Coal Feminist Review

An avant garde publishing house for women of colour and feminist thought. Diasporic art, politics, science and culture. Online journal to launch in November.

Femme Erotique

"The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling." Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.

£6 entry fee for UK and Europe - $10 for US/Canada/Africa entries
3 poems or 3 letters of a sexual, erotic nature

 

1st Place: £100 ($165USD) + Durex Safe Sex Goody Basket (toys, chocolates, condoms, bath salts, candles)

2nd Place: Champagne + Durex Safe Sex Goody Basket

3rd Place: Honourable mention + Durex Safe Sex Goody Basket

Up to 10 poets will be shortlisted, and all winners plus shortlisted poets will be included in the anthology "Femme Erotique: The Erotic Poetry of Feminists".

EXTENDED Deadline: 1st June 2012
Submit poetry to: queries@coalfeministreview.com.  Poetry must be unpublished (including blogs and websites, but youtube is acceptable) and each poem must begin on a separate page.  Please include a separate page and attachment to the email with your name, age, nationality, bio, email address and contact telephone/mailing address. 

Submit payments to: PayPal

Or mail cheques and money orders with submissions to:

Coal Publishing

63 Meanley Road

London
E12 6AP

 

*Your entry will not be read unless accompanied by payment.  Please email paypal confirmation with email submissions, and cheques or bankers drafts with mailed submissions.