ABOUT Beltway Poetry Quarterly
Submissions
Beltway Poetry Quarterly
does NOT accept unsolicited submissions. The only exception to that
rule is our open reading period for special themed issues.
The next themed issue will be Volume 12:1, to be published
in January 2011. The theme has not been announced. Look for more information
here in summer 2010.
Poetry News
Authors are invited to provide
information about their readings, publications, and other activities
for listing in the Poetry News section.
Information should be submitted any time in the month prior to an event
or publication to beltway.poetry@juno.com.
Please note that listings of Readings
and Performances only include events in the greater Washington DC area,
although we cover a larger geographic region for listings of Competitions,
Grants, Calls for Entries, Workshops, and Special Events (covering all
of DC, MD, VA, WV, and DE).
Forthcoming Issues
Vol. 11:2, April 2010
Literary Groups and Institutions
The fourth in a series on DC's literary history, this issue will focus
on writing groups, reading series, presses, and bookstores that have
nurtured DC writers past and present. Essays and interviews. Contributors
will include Regie Cabico on DC Slam, Brian Gilmore on Drum & Spear
Books, Grace Cavalieri on "The Poet & The Poem" radio
program, Martin G. Murray on the Washington Friends of Walt Whitman,
Abdul Ali on the Hurston/Wright Foundation, Julie Enszer on The Furies,
Sunil Freeman on The Writers Center, Kim Roberts on the Bethel Literary
Society, Toni Blackman on Freestyle Union, Danielle Evennou on MotherTongue,
and more.
Vol. 11:3, July 2010
Plan B Press Issue, guest edited by stevenallenmay.
Vol. 11:4, October 2010
DC Places Issue Number 2
The second in a series of poems about Washington, DC. Open by invitation
only.
Volume 12:1, January 2011
Theme issue, with open call for entries. Theme still to be determined.
Watch here for announcements about our open submissions period!
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