CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS--Light is back in business!

Melissa Balmain · #1 03-21-2013, 09:55 AM

Hi everyone,

We’re accepting submissions for Light’s first online issues—so please send funny poems our way! We will consider both new work and previously-published work that (a) hasn't been online before, (b) has never appeared in Light, and (c) was printed at least two years ago. It’s fine if it’s been workshopped on Eratosphere, of course.

Online submissions are vastly preferred; here's the link (complete with guidelines): https://lightpoetrymagazine.submittable.com For those who need to submit by snail mail, we should have a working PO box in Rochester, NY within a few weeks—as soon as we're officially approved to "do business" here. (We have closed one Chicago box and are phasing out the other.)

We aim to have our inaugural issue up and running in late spring or early summer, along with Light’s new website, which is coming along splendidly. (Light’s original website is still up and running, by the way: http://www.lightquarterly.org/index.html. The submissions guidelines are there too, as well as a video of last spring’s tribute to our beloved founding editor, John Mella.)

If you have questions, feel free to ask them here or send a message to lightpoetrymagazine@gmail.com.

One more excellent bit of news: Gail White will be our first featured poet!

Cheers,

Melissa

Susan d.S. · #2 03-21-2013, 10:56 AM

Good to hear!

Bill Carpenter · #3 03-21-2013, 11:22 AM

Great news! The memorial for John Mella at West Chester last year, with one delightful poem and after another, was one of the bright spots of the conference. Maybe you can put on a Light Night this year or next. Bill

Norman Ball · #4 03-21-2013, 11:57 AM

If it's to be a Light Night (and I think that's a very bright idea), a night-light may not be a too-heavy investment.

You can't imagine Melissa all the pent-up silliness you are about unleash again, Melissa. Welcome back!

norm ball

Roger Slater · #5 03-21-2013, 05:49 PM

That's wonderful news, Melissa.

Any chance that you might eventually start to put back issues online? If not, would poems previously published more than two years ago in Light itself be eligible for resubmission to the new online Light?

Melissa Balmain · #6 03-21-2013, 07:45 PM

Roger, thanks so much for thinking to ask that... and we should have been more explicit. Poems previously published in Light are NOT eligible--only ones that have been printed elsewhere (and at least two years ago). Sorry for the confusion.