Submissions for the 2010-11 San Diego Poetry Annual
WHEN TO SUBMIT:
June 15 to October 15, 2010.
WHERE TO SUBMIT:
Please submit to any of the Regional Editors --
Brandon Cesmat -- profe@csusm.edu
Seretta Martin -- wordsoup@juno.com
Robt O'Sullivan Schleith -- poetryscenestealers@yahoo.com
Terrence Spohn -- tspohn@sbcglobal.net
or directly to Garden Oak Press -- gardenoakpress@earthlink.net or P.O. Box 1606, Fallbrook, CA 92088.
HOW TO SUBMIT:
Submissions by e-mail are encouraged. If you attach poems to your e-mail, use ".doc" format only. (This is the older version of Microsoft Word). You can also paste the poems into the body of the e-mail.
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
Poets are encouraged to send shorter work so that more poets can be included in the anthology. However, there are NO restrictions, NO taboos. The dual goals of the San Diego Poetry Annual are excellence and the celebration of diversity within our region.
HOW MANY POEMS CAN BE SUBMITTED?
Poets can submit as many poems as they chose to, but our general practice is to take no more than two poems from any single contributing poet. In rare instances, three poems may be accepted.
WHO CAN SUBMIT?
Submissions are open to all who live, work, reside, go to school in or visit the San Diego area, or those who have relatives, friends or some other association with the region.
IS THERE A THEME?
No theme, no subject matter restrictions. (Poems do not have be about the San Diego region.)
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
Poets are never charged a fee of any sort. No poet is ever required to buy a copy of the annual, but copies will be made available to contributing poets at a special discount price. The publisher makes no profit on sales to contributing poets.
HOW MUCH DOES IT PAY?
There is no pay. Instead of providing free copies to contributing poets, those very copies are donated in the name of the contributing poets to college, university and public libraries throughout San Diego County to ensure the permanence of the annual. As a result, the San Diego Poetry Annual is now part of the permanent collections of every college and university library in San Diego County, the county library system, the San Diego City Library system, and the libraries of independent cities within the county, including Oceanside, Escondido, Carlsbad and La Mesa. Future generations of readers will be able to access the San Diego Poetry Annual.
WHEN WILL THE NEW ANNUAL BE PUBLISHED?
The 2010-11 edition will be published in March, 2011. Celebratory readings from the new annual will begin in April, 2011.
WHERE CAN I SEE OR BUY A COPY OF THE ANNUAL?
All four editions of the San Diego Poetry Annual are available in local libraries. They can be purchased online at authorhouse.com, amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. All copies are fully tax-deductible thanks to our association with the San Diego Entertainment and Arts Guild, a 501(c) non-profit organization.
QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?
E-mail the publisher (William Harry Harding) at gardenoakpress@earthlink.net.
