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Building
Community Through Literature
Poetry Flash is dedicated to
providing the widest possible access to
poetry and literature. Unique in format
and in community support, Poetry
Flash is an important communication
forum and vehicle for generating audience
and interest in literary issues and
events. Poetry Flash publishes
quality reviews, poems, interviews,
essays, and trade, submission, and award
information for all creative
writers---poetry and fiction. Poetry
Flash also carries the most
comprehensive listing of literary events
in the West: the Calendar is an
indispensable guide to the literary scene
in all of California, and offers
Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and selected
national event listings. Although poetry
is the editorial focus, interviews with
novelists and writers of experimental
fiction are featured. Poetry Flash,
an essential tool for writers, publishers,
and readers, has built community through
literature for twenty-seven years.
Funding cuts at the national level,
however, have placed many nonprofit
literary magazines and community-based
arts organizations at risk. In 1993 the
NEA funded forty-three literary
magazines---in 1997 only four. Keeping the
Flash in print is more critical now
than ever before. Poetry Flash
supports community literary diversity,
vertically (from the budding writers to
academics and established writers) and
horizontally (providing audience
development for magazines, presses,
presenters, workshops, and academic
programs).
We have worked hard to maintain a
viable organization in this climate,
modifying our publishing schedule to six
times per year. To continue to deliver the
Flash every two months to 22,000
readers, we must rely on the generosity of
private foundations, individual
contributors, and volunteers to cover the
majority of our operational expenses -
printing, distribution, production,
overhead (rent!), and editorial. Poetry
Flash invites your support so that we
may continue to make our essential
services available to writers and
appreciators of literature.
Poetry Flash is a non-profit
literary arts organization, and volunteers
and interns are always welcome. Please
send a resume with a cover letter or call
(510)525-5476.
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List
Your Event
The core of the Poetry Flash
mission is to provide the widest possible
access to poetry and literature to the
maximum number of people, while
documenting and celebrating West Coast
literature, particularly in California.
Easily, one half of each issue is devoted
to The Calendar, a general literary
calendar incorporating all aspects of the
writing and book arts. Features include:
Northern California Daily Events (Fresno
north); Southern California Daily Events
(Fresno south); Festivals, Conferences,
and Out-of-State; Events (especially
Arizona, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon,
and Colorado, looking beyond to New York
City and national conferences); Workshops
& Classes; Film; Theater Exhibits; and
Radio & TV.
If you would like to list your event,
please send us a press release with the
following
details:
- type of event: reading
(featured and/or open),
festival, conference,
workshop, etc.
- featured
readers/presenters: names,
recently published works,
relevant biographical
information.
- where, when: location,
address, date, time, and a
telephone number for more
information.
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You can send your listings via:
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Email:
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calendar(at)poetryflash.org
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Fax:
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(510)525-6752
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Snail mail:
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Poetry Flash
1450 Fourth Street, #4
Berkeley, CA 94710
Attention: Calendar
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Please call (510)525-5476 for calendar
deadlines.
Poetry Flash also provides
access to literary audiences in three
other important ways: literary reviews,
poetry submissions and display
advertising. We encourage writers and
publishers to submit their newly published
works to our editorial staff for review.
Please send to the attention of "New
Publications" at the above address. See
below for further details on submissions
and display advertising.
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Editorial
Guidelines
Before investing your energy in writing
reviews especially for the Poetry
Flash, please query us first. Someone
else may already be reviewing the book you
have in mind. Reviews of and essays on new
poetry collections and anthologies, major
literary events, works of literary
criticism and literary biography, and the
process of creative writing in general are
welcomed. We are always interested in
poems of literary merit.
Pages should be double-spaced to
facilitate editing. The minimum length for
articles is four and a half double-spaced
pages, optimum length is six to twelve
double-spaced pages. Poetry Flash
publishes longer reviews and essays than
usual 'daily newspaper' length. Essays and
interviews usually run longer than reviews
of individual books. We can transcribe
interviews if needed. Presenting quotes
from reviewed works in support of
editorial arguments is encouraged.
Poetry Flash pays for reviews,
articles, and interviews, depending on
length, by arrangement. Expenses can be
reimbursed if we have an agreement in
advance. We are happy to trade advertising
space for good writing. For now, we pay
for poems with extra copies and a two year
subscription.
All rights to poems, interviews, and
articles revert to the author upon
publication, though we reserve the right
for a possible additional one-time use in
a planned Best of Poetry Flash
anthology to appear in book form.
We use many photos of poets and
writers, especially for upcoming readings
or event coverage. Please call to tell us
what you have or send photocopies.
Always send an SASE (stamped
self-addressed envelope) with your
submissions. We have no set reporting time
- but the average is three to four months.
Please understand that we are frequently
flooded with submissions and/or short
staffed. Simultaneous submissions are fine
for poems, and more problematic for
reviews. Please notify us of simultaneous
submissions for reviews, essays,
interviews or other editorial works beside
poems.
We can't critique your work; we can
only offer a response on publishing it in
the Flash. For editorial comments
on your writing, check out a local
workshop or an individual editorial
consultation service such as that offered
by Poetry Flash Associate Editor
Richard Silberg. You can find such
listings under Workshops & Classes in
the Poetry Flash Calendar.
Please direct your editorial questions
to:
Poetry
Flash
1450 Fourth Street,
#4
Berkeley, CA 94710
Attention: Joyce Jenkins,
Editor/Publisher
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