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Now and then we like to update you on poetry submission deadlines for Cascadia-based publications.
NOTE 1: This list does not include contests.
NOTE 2: This is not a list of all the literary publications in the region, only those with open or nearly-open submissions. To see more, see the NW lit scene links in the sidebar at right.
NOTE 3: Read the publication and read the guidelines before submitting. Please.

Here’s the latest:

• Burnside Review is accepting poetry through February 28, 2018.
• Cascadia Review reads submissions year round.
• The Cascadia Subduction Zone reads submissions year round.
• Cirque Journal deadline for Cirque #18 (Summer) issue is March 21, 2018.
• Clover, A Literary Rag Submit stories, poems, and essays until April 30,2018 for the 15th edition.
• EVENT accepts submissions year round.
• Geist accepts work (by postal mail only) with a Canadian connection year round.
• Gramma reads submissions year-round for Daily Gramma.
• High Desert Journal reviews submissions from residents of the interior West year round.
• Image Journal and the Good Letters blog accept submissions year round.
• Isthmus is open for submissions.
• Moss is open for submissions.
• Pacifica Literary Review general submission period is open year-round.
• PageBoy Magazine seeks submissions for an issue devoted exclusively to 17 word poems, deadline March 15, 2018.
• Pif Magazine is open for submissions.
• Poetry Northwest welcomes unsolicited submissions of poetry, original or in translation, through March 15, 2018.
• PRISM international accepts submissions year round.
• The Raven Chronicles will accept submissions for Vol. 26, Theme: LAST Call (literally!), March 1 – April 30, 2018.
• Ricepaper accepts submissions from Asian-Canadian writers; current theme: Found In Translation, deadline: March 31, 2018.
• Room Magazine open call, deadline: April 30, 2018.
• The Seattle Review accepts long-form submissions, February 1 – May 1, 2018.
• Shark Reef reading for summer edition through March 31, 2018.
• Silk Road Review reads submissions year round.
• StringTown reads submissions year round.
• subTerrain Issue #80 (Summer/Fall 18) Theme: Margins, will be open March 26 – June 8, 2018.
• Sweet Tree Review submissions open through March 18, 2018.
• Switched-on Gutenberg issue 25 on the theme Change open through April 30, 2018.
• Timberline Review theme for Issue #7 is Rebirth, deadline April 30, 2018.
• Tin House accepts submissions in March.
• Willow Springs poetry submissions open between September 1 and May 31.

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Raven landing in Kirkland

The latest edition is out and you’re invited to join RAVEN CHRONICLES PRESS and BookTree at a reading and reception for Raven Chronicles Journal Vol. 25: Balancing Acts on Saturday, February 17, 2018, 6:15-7:30pm, at BookTree in Kirkland, Washington.

Edited by Anna Bálint, Phoebe Bosché, Matt Briggs, Paul Hunter, and Doug Johnson, Volume 25 features the work of 77 writers and 23 artists/illustrators from 17 states and 10 countries. To celebrating Seattle’s 2017 designation as a UNESCO City of Literature, Raven 25 also features writers from Seattle’s Sister City, Christchurch, New Zealand: Doc Drumheller, Fiona Farrell, Erik Kennedy, Nic Low, Frankie McMillan, and Heather McQuillan. Cover artwork is by Bainbridge Island artist Jeannie Grisham.

Featured readers on the 17th are Paul Hunter, emcee (Seattle); Luther Allen (Bellingham); Ed Harkness (Shoreline); Alicia Hokanson (Seattle); Thomas Hubbard (Kirkland); Jill McCabe Johnson (Orcas Island); Jed Myers (Seattle); and Mary Ellen Talley (Seattle). An Open Mic will follow the reading, from 7:30-8:20pm.

