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Inverted Syntax News
We are thrilled that so many of you found our Sublingua poetry prize in 2022 after a hiatus in 2021. What an honor it’s been to read and reflect on all the work that we’ve received (some still under consideration for publication).
Congratulations to the winner, the runner-up, and finalists of this year’s Sublingua Prize for Poetry!! We thank you for trusting us with your work. Stay tuned: We will be sharing more about each of the writers in coming weeks! Look for their stunning work in Print Issue 4 | NOV 2022 |
2022 SUBLINGUA PRIZE FOR POETRY JUDGED BY INVERTED SYNTAX EDITORIAL BOARD ▫️WINNER: (Full title of poem) "ENDANGERED DIALECT LESSON: FIVE REVISIONS" BY ELISÁVET MAKRIDIS ▫️RUNNER-UP: "WAKING” BY JORDAN ANDERSON ▫️FINALISTS: (listed alphabetically by writer’s last name ) "NATIVE GIRL” BY JORDAN ANDERSON “PARTS OF SPEECH” BY CARRIE GILMAN "CHKALOVA STREET” BY KS LACK "SOMETHING ELSE” BY ROBERT OKAJI |
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Join us in congratulating our nominees for BEST OF THE NET anthology!
If you haven’t had a chance to read their work, you’ll find them in our online publication, Fissured Tongue Vol 3 BESTEST of LUCK to ALL poetry: Shanita Bigelow, “Hone” Shanita Bigelow, “Aerate: Far afield” John Schertzer, “The Node Dancer” Rachel Tang, “Post-chromatic” J. D. Schraffenberger, “Dogs” Shreya Vikram, “ A Ghazal for the Children” fiction: Soramimi Hanarejima, “When Memory Becomes Mythology” |
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SUBLINGUA PRIZE FOR POETRY CLOSES JULY 21
It’s been a wild week & we know you have a lot to say. How will this life be remembered in art and literature? Let’s record it, document it, let our future know what happened here. Let’s not rely on someone else to do it. Let’s each play our part. Create what the world needs and share it to Sublingua Prize for Poetry contest. Send us your poetry in whatever form it takes. New rule this week only: you may send up to 15, yes, 15 pages of work! We select one winning poem and 9 finalists. We award $1000 to the winner. Closes July 21! Show us some love ❤️ & share this post with your literary circles |
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June 29, 2022
CLMP FIRECRACKER
DEBUT MAGAZINE AWARDS
RESULTS
In case you missed it, Sistories magazine won the CLMP Firecracker Award in the best debut magazine category! We congratulate them and look forward to learning more about the work they do! As for us, Inverted Syntax is still basking in the honor of having been nominated for the CLMP FINALIST Award!
What a privilege to have been included in this category and to be amongst such literary luminaries. Don't forget to check out the stellar work of all the magazines nominated: Brink, Nowruz Journal, Islandia Journal and SISTORIES!
DEBUT MAGAZINE AWARDS
RESULTS
In case you missed it, Sistories magazine won the CLMP Firecracker Award in the best debut magazine category! We congratulate them and look forward to learning more about the work they do! As for us, Inverted Syntax is still basking in the honor of having been nominated for the CLMP FINALIST Award!
What a privilege to have been included in this category and to be amongst such literary luminaries. Don't forget to check out the stellar work of all the magazines nominated: Brink, Nowruz Journal, Islandia Journal and SISTORIES!
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Sublingua Prize for Poetry 2022 is now open
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General Submissions closed on June 16. We will reopen in March 2023.
Past announcements are listed below
Inverted Syntax is thrilled to announce that we are a finalist in the CLMP Firecracker Awards!
Join CLMP event on June 23 at 7 PM EST for the virtual ceremony, where they will announce the winners of the eighth annual Firecracker Awards, given for the best independently published books of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry and the best literary magazines in the categories of debut and general excellence.
This live ceremony is a recognition of the books and magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and wide.
Please join us -- registration for which can be found here.
THE ART OF THE POSTCARD
“WE ARE ALL ARTISTS” EXHIBIT
Curated by Nawal Nader-French
February 11 - March 6, 2022
Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, Colorado
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We are thrilled to present to you our 2021
Pushcart nominations!
Shanita Bigelow, “Hone”
Shanita Bigelow, “Aerate: Far afield”
Soramimi Hanarejima, “When Memory Becomes Mythology”
Jonan Pilet, “Locusts”
John Schertzer, “The Node Dancer”
Rachel Tang, “Post-chromatic”
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We are thrilled to present our 2021
Best of the Net nominees.
Congratulations and good luck to all!
Best of the Net nominees.
Congratulations and good luck to all!
