Blo͞o Outlier Journal

  This issue is due out  Summer 2022! Extra special reason for this too! ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue #3 submission window is now open ! Please see this link for what I am looking for :  https://bloooutlierjournal.blogspot.com/2021/08/bloo-outlier-journal-issue-3-is-haiku.html The new haiku submission email address : haikutec101@gmail.com Please send submissions of wildlife/nature/wilderness/natural history haiku to this email address only. Please don't rush any submissions, take your time. Submission window open from today: Saturday 21st August to Friday October 1st 2021 Send up to five (5) haiku Theme: wildlife, wilderness, natural history It's also worth looking at the two issues of Muttering Thunder : Just to warn you that they are big files, but highly worth the wait: https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/3087 Make it your experience, past or present, in the wilderness.  Own that wilderness in your own u...

  Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue #3 is the nature special issue! Dedicated to  H. Gene Murtha (19 October 1955 – 9 October 2015) Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue #3 is looking for: wilderness haiku: from birds and clouds to animals and insects, moss, lichen, rivers, streams, the wind and the rocks, the woods and the forest,  nature in unexpected places: to those pockets even in human habitations (towns & cities) where ‘the other nature’ has stayed free, or adapted into a kind of safe or safer symbiosis. What is natural history haiku?  I’ve been asked this a few times regarding the Autumn 2021 issue of Blo͞o Outlier Journal. It could be said they are powerful nature poems, and raw nature poems. It’s capturing nature or rather when nature captures us and we merge. Traditionally haiku are rooted in natural history and the seasons, and make us conspirators with wildlife, as nature half-writes the haiku before we've even put pen to paper. EXAMPLES on my FB page: https://www.f...

  The Blo ͞ o Outlier Journal Summer Issue 2021 (Issue #2)  haibun, tanka & kyoka story, and zuihitsu very special guest editors Grix, and Kat Lehmann Editor-in-Chief, Alan Summers Click at this live here:   Download from this link OR: Download Google Drive link

  Blo ͞ o Outlier Journal Special issue #2, 2021      SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED! Keep checking the blog for updates. We hope to get back to everyone before the end of May. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– From Kat Lehmann: "Write for your own journey. Are you ready to tell another layer of truth?" We are open to different approaches to haibun and tanka story, and other combinations and variations. Be brave, be bold, send us something you wouldn’t send out elsewhere! This is an outlier journal! Send only ONE :   unpublished haibun (prose+haiku) or tanka story (prose+tanka)  or unpublished haibun (prose+senryu) or kyoka story (prose+kyoka) or unpublished Zuihitsu (max. words 1500) or if in two languages max. 750 words in English. Length/word counts : ultra short (anything from single digits to double digits!) Double digits to 200 words plus one page length (300 to 350 word count) longer haibun (1500 max. word count)...

UPDATE : Submissions for issue two are now closed.  The second  Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue will be out during the Summer (2021). A huge thank you to all who submitted! Do keep checking the   Blo͞o   blog for details and updates:  https://bloooutlierjournal.blogspot.com Blo ͞ o Outlier Journal Special issue #2, 2021     LATEST UPDATE! One more update will be posted when submissions open, revealing the new and dedicated email address. INFORMATION : Send only ONE:  unpublished haibun (prose+haiku) or tanka story (prose+tanka)  or unpublished haibun (prose+senryu) or kyoka story (prose+kyoka) or unpublished Zuihitsu (max. words 1500) Length/word counts :    ultra short (anything from single digits to double digits!) one page length (300 to 350 word count) longer pieces (1500 max. word count) or if in two languages max. 750 words in English . Submission window opens and closes : The submission window will open Monday 19...

  Blo ͞ o Outlier Journal Special issue #2, 2021 update More updates will be posted including the announcement of the  new dedicated email address for submissions. Send only ONE unpublished haibun (prose+haiku) or tanka story (prose+tanka)  or any challenging prose+poetry combination! The submission window will open around mid-April this year: The submission window will be very short : 7-10 days! It’s a good idea to start working on a piece for us now.  We are open to different approaches to haibun and tanka story, and other combinations and variations. Be brave, be bold, do not worry about what other journals might or might not like and accept. This is an outlier journal! This is just a rough guide , enjoy working around it, it’s your submission after all! ultra short (anything from single digits to double digits!) one page (300 to 350 word count) longer haibun (1500 max. word count) I have also invited two incredible USA haibun writer/editors to join me as...