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Positive Art Listings (02/25/2021)

Hello folks!

As magazine and anthology editors, we believe that it is important to support fellow artists and editors. Welcome to our Positive Art Listings!

The Positive Art Listings have a simply goal, and it is to help your submission calls and artistic events to reach a larger audience. They will be published once a month in the form of a post on our blog.

NB: We vet every call we receive to ensure that it is family-friendly. However, we are not responsible for the content published by other magazines and platforms. As always, read guidelines carefully before submitting.

Current Positive Art Listings

ZiN Daily

Founded in 2017, ZiN Daily strives for truthfulness, authenticity and understanding, and encourages and emphasizes the role that literature and other arts have in society, the world and the lives of individuals. They view literature and art as testaments of anguish and catalysts for progress.

Call for submissions: ZiN Daily is open for submissions year-round. They accept prose, poetry, essays, reviews, excerpts, translations, art and photography from established and emerging writers.

Deadline: all-year long.

Submission fee: No

Payment to selected artists: No

Special note: ZiN Daily asks for worldwide first publication rights. Work must be previously unpublished (in print or online) with the exception of the original text of a translation. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but send courtesy email notifying them if the work has been accepted elsewhere.

Guidelines: https://zvonainari.hr/zin-daily

Submissions: https://www.zvonainari.hr/contact

Floresta Magazine

Floresta (meaning ‘forest’ in Portuguese) was established in 2020 by a Woman of Colour who wanted to create a space to showcase the variety and depth of perspectives, projects, work, and art being done by women centred on and around the environment.

Call for submissions: In line with the environmental themes of Floresta, they are looking for visual work that explores ‘nature’ in relation to the theme of ‘lockdown’.

Has your relationship with nature changed or become more significant? Has nature become a sanctuary, an escape or a border? Has nature taken on human-like characteristics and acted as a companion or confidant?

Submissions are not limited to these questions, they are prompts, but your work must interact, incorporate, reflect or explore the theme, as you interpret it. (Your work does not have to have been created during the periods of lockdown.)

Deadline: February 1-28, 2021.

Submission fee: not mentioned.

Payment to selected artists: not mentioned, feature in online exhibition.

Special note: Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Original work only, up to 2 separate works. All forms of visual work considered: photography, photo series/ photo diaries, video, film, collage, paintings, renders, AR. Women artists only.

Submissions: https://florestamagazine.com/lockdown-online-exhibition

Pareidolia Literary

Pareidolia Literay is a new journal for pattern-finders. They accept poetry, short and flash fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, essays, criticism, reviews, visual art, and media art. They believe in inclusion, uplifting underrepresented and emerging artists and authors, ethical operation, mutual aid, fostering community, and transparency.

Call for submissions: Pareidolia Literary’s Vol. 1: Still life

Deadline: February 21, 2021.

Submission fee: No – donations accepted to help supporting operating fees.

Payment to selected artists: No

Special note: Simultaneous submissions accepted (let them know if you are accepted elsewhere before decisions are sent). Previously unpublished work only (exception: artists affected by Violet & the Bird.)

Submissions: https://www.pareidolialiterary.com/submissions

Exeter Publishing

Exeter Publishing is an independent publishing company whose aim is to shine light on emerging artists of all backgrounds and mediums.

Call for submissions: Volume 1 of their digital chapbook series. Theme: UNSPOKEN. Focus on flash fiction (in first, second, or third person POV).

What’s something you’ve always wanted to say but never could? What if you’d said something earlier – would things have turned out the way they did? Is this a piece borrowing from truth? Or is it entirely fictional? This is your time to explore the uncertain!

Deadline: April 4, 2021.

Submission fee: US$2

Payment to selected artists: No, but free digital copies of publication + feature on Exeter Publishing’s website and social media accounts.

Special note: Simultaneous submissions accepted (reach out to them if your work is accepted to another publication that doesn’t accept previously published work).

Submissions: https://www.exeterpublishing.com/chapbooks

Our Current Submission Call

The PoArtMo Anthology : 2021 Edition

After our very successful first edition, the PoArtMo Anthology is back! We want your most inspirational art created in 2021.

We accept poetry, poetry-graphy, photography, short stories, six word stories, essays, flash fiction, drawings and paintings. New this year: A second anthology featuring works dedicated to 13-16 year-old artists!

Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2021

Submission fee: $4 per piece.

