Sugartown Publishing

Submission deadline: January 31, 2016

Acceptance or rejection notification: March, 2016

Expected publication date: Summer or Fall 2016



The Biggest Valley: Poems from California’s Heartland

SEEKING POEMS

The Biggest Valley: Poems from California’s Heartland will showcase poems written by individuals who were born, raised, or have lived or worked for at least five or more years in California's Central Valley (both Sacramento and San Joaquin regions).

The anthology will be published by Sugartown Publishing in the spring of 2016. There is no fee or submission cost.

We seek poems that engage the region's unique history and natural beauty as well as its environmental, agricultural, and manufacturing heritages and challenges. We also welcome poems about Valley people. Unusual topics, themes, or styles are also welcome. 

Preference will be for poems of fewer than 60 lines. Haiku, brief and humorous verse welcomed, but no doggerel please. We will look for broad representation from all regions of both the upper, Sacramento and lower, San Joaquin valleys, as well as from diverse ethnic communities. Poems written in other languages will definitely be considered (as long as an English translation is also provided).

Selected poets will receive one complimentary copy of the book and a 20% discount on subsequent purchases. There is no fee or expense expected from any contributor, however, your self-addressed stamped envelope for return correspondence is appreciated.

WHAT TO SEND

• Up to five poems: Each poem should be on a separate sheet of paper, or clearly separated with a page-break in your doc or pdf file.
• Each page should have in the upper-right hand corner the following: the poem’s title, your name, your street, city, zip; your email address and phone number; and if you have a website or blog, that info, as well.
• Please include a separate cover page with the titles of your submitted poems and a brief biographical sketch of yourself (we discourage lists of where you have published or contests you have won); we prefer to hear more about your personal life, work, family history (especially if related to the valley), where you grew up, etc.

Submit by snailmail,                      

Jannie Dresser, Editor 

Sugartown Publishing       

1164 Solano Ave. #140                  

Albany, CA 94706.

or:      

Submit by email:                                [email protected]

Please put “Biggest Valley” in your subject line and follow the same guidelines as above for submitting hard-copies.