Saturday, May 12, 2012

Eye To The Telescope needs you!

The SFPA's quarterly webzine Eye to the Telescope is seeking speculative (SF/fantasy/horror) poetry with a LGBT theme for its next issue.

Pay is .03 a word/$25 max. The deadline is June 15th.

From the editor: I am looking for LGBT as well as gender-neutral and intersexual themed speculative poems for Issue #5 of Eye to the Telescope. As this can be a touchy subject matter for some, I’m not interested in poetry that is either overtly didactic or—this should go without saying—that perpetuates stereotypes (and although sensual poetry is fine, pure erotica will be a hard sell). That said, I am open to dark humor and poetry that provokes (I’ll trust the poets to figure out the fine line between didactic and provocative and between sensual and erotic).

I would prefer that the LGBT aspect of the poetry be subtle and organic to the poem. As I'd love to highlight as diverse a variety of poetry possible, I’m open to everything from formal/classical forms (haiku, sonnets, etc.) to concrete, Dadaism, abstract, postmodernism, avant-garde, surrealism, bizzaro, or whatever else you have to offer, just as long as the poem is speculative (see definition below) and includes the LGBT theme in some way.

For complete guidelines and where to submit, visit Eye to the Telescope: http://eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html


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