Stony Thursday Book: Call for Submissions

I was pleased to accept an invitation from Limerick City and County Council Arts Office to edit this year's 45th issue of Stony Thursday Book.

The Stony Thursday Poetry Book is one of Ireland's longest running literary journals, with its policy of a rotating editorship ensuring freshness and diversity in editorial focus, approach and content across the years.

For this year's edition, expected to be published in the autumn of 2023, I will consider submissions of poetry running to between 3 and 6 pages, and particularly welcome work in experimental, unconventional or pioneering forms.

Limerick Arts Office issued an open call for submissions and announced my editorship on this year's Poetry Day Ireland. The full details of the submission call can be found at this link, and are also reproduced below. Guidelines are also available at the portal where submissions can be made.

Deadline is 5pm, Wednesday 31 May 2023.

I look forward to reading your work.

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The Stony Thursday Book is seeking submissions from local, national and international poets for its next issue, to be published in late-Autumn 2023.

The Stony Thursday Book was founded by Limerick poets John Liddy and Jim Burke in 1975, and has been edited by poets such as Mark Whelan, Kevin Byrne, Patrick Bourke, Knute Skinner, Thomas McCarthy, Ciarán O’Driscoll, Mary Coll, Jo Slade, Paddy Bushe, Peter Sirr, Mary O’Donnell, John Davies, Nessa O’Mahony, Martin Dyar, and Annemarie Ní Churreáin.

The Stony Thursday Book is one of the longest-running literary journals in Ireland and this will be its 45th edition, No.19 in the new series.

This year's Editor of the Stony Thursday Poetry Book is poet and writer Christodoulos Makris.

Christodoulos Makris’ latest book of poetry is Contemporaneous Brand Strategy Document, published by Veer Books in March 2023. Other recent publications include this is no longer entertainment: A Documentary Poem (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019), the poetry postcard set Browsing History (zimZalla avant objects, 2018), and the interactive digital poetry project sorry that you were not moved (Fallow Media, 2022) in collaboration with Kimberly Campanello. It Reeks of Radio, the result of his commissioned creative engagement with the RTÉ Radio archives held at University College Dublin, is forthcoming with BLR Editions (UCD). Awards include a project commission from Irish Museum of Modern Art (2017), Writer in Residence at Maynooth University (2018-19), and a Literature Project Award from the Arts Council of Ireland (2020). He is the poetry editor at gorse journal.

Guidelines:

·      Each poet should submit between 3-6 pages of their work.

·      All work should be submitted in .doc or .pdf – we recommend using .pdf to maintain poetry layout and formatting.

·      Submitted poems may not be previously published or currently pending publication.

·      Each poet should include a short bio (max 100 words).

·      Submissions are accepted from local, national and international poets.

·      Submissions including texts in languages other than English are welcome, but substantial non-English language portions must be accompanied by a translation into English.

·      The editor is particularly interested in the potential of poetry, and welcomes submissions in experimental, innovative, unconventional or pioneering forms.

Closing date for receipt of poetry submissions: 5pm, Wednesday 31st May 2023

Please note that by submitting, you are giving Limerick City and County Council permission to add you to our Stony Thursday mailing list and to share your details with the relevant third parties in order to facilitate publication e.g. Editor, Publisher etc.

The Stony Thursday Poetry Book is funded by The Arts Council & Limerick City and County Council.