Announcing CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, Pratik's Australian Poetry Edition, Fire and Rain

 

Fire and Rain – Call for Submissions + $500 AUD Cash Prize

 

Fire and Rain – Pratik:A Magazine of Contemporary WritingAustralian Poetry Edition https://niralapublications.com/new-booksarrivals/pratik-magazine/pratik-magazine-2/ co-curated and supported by APWT https://www.apwriters.org+ $500 AUD cash prize for winning entry.

 

Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT) and Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing invite submissions for Fire and Rain – a special edition of the magazine focused on Australian poetry. The theme acts as a kicking off point and is open to interpretation – we seek previously unpublished poetry that evokes a sense of Australia – either geographically, spiritually, politically, linguistically,culturally,or otherwise. This edition celebrates the diversity of Australian poetic perspectives and voices – we welcome submissions from both established and emerging poets, indigenous writers and LGBTIQ+ community. We are open to experimental forms and multiple submissions are permitted. Previous well received special editions of Pratik magazine have focused on writing from Ireland, Los Angeles and Nepal amongst others and we foresee Fire and Rain will contribute to this ongoing international conversation with vibrant new work from Australian poets. Pratik published quarterly is edited by the world-renowned Himalayan poet, Yuyutsu Sharma in Kathmandu and has become a significant international platform of creative writing. You can access previous editions of Pratik here http://pratikmagazine.blogspot.comand it is also available for purchase via Amazon. Readers for this edition will be editor of PratikYuyutsuSharma, Executive Director of APWT and author Dr Sally Breen and celebrated Australian poet Jennifer Mackenzie. One entry selected by the readers will be awarded the $500 AUD cash prize. Submission is open to financial members of APWT – not a member? Join here: https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/

 

Visit our Submittable Page to enter: https://drunkenboat.submittable.com/submit

Submission close: April 1^st2022

Submission Guidelines

• Submissions are open to emerging and established Australian poets who are financial members of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators. New members are welcome to submit – you can join APWT via the following link: https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/
• Unpublished poems only.
• We accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us if your work is picked up elsewhere.
• No more than five poems may be submitted. There is no line-limit. Poems may be any length, any style, but must feature reference to some aspect of Australia as identified in the blurb.
• Multiple submissions are allowed, but each new submission requires a new fee.
• Please include a brief cover note with your professional bio and a brief introduction via the submittable page where indicated.
• Submission fee of $5 USD.
• Deadline is midnight April 1^st, 2022.
• The decision of the readers is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding work submitted. If you have a general query about the callthen please feel free to contact admin@apwriters.com

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Fire and Rain – Call for Submissions

 

Fire and Rain – Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing Australian Poetry Edition co-curated and supported by APWT + $500 AUD cash prize for winning entry

 

Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT) and Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing invite submissions for Fire and Rain – a special edition of the magazine focused on Australian poetry. The theme acts as a kicking off point and is open to interpretation – we seek previously unpublished poetry that evokes a sense of Australia – either geographically, spiritually, politically, linguistically, culturally, or otherwise. This edition celebrates the diversity of Australian poetic perspectives and voices – we welcome submissions from both established and emerging poets, indigenous writers and LGBTIQ+ community. We are open to experimental forms and multiple submissions are permitted. Pratik published quarterly is edited by the world-renowned Himalayan poet, Yuyutsu Sharma in Kathmandu and has become a significant international platform of creative writing. You can read more about the call and enter via our Submittable Pagehttps://drunkenboat.submittable.com/submitSubmission is open to financial members of APWT – not a member? Join here: https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/Submissions close on April 1^st 2022.

 

 

Yuyutsu Sharma's new work in the Anthology, “STRONGER THAN FEAR: POEMS of EMPOWERMENT, COMPASSION, and SOCIAL JUSTICE”

Yuyutsu Sharma's new work in the Anthology,

“STRONGER THAN FEAR: POEMS of EMPOWERMENT, COMPASSION, and SOCIAL JUSTICE”

edited by Carol Alexander & Stephen Massimilla

Proceeds from book sales will go to

the Malala Fund,

empowering the education of girls around the world.

Published by Cave Moon Press, 2022

"STRONGER THAN FEAR: POEMS of EMPOWERMENT, COMPASSION, and SOCIAL JUSTICE."

Edited by Carol Alexander & Stephen Massimilla

The anthology features exciting new work by so many fabulous poets. And proceeds will go to The Malala Fund. (Intro, a few songs, cover art, etc. by me.)

Donald Revell has this to say:

"In his elegy for W.B. Yeats, Auden famously avowed that 'poetry makes nothing happen.' Yet in the very same stanza, he went on to define the art as 'a WAY of happening’ (italics mine). In that single word ‘way’ resides the genius of STRONGER THAN FEAR. For all its beautiful diversity, for all the ambitious reach—into ancestry, into history, into hazard and futurity—of the poems gathered here, there is a striking concord and unity of purpose. And that purpose is compassion, and its prospect is of the ways in which compassion, truly voiced, redeems the times in which we live. There is a thrill of humanity in these poems—something to refresh our hopes and to renew our courage."