Issue #46, “Moonlight” has been mailed out. The issue has great writing, and equally great artwork. There are more copies available, so why not subscribe (or renew) before the January 1st 2022 price increase. Thanks to everyone who submitted their work, it make us wish we ran 100 pages rather that our usual 20. Soon we will have guidelines up for our next issue, and we hope to see you all there. Big things coming this year fro Blink-Ink, so watch out –
We have submitted the following nominations for the 2022 Pushcart Awards. We only wish we could submit more as we had so many fantastic writers share their work with us this past year.
Blink-Ink Nominations
Gay Degani – “That Kind of Trouble”
E.E. Rhodes – “Extinction Level Events For Creationists”
Adina Davis – “The Hike”
K.W. Peery – “Otis Blue”
Renuka Raghavan – “Dopplegånger”
Emma Phillips – “Counting Magpies”
The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang Nominations
Sara Jordan-Heintz – “Sardines
Luciana Francis – “Before the School Run”
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Awards season is upon us here at Blink-Ink and we wish to annonce our nominations for The Best Small Fictions, and the Best Microfiction Awards.
First from Blink-Ink we have:
The Best Small Fictions
Renuka Raghavan – “Dopplegånger
Adina Davis – “The Hike”
Judy Darley – “The Only Language He Knows Now Is Touch”
Robin Stratton – “So That’s What I’m Doing”
Daryl Scroggins = “Marfa Heat”
The Best Microfiction
Gay Degani – “That Kind of Trouble”
Kevin Peery – “Otis Blue”
Adina Davis – “The Hike”
Emma Phillips – “I’m Not Your Cactus”
Robin Stratton – “So That’s What I’m Doing”
Daryl Scroggins – “Mrs. Grace and Mrs. Shoats Cut Peaches to Freeze”
The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang nominated the following for both of the above named awards
Sara Jordan-Heintz – “Sardines”
Daniel Clark – “Lost in the Stars”
Luciana Francis – “Before theSchool Run”
Thank you, and Congratulations to you all. Thank you also to everyone who submitted work to us this year, we only wish there were more awards.
Submissions for our “Moonlight” issue are closed as of 10/15/21.
Blink-Ink has exciting plans for 2022. We have the themes all set for the next two
issues, B47 in the spring of ’22, and B48 in the summer of ’22. Kitty Wang has her
own plans and will be busy for spring. January 1st, 2022 we are increasing our
subscription rates. The new prices are only a little higher, but the funds are needed
as expenses keep going up. Both our printer and postage are up for example.
Please consider subscribing, or getting someone a gift subscription. The old rate
applies till January 1st.
This year, as in pervious years, we will be nominating for The Pushcart Prize,
the Best Micro Fiction Awards, and the Best Small Fictions Award.
More information soon.
Frequent contributor, and long time friend Shoshauna Shy has something good going on here and we wanted to share it.
Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf announces a new Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Awards contest
for Flash Fiction Books published in 2021
Flash Fiction is stories of less than 1000 words, and books can consist of stories of any length, as long as they individually do not exceed 1000 words. Must be in English. Poetry can be part of the mix, but not more than half of the collection. (Anthologies by publishing houses not eligible.)
Three winners will receive $250.00 each
There will (potentially) be two Honorable Mentions
No fee to submit
Send books with author’s ground mail and email addresses to:
Shoshauna Shy
Woodrow Hall Editions
PO Box 5343
Madison, WI 53705
Postmarked deadline for submissions:
February 1st, 2022
Winners will be notified Spring 2022
Books not selected for this award will be placed for circulation in Little Free Libraries
Questions? Contact poetryjumpsoff@gmail.com