Payment to selected artists: ongoing royalties.

Submissions: https://abpositiveart.com/poartmo-anthology

Have a Call for Submissions / Artistic Event to Promote?

We look forward to reading you.

David & Cendrine

Reading Period Has Now Closed for Our Magazine! Submit to Our Anthologies

Hello folks!

As mentioned several times on the blog, our current reading period for our magazine ended yesterday.

What does it mean? Even though we still accept submissions all year round, what you send us from now on will be reviewed when we re-open submissions.

Our next reading period will start in a couple of months. We will publish an announcement on the blog then. So, if you do not want to miss the news, we recommend that you sign up for our newsletter.

In the meantime, check out our two anthology submission calls going on right now.

The PoArtMo Anthology : 2021 Edition

After our very successful first edition, the PoArtMo Anthology is back! We want your most inspirational art created in 2021.

As always, we accept poetry, poetry-graphy, photography, short stories, six word stories, essays, flash fiction, drawings and paintings.

New this year: A second anthology featuring works dedicated to 13-16 year-old artists!

The No Longer Ignored Anthology

What does social justice mean to you? Send us your most inspirational / postive art and stories that answer this question.

Our New FAQ Page

Many of you have had inquiries regarding Auroras & Blossoms. However, for the last few months, you have asked us the same questions over and over again. Since time is of the essence for us and you, we have decided to create a general FAQ page. It is very thorough and should alleviate any doubts and concerns you have about our submission process at Auroras & Blossoms.

If you are new to our platform, we recommend that you read our FAQ page before visiting the submissions page of your choice.

NB: This is a general FAQ page. For answers relating specifically to the publication you are submitting to at Auroras & Blossoms, please read the FAQ of the relevant submissions page that interests you.

Happy creating!

David & Cendrine

Inspirational Artist Series: Geoff Callard

The Inspirational Artist Series spotlights some of the artists featured in our issues and anthologies, and who have moved us in specific ways.

Today’s guest is Poet Geoff Collard, whose work appears in The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2020 Edition.

How does a poem begin for you? Does it start with an image, a form or a particular theme?

Great question. I have a couple of folders on my laptop. One is called ‘Input’. There, I collect all and anything that is inspirational at the time: an image, something I’ve read, a thought or memory. To give you an idea, the last four are: ‘A Million Migrating Monarchs’, a quote from John Steinbeck’s Noble Prize Acceptance Speech, the poem ‘if your complexion is a mess’ and the sentence; ‘..shift the shoreline between the known and the unknown…’.

In the other folder are poems I have come across that I love.

I then use the input to trigger an idea. Next, I’ll take a separate input and see if I can mix them up – find the most unlikely relationships. Then I’ll find a poem and use its form to play with what I’ve got; change the structure, rhyme scheme.

This is the ‘play stage’…

I don’t wait for inspiration to hit. Nine time out of ten, the inspiration will come from the process. Invariably, the finished product – with countless edits and fine tunes – looks nothing like where I started.

Are there any forms you haven’t tried yet but would like to?

I would love to collaborate with a video / film artist, to add images to words…words to images.

What is your relationship with your speaking voice and your written voice?

We’re on very good terms. I love performing. I will always read my poems out as I read – to find rhythm mostly. But I love the additional dimension and connection reading poetry has.

Have you considered getting other people to read your poetry or is it important for you to be the one to perform your poetry to an audience?

Haven’t considered it but I love the idea. So often, other people see something in your poems that you don’t.

How important is accessibility of the meaning of your poems? Should we have to work hard to “solve” the poems and discover their deeper meanings?

There are a number of elements to this – and probably no hard and fast rules. The short of it is that if you haven’t connected, you’ve failed.

Writing with an audience in mind is really important. This is NOT writing to try and win favour and appreciation. The best poems connect on both levels – they have an immediate connection and a deeper meaning. The very best will draw you back and reveal a little more each time. This is a little bit ‘show’ don’t ‘tell’ as well. Don’t tell the audience how you expect them to react – describe it with enough emotional depth that it will elicit a feeling unique to the reader.

Poems are, by nature, often incomplete, sometimes without resolution. It is an art form that should leave the reader wanting more…wanting to know more. So – no to opaqueness, yes to clarity and precision; no to showing off; yes to using language to create mystery.

Has your own opinion or idea of what poetry is changed since you first started writing poetry?

