All These Rooms

Hi all,
 So in the interest of keeping things busy I’m thinking of trying to get a few more writers on the site. My idea is to put up an invitation for poets familiar with workshopping on a variety of sites to come check out our site and sign up as subscribers. After they comment on […]

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That’s right, the first bi-weekly poem challenge is here! We’re starting things off with a classic, the sonnet, so whip out your best muse and get to work. You have until April 15th to write a sonnet containing the phrase “I whomp gophers” or a reasonable approximation as well as a rhyme with pip-pip. The […]

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Welcome to WordPress and All These Rooms. This post is to discus the blog itself. I can change the way it looks, or theme, rather easily. I’ve chosen a simple, word oriented theme. If you guys don’t like it, google wordpress themes and link any you like. We should settle on a theme early on […]

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EARTH’S BODY: AN ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY
Coeditors Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street solicit submissions for an international anthology of ecopoetry. We are looking for a wide and varied array of submissions. Our working definition of “ecopoetry” is flexible; it includes not only what might be called nature poetry, and not only poetry that focuses on environmental issues, […]

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Colorado Art Ranch and Art Works for the Heart of the Rockies will host 5 visual and literary artists near Salida Colorado. The residency Begins September 28, 2008 and ends October 30, 2008. Deadline for applications is August 1, 2008. For more information:
http://www.coloradoartranch.org/nextresidency.htm

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call for submissions: Ragged Sky Press is looking for poems about clothing for a one-time anthology: outergarments, undergarments, shoes, accessories—anything that conceals…or reveals.Well-woven poems will be selected by the editors.
GUIDELINES: 1-3 poems (10 pages maximum), deadline: August 29, 2008. Send to:
<RaggedSkyAnthology(at)gmail.com>(replace (at) with @)
Payment is one copy. We consider dual submissions and previously published work only if informed of this […]

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Guidelines for the 2008 Franklin-Christoph Poetry Contest
http://www.franklin-christoph.com/Writing/PoetryContest.html
We will award $2500 in total prizes, including the $1000 cash grand prize. 10 Merit
Award Winners will receive $150 writing instruments.
Submission Period
Entries accepted June 1-Nov 30 (postmark dates), 2008.

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EARTH’S BODY: AN ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY
Coeditors Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street solicit submissions for an international anthology of ecopoetry. We are looking for a wide and varied array of submissions. Our working definition of “ecopoetry” is flexible; it includes not only what might be called nature poetry, and not only poetry that focuses on environmental issues, […]

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Worsty has won the poetry contest for May. She gets to whomp whomever she pleases, especially those of you who have to yet to enter a challenge. Scowl. Anyway, I’m sure she’ll have a challenge for us soon!
Until then worsty, whomp away!

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Here’s another interesting post from the yahoo webserve. If anyone wants to get on that list and get lots of emails about creative writing opps, just let me know and I’ll post the necessary info.
Splinter Generation anthology
http://www.splintergeneration.com/index.html
Six young people, unsatisfied with being called Generation Y, Generation 9-11, and countless other ill-fitting monikers, are launching a […]

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