Welcome to our weekly project featuring New International Voices in Poetry, Prose, Flash-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Interviews, Essays, Memoir, Translations, Reviews, and more.
New International Voices is a series curated by Adedayo Agarau and co-editor V.C. McCabe.
Series Art & Page Design: Robert Frede Kenter.
Welcome to April 2022, Poetry Month. We are now currently closed for Submissions. Watch for more information, future submission periods, soon!
Submission Guidelines
New International Voices Series showcases the original work of writers for whom English is a second or non-native language.Submissions are on a rolling basis (categories: creative nonfiction, flash nonfiction and poetry) and are only accepted by writers who have learned or acquired the English language after being fluent in another language and within an open call for submissions.
Submissions that do not follow the following guidelines will not be considered.
Guidelines Pt. 2 //
Please submit only previously unpublished pieces to icefloeblog@gmail.com with a cover letter, a short bio and a headshot.Translations will not be accepted. Your text has to be an original creation in English. However, the work can feature words or passages in other languages.
Please only send one submission per category (short story, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, flash nonfiction, poetry) at a time.
For creative prose (creative nonfiction), please submit a piece (short story or creative nonfiction) between 1,000 and 4,000 words.
For flash nonfiction, please submit a piece that does not exceed 800 words.
For poetry submissions, please submit three poems only. If the poem has subsections, mark them clearly in your document. A poem should not exceed four C4, A4, or Letter pages in length.
Please allow a one-month interval before submitting again, whether accepted or rejected. We want to be able to consider the works of other writers and accommodate them.
Other Stuff //
The New International Voices Series is only able to pay $10 (covers face) for its contributors and via PayPal. We are looking to increase that later but heyyyyy, please send us your work.You don’t need to pay to submit. We don’t think anyone should ever have to bother about that.
Send your submissions to Adedayo and V.C. at:
Adedayo Agarau (Series Director/Editor): Adedayo Agarau is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His manuscript, The Morning The Birds Died, was a finalist in the 2021 Sillerman Prize. His chapbook, Origin of Names, was selected for New Generation African Poet (African Poetry Book Fund