Knockout Literary Magazine is pleased to announce that the International Reginald Shepherd Prize is back in action! The contest, which seeks to honor the memory and work of Reginald Shepherd, who passed away on September 10, 2008, was first held in 2009, and then went on hiatus. Now, however, the contest is back.

Here are the details:

The 2012 contest will be judged by C. Dale Young.

The submission deadline is April 30, 2012.

The first-place winner will receive a $200 gift certificate to Powell’s books, publication in Knockout, and five contributor’s copies.

The second-place winner will receive a $100 gift certificate to Powell’s, publication, and two contributor’s copies.

The third-place winner will receive a $50 gift certificate, publication, and two contributor’s copies.

The entry fee is $15. All contestants will receive a copy of the issue in which the prize-winning poems appear. The entry fee entitles contestants to enter as many as six previously unpublished poems per submission, provided that the entire submission doesn’t total more than 15 pages. All non-winning poems submitted will be considered for publication in Knockout. Proceeds from the contest will be dedicated to prize money and will also help produce future issues of Knockout.

To enter, please submit and pay via Submishmash, our online submission manager. You can do so by following the link below:

http://knockoutmagazine.submishmash.com/submit

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Gival Press is seeking unpublished original poem written in English

This award will be given to the best previously unpublished original poem written in English (of any length, in any style, typed, double spaced on one side only), which best relates gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender life by a poet who is 18 or older.

Deadline:
June 27, 2012 (postmarked)
Our dates never change. If the date falls on a Sunday, then Monday becomes the default postmarked date.

Submittal:
Entrants are asked to submit their poems in the following manner: (1) without any kind of identification, with the exception of the title, and (2) with a separate cover page with the following information: name, address (street, city, and state with zip code), telephone number, email address, if available, and the title of the poem submitted. (3) A short bio should also be included.

Poems will not be returned, so poets should keep copies of their poems.

A short bio may also be included.

Reading Fee:
Poets must submit a reading fee of $5.00 (USD) for each individual poem submitted, regardless of the length. Checks or money orders drawn on American banks, routed through a USA address, such as Bank of America, should be made payable to Gival Press, LLC. Overseas money orders are not acceptable.

Mail to:
Robert L. Giron, Editor
Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award
Gival Press, LLC
P.O. Box 3812
Arlington, VA 22203.

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Cobalt Review seeks dynamic and engaging fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for our March 2012 issue. Previous issues have included work by and interviews with authors including Patricia Smith, Steve Almond, Rick Moody, Ben Tanzer, and Paul Lisicky.

Check us out at www.cobaltreview.com and then send us your best work.

Submissions for March 2012 will close in mid February.

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Sibling Rivalry Press is seeking submissions for an anthology scheduled for publication in August 2013.  This assignment is so gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, edited by Megan Volpert, will be the first-ever anthology to feature an international roster of LGBTIQ poets writing about and from the teacher’s perspective.

Whether elementary or collegiate, public or private, the school is an institutional battleground for representations of queer culture. This book will examine the joyous burden that is the experience of LGBTIQ teachers, an inherently valuable and until now relatively invisible piece of the educational puzzle.

Submit up to five previously unpublished poems.

Poems must engage some aspect of teaching, but need not be explicitly queer-themed.
Author must identify as LGBTIQ.

Submission period is open January 1 through June 1, 2012.

Authors can expect reply by July 1, 2012.

http://www.thisassignmentissogay.com/

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21 Peaceful Genders – No Boxes, No Bars, No Apologies
Edited by Doris J. Popovich and Jacqueline Boyd

Gender identity is an experience, not an assignment. If you are living this truth and can write about it, we want to hear from you. Together we can dispel myths, give hope to young people, educate peers, friends and family and provide an archive / mirror for our own complex gender expressions.

How do you live your peace while navigating the hetero-normative maze? 21 Peaceful Genders – No Boxes, No Bars, No Apologies embodies gender as a place of possibility. Help us cross-pollinate our species with hope. We welcome the edgy and artful, and treasure the peaceful resolution.

Submit original, unpublished Word or text file to info@21peacefulgenders.com. 1500 word max. Deadline 6/30/12. Paid in copies.

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