‘Mount Island’ Launches Prize for Rural Poets of Color | Seven Days
Published in Seven Days on December 4, 2019 Brattleboro-based Mount Island, founded by Desmond Peeples, is a literary magazine devoted to the voices of rural LGBTQ and people of color. This week, the online quarterly began accepting submissions for a new poetry prize...
Thank you for an incredible launch party!
Friends, we are still on cloud 9 after our launch party at the Brattleboro Literary Festival last night. Thank you to everyone who came out and shared in all that laughter and love. And congratulations to the winner of our tournament of words, Angela Wilson!
Excerpt: “Selections from Inferior Normal” by Tyler Orion
An excerpt of Tyler Orion’s “Selections from Inferior Normal,” which will appear in our fall 2019 issue and in limited edition letterpress broadsides from May Day Studio in Montpelier, Vermont.
Alerts! Submissions Are Closed (Temporarily), Plus an Early-bird Subscription Sale
Mount Island magazine is temporarily closed to submissions while we prepare to release our inaugural issue this October. Use our early-bird coupon code until to purchase an annual subscription for 30% off (valid only until December 31).