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Stella Ducker,
Chair Durham Region Federation of Poets
As Chair Durham Region Federation of Poets and Graham Ducker the
Oshawa Branch Manager for The Ontario Poetry Society, we are
looking at publishing an
anthology Chapbook including a chapbook launch early fall 2007.
We also are considering an anthology
for our contributors to our Stellar Showcase Journal
in the line of a
special Chapbook compilation.
Anyone interested ?? :-)
Info will be posted on the website, so don't forget to check
back.
Guidelines for Stellar Showcase
Submissions
The submission to the journal has been fantastic! However, I
read some excellent poems that could have been added to the
journal. But, one of the problem is TIME. How does time affect
that?
Here are a
few tips that may be useful, especially to new submitters.
From my own experience, these are some of the situations that I
have been running into and unfortunately, this month I didn’t
have the time to e-mail and ask for corrections and / or
reformat submissions.
There is a
submission guideline
on the website to
help you get your poetry accepted and published.
Below are a few more TIPS:
A) Was
the poem written in ALL CAPITALS? That’s a ‘no-no’. Check the
guidelines.
B ) Proof your work thoroughly for typographical and
grammatical errors. Work that is
badly miss-spelt or in need of severe grammatical or
punctual corrections, basically
will end up in “Unacceptable”
file.
C ) Do NOT cut-and-paste from your word processing program
into your e-mail
message. Doing so can garble your
work and often produces strange symbols that
detract from the editors' impressions
of your work.
D ) Does the poem have a title and is it appropriate? If it's
worthy of being considered,
it’s worthy of a title.
E) Sending your work with NO ADDRESS. Where do we mail your
published work?
NOTE: Bear in
mind, if you’re poetry is not in this issue, we do keep your
poetry over
to be considered for the next issue. That’s also in the
guideline page.
Take care and have a great
Summer!
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