If you are a regular reader of the Magma e-Newsletters, you will know about the Subscriber’s Poem Workshop in which a poem submitted by a subscriber to the magazine is workshopped by a Magma editor. Clare Pollard will be running the next workshop, and the deadline for submitting your poem and questions is end of day Wednesday 16 December. Newcomers are very welcome, and can learn more about the item and how to submit below.
Further information:
Magma Subscribers are invited to send a poem on which they would like advice, by e-mail to workshop@magmapoetry.com. The aim is to give focussed advice to help poets who are working towards publication, so priority will be given to subscribers who ask particular questions about the effectiveness of their poem.
Only one poem can be chosen for any one Newsletter. The poem and the poet’s question(s) together with feedback will appear in the Newsletter. All the other poems received will be acknowledged. While we will clearly not be able to workshop every poem submitted, we hope that all readers of the newsletter will benefit from having an insight into the editors’ criteria.
Poems submitted to the Subscribers’ Poem Workshop:
- must not exceed 30 lines in length
- must obviously be the subscriber’s own work
- must not be a translation or adaptation of an existing work
- must not have already been published on paper
Only poems submitted by e-mail to workshop@magmapoetry.com can be considered, and we would ask the poem be included in the body of the text, rather than as an attachment unless it is layout sensitive.
If you are a subscriber and have a poem which you would like to submit to be workshopped, do e-mail it to workshop@magmapoetry.com. If you would like to subscribe to Magma Poetry, you can do so by clicking here.
This is a great idea. Thank you Laurie for thinking of it. It’s a generous gesture for all of us struggling up the ladder.
Wendy