Coastal Shelf Magazine

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With many school years winding down here, we've extended the deadline for our FuPo Poetry Contest & Ceiling 250 Prose Contest until 5/31. $10 entry fee, $500 first prize for each prize, and all submissions are considered for publication at our normal $30 rate. #submissionsopen

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Just a heads up to writers with Coastal Shelf submissions from the previous submission period: We haven't forgotten you! The end of the school year is slowing our process but we leave no submission behind. Responses will be speeding up greatly in the next few weeks.

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@fklein907 Heck yeah you are!

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Get those last second no fee submissions in to Coastal Shelf! https://t.co/N7lzTXNBRc

Our spring reading period ends tonight! Poetry and short prose and anything in between (or adjacent). #poetry #fiction #writingcommunity #callforsubmissions @Authors_Publish

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@PareidoliaPress Coastal Shelf's massive new issue just came out and we're accepting submissions until the end of the month. In April our contests open for subs, and we have limited-space poetry workshops in May and July, signups available soon. https://t.co/mSSkrRFOUf https://t.co/N7lzTXNBRc

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Our Spring Annual is live! Three-issues-in-one, this issue is packed full of short-form awesomeness! The longest piece is just over 500 words, & it's arranged to give you a great experience when read straight through.#litmags #poetry #flashfiction

https://t.co/mSSkrRFOUf

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We're open for no fee poetry and prose submissions for a limited time! Get your subs in today! Tell your friends! #poetrycommunity #WritingCommnunity #Poetry #Prose #litmag @Duotrope @trishhopkinson
https://t.co/xas7JP7mKD

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Coastal Shelf is open for no fee submissions! https://t.co/N7lzTXNBRc Prose or Poetry (which includes visual poetry, graphic poetry, erasures etc). & our new 'folio' feature category is open. Pay is $30 per piece ($100 folio) #Prose #Poetry #poetrycommunity #CallForSubmissions

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We're open for submissions again! No fee and tip jar submissions available for both poetry and prose as well as our new 'Folio' category. And the Spring Annual issue will go live on Friday. It's a very exciting week. https://t.co/OjeBcz0im8

#CallForSubmissions #poetry #litmags

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Our first 'Annual' issue will be going live pretty dang soon here. It will be the length of about 3 (quarterly) issues in one, all short work, all awesome. #excited

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@FBereaud @CPytell93 Aww, you guys are too kind. I do like that poem though haha.

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Happy Valentine's Day! And what better way to submit than with a brand spankin' new issue of Coastal Shelf! We're live with Issue 6 at https://t.co/mSSkrRFOUf #litmag #poetry #fiction

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If anyone submitted to Coastal Shelf and had a piece accepted elsewhere before we got to it, send us a link! We're filling out our "Ones That Got Away" feature with as many links to your awesome published pieces as we can.

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Very excited to be publishing our brand spanking new sixth issue by February 15th at latest! More fiction than ever, including multiple stories over 5k words and even a novel excerpt. And you all thought we only liked flash prose.

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Coastal Shelf's Second Annual FuPo Poetry Contest (for Funny & Poignant Poems) & Ceiling 250 Contest (for prose under 250 words—yes, 250 this year) will be opening for submissions on April 1st & closing May 15th. Bigger prizes. Yes, there will again be a no-fee option. More soon.

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@DixonCat It's improving, but the fatigue is one thing that's really stuck around the longest for us both. It is definitely a unique experience. We're making good progress on the new issues, just a little slower than we'd wish it was.

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Just a little heads up to our fine readers and writers, Covid hit our main 'office' taking me (Editor in Chief) and our Graphics Guru out of commission for a bit, we're on the mend but it's pushed the winter issue (and responses) back a tiny bit, so it will likely be Early Feb.

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"It is Diwali tonight, and on Newark Avenue, / the fire hydrants gush and gush in spite of the firecrackers,"
Check out one of the poems we nominated for Best of the Net this year, "Stagnations" by Neha Mulay from our 4th issue https://t.co/lDAEKZYRJP

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Would you, or anyone you know like to participate as a reader @ a #litmag? Coastal Shelf has a ton of submissions we're trying to catch up on, & because we give feedback to almost all submissions we need all the help we can get! (Prose, Poetry or Both) https://t.co/hBZ0TjoDcz

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Hi all, been crazy busy (many apologies about the delay). Hoping the winter issue and 'Annual' will both be out by early Jan. If you have a submission w/us it is definitely under consideration & we are sending out responses. Thanks for bearing w/ us during these difficult times.