My friend Richard is putting together a poetry book to raise money for charity, and is putting out a last call for contributions! Entry is completely free. So #banishtheblues , dust off a couple of poems, contribute to a good cause, AND be able to state that you are now published. You can’t go wrong!
(I’ve also submitted a couple of mine, so we could be book-buddies! 🙂 )
https://skaggythepoet.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/new-poetry-collection-seeks-poets/
I’ve copied below the key rules:
1. All poems must be the author’s own work, please don’t submit something that isn’t yours.
2. Poems are welcome from anyone, anywhere in the world.
3. Please submit no more than two poems
4. Submitted poems must be in arial font in a format free word document. If you are unable to do such then just paste the poems into the body of your email.
5. Poems on any subject and theme are welcome, however sexually explicit poetry and poems with extreme bad language will not be considered.
6. Poems should be no longer than 400 words approx.
7. Previously published poems can be submitted as long as the writer holds the copyright.
8. When submitting poems please include your full name for inclusion in the book’s contents.
9. Email your poems to Diverseverse@aol.co.uk
10. If I receive more poems than I can fit in a reasonably sized book then I shall do one of two things. Firstly I shall endeavour to put at least one of each contributors poems in the book, failing that if there are too many poems I will select my favourites and publish those.
11. The book will be published via Lulu the online publishers.
12. Closing date for submissions is 31 January 2017
Thanks for the share Al much appreciated
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My pleasure. Only hope it helps 🙂
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What a lovely gesture! My sci fi writing group has put out anthologies for the past several years benefitting Doctors Without Borders…we’ve donated thousands of dollars to them (all earned income; none of us get a penny personally). We feel great to be able to do some good and get our stories out there at the same time. Win-win!
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That sounds wonderful. I’d like to do more like that!
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I hope you will! I hope this poetry anthology does well!
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❤
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And out into the bigger world beyond my own to do good have I sent my two children. Keep well, my darlings, and come back to me safe.
What a wonderful idea, Al! #banishtheblues
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I love that way of looking at it! ❤
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This is such a wonderful idea. I’m not a poet but will definitely craft something to send in. Love the idea of raising money for charity. ❤
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Me too. I’d like to do more of these for charity… if I find more, I’ll share them!
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Thank you. I’ll look out for them. (Is this a thing? Have I missed this? I love the idea so much.)
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I’ve seen them a couple of times. Not enough to be a “thing”, perhaps, but they’re definitely “out there”!
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A lovely idea All thanks for sharing this post from your friend Richard 🙂
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Oops, that is a typo… should be Al, not All. You know what I mean!
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Hadn’t even spotted it until you said! Thank you, Marje ❤
I do have a slight moment of panic most days at work when I see emails sent to loads of people, that seem on first reading to be addressed "Dear Al"… fortunately, "Dear All" is much more common!
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🙂
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Missed the deadline this time Al but just ordered the first anthology plus one of Richard’s. Will keep a lookout for next time.
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Thanks Peter. I’m sure you’ll enjoy Richard’s poems in particular 🙂
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What a lovely idea. Congrats on being featured in the book. I hope it does very well and lots of good. ❤
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Thank you… I hope so too 🙂
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Where are you, my friend? I miss you. 😦
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Hi Vashti, I’m still writing… I just stepped off the WP carousel I guess while I work out what to do next. Work has been time consuming and drains much of that creative energy…but it hasn’t dimmed it completely 🙂
I was even tempted to make a comeback for one of the Apr challenges… So you never know!
Thank you for thinking of me ❤
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I’m glad to hear you’re okay. I know what you mean about work. I’m trying to finish the last touches on my book, The Fall of Lilith to see if I can finally publish it before Summer. It’s been taking a lot of my time but it’s about time I publish this book. I’m happy to hear from you. I hope you get everything squared away and come back to WP land. I’m sure I’m not the only one that misses your extraordinary posts. 😉 xx
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Aw thank you… I may have a couple of posts in draft form… I’m not the type of person to call myself extraordinary though! xxx
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A great idea…I’m too close to the deadline though
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Maybe next time 🙂
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Maybe
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Can I still post my poems?
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Hi Grace. This book is published and available to buy now, but I know Richard will be pulling together a new volume later this year. If you follow his blog, you won’t miss out, plus you’ll enjoy some poetry into the bargain 🙂
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I am following and enjoying some poetry. Thank you for replying. Stay blessed.
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