Rose & Thorn Journal Frustrated with MySpace for shortening our link, but still excited our newsletter will be going out to our subscribers on Oct 14th! Posted at 3:55 PM Oct 11 view more
About me:
Since 1998, Rose & Thorn has showcased some of the best prose and poetry on the Internet. Our site was founded by Jasmin Randick as an AOL member page. After our first issue, Randick was joined by Barbara Quinn, an award winning short-story writer and novelist. The two co-managed Rose & Thorn until 2003. After Randick’s departure, the online magazine continued under the stewardship of Quinn at www.theroseandthornezine.com.
In June 2009, the magazine transferred management to Angie Ledbetter and Kathryn Magendi who are proud to introduce Rose & Thorn’s new home at www.roseandthornjournal.com
Rose & Thorn’s literary journal is produced quarterly and features fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. Its blog, “Roses & Thorns,” highlights author interviews, book reviews, and resources for writers. The Rose & Thorn newsletter is emailed free to subscribers four times a year to announce upcoming issues.
Rose & Thorn seeks to bring the voices of emerging and established writers to a discerning audience. We strive to reflect a diversity of style, content, and perspective in the short-fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry showcased each quarter in Rose & Thorn Journal.
Our goal is to provide readers with a variety of resources that offer insight into the writing process and writing life. Through the postings at our blog, “Roses & Thorns,” we endeavor to convey what motivates the writer to create as well as the passion that sustains him or her in the craft.
It is our love of the literary arts and respect for the creative process that compels us to provide a place of exchange and inspiration for the poet and author.
Who I'd like to meet: Those who love and appreciate the written word whether it is from a best selling author, a little known poet or even a child struggling to paint a picture with words.
Anyone who is driven to put into words an experience, a story, a thought or a dream.
Rose & Thorn Journal
This is a call to ALL poets who write Love Poems. Write about any aspect of love. You can write about expressing love and having it not returned, interacting with the one you love or surprise us. Do not write ‘definition of love’ poems. "ALL " writers welcomed, original and unpublished entries. Winners will be notified in August, 2009 by Love Poet and Author of The Age Begins, Oneal Walters.
1st Place $110 US, plus interviewed in Chapter and Verse, 2nd Place $60 US 3rd Place $30 US
Submission fee $7.00 US (Approx $8.44 CAN) per poem Multiple submissions accepted, submission fee per poem
DEADLINE: July 6, 2009
Be the 1st to win our 2nd Annual Love Poem Contest!
Issue 8 is now available for purchase at our website.
It includes stories by Sam Pink, Blake Butler, D. Harlan Wilson, Rhys Hughes, Ofelia Hunt, Cameron Pierce, Mike Young, Matthew Simmons, Darby Larson, Aaron Sitze, and Adam Breckenridge.
Aithne Jarretta. It’s my personal mission to introduce you to the fascinating reaches of Magical Romance in the Beautiful Rose Garden.
During our Magical Week we will follow the Rose Garden Path to special discussions about everything from Hot & Sexy Heroes to Magical Wonders in the Realms of Romance.
Not a Member of The Wild Rose Press Reader Group?
That’s okay because it’s FREE to join. Just click our link for the first step in your Magical Journey.
If you haven't yet had the intense literary pleasure of immersing yourself in a Sue Miller novel, please meet: Sue Miller, our feature author.
Also in this issue: our feature poet, Harry Owen, Poet Laureate of Cheshire, England.
Wander through four pages of poetry by many fine poets from various points across the globe... then lose yourself in a collection of stories, essays, and a memoir that will haunt you for days. Continue your tour of Greece, part two, then don't forget to read the book reviews. Gracing these pages with watercolor and oil paintings, etchings and charcoal sketches is the artwork of Viestarts Aistars.
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