A fine cigar and good literature: two of life's finer pleasures.At The Smoking Poet , we publish flash fiction, fiction, poetry, reviews, non-fiction, and author/artist interviews that ignite our imagination, inflame our passion, leave us with a smoky aftertaste. We'll also consider the occasional novel excerpt as a special feature.Submit to us your finest flash pieces; we are open to all genres, within good taste. All we ask is that you submit your best work - polished to the highest level of your ability, and that you leave yourself open to, at worst, rejection, at best, constructive criticism.See The Smoking Poet for full submission guidelines and deadlines.
Be sure to also check out our Links & Resources page at The Smoking Poet . It includes our favorite links for literary resources, literary publications, and our favorite cigar site links, too.
The Smoking Poet only lists links to cigar sites that do not discriminate or objectify women smokers or women in general (e.g. portraying women dressed as "your favorite flavor"), although sites that are otherwise geared to male or female smokers only are just dandy. Please send us your favorite cigar site that fits this category and we will be happy to include it!
Writers and readers and artists and cigar aficionados, all who are smoking with creativity. And no! you do not have to be a smoker to enjoy literature that is hot to the touch. We welcome all.
Please visit The Smoking Poet for submission guidelines.
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This doesn’t look like a cigar lounge. It doesn’t smell like a cigar lounge. But it is — a virtual cigar lounge for the literati. A dusky lounge where, if you listen closely, a jazz quartet plays in the corner. A fine brandy warms in your snifter. The warm lighting lets your mind drift to faraway places... and the frazzled nerves of the day are soothed smooth again.
The Smoking Poet is the literary magazine you’ll someday find on the coffee tables in your favorite cigar lounge - your own living room or den.
Welcome to the Spring Issue 2008 of The Smoking Poet .
— Zinta Aistars
TSP Managing Editor
- Russell Rowland
Fiction/Non-Fiction Editor
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SPRING 2008 ISSUE - ONLINE NOW!
http://thesmokingpoet.tripod.com
Table of Contents Spring 2008
Spring Issue 2008 - Table of Contents
Viestarts Aistars
Zinta Aistars
Mark Bastable
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Zachary Chartkoff
Michael Clyne
Adrienne-TygerLily Ernst
R.A. Evans
George Glasser
Cindy Graham
John Grey
Heather Haley
Vignette-Noelle Hart
Michael Lee Johnson
Ed Kemmick
A.S. King
Peter Magliocco
Corey Mesler
Sue Miller
Radames Ortiz
Harry Owen
Alan Pratt
Kevin Rabas
Russell Rowland
Kris Saknussemm
Jeannie Dugan Sanders
Lynn Stegner
James Stotts
Mark Wisniewski
Robin Wright
Yisa Zhuang
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Some of our favorite cigar labels...
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TSP is delighted to feature in our Spring 2008 Issue - click to read now - a feature interview by our fiction editor, Russell Rowland, with his teacher and mentor, bestselling author and Oprah's BookClub Pick, Sue Miller.
Russell will be the first to tell you, every writer can use a mentor. His was a writer many of us know and respect: Sue Miller, author of The Good Mother, The Senator's Wife, The Distinguished Guest, Oprah's Pick While I Was Gone, and many other bestselling novels. If you haven't yet had the intense literary pleasure of a Sue Miller novel, here is your introduction to the author - Sue Miller, our feature author.
Visit The Smoking Poet to read an interview with author Sue Miller.
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Submitting for a Book Review and Author Interview
Please query first to submit a book review you've written. If you wish your book to be reviewed, or to be considered as a feature author in prose (including a novel excerpt and an interview), please send a query to the editors and we will provide an address to which you may then send a review copy of your book.
See our Web site at The Smoking Poet for full submission guidelines!
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Online NOW - THE SPRING 2008 ISSUE:
Featuring:
Author Interview with Sue Miller
Feature Poet: Harry Owen, poet laureate of Cheshire, England
Feature Artist: Viestarts Aistars
Poetry by Zachary Chartkoff, John Grey, Heather Haley, Vignette-Noelle Hart, Michael Lee Johnson, Corey Mesler, Radames Ortiz, Kevin Rabas, Suzanne Roberts, James Stotts, Brian Townsley, Mark Wisniewski, Yisa Zhuang
Fiction by Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Mark Bastable, Adrienne-TygerLily Ernst, Timothy Gager, Cindy Graham, A.S. King, Kris Saknussemm, Lynn Stegner
Non-Fiction by R.A. Evans, Ed Kemmick, Jeannie Dugan Sanders
Book Reviews
The Nurse in the Delivery Slapped Me ... Once by D Anthony
Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver
Thirst by Mary Oliver
Into the River Somewhere by Mark Jackley
Driving with Dante by Brian Michael Tracy
Spaceman Blues: A Love Song by Brian Francis Slattery
Poems (CD) by David Francis
Turpentine by Spring Warren (pending)
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller
The Cigar Lounge: George Glasser and Alan Pratt
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - DEADLINE MAY 31, 2008 - see The Smoking Poet for full submission guidelines!
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The Smoking Poet seeks cigar reviews of between 100 and 300 words. Let our readers know what your favorite smoke might be — maybe it’s a Nat Sherman Explorer, a Punch Rare Corojo, or a Romeo Y Julieta Reserva Real, or whatever you’d care to share with us. Tell us what you like and why, and maybe even when you like it. Maybe there’s a cigar lounge, where everybody knows your name, at which you stop nightly to unwind on your way home from work. If so, tell us about it.
Paste your review into the body of your email — no attachments — to the attention of Fiction Editor. Subject line should read: Cigar Review — Last Name. Click The Smoking Poet to find contact information.
Deadline for the SUMMER ISSUE 2008 issue of TSP ezine is MAY 31, 2008, but we accept submissions all year long.
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Coming in June - our SUMMER 2008 ISSUE
Feature Author: Lynn Stegner
Feature Poet:
Feature Artist: Ed Rode
Feature YA Author: Kate Buckley, author of "Choices"
Fiction by the winners of our First Annual Short Story Contest
Non-Fiction by
Poetry by Jessica Barksdale Inclán, Laura Sobbott Ross
Book Reviews:
"A Free Life" by Ha Jin
"Belly of the Whale" by Linda Merlino
"Notes from the Waiting Room: Managing a Loved One's End-of-Life-Hospitalization" by Bart Windrum
"Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith
"Choices" by Kate Buckley
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The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, established in 2006, and published online on a quarterly basis. TSP’s first annual short story contest is open to all writers, whether they have been past contributors to TSP or not, and in any genre.
An entry fee of $10 per submission is required, payment to be made through PayPal.
Entries must be submitted as a Word doc file, one per e-mail, in Times New Roman, 12-point font, and double-spaced. The author’s name, address, and telephone number must appear in the upper right hand corner. Word count must not exceed 5,000. Please include a short bio statement, not to exceed 100 words, in the body of your e-mail.
The judges for the contest are Zinta Aistars, managing editor of The Smoking Poet; Russell Rowland, fiction editor of The Smoking Poet and author of In Open Spaces and The Watershed Years; and Dominic Smith, author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre and The Beautiful Miscellaneous.
Prizes will be awarded to the top three stories: first prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25, and two honorable mentions will receive a copy of Dominic Smith’s new novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous. All of the winners will be published in the summer issue of The Smoking Poet, online in mid June, 2008.
Submission deadline for the contest is May 31, 2008. Please send your submission with the subject line stating CONTEST/Last Name to thesmokingpoet[AT]lycos.com. If the subject line does not state CONTEST, then we will assume it is a submission for the ezine.
We look forward to reading your best work!
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