Final Call For Submissions: This is What Love Looks Like. Poetry By Women Smitten with Women

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Indie Blu(e) Publishing will be accepting submissions of poetry and art for This is What Love Looks Like. Poetry by Women Smitten with Women until midnight on Sunday, June 30th. This Anthology will celebrate love, attachments, and attraction between women.

  • The maximum number of pieces for submission per writer/artist is FIVE (5).
  • Writing can be uploaded as a Word or PDF attachment. If you are submitting a graphic poetry meme, the meme must be accompanied by the text in Word or PDF version.
  • Artwork submitted for the Anthology must be able to be reproduced clearly in black and white.
  • You will be notified if your work is accepted. Please do not consider non- acceptance as any diminishment of your experience, but as with any publishing venture, we must try to fit the individual pieces together into a strong whole.
  • Submission of previously published pieces is acceptable if you still own the rights to your work.
  • Submissions will be accepted through June 30, 2019 through Submittable. There is no charge for submission.

This is a project fueled by passion, not profit. Indie Blu(e) Publishing will only charge a few dollars above the publishing cost to keep the Anthology as affordable as possible.

All contributors will receive a PDF copy of the book.

Questions? Contact Candice at candicedaquin@gmail.com.

Arclight in the Gyroscope Review

Review of Arclight appearing in the Gyroscope Review.
“Arclight, by poet John Biscello, is an intriguing book brimming with possibilities. The book is divided into six diverse sections that carry themes through each section and tie them together with spirituality and attention to the relationships between people and creator, people and others, people and self.
I enjoyed the mix of short little poems that captured the intricacies of love and relationships, as well as the longer poems that delve into what it means to be connected with the spiritual, and the complications of love. Arclight is always drawing comparisons, answering and composing questions. Some of my favorite lines were about the Self, and its bonds to the heart.
from Beacon

The hidden vocabulary

of my heart

is reduced to essentials”

Read the full review here.

Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen Recruiting Core Members and Accepting Featured Writing Submissions

Core Membership

If you are interested in being a core member of Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen, please send us an email at (heretics.lovers.madmen@gmail.com) with a sample of three (3) pieces of your writing (poem, prose, essay, script, short fiction, spoken word) so we can get a feel for the fit.  Your sample pieces can be previously published. You should include your real name, your pen name and a brief biography (100 words or under.)

Featured Submissions

If you are interested in being occasional submitter, email up to 3 previously unpublished pieces to (heretics.lovers.madmen@gmail.com ).  You should include your real name, your pen name and a brief biography (100 words or under.)  You are invited to provide a suggested image to accompany each piece; however, we reserve the right to make substitutions if there are technical or creative concerns about the image.

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Eric Syrdal Reviews Conversations With My Higher Self by Rachel Finch

To walk outside your own body. To look back and see yourself as the universe sees you.  To see the entire story of your life laid open before you and to thumb through it page by page and truly understand.  To see clearly, all the events that have lead up to where you are now and the choices you made, actions you took, and to gain a snapshot of your soul.

Pain, loss, joy, grief, death, and rebirth.  To know that you have done it all the best you were able and that above all else you survived.  And love, the greatest of all emotions, is within you.  You are loved, you have loved, and you deserve love. 

Most of all the deepest love possible.

To love yourself.

What would the scenario described above look like?  If anyone is capable of drawing out a sketch of these events, I believe Rachel Finch is just such a person. 

She has painted a deeply emotional picture of this landscape and through her eyes we are able to gain a rare glimpse into what it might be like to view yourself from afar.

In “Conversations With My Higher Self”, Finch takes us on a guided tour of self-perception from outside one’s on psyche.

It’s a marvelous journey of exploration and discussion with one’s own consciousness.

Asking difficult questions and receiving difficult answers, as only your own heart can give.

I was profoundly moved by this piece.  As a poet and an empathic soul, my heart and mind were solidly gripped by the experience of reading this book.  

If you are one who enjoys philosophical discussions about how the events in your life have molded you into the person you are, then this is exactly the book for you. 

It will leave you with a profound feeling of having witnessed something beautiful.

It will also likely uncover the hidden answers in your mind to some of the most desperate questions your heart has been asking.

Conversations With My Higher Self is available through Amazon worldwide, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository, and other major online book retailers.

Call For Submissions: This is What Love Looks Like. Poetry By Women Smitten with Women

Indie Blu(e) Publishing is currently accepting submissions of poetry and art for This is What Love Looks Like. Poetry by Women Smitten with Women. This Anthology will celebrate love, attachments, and attraction between women.

  • The maximum number of pieces for submission per writer/artist is FIVE (5).
  • Writing can be uploaded as a Word or PDF attachment. If you are submitting a graphic poetry meme, the meme must be accompanied by the text in Word or PDF version.
  • Artwork submitted for the Anthology must be able to be reproduced clearly in black and white.
  • You will be notified if your work is accepted. Please do not consider non- acceptance as any diminishment of your experience, but as with any publishing venture, we must try to fit the individual pieces together into a strong whole.
  • Submission of previously published pieces is acceptable if you still own the rights to your work.
  • Submissions will be accepted through June 30, 2019 through Submittable. There is no charge for submission.

This is a project fueled by passion, not profit. Indie Blu(e) Publishing will only charge a few dollars above the publishing cost to keep the Anthology as affordable as possible.

All contributors will receive a PDF copy of the book.

Questions? Contact Candice at candicedaquin@gmail.com.