Author: Chaucer

Hello Strollers,

It’s time to think about submitting that special poem or cover art for the 2022 anthology. Look for full submission guidelines at strollofpoets.com/stroll-anthology.

Poetry Submissions
Poems are now being accepted for inclusion in the 2022 anthology. How do you qualify to submit a poem? Just one simple criteria:

• You’re a paid-up member of the Edmonton Stroll of Poets.

It’s that easy!

Cover Art Submissions
You do not have to be a Stroll member to offer a cover art entry. The Cover Art Competition is open to all. We welcome photographs, drawings, etchings, sketches, details from a larger painting, graphic design art, or anything visually appealing that will fit on the anthology’s 8-1/2” x 9” cover. Subjects with a clear Edmonton connection are also appreciated. A limit of three cover art submissions will be accepted from any one person.

Deadline
The deadline for both poetry and cover art submissions is Saturday, January 15, 2022. I invite you to select your poem of choice for the Stroll of Poets Anthology 2022, and submit it sooner rather than later.

Please email your poem or cover art submission(s) to: strollantho@writersguild.ab.ca

I look forward to hearing from all of you.

Deborah Lawson
Managing Editor
Stroll of Poets Anthology 2022

Monday, November 15, 7:00 pm, “Doors” 6:30 pm 

Featured Readers: Leslie Dawson, Phyllis Shuell, Brenda Gunn, & Guy Chambers

Mic Host: Loren Marsden

Open Mic:  Sign-up (2-min. poem) New and first-time readers are always welcome and given priority during the Open Mic.

Zoom invite If you know anyone who would like to join our online reading nights and is not a Stroll member please direct them to strollquestions@gmail.com.

Please note all requests for Zoom links to “Haven at Home” evenings need to be done before 5pm.

Monday, November 1, 7:00 pm, “Doors” 6:30 pm 

Featured Readers: Alice Major, Gary Garrison, ky perraun, & Lois Hammond

Mic Host: Loren Marsden

Open Mic:  Sign-up (2-min. poem) New and first-time readers are always welcome and given priority during the Open Mic.
Zoom invite If you know anyone who would like to join our online reading nights and is not a Stroll member please direct them to strollquestions@gmail.com.

Please note all requests for Zoom links to “Haven at Home” evenings need to be done before 5pm.

Deadline Extended: January 24, 2022

To celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the Edmonton Stroll of Poets, a love of words, poets who penned 30 poems in 30 days, and poets who contributed 100 poems to Anthology 2020, we invite Stroll members past and present to contribute a poem with strolling as theme. Each poet can interpret the theme in any way he, she, they choose. Strolling is as open as the poet wants it to be… leaving room for interpretation and creativity.  With submissions we’ll create a Strolling chapbook Edmonton Stroll of Poets: poems for 30 years.

Our aim is to attract submissions from a diverse range of poets. To empower all individuals who want to submit a poem to this chapbook, we encourage submissions from women, nonbinary, gender fluid, Indigenous people, People of Colour, and persons with disabilities. All Stroll members are welcome and encouraged to submit one poem per poet from a board member, current member, past member, and posthumous submission submitted by friend or family (encouraged).

Please submit your poem in 12pt, Times New Roman font. In keeping with the 30 theme please keep poems to 30 lines or less, and preferably able to be printed on one page. Chapbooks are small. Your consideration allows others to play. In addition, each line should contain no more than 60 characters and spaces.

If any of the specifications above are unacceptable for artistic reasons, please contact Laurel Sproule at stroll30years@gmail.com

Each contributor whose poem is printed in the anthology will receive a chapbook.

Remaining copies will be sold to raise funds for the Stroll and to cover chapbook costs.

We’ll hold a public reading of poetry from the chapbook in a bookstore or similar venue, observing current health protocols, on a date to be decided.

Any questions? Send them to stroll30years@gmail.com.

Submission Deadline to anthology January 24, 2022

Submit your poem to stroll30years@gmail.com

The Stroll of Poets Society would like to remind its members that our Facebook and Twitter group pages are helpful social media sites to both share and promote The Stroll of Poets activities and events, as well as to engage with other poets, writers and artists.

Members can peruse these communication hubs and post on these sites to support or promote any recent or upcoming poetry publication or literary event, i.e. advertisement of a poetry reading, book launch, contest or other local poetry event. The key word here is poetry so please adhere to our site rules.

Facebook: facebook.com/groups/strollofpoets
Twitter: @strollofpoets