Now Accepting Submissions!

The clock is ticking...
Submit now!
Proetry Magazine is now accepting submissions of poetry, prose, and visual art for its Fall 2011 issue, due out in mid-August.
Send emails to ProetryEditor@gmail.com.

Print Edition Submission Guidelines:

General: There are no unacceptable themes for submitting to the print edition.  The deadline for submissions for the August edition is 7/23/11.  We are aiming to have the first issue printed in mid-August.  You can also submit more than one type of writing and/or art for the print edition, up to 3 poems, 3 pieces of artwork, and 2 pieces of prose.

Poetry: Please only submit poems which are a page in length or shorter.  Please only submit 3 poems per person.  Put "Poetry Submission" in the Subject of the Email and send it to: ProetryEditor@gmail.com.  Please send each poem in a separate email.  Please include contact info at the top or bottom of each email as well.  If, for stylistic purposes, you need to send the poem in an attachment, please explain that in the body of the email, otherwise we will not open the attachment due to spam.

Prose: Please only submit prose pieces which are a half-page in length or shorter.  Please put "Prose Submission" & the genre (Fiction, Non-Fiction, etc.) in the Subject of the Email and send it to: ProetryEditor@gmail.com.  Please send each prose piece in a separate email.  Please include contact info at the top or bottom of each email as well.  Please only submit 2 prose pieces per person.

Art:  Please send the highest resolution copy of your work for the print edition.  If the Art Editor does not deem the work to be in a high enough res, we may email you back and ask you for a higher resolution version.  Please only submit 3 pieces of artwork per person.  Send your artwork in the form of .JPG files.  Put "Art Submission" in the Subject of the Email & attach the files to the email, one artwork per email.  Send it to: ProetryEditor@gmail.com

Feel free to email us at ProetryEditor@gmail.com for more info!

Word of Mouth Open Mic Tomorrow!

Come out tomorrow to hear some awesome poetry!  And listen to me feature, of course!  Zines will also be for sale at the show.

Updated Website!

The online edition of Proetry Magazine has just been revised to include more poems and more visual art!  It now includes all the artwork from the print edition, and even more.  Check it out at ProetryMagazine.com.  You can pick up print copies of the zine at the Live Poets Society Open Mic, every Monday from 6-8pm at Flicker Theatre and Bar on Washington St.  Come by and enjoy some poems, some art, some drink :)

Athens, GA Writing Community Upcoming Events (April, 2011)

4/4/11 @ 8:30pm - Special Live Poets Society Open Mic, located at Flicker Bar
Celebrating the arrival of Ben Gulyas & Ralph LaCharity into Athens this week for Word of Mouth, we are honoring these two great poets from Ohio with a special open mic at Flicker.

4/6/11 @ 8pm - Word of Mouth, located at The Globe
First Wed. of every month, Poetry open mic
April feature: Ben Gulyas from Cincinnati

4/11/11 @ 6pm - Live Poets Society Open Mic, located at Flicker
Every other Monday, Poetry open mic
Come celebrate life with us during Happy Hour on a Monday!

4/18/11 @ 7pm - Goodbye Blue Mondays Open Mic, located at Dog Ear Books
Every other Mon., alternating with Live Poets Society Open Mic

4/25/11 @ 6pm - Live Poets Society Open Mic, located at Flicker
Every other Monday, Poetry open mic

We are still planning to get the magazine's first edition out this month - stay tuned for the release party date & time!

New Live Poets Society Open Mic at Flicker Bar!

We had our first open mic in the new space last night & it was fantastic!  I'm going to post some pics here as well as on Facebook so that everyone can see what a good time we had :)  The open mics are taking place in the stage room at Flicker, the room without the bar, and we had tables & chairs set out in the floor space so that everyone could sit down & drink while listening.  It's a great space for an open mic - intimate, cozy, with great acoustics!  There will be no open mic tonight, 1/31/11, as they already had a show planned, but next week there is a poetry open mic at Dog Ear Books and, after that, we plan on alternating Mondays with Dog Ear Books so that Athen's, GA has a Poetry Open Mic EVERY MONDAY!  We may also grab one Wed. a month at Flicker to have a featured poet or a variety show or a performance art night or, y'know, whatever we do...Hope to see everybody soon!

