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submissions for the second issue of the Ash Tree Journal are now OPEN!

you can see our detailed submission guidelines on our blog, but if you need a quick reminder, follow these rules:

up to five poems or other works

get experimental!

send it in a word document, preferably

send it to the email address, [email protected]

include your name, one-sentence 3rd person bio (include the city/country/state where you live)

and the titles of your works in the body of the email

happy writing and submitting! 
tell your friends!

Send your alt writing+ to [email protected] be be published in the spring issue of Ash tree Journal.
The work can be any theme, any medium, form, can be previously published, and you’ll hear back by the end of the month!

Submit to ash tree journal!

submissions for the second issue of the Ash Tree Journal are now OPEN! 

you can see our detailed submission guidelines on our blog, but if you need a quick reminder, follow these rules:

• up to five poems or other works
• feel free to get experimental, we want interesting
• send it in a word document, preferably
• send it to the email address, [email protected]
• include your name, one-sentence 3rd person bio (include the city/country/state where you live), and the titles of your works in the body of the email

happy writing and submitting!
tell your friends!

submissions for the second issue of the Ash Tree Journal open TOMORROW, January 31st!

you can see our detailed submission guidelines on our blog, but if you need a quick reminder, follow these rules:

• up to five poems or other works
• feel free to get experimental, we want interesting
• send it in a word document, preferably
• send it to the email address, [email protected]
• include your name, one-sentence 3rd person bio (include the city/country/state where you live), and the titles of your works in the body of the email

happy writing and submitting!
tell your friends!

Hi everyone!

As we approach the opening for submissions to our next issue on January 31st, we are doing everything we can to publicize! We created a Facebook page which you can find here, and we would love for you to ‘like’ us! 

Additionally, for those of you interested in ordering a print copy of our first issue, we put out a link via our Facebook page that should allow you to purchase one via PayPal or credit card. As we mentioned before, shipping can be quite expensive for those living in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

Thank you so much for your continued support, we are looking forward to reading your submissions for our spring issue!

We’ve decided to open submissions for the second issue on January 31st-that’s just two weeks!

Get writing!

Tell your friends, family, alt-lit collaborators, strangers on the street, non-literary friends who you are waiting to convert to the dark side…

We’re so excited to share these great works and authors with all of you! 

ashtreejournal:

If any of you are interested in joining our mailing list to receive specific emails about cool things like when the mag will be published, when to submit, and job opportunities, sign up with this link! We promise no spam!

http://eepurl.com/QBxDb

The mag is coming out soon! Sign up for more deets!

(Maybe.)

If you want editing experience, want to learn what it’s like behind the scenes in a literary magazine, or just really like words, apply to be a part of the Ash Tree team!

We are looking for one person who can manage social media/outreach, two interns and possibly an editor.

The interns will learn how the lit mag functions, help us expand, and work with all areas of the journal (administrative, outreach, graphics/layout, editing, etc.)

All positions will have the opportunity to read each submission and help make the preliminary and final decisions on whether it should be accepted. All positions are unpaid, unfortunately, but you chose the hours and it is great experience for those interested in the world of writing & editing!

If you are interested, send a short application to our email [email protected] including:
1) a few hundred words about why you want the position/why you would be a good fit for our mag/why you like ash tree & alt lit, etc.
2) a list of any of your previous experience with writing/editing (if you have a applicable resume that would be perfect)(if you don’t have any previous experience, don’t worry about it)
3) 3-5 pieces of your best work- poetry or prose or prose poetry or whatever. Be interesting!
4) A few paragraphs or so about you as a person- tell us about your life, personality, work habits, interests; essentially, why we should chose you!
5) your favorite author(s)/poet(s)!
6) if you are applying for the social media/outreach position, explain why you think you can do the best job & what you can bring to the (metaphorical) table.

We hope to hear from you soon!

to submit your BEST ALT LIT POETRY AND PROSE TO [email protected] BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH to be considered for the second issue of ash tree journal, the online alt lit mag! 
All you need to include in the email is 
-an attachment with your work 
-your name and a 3rd person bio 
-the titles of your pieces
we can’t wait to read your best work!

ashtreejournal:

to submit your BEST ALT LIT POETRY AND PROSE TO [email protected] BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH to be considered for the second issue of ash tree journal, the online alt lit mag!
All you need to include in the email is

-an attachment with your work

-your name and a 3rd person bio 

-the titles of your pieces


we can’t wait to read your best work!

to submit your BEST ALT LIT POETRY AND PROSE TO [email protected] BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH to be considered for the second issue of ash tree journal, the online alt lit mag!
All you need to include in the email is 

-an attachment with your work 

-your name and a 3rd person bio

-the titles of your pieces


we can’t wait to read your best work!

