthology inspired by “a passionate desire” to celebrate women’s bodies, “leaving Barbie ... in her box for good”. Sue Jones-Davies, Dee Orr...
29th April 2014
Women's poetry anthology seeks 'hellcat heroines'
The publishers of an anthology of women’s poetry called Furies are seeking submissions. The deadline is 30 March, and all profits from the anthology will be donated to rape crisis, a charity supportin...
31st January 2014
Women's poetry anthology seeks 'hellcat heroines'
The publishers of an anthology of women’s poetry called Furies are seeking submissions. The deadline is 30 March, and all profits from the anthology will be donated to rape crisis, a charity supportin...
27th January 2014