Poetic Happenings

Okay, so this blog is about Proetry.com, Athens' New Online Lit Mag that we're currently accepting submissions for, but I also want it to be a place where we can discuss Poetic Happenings in the community, as well as in the world.

And I've got two announcements:  the first is that Poetic Soul was awesome last night!  Poetic Soul, if you don't know, is a weekly open mic for poets and acoustic musicians here in Athens, GA.  It's from 8-10pm on Tuesday nights at New Earth Music Hall (sign-up at 8 so be there promptly please).  It's an awesome event, one you should definitely check out, and last night was fantastic!  We had a pretty big crowd, there was a bunch of awesome poets and musicians, and we had fun!  It's every Tuesday, so be sure to come check us out next week, or the week after, or the week after that...

Second Announcement:  Next weekend, Oct. 7th-10th, the Dodge Poetry Festival is happening in Newark, NJ.  We are heading up there because it is always an amazing weekend and a great festival and I wouldn't miss it for the world!  Tickets are on sale on their site, or via phone.  Here's a link to the festival site:
http://www.dodgepoetry.org/
You should all come if you can!  It's always an awesome time and there are always amazingly talented poets who come out for this festival every other year.  Come be a part of it!  Hope to see you there!

We Need Prose Writers!

Okay, folks, so we've got a bunch of poets on board, some who have submitted and some who will be submitting soon.  We've also got a lot of artists interested in getting their work into the zine.  But...prose writers!  We need you guys to jump on this!  I'm re-posting the Prose Submission Guidelines below so that you can see what we're looking for, but we need you!  Prose + Poetry + Art + Athens = Proetry...we can't do it without the Prose!

Prose Submission Guidelines:

Please submit prose pieces less than 4,000 words for the first issue.  Put "Prose Submission" & the genre (Fiction, Non-Fiction, etc.) in the Subject of the Email.  Please send each prose piece in a separate email.  Please include contact info at the top or bottom of each email as well.  Please only submit 1 prose piece per person, as there are not that many editors right now and we need time to review the works.  Send all submissions to: ProetryEditor@gmail.com

Thanks everyone for your interest!  Hoping to see your work in our inbox soon!

New Happenings at Proetry.com

There have been a ton of exciting things happening here at Proetry.com since we last posted: first of all, Athens Word of Mouth website now links to Proetry.com, and, secondly, Yoko Ono is now following us on Twitter!  If you haven't checked us out on Twitter yet, the name is ProetryEditor (that's me!).  If you need to contact us via email, the address is: ProetryEditor@gmail.com.  Hope you had as great a week as we did!

Accepting Submissions for our First Issue!

Hello, world.  We are now accepting submissions for our first issue, which is due out in January, 2011.  We are accepting Poetry, Prose & Art from now until the end of November, 2010.  There will be no pre-picked theme for this issue, but we will try to choose pieces that seem to stem from a common thread when we go through all of the pieces we receive.  I am posting the submission guidelines below.  Please contact ProetryEditor@gmail.com for more info.  Thanks for your interest!  Hope to see some of your work in our inbox, or to see that you came to visit us once the new issue is up!

Submission guidelines:

Poetry - Please only submit 3 poems per person.  Put "Poetry Submission" in the Subject of the Email.  Please send each poem in a separate email to ProetryEditor@gmail.com.  Please include contact info at the top or bottom of each email as well.  No poems longer than 2 pages will be accepted.

Prose - Please submit prose pieces less than 4,000 words for the first issue.  Put "Prose Submission" & the genre (Fiction, Non-Fiction, etc.) in the Subject of the Email.  Please send each prose piece in a separate email to ProetryEditor@gmail.com.  Please include contact info at the top or bottom of each email as well.  Please only submit 1 prose piece per person, as there are not that many editors right now and we need time to review the works.

Art - Please only submit 3 pieces of artwork per person.  I am not sure as of yet if the site designer will prefer .PDF files or .JPG files, but I will let you know as soon as I know.  Put "Art Submission" in the Subject of the Email & attach the files to the email, one artwork per email.  Send to: ProetryEditor@gmail.com.

 If you go to the website to check it out (Proetry.com), right now there is just a Site Under Construction notice posted and the website is still setup as the old format, but please come back to see us in January!  Please submit all work via email, as we are no longer accepting submissions directly through the website, while it is under construction.  Thanks!