NOTE: Prior to the reading, 4:30-6:00pm, poet/editor/emcee Paul Hunter will offer a free workshop, also at BookTree: Storytelling for Poets, Essayists & Fiction Writers. See the details here.

gamer poetry

In the ongoing eclectic meandering that is The Poetry Department, we’ve stumbled across a new corner of the poetry world: gaming. If you’re a video gamer, you may already know about it. If not, meet Cartridge Lit, “an online literature mag dedicated to showcasing the best lit — fiction, nonfiction, poetry — inspired by video games.” Poems, online chapbooks, and more. Cartridge Lit online and on Facebook.

translated without words

Asymptote is a literary journal of works in translation. For your Monday, when words may still be elbowing their way out of the morass of the weekend, consider these non-verbal literary works of Iranian cartoonist and graphic artist Kambiz Derambakhsh (click View Slideshow).

Kambiz Derambakhsh is also on Facebook and on Instagram @kambizderambakhsh.

Poet, submit!

It may still be winter, but deadlines are busting out all over. This list includes Cascadia-region publications that have current/ongoing submissions calls. There are many other fine journals in the region, but if they are not accepting submissions, they are not included here. Dates are 2017. Follow the links for details.

• Bricolage deadline February 12 for anyone associated with the UW
• Burnside Review open submissions
• The Capilano Review Issue 3.32 (Spring 2017) – Food theme – deadline: April 1, 2017
• Cascadia Review open submissions
• The Cascadia Subduction Zone reads submissions year round
• Cirque Journal deadline for June issue March 21
• Clover, A Literary Rag submissions open
• CutBank print edition submissions open until February 1
• EVENT accepts submissions year round
• Geist accepts work (by postal mail only) with a Canadian connection year round
• Gramma reads submissions year-round for Daily Gramma
• High Desert Journal reviews submissions year round
• Image Journal and the Good Letters blog accept submissions year round
• Isthmus reopened for submissions January 1
• Jeopardy Magazine accepts submissions Western Washington University students, staff, faculty, and alumni through March 19
• The Monarch Review reads submissions year round
• Open Spaces by invitation only
• The Other Journal lists themes but not deadlines for upcoming issues; accepts writer queries on posted themes on the role of faith and spirituality
• Pacifica Literary Review submissions open through May 15
• PageBoy Magazine reads submissions throughout the year
• Poetry Northwest welcomes unsolicited submissions of poetry, original or in translation through March 15
• PRISM international accepts submissions year round
• The Raven Chronicles guidelines for Volume 24 will be posted at the end of January
• Ricepaper accepts submissions from Asian-Canadian writers year round
• Room Magazine call for issue 40.3 on the theme Migration closes January 31
• The Seattle Review accepts long-form submissions year round
• Shark Reef deadline March 31 for summer edition
• Silk Road Review reads submissions year round
• StringTown reads submissions year round
• subTerrain has upcoming deadlines on February 1, May 1 and September 1 for themed issues
• Sweet Tree Review submissions open through March 19
• Switched-on Gutenberg issue 24 submissions open through April 30
• Tin House accepts submissions in March and September only
• Willow Springs poetry submissions open through May 31
• Windfall has two deadlines: February 1 for the spring issue and August 1 for the fall issue

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call for haiku

The online journal Right Hand Pointing, which publishes about 12 issues a year of short poetry, very short fiction, art, and other things, invites submissions for the Winter Haiku Issue, to be published in February. The deadline is January 20, 2017, and the complete guidelines are here.

youth opp

If you are, or if you know, a writer age 14 to 24, this looks like a terrific opportunity: Bridge: The Bluffton Literary Journal is a new magazine published by Bluffton University (Ohio). The schedule includes a print run each April and two online issues per year.

The editors are soliciting new work for their inaugural issue, to be published in April 2017. They currently accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction (including memoir, journalism, and creative nonfiction), and short plays. (In Fall 2017, Bridge plans to open submissions to comic artists and anime.)

The submission deadline is January 31, 2017, and students/writers can submit their own work through the online portal. See the guidelines on the Bridge website.

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thanks to Paul S. Piper for bringing this to our attention