Featured Literary Journal: Bellowing Ark

Bellowing Ark
http://bellowingark.org

Bellowing Ark was established in 1984 to fill what the editors saw as a void in the marketplace. They wanted to showcase literature that portrayed the world as meaningful, rather than the type of writing meant to shock, and full of nihilism and despair. The website states that Bellowing Ark is “now the cutting edge in art.” The journal’s philosophy is rooted deeply in the Romantic tradition of past writers such as Whitman, Frost, and Roethke. There is only one criterion for submissions, that “everything that we publish demonstrates, to our satisfaction, that life is both meaningful and worth living,” but the editors admit a bias toward narrative (“plot, characterization, a beginning, a middle, and an end”) in both prose and poetry.

Submissions
While novel submissions are accepted only by invitation, there are actually few other submission guidelines. Bellowing Ark has no restrictions on genre, length, or style. They have published serialized novels, plays, short stories, poems, long-poems, epic poems, essays, memoirs, drawings, photographs, etc., and therefore welcome all forms of expression. Submissions may be sent to the following address:

Bellowing Ark

P.O. Box 55564

Shoreline, WA 98155

Submissions are only accepted by mail, never email, and must be accompanied by a SASE. For full submission details, see http://bellowingark.org/aboutBA.html.

(Post by Maureen Inouye)

Northwest Submissions Calls, November 18

Declaration Editing & Design is dedicated to supporting literary endeavors, especially those in the Northwest. To show this support, we post a digest of submission call from Northwest literary magazines, journals, and anthologies on the second and forth Wednesdays of each month. This is a free service, meant to connect writers with venues for their work, and not an endorsement of these publications in any way.

This post contains submission calls from the following publications:
 Four and Twenty

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Four and Twenty

Declaration Editing & Design is accepting submissions for the January 2010 issue of Four and Twenty, our short form poetry journal. All submissions for the January issue must be received by December 31, 2009.

The guidelines are simple. All poems must be four lines or fewer in length and contain no more than twenty words (hence, Four and Twenty). All submissions are judged on the ability to create a vivid picture, evoke an emotional response, and use creative wordplay. All poetic forms that fit the journal’s guidelines (such as haiku, senryu, sapphic, and tanaga) are welcome, but authors are not limited to these forms. There is no set theme for the journal. A new issue of the journal is released the third Tuesday of each month.

For a full description of our submission guidelines, including author rights and permissions, please visit www.4and20poetry.com.

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Call for Artwork!

Four and Twenty is now accepting artwork submissions for the 2010 volume of the journal. As with the poems we publish, we are open to an array of themes. We are partial to illustrations, but will also consider photos. Artwork chosen for the journal will be used for both cover and interior purposes.

Artists may submit up to three pieces of art. All submissions must be sent electronically to 4and20@declarationediting.com. All files should have a minimum quality of 300 dpi. Please submit files in one of the following formats: TIFF, JPEG, PNG, EPS, or PDF. Please do not submit native Photoshop or Illustrator files.

All artwork submissions must be received by December 31, 2009.

All artwork is subject to the same rights agreement as the poetry we publish. For more information on rights and permissions, please visit 4and20poetry.com.

Four and Twenty is published for a general audience of poetry lovers, so out of deference to our younger readers (and their parents) we ask for no erotic images.

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To have your magazine, journal, or anthology submission call posted here:
1) Send your announcement in the body of an e-mail (no attachments) to declare@declarationediting.com. Your announcement should be no longer than 300 words. Please do not include images in your e-mail.
2) Include all the basic submission information needed: name of publication, type of literature published, basic contact email or address, deadline, cost, etc.
3) Make sure there are no errors in your announcement. We post all announcements as-is. They will not be proofread by our staff.

Presently, we post submission calls only for Northwest publications based in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, or British Columbia.

The November Issue of Four and Twenty is Online

The November 2009 Issue of Four and Twenty is available for download (PDF 1.2 MB). The journal is best viewed in full screen mode on Adobe Reader.

This issue of the journal features poetry by the following authors: David Ash, Dylan Brown, Kerri Buckley, Betsy Christiansen, John Colvin, Lee Evans, Margaret Gish Miller, Tyler Lacoma, Callan Langley, Karen K. Lewis, Chen-ou Liu, Maria Llull, Hallie Madenski, Martin Middlewood, Smiling Eyes Murph. Bryan Pannill, Kimberly Rasmussen, Sherry Smith, and Ben White.

For more information on Four and Twenty, visit 4and20poetry.com.

Northwest Submission Calls, 11/11/09

Declaration Editing & Design is dedicated to supporting literary endeavors, especially those in the Northwest. This free service, meant to connect writers with venues for their work, is not an endorsement of the publications featured in this digest. For information about having your journal’s submission call featured in this digest, please see our Contact page.

This post contains submission calls from the following publications:

• A capella Zoo
• Knock #13

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A cappella Zoo is now open for submissions! We are a print journal & ezine of magical realist and experimental writing from around the world. We look for memorable writing (prose, poetry, drama, and beyond) and especially love to read full, carefully developed stories. Query before submitting work longer than 7500 words. Simultaneous submissions and reprints accepted. Our issues are published simultaneously in print and online. We pay one contributor copy; we also award $50 to one longer work and $25 to one shorter work per issue. Please visit our website for submission instructions or to read issues: www.acappellazoo.com.

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KNOCK #13 will be a special issue dedicated to short plays, and a festival of short plays published in the issue will be hosted by KNOCK and Freehold Theatre in Seattle in May, 2010.

Send unpublished and unproduced plays approx. 10 minutes.

The KNOCK playwriting contest is free, and international.

Open October 1 to January 1.

Approx. 10 winning plays will be published in KNOCK #13, released in May, 2010. Selected plays will be performed in the KNOCK/Freehold Festival in May as well.

Northwest Submission Calls, November 4

Note: We are now posting submission calls on a weekly basis. For information about having your journal’s submission call featured in this digest, please see our Contact page.

Declaration Editing & Design is dedicated to supporting literary endeavors, especially those in the Northwest. This free service, meant to connect writers with venues for their work, is not an endorsement of the publications featured in this digest. For information about having your journal’s submission call featured in this digest, please see our Contact page.

This post contains submission calls from the following publications:

• Four and Twenty

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Call for artwork!

Four and Twenty is now accepting artwork submissions for the 2010 volume of the journal. As with the poems we publish, we are open to an array of themes. We are partial to illustrations, but will also consider photos. Artwork chosen for the journal will be used for both cover and interior purposes.

Artists may submit up to three pieces of art. All submissions must be sent electronically to 4and20@declarationediting.com. All files should have a minimum quality of 300 dpi. Please submit files in one of the following formats: TIFF, JPEG, PNG, EPS, or PDF. Please do not submit native Photoshop or Illustrator files.

All artwork submissions must be received by December 31, 2009.

All artwork is subject to the same rights agreement as the poetry we publish. For more information on rights and permissions, please visit 4and20poetry.com.

Four and Twenty is published for a general audience of poetry lovers, so out of deference to our younger readers (and their parents) we ask for no erotic images.