Final Call for the Scorpio Anthology!

 

Final call! 

Submit your SCORPIO-themed writing to an anthology of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from Brighten Press. 

Deadline January 15, 2021.

 Previously published work welcome.

http://brightenpress.com/creatives.shtml

Attention Scorpios!

Attention Scorpios! (And those affected by Scorpios.)

Brighten Press is seeking writing for an anthology of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction with a SCORPIO theme. 

Deadline January 15, 2021. 

Previously published work welcome. 

For more details, please visit Brighten Press.

Final Call for Submissions to The Book of Scorpio!

Final call!

Brighten Press is publishing a paperback and e-book anthology of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction with a SCORPIO theme.

Deadline March 31, 2020.

Previously published work welcome.

Details at Brighten Press.

Open Writing Call for The Book of Scorpio!

Brighten Press is publishing a paperback and e-book anthology of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction with a SCORPIO theme. 

Deadline March 31, 2020. 

Previously published work welcome.

Submission guidelines and more information:

http://brightenpress.com/creatives.shtml

Reminder: Submit Your Writing to the Scorpio Anthology!

Brighten Press is publishing a paperback and e-book collection of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction with a Scorpio theme.

The deadline for submissions to the Scorpio anthology is March 21, 2020. 

Previously published work is welcome, as long as you retain all publication rights.

More information and submission guidelines are available at brightenpress.com/creatives.shtml.

Thank you, and we look forward to reading your work.

Open Call for the Scorpio Anthology

Open call for submissions for a new writing anthology!

BrightenPress is publishing a paperback and e-book collection of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction with a Scorpio theme.

The deadline for submissions to the Scorpio anthology is March 21, 2020.

More information and submission guidelines available at brightenpress.com/creatives.shtml.

Thank you, and we look forward to reading your work.

You Can Hear the Ocean poetry memes

I'll be posting here poetry memes for Brighten Press's new book, You Can Hear the Ocean: An Anthology of Classic and Current Poetry. I think I'm going to create them in pairs, contrasting the historical poets with the modern ones. Enjoy . . . and please share!

You Can Hear the Ocean: An Anthology of Classic and Current Poetry is now available in Kindle and paperback editions at brightenpress.com.

You Can Hear the Ocean: An Anthology of Classic and Current Poetry

Brighten Press is thrilled to announce the publication of a new book that joins the verse of renowned poets with the voices of modern authors, all inspired by the ceaseless splendor of the sea.

This collection makes a perfect gift to a vacation host to say thank you for summer memories . . . and it's a terrific beach read!

You Can Hear the Ocean: An Anthology of Classic and Current Poetry is available now in Kindle and paperback editions at brightenpress.com.

Here's the list of all the poets appearing in the anthology:

Classic

Dante Alighieri

Joseph Auslander

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

George Shepard Burleigh

Lord Byron

Bliss Carman

Stephen Crane

H. D.

Emily Dickinson

A. E.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Arthur Guiterman

Thomas Hardy

Sadakichi Hartmann

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rudyard Kipling

Thomas S. Jones, Jr.

D. H. Lawrence

Eugene Lee-Hamilton

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

John Masefield

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Marianne Moore

Thomas Moore

John Boyle O’Reilly

Eva L. Ogden

Ezra Pound

Rainer Maria Rilke

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Alan Seeger

William Shakespeare

John Sterling

Wallace Stevens

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sara Teasdale

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Walt Whitman

Oscar Wilde

William Wordsworth

William Butler Yeats

Current

Joel Allegretti

Carol Alena Aronoff

Janet Barry

Sidney Bending

Ben Bever

Jenny Blackford

Eloise Bruce

R. T. Castleberry

Bill Cushing

Lauren Davis

Elizabeth Ruth Deyro

Agnieszka Filipek

Marj Hahne

David Holper

Gene Hult

Clarissa Jakobsons

Marjorie Maddox

Paul Magrs

Lucinda Marshall

Stephen McGuinness

Leah Mueller

Ciarán Parkes

Winston Plowes

Suzanne S. Rancourt

Meg Smith

Alec Solomita

Alison Stone

Larry D. Thacker

Lynne Viti

Last Day for Submissions to the Ocean Anthology

Today, December 31, 2018, is the final day that Brighten Press is accepting submissions to our upcoming anthology of poetry about the ocean.

Please visit brightenpress.com/creatives.shtml for details.

We look forward to reading your work.

Ocean Poems -- Call for Submission

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. In Spring 2019, Brighten Press is publishing an anthology of poems about the ocean. To be considered for inclusion, please check out the submission instructions at brightenpress.com/creatives.shtml. The deadline is December 31, 2018. Thank you!

New Christmas Anthology Includes My Poem "Gifts"!

Released today and FREE (December 3 - 8, 2018) on Kindle, the Christmas anthology A Few More Winter Tales: Twelve More Christmas Tales, edited by Matthew Bright, in which I have a long poem called "Gifts" among a host of short stories from other excellent authors. Check it out and discover new writers for the holidays!

Excerpt from "Gifts" by Gene Hult:

Wiser men premised hopes on their promise,
followed glimmering wisps into murky woods,
wandered as polestars across dark desert voids,
pursued presumptuous question into a dragon’s lair
to land an intimate princeling hand and foot.

And don't miss last year's anthology, Just Another Winter's Tale: Seven Christmas Tales, still available for Kindle. My story "The Most Beautiful Boy in the World" is included, along with many short stories by terrific writers.

Download both anthologies for Kindle today!

A Few More Winter Tales, Christmas Anthology 2018

Just Another Winter's Tale, Christmas Anthology 2017

Call for Ocean Poetry Submissions at Brighten Press

Call for submissions for a new Brighten Press ocean-themed poetry anthology. (I am the publisher of Brighten Press.) The deadline is December 31, 2018.

For details, please visit brightenpress.com/creatives.shtml.

My short story "The Most Beautiful Boy in the World" has been included in this Kindle anthology of Christmas stories called Just Another Winter's Tale!

I absolutely love the cover, and I love that this anthology also features such terrific writers such as Matthew Bright (who also put this lovely collection together),‎ my college friend and British astrological twin‎ Paul Magrs,‎ Nicholas M. Campbell,‎ Roy Gill,‎ 'Nathan Burgoine, and Michael Thomas Ford! All their stories are excellent, and I'm very pleased to be in their company.

This story of mine was written for a collection I was calling The Betty Stories, all of which surrounded a woman called Betty, but always written from an outsider's perspective, never from her POV. I didn't finish writing the collection, which I had started in college, and I sort of outgrew the style of many of the stories in it, but I always had a fondness for "The Most Beautiful Boy in the World" and I'm thrilled that it has found a home in this Christmas collection.

Many of the stories in this anthology, including mine, have an LGBTQ bent, which makes them all the more fascinating in relation to traditional holiday tales. Too often the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer folk get lost in the deep straight Christmas snow, so this is great way of making sure we don't turn blue from being left out in the cold!

If you're feeling festive this holiday season, why not pick up a copy for your Kindle or your free Kindle app at Amazon and join our Christmas kiki? The ebook also makes a great gift that you can send long distances without physically mailing anything.

Merry Christmas to you, and have a wonderful 2018.

Thank you! Happy reading!