Submit your BEST ALT LIT POETRY AND PROSE TO [email protected] BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH to be considered for the second issue of ash tree journal, the online alt lit mag!

All you need to include in the email is
-an attachment with your work
-your name and a 3rd person bio
-the titles of your pieces

we can’t wait to read your best work!

Submit your BEST ALT LIT POETRY AND PROSE TO [email protected] BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH to be considered for the second issue of ash tree journal, the online alt lit mag!
All you need to include in the email is
-an attachment with your work -your name and a 3rd person bio -the titles of your pieces
we can’t wait to read your best work!

Submit your BEST ALT LIT POETRY AND PROSE TO [email protected] BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH to be considered for the second issue of ash tree journal, the online alt lit mag!
All you need to include in the email is

-an attachment with your work
-your name and a 3rd person bio
-the titles of your pieces

we can’t wait to read your best work!

sadcatsonly:

does anyone have any advice how to work for a literary magazine/book publication/magazines

There are overcast days - few and far between, thankfully - when poetry seems a futile pursuit. While the world strains & cracks, the belief that poetry cannot effect change hovers in my peripheries. This is, of course, the antithesis of our mission, and in the future, when I begin to doubt, I’ll be happy to have this feature bookmarked. Lydia Flores’ writing is a swift kick in the pants - a compelling reminder of the personal and political power of poetry. It’s Required Reading for any poet who has ever felt disillusionment trickling in!

-Wilson Josephson, Assistant Poetry Editor 

Where I found Power… in your wallet, in your heart or both….

My mother died on November 18th 2004 and unlike most things you would find in a dead person’s wallet– pictures of children, grandchildren, spouse, whatever, photo ID, credit cards, and cash– a poem was found.  I wrote a poem about where I saw myself in fifteen years, I was about 12 when I wrote it. And I suppose that poem held some type of truth or obscure significance because why else would my mother keep that poem in her wallet? That poem found its resting place in every wallet she had, in every purse she carried and went with her everywhere she went.  Some poetry brings you to the ocean and leaves you like the waves at the shore with a sweet memory, and some poetry brings you to the war and leaves you with wounds of truth and a change inside. 

I decided that if I was going to write poetry, I was going to write poems that people can keep in their wallets, in their pockets, in their hearts… I was / I’m going to write poems that people never forget, like a war wound. My mother has long been dead, I miss her terribly, but she’s not here to read my words and, because they mean something, do something with them…carry them. Other people are here to do it though.

I probably can’t say that I’ve become any or are doing/have done any of things I wrote in that poem. What I can say is that I failed and I am failing, I’m still trying, but most of all I’m writing and my poems are still scratchy in their throat. For so long all I could do was scream inside, inside the privacy of my own conscious and notebook pages, because nobody or if any, not many will hear them because It’s a, female, black mouth.

I had to and have to remind myself, when I feel like giving up on writing, that I planted one poem and that poem bloomed in my mother’s heart– that she kept with her, like a pressed flower–How many more can I plant even if I never get to see them bloom? Because they won’t always show me their garden hearts or I’ll be dead before I get to see them. Yet from time to time that reminder fades in and out because how can I be the black honest, passionate- whatever have you- gardener and not the angry black girl shouting with a garden rake in her hands, that the world sees? How can I write those beautiful poems that keep returning like the waves at the shore and be, female, black?  I’m still trying to figure it out. And not being white/ male/ or whatever else that’s not black or what America calls for, makes it seem impossible. It makes writing, writing poems, speaking, and/or just being, dangerous.

I believe poetry to be power and I will continue to write poems that intend to make a home in people’s wallets, pockets, in people’s hearts. But I can’t be Walt Whitman and a black female. I can’t be Sylvia Plath and black. Maya Angelou is dead, Gwendolyn Brooks is dead and it’s the same war, which has gotten more grittier. My body is like a gamble and no matter how many wallets my poems end up in, I’ll never get to take off this funeral dress so while I’m here, I might as well write well in it and die with have written well in it, praying that my poems are powerful enough to be remembered… even when they forget my name and black face.

I will always be what I am to the world, but my poetry is and will be more than what the world sees me as. The wallets, the pockets, even the rooms, and the hearts my poems may end up in will always be more important than me because poetry is more than just my pen to paper signed with my name.  Poetry is more than what this world sees the author as, more than stereotypes, metaphors, and beautiful language or whatever else. Poetry is a catalyst, it is rain, it is truth, it is hope, it is bigger than these little words. Poetry…it is power.