GRIEF ANTHOLOGY 2025

a benefit

We will publish a print anthology of poems on grief in 2025. This is a fundraiser for a non-profit on whose board I serve: Community Grief Support. https://www.communitygriefsupport.org/

I invite you to submit poems and creative nonfiction.

Guidelines:

• Poems on loss, grief, mourning.

• Any form is acceptable. I continue to have a bit of an aversion to rhyme.

• Because I hope to get these out to readers who don’t normally read a lot of poetry, the poems would need to be somewhat more accessible than we tend to see in poetry journals. I don’t want to overstate this, because I still would hope to see poems that require focus and thought. I just don’t want readers to scratch their heads and say “huh?” TOO much.

• Creative Non-Fiction. Yeah. I don’t really know what it is either. So let’s say: First-person prose. Narrative.

• Previously published work is fine...as long as you have rights to republish and can furnish us with the original publisher for crediting purposes.

• No more than 4 pieces, please

• Deadline: March 1,  2025.

If your work is accepted--given this is a fundraiser, we will not be able to pay contributors. ALL revenues from book sales will go to the COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT non-profit, I will ask authors of accepted work to agree to purchase a copy. The price will not exceed $20.

SUBMIT: righthandpointing.submittable.com

Thanks very much.

Dale