Category: Issue Announcements

Smoky Quartz: Upcoming Events

We’re pleased to announce a number of upcoming events featuring Smoky Quartz contributors. We hope you’ll join us!

A Conversation with Jimmy and Friends: Smoky Quartz

Smoky Quartz poets will be featured at an online poetry event hosted by Jimmy Pappas on Thursday, January 18, 7:00 p.m.

Kelley White, Lucia Owen, Maura MacNeil, and William Doreski will read and discuss their poetry.

The event is free. If you’d like to join the event, please email Jimmy (jpappas235@gmail.com), and he will send you the link for the event.
Please visit our website (https://smokyquartz.org), where you’ll find the latest issue, past issues, and information about the SMOKY QUARTZ Tenth Anniversary Anthology.

Help us Celebrate the release of the Fall 2023 issue of Smoky Quartz!

The event will be held on Sunday, February 4th, 2024, from 2:00 – 4:00 pm., on Zoom.

The event is free and open to the public. If you’d like to attend, please email us at mwgsmokyquartz@gmail.com, and we’ll send you the link.

Monadnock Writers’ Group Meetings: 10-Minute Readers

Smoky Quartz contributors will be the10-minute reader for the January-April meetings.

The monthly meetings, held at the Peterborough Town Library, begin with social time at 9:45 a.m., followed by the meeting at 10:00 a.m.

January 20 – Mame Ekblom Cudd
February 17 – Hunter Hague
March 16 – J. Kates

April 20 – Bill Chretien

The meetings are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit the Monadnock Writers’ Group at https://www.monadnockwriters.org.

SMOKY QUARTZ
An online journal of literature and art

Call for Submissions
Spring 2024 Issue

Open January 15 – March 15, 2024

Poetry ~ Prose ~ Art ~ Photography

Smoky Quartz is published by the Monadnock Writers’ Group and welcomes submissions from new, emerging, and established writers and artists with ties to New Hampshire.

For complete submission guidelines, go to: www.smokyquartz.org/submissions

 

Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I
want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.

– Mary Oliver, American Poet, 1935-2019

The Smoky Quartz Fall 2023 issue is a house of many rooms for you to explore—from changing seasons to the nighttime sky, humble insects, lost minds, and local landscapes. Through a wide variety of poetry, prose, and art, you will discover your own memories, feelings, and reactions.

The current issue of Smoky Quartz includes twenty-two poems, two short stories, and nineteen pieces of art, plus a featured artwork section on collage. Many of the writers and artists are those you have enjoyed in earlier issues including Michael Keshigian, Denise Ginzler, Maura MacNeil, Eric Pinder, Barabara Danser, and Amber Rose Crowtree. They are joined by a number of writers and artists appearing in Smoky Quartz for the first time.

The Editors thank the many talented people who submitted a total of over 270 pieces of writing and art for consideration. We are grateful for having had the opportunity to read and view their high-quality works. Deciding which pieces to include was difficult. In the end we had to pass on many excellent submissions.

We encourage everyone to submit work to future issues of Smoky Quartz. Follow this News page to receive announcements and submission deadlines for upcoming 2024 issues.

Click here to enjoy the many rooms of the Fall 2023 issue.

The Editors, Smoky Quartz