Yes. In many ways. I am continually reading books on writing. I know my craft has developed. I have had to relearn some of the basics of grammar.

I’m learning the discipline of economical writing; of showing rather than telling. I’ve collected hundreds of poems that I like and discarded many more.

I like the cleverness of depth simply told, tales of the everyday that reveal something about ourselves. I like the idea of poetry being loosely defined without ignoring its history.

A Mystery of Love - Geoff Callard


Small girl astride his spade;
her make-believe pony
as he bends to dig.

In the garden,
daughter riding,
her pale feet planted.
Father turning dark soil,
their laughter skipping
up the path,
flowing into sunlit
western facing rooms,
shadows still warm
on careworn carpets.

Her love, a gentle vine,
entwined around her father’s heart.

His love a tangle she would
deftly unpick,
freeing him
in a way her mother never could.

Bio:

Geoff Callard is a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer. He was a featured poet at the Australian launch of the anthology Planet in Peril (Fly on the Wall Poetry, 2019) and has had poetry published in the Golden Walkman, Live Encounters Poetry and Writing, the Blue Nib, Red Eft Review. Some of his work has been and selected for volume four of PausePressPause.

Geoff, thank you for answering our questions and supporting Auroras & Blossoms!

Cendrine & David

Geoff’s work is featured in The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2020 Edition, a multimedia digital anthology that features a variety of different art forms by 40+ artists, including drawings, essays, flash fiction, paintings, photography, poetry and six word stories. Click the image for more information.
The PoArtMo Anthology: 2020 Edition

Inspirational Artist Series: Patricia Tiffany Morris and Julie A. Sellers

Hello, folks!

As you may remember, we celebrated the release of The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2020 Edition (A Digital Gathering of Inspirational Works) with a special PoArtMo Show last week. Thank you to all the people who tuned in and left comments!

If you missed the show, that’s fine, as you can watch it here at the link below! We had great guests: Patricia Tiffany Morris and Julie A. Sellers. Both had fascinating things to say about art and the creative process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB8sLIzK48c

About Julie A. Sellers

Julie A. Sellers is a Spanish professor, Federally Certified Court Interpreter, and creative writer. A native of Kansas, she has travelled extensively in the Americas and Europe. She has twice been the overall prose winner of the Kansas Voices Contest (2017, 2019).

Julie’s creative work has appeared in many publications, including Fabrizo Paterlini: Microstories–the Eighth Note, Eastern Iowa Review, The Write Launch, and the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies. Julie’s third academic book, The Modern Bachateros: 27 Interviews (McFarland, 2017), received the Kansas Authors Club 2018 It Looks Like A Million Book Award.

Website: https://facebook.com/julieasellersauthor

About Patricia Tiffany Morris

Patricia Tiffany Morris gravitates towards inspirational messages of hope and encourages others to find their inner artist. An eclectic Christian creative with a geeky-tech affinity and a poet with three names, she writes fiction, picture books, and prose, using both sides of her brain.

Patricia discovered her love for digital artwork in 2020 and creates illustrations on her iPad. She adores hashtags and Pinterest but finds Twitter quirky. As a member of Word Weavers International, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and loads of FB groups, Patricia runs Tiffany Inks Studio from her home.

Website: https://www.patriciatiffanymorris.com


Don’t forget to grab your copy of The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2020 Edition (A Digital Gathering of Inspirational Works)!

David & Cendrine

Celebrate the Release of ‘The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology’ with Us!

Happy Monday, everyone!

Do you know that The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2020 Edition (A Digital Gathering of Inspirational Works) will be out in less than 24 hours?

To celebrate the release of this incredible multimedia anthology, we invite you to tune into our special PoArtMo Show tomorrow (Tuesday, November 3, 2020) at 3 p.m. PDT / 5 p.m. CDT / 6 p.m. EDT.

(For those of you who do not live on the America continent, check your time zones here.)

This special PoArtMo Show is not just about us, though. Patricia Tiffany Morris and Julie A. Sellers, two of the artists featured in the anthology, will be with us! This is so exciting!

We cannot wait to see you and answer your questions.

You can watch / listen to the show directly from this page by playing the video below. Or you can set a reminder at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB8sLIzK48c.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB8sLIzK48c

In the meantime…

Don’t forget to grab your copy of The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2020 Edition (A Digital Gathering of Inspirational Works)!

We look forward to reading your submissions soon. Happy creating!

David & Cendrine

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