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SUBMISSIONS FOR BLUE HERON REVIEW NOW OPEN / Jan. 1-15, 2025

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Our Reading Period for BHR Issue 19 / Spring 2025 Is January 1-15, 2025.  (Deadline is 11:59pm US Central on Jan. 15th)

THEME: OFFERINGS.

What will your offering be to the world? What have you received as an offering that has made a difference in your life? Reflect on this topic of what we give (and what we receive), and how this makes a difference. Some examples include: mentorship, volunteerism, friendship, love, support, kindness, one’s vocation, a safe space. Please visit the SUBMISSION GUIDELINES PAGE for a complete list of instructions on how to submit your work and follow carefully.

I look forward to reading your poems!

—Cristina M. R. Norcross
Founding Editor, Blue Heron Review
(*artist credit: Photo by Javardh on Unsplash)

OUR NEXT READING PERIOD FOR BHR ISSUE 19 / SPRING 2025 WILL BE JANUARY 1-15, 2025

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(*Artist credit: Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash)


READING PERIOD FOR BHR ISSUE 19 / SPRING 2025 WILL BE:

JANUARY 1-15, 2025 

THEME: OFFERINGS

What will your offering be to the world?  What have you received as an offering that has made a difference in your life?  Reflect on this topic of what we give (and what we receive), and how this makes a difference.  It could be mentorship, volunteerism, friendship, love, support, kindness, one’s vocation. (*Note: please do not send submissions prior to January 1st.  They will not be read or considered.  Please visit the submission guidelines page for a complete list of instructions.)

I look forward to reading your poems!

—Cristina M. R. Norcross
Founding Editor, Blue Heron Review

BLUE HERON REVIEW is back for a special BONUS issue—HOPE! Call for Submissions: Jan. 20th through Feb. 10th, 2021

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: JAN. 20TH—FEB. 10TH, 2021
Our theme is: *NURTURING HOPE*

In order to provide space and support for what we are all going through with the current pandemic, I wanted to temporarily re-open Blue Heron Review for people to write and share stories of hope.  Mark your calendar and join us for this very special gathering of voices, as we come together to create space for HOPE in our lives.  Your words make a difference.  Help us raise the vibration for everyone. (Online pub date: Spring 2021)

(*Please carefully read our full submission guidelines on the BHR site before submitting.)

With kind thoughts,

Cristina M. R. Norcross
Founding Editor, Blue Heron Review

(Artwork, “Great Blue Heron,” by Daniel Adams)

Call for Submissions! Blue Heron Review is Now Reading Submissions for Our Winter 2016 Issue! Deadline: October 10th, 2015

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Welcome back, poets and readers!  We’ve had an exciting summer.  At the end of July, we published our 4th issue, BHR Summer 2015. Hope you’ll stop by to read inspiring poetry and view stunning photography by our highly talented contributors. We are now ready to read and consider poems for our next issue – Winter 2016 (due to be published at the end of February).

(photo by Jason Iffert)

(photo by Jason Iffert)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Polish up your poems and get them ready to send. Submissions for Blue Heron Review are officially open! The deadline is October 10th, 2015. Our reading period is a bit shorter this time, so send your poems early. We always suggest that writers read sample poems from past issues on the BHR site before submitting. Blue Heron welcomes submissions from emerging and established writers. We provide a space for spiritual and life-affirming poems. While we aren’t necessarily looking for overtly religious poems, we tend to be drawn to well-crafted, imagistic poems with a meditative or contemplative quality.

Please read our complete list of guidelines carefully on the SUBMISSION GUIDELINES page. We look forward to reading your work!

Don’t forget to visit the Blue Heron Speaks page to read sample poems by, Stephen Anderson, our featured author for the month of September. Stephen’s latest collection, Navigating in the Sun (Finishing Line Press, 2015), was just released.

With kind wishes for autumn,
Cristina M. R. Norcross, Editor
Blue Heron Review