Art
1. “Back to the Real World 4: Downtown Atlanta GA for a Breonna Taylor Protest” by Nazrene Alsiro
2. "The Ice Shelf and the Magma" by Desiree Dufresne
3. "Portal 1" by Lisa Berley
Fiction
1. “Kindred" by Moachiba Jamir
2. "Locusts" by Jonan Pilet
Poetry
1. "Large Soft Woman Names & Splits the World" by Becca Barniskis
2. “kotatsu” by Jordan Anderson
3. "Bright" by Devynity Wray
4. "I watch the eagle" by Bob Gossom
5. "the storm opened us" by Andrè Hoilette
6. "fear of the police" by Andrè Hoilette
Nonfiction
1. "Those Who Cant” by Joshua Adair
2. “Stable” by Mary-Pat Buss
1. “Back to the Real World 4: Downtown Atlanta GA for a Breonna Taylor Protest” by Nazrene Alsiro
2. "The Ice Shelf and the Magma" by Desiree Dufresne
3. "Portal 1" by Lisa Berley
Fiction
1. “Kindred" by Moachiba Jamir
2. "Locusts" by Jonan Pilet
Poetry
1. "Large Soft Woman Names & Splits the World" by Becca Barniskis
2. “kotatsu” by Jordan Anderson
3. "Bright" by Devynity Wray
4. "I watch the eagle" by Bob Gossom
5. "the storm opened us" by Andrè Hoilette
6. "fear of the police" by Andrè Hoilette
Nonfiction
1. "Those Who Cant” by Joshua Adair
2. “Stable” by Mary-Pat Buss
* Per @sundresspublications guidelines, we could only nominate from work that we published online between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
One of the poems we nominated
for the Best of the Net Anthology
is a Finalist!
Congratulations to Adam Malinowski
for his poem "After Love"
for the Best of the Net Anthology
is a Finalist!
Congratulations to Adam Malinowski
for his poem "After Love"
Announcing our Nominees for the 2020 Pushcart Prize
Issue 3 Reading Event
Friday December 4, 2020
Announcing the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry
Winner, Runners-Up, and Finalists
Jo Stewart, winner of the 2020 Sublingua Prize For Poetry judged by Khadijah Queen, has previously been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center (2020), Azule (2019), the Old American Can Factory (2019), the Anderson Center at Tower View (2018), Atlantic Center for the Arts (2018), MAAS (2017), and Arts Letters and Numbers (2016).
She was a recent member of Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, rehearsing and touring Cellular Songs from 2017-2019.
Stewart is currently a cross-disciplinary MFA candidate in the Literary Arts program at Brown University.
Her winning poem, along with other finalists, will appear in Inverted Syntax’s Issue 3 | Nov 2020.
Check in every Monday for more on the 2020 Sublingua winner, runners-up, and finalists.
She was a recent member of Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, rehearsing and touring Cellular Songs from 2017-2019.
Stewart is currently a cross-disciplinary MFA candidate in the Literary Arts program at Brown University.
Her winning poem, along with other finalists, will appear in Inverted Syntax’s Issue 3 | Nov 2020.
Check in every Monday for more on the 2020 Sublingua winner, runners-up, and finalists.
2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry
RUNNERS -UP AND FINALISTS
The amazing Khadijah Queen has selected the winner, runners up, and finalists of the 2020 Inverted Syntax Sublingua Prize‼️
Dr. Queen chose these poems through a blind reading, and we are so excited to announce the runners up and finalists!
RUNNERS-UP:
FINALISTS:
Dr. Queen chose these poems through a blind reading, and we are so excited to announce the runners up and finalists!
RUNNERS-UP:
- “Forbidden City” and “Flight: Beijing to LAX” by Benjamin Stallings
- "By these things we live” by Stephanie Niu @niusteph
- "Teach the girls to control their thirst” by Kiley McLaughlin @kileymc
FINALISTS:
- “Catalog of algorithmic errors” by Maya Salameh
- “Dear Vector, Where are you now” by Marietta Brill
- “Self-Portrait As Tiona,” by Itiola Jones
- “Temple Variation in 4th Harmonic” by Arnaav Bhavanani
- “Fog” by Emily Marie Passos Duffy
- “When the Doctor Doesn't Believe Your Pain: A Meditation” by Meg E. Griffitts
Each week we will feature one of the runners-up or finalists from the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry .
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“My writing has pivoted to interrogate how whiteness & particularly white feminism have perpetuated cultural racism. My work seeks to make visible the rhetoric & attitudes weaponized by white women to uphold white supremacy” Meg E. Griffitts.
Check out Meg’s poem in print Issue 3, “When The Doctor Doesn’t Believe Your Pain: A Meditation,” a 2020 Sublingua Finalist selected by Dr. Khadijah Queen About Meg E. Griffitts is a queer writer who lives in Portland with her partner and four cats and dogs. A graduate of Texas State’s MFA program, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Missouri Review, Black Warrior Review, pioneertown, and others. Her essay “Hyemation” was a finalist for the Wabash Award in Nonfiction. She’s working on a poetry collection and her first full-length memoir. Find more of her work at megegriffitts.com |
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This week we’re thrilled to introduce to you Arnaav Bhavanani!
