🍁 October 24, 2023

There's Still Time! Poetry Contests Close in Less than One Week

There’s Still Time!

Poetry Contests Close in Less than One Week

The annual Diode Editions book & chapbook contests are open through October 30, 2023. Winners are to be announced by November 30, 2023. The press may select more than one book & chapbook for publication.

For guidelines, read on at the link to the press website below.

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At Diode Editions, we are committed to amplifying voices for peace, justice, and equity. We stand in unwavering support and solidarity with the people of Palestine. We mourn the tragic and senseless loss of life and are deeply disturbed by the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in real time. We unequivocally condemn the occupation and genocide of Palestine. We stand in unwavering support of intifada and in condemnation of zionists.

Signed by the Diode Team: Patty Paine, Law Alsobrook, ZS Donald and Alex Wanas.

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Best of the Net

Diode Nominations

It is with great respect and admiration that we have nominated the following Diode poets this past month for the 2024 Best of the Net anthology. This awards-based anthology by Sundress Publications celebrates and platforms exceptional digital publishing. Winning entries are to be announced near the end of January 2024.

Best wishes to Eric Yip, Amy M Alvarez, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Melanie McCabe, Andrea Cohen, & Sekyo Nam Haines from diode poetry journal volumes 15.2, 15.3 and 16.1.

diode poetry journal 15.2

• Eric Yip, “雪 / Snow”

• Amy M Alvarez, “Come, Holy Skin, Bring Your Voices”

diode poetry journal 15.3

• Cynthia Parker-Ohene, “Once Upon A Forever”

• Melanie McCabe, “Somewhere There Is A River”

diode poetry journal 16.1

• Andrea Cohen, “Flight Pattern”

• Sekyo Nam Haines translates Cho Ji Hoon, “Longing”

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Literary Matters

"The Badass Brontës is a treasure trove for poets and teachers with an interest in form and a delight in the skillful use of various poetic devices."

Thank you, Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, Literary Matters, & Melanie McCabe, for your consideration!

The volume includes persona poems, a villanelle, a sestina, prose poems, ekphrastic poems, as well as the ... gigan. And the wealth of lush language—making use of alliteration, internal rhyme, assonance, consonance—makes the reader want to pause and speak certain lines aloud, just for the joy of hearing language constructed so artfully. Take for example these lines from the poem 'Forfeit,' which references Emily’s lost hawk, Nero: 'The hawk’s wing-beat’s rapid, /can’t connive a cage. When clipped, is stripped of dive / and plummet, grip and tear; heart feathered, fettered. Stutter / or hop-to-hand.' Read that one out loud to yourself for the sheer pleasure of launching such rich sounds and rhymes into the air.