Special GREEN theme issue, Spring 2012.
Deadline March 1, 2012.
We are now accepting submissions for a special GREEN theme issue in collaboration with Unity College in Maine.
Unity College is well known for its environmental education and environmental law programs. The town of Unity is also the home of MOFGA, the Maine Organic Farm Growers Association which hosts a huge Fair every autumn, drawing tens of thousands of people for a weekend of food, farmer's markets and education about organic and sustainable practices. What better place to launch a GREEN issue of Off the Coast?
Our awareness of environmental issues has been defined by the work of writers like Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, Edward Abby, John Muir, Thomas Berry, Henry Beston, Annie Dillard, W. S. Merwin, Terry Tempest Williams, Linda Hogan, Gary Snyder, and others.
Submissions
We invite you to participate in this ongoing literary discussion. Off the Coast will be accepting poetry and artwork on a green theme for its Spring 2012 issue. "Green" is difficult to define; we at Off the Coast and Unity College have been wrangling with how to present this without wringing the life out of it. We have come up with "... poems and artwork aimed at the environmental concerns of our current decade," "The use of natural resources in a manner that does not infringe upon the functional integrity of biological systems in the present or near future," or a what we don't want to see: basic nature poems. With the 42nd Annual Earth Day a little over three months away, is it time to reflect on the past, examine the present or imagine the future of the environmental movement, the environment, our place on the planet in the next ten years?
Guidelines
Poetry
Send 1-3 previously unpublished poems, any subject or style, using our submission manager.
Postal submissions with SASE with sufficient postage for return.
Please include contact information and brief bio with submission.
*No simultaneous submissions for this issue.*
Artwork
We accept B&W graphics and photos to grace the pages of Off the Coast, and color or B&W for the cover.
Send 3-6 images in tiff (preferred), png or jpg format, min. 300 dpi resolution.
Please use submission manager to send artwork.
Reviews
For reviews, send a single copy of a newly published poetry book. Please send bound books only, we do not review chapbooks.
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Contributors receive one free copy. Additional copies of the issue their work appears in available for half the cover price.
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