Deadline Extended: January 24, 2022
To celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the Edmonton Stroll of Poets, a love of words, poets who penned 30 poems in 30 days, and poets who contributed 100 poems to Anthology 2020, we invite Stroll members past and present to contribute a poem with strolling as theme. Each poet can interpret the theme in any way he, she, they choose. Strolling is as open as the poet wants it to be… leaving room for interpretation and creativity. With submissions we’ll create a Strolling chapbook Edmonton Stroll of Poets: poems for 30 years.
Our aim is to attract submissions from a diverse range of poets. To empower all individuals who want to submit a poem to this chapbook, we encourage submissions from women, nonbinary, gender fluid, Indigenous people, People of Colour, and persons with disabilities. All Stroll members are welcome and encouraged to submit one poem per poet from a board member, current member, past member, and posthumous submission submitted by friend or family (encouraged).
Please submit your poem in 12pt, Times New Roman font. In keeping with the 30 theme please keep poems to 30 lines or less, and preferably able to be printed on one page. Chapbooks are small. Your consideration allows others to play. In addition, each line should contain no more than 60 characters and spaces.
If any of the specifications above are unacceptable for artistic reasons, please contact Laurel Sproule at stroll30years@gmail.com
Each contributor whose poem is printed in the anthology will receive a chapbook.
Remaining copies will be sold to raise funds for the Stroll and to cover chapbook costs.
We’ll hold a public reading of poetry from the chapbook in a bookstore or similar venue, observing current health protocols, on a date to be decided.
Any questions? Send them to stroll30years@gmail.com.
Submission Deadline to anthology January 24, 2022
Submit your poem to stroll30years@gmail.com
The Stroll of Poets Society would like to remind its members that our Facebook and Twitter group pages are helpful social media sites to both share and promote The Stroll of Poets activities and events, as well as to engage with other poets, writers and artists.
Monday, September 27th
It’s the launch of the Stroll’s 30th year—three decades of sharing community and words. So we’re kicking it off with Wordy Thirty, an all-open-mic Haven at Home on Monday, September 13 at 7 pm.