FRIDAY NOTES & NEWS: Easter Schedule & Upcoming Submission Calls

Easter Schedule
CommuterLit will be taking Good Friday (April 7) and Easter Monday (April 10) — though the CommuterLit Writing Circle zoom meeting scheduled for Monday, April 10 will go on as usual. The first post and the weekly newsletter will appear on Tuesday, April 11.

Upcoming Submission Calls
Our Poetry Week this year will take place April 24-28, with a submission deadline of Monday, April 17.

Our Flash Fiction (max. 500-words) Week will take place June 5-9, with a submission deadline of Monday, May 29.

There will be cash prizes for the winners this year; so do not submit until the official announcement that will happen closer to the dates.

Contributor News
Ivanka Fear‘s debut novel, The Dead Lie, was released in February by Level Best Books. The first in the Blue Water Mysteries series, it is available on Amazon.

Megan Coe’s novel, The Formation of Calcium, is now out with Spurl Editions. I also have a reading list out on Electric Lit.

Carla Sarrett‘s new chapbook of film noir inspired poems, Woman on the Run.  It’s out from Alien Buddha Press, and sold through Amazon. Her poems are featured on the podcast, Poetry Is Not Dead.

Sharon Frayne is excited to announce the April 2 launch of her debut YA novel, The Sound of a Rainbow,  published by Latitude 46, at the Yellow Door Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.