Arnaav’s poem, “Temple Variation in 4th Harmonic" is a finalist in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the literary luminary Khadijah Queen @radicalpoetics . You’ll find the Sublingua prize winner, runners-up, and finalists in our Nov 2020 issue NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER ! About Arnaav “I’m a recent international undergraduate from Wesleyan University, where I studied European letters and various forms of writing. While rooted in India, I’m currently weathering Florida with cranes and iguanas. I won the Wesleyan Fiction Prize in 2019 and 2020, wrote a surrealist novel for my thesis, have been tinkering with poetry since the seventh grade. I act in plays and write different ones, spend half my days reading, gardening, and working remotely as a web content strategist for a consulting company in Oregon. Being hard-of-hearing, I’ve found voice in articulating garble and misfire." |
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This week we’re delighted to introduce to you Emily Marie Passos Duffy @duffylala
Emily’s poem, “Fog” is a finalist in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen @radicalpoetics . You’ll find the Sublingua prize winner, runners-up, finalists and so much more in our Nov 2020 issue ✨NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER !✨ About Emily Marie Passos Duffy is a Colorado-based poet, teacher, and performing artist. Her written work has been published in Boulder Weekly, Portland Review, Cigar City Poetry Journal, Spit Poet Zine, and Iron Horse Literary Review. She is a contributing member of The Daily Camera's Editorial Advisory Board and a 2020 artist-in-residence at Boulder Creative Collective. A 2020 finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award and a finalist of the 2020 Inverted Syntax Sublingua Prize for Poetry, she was also named a 2020 Disquiet International Luso-American fellow. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from Naropa University in 2018. |
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This week we’re delighted to introduce to you Marietta Brill @marbrill.
Marietta’s poem, “Dear Vector, Where are you now” is a finalist in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen @radicalpoetics . You’ll find the Sublingua prize winner, runners-up, and finalists in our Nov 2020 issue. About Marietta Brill is a poet, science writer, and essayist, with poems appearing or upcoming in The Dialogist, Thrush Poetry Journal, About Place Journal, and others. Her poem “Crossing Manhattan Bridge on the Q” won the Brooklyn Poets Walt Whitman Bicentennial Poetry Contest, and appeared in its anthology of winning poems. In 2019, she received nominations for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes. She and her husband live in the Catskill Mountains. |
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This week, we’re thrilled to introduce to you Itiola Jones! @isjonespoetry
Itiola‘s poem “Self-Portrait as Tiona” is a finalist in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen 💫 @radicalpoetics The poem was also voted by seven of Inverted Syntax’s editors to be Issue 3’s opening anchor poem. About I.S. Jones is a queer American / Nigerian poet and music journalist. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Washington Square Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Rumpus, The Offing, Shade Literary Arts, and elsewhere. Her work was chosen by the 2020 Madison, WI Poet Laureate as the winner of the Bus Lines Poetry Contest. Itiola is an MFA candidate in Poetry at UW-Madison as well as the Inaugural 2019-2020 Kemper K. Knapp University Fellowship recipient. |
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This week, we’re thrilled to introduce to you Maya Salameh! @mayaslme
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This week, we’re thrilled to introduce to you Benjamin Stallings! Benjamin is our only poet to have more than one poem selected as runner-up in the Sublingua prize. Benjamin’s poems “Forbidden City” and “Flight: Beijing to LAX” are both Runners-Up in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen 💫 @radicalpoetics You’ll find the Sublingua prize winners in our upcoming Issue 3 , Nov 2020. About Benjamin Stallings @benstallings is an American poet and musician who grew up in Beijing, China. He now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he will attend UNLV's MFA in Creative Writing Program in the fall. His work has appeared in Tulane Review, Whale Road Review, among others, and he was a finalist for Atlanta Review's 2019 Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets. |
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This week, we’re proud to introduce to you Stephanie Niu! @niusteph Stephanie’s poem, “By These Things We Live,” is one of three Runners-Up in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen 💫 @radicalpoetics You’ll find the Sublingua prize winners in our upcoming Issue 3 , Nov 2020. About Stephanie Niu grew up in Georgia and earned her degrees in symbolic systems and computer science from Stanford University. Her poems have appeared in The Southeast Review, Portland Review, Immigrant Report, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2021 Fulbright Award and currently lives in northern California. |
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This week we’re proud to introduce to you Kiley McLaughlin.
Kiley’s poem, “I AM YOU AND YOU ARE MINE, or TEACH THE GIRLS TO CONTROL THEIR THIRST” is one of three Runners-Up in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen. You’ll find the Sublingua prize winners in our upcoming Issue 3 | Nov 2020 Kiley McLaughlin lives in San Francisco, CA. She is the author of two chapbooks, BODIES FOUND (Patient Presses 2015, 17 pages) and Dirty Party Poems (horse less press 2015, 21 pages), and poems of hers can be found in CutBank, DIAGRAM, and Heavy Feather Review. She holds degrees from Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz. |
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