Stone Telling issue 7, Queer issue, call for subs
(also posted this to foc_u).
Hi all!
I'm co-editor of the speculative poetry zine Stone Telling, along with founding editor rose_lemberg. We're looking for speculative poems with a strong emotional core, and we're looking for voices that too often go ignored or unrecognized.
We're currently reading for our Queer issue; while we've published some wonderful speculative QuILTBAG poems before, we think there should be more! Thus the themed issue. We do define this broadly, and we have no interest in identity policing or in outing people; for this issue, we will consider any treatment of sexuality and gender that does not fall under the heteronormative paradigm.
We've got general guidelines here and
the specific call for submissions for this issue here. Poets, do please send us something :)
And - if you'd be willing to signal-boost our call for submissions, we'd really appreciate it! It's part of Stone Telling's mission to actively counter the whitewashing that pervades so much spec poetry, and to showcase a variety of awesome poetry that isn't white-default (and US-default). We think we've made a pretty decent start on this, but of course we can only take poems that people send us. And right now, our slush pile is overwhelmingly white.
We love receiving and showcasing diverse submissions, and the current state of the slush makes us really unhappy; we're hoping for a better balance. So, y'know, *flail* any help getting the word out would be awesome!
Hi all!
I'm co-editor of the speculative poetry zine Stone Telling, along with founding editor rose_lemberg. We're looking for speculative poems with a strong emotional core, and we're looking for voices that too often go ignored or unrecognized.
We're currently reading for our Queer issue; while we've published some wonderful speculative QuILTBAG poems before, we think there should be more! Thus the themed issue. We do define this broadly, and we have no interest in identity policing or in outing people; for this issue, we will consider any treatment of sexuality and gender that does not fall under the heteronormative paradigm.
We've got general guidelines here and
the specific call for submissions for this issue here. Poets, do please send us something :)
And - if you'd be willing to signal-boost our call for submissions, we'd really appreciate it! It's part of Stone Telling's mission to actively counter the whitewashing that pervades so much spec poetry, and to showcase a variety of awesome poetry that isn't white-default (and US-default). We think we've made a pretty decent start on this, but of course we can only take poems that people send us. And right now, our slush pile is overwhelmingly white.
We love receiving and showcasing diverse submissions, and the current state of the slush makes us really unhappy; we're hoping for a better balance. So, y'know, *flail* any help getting the word out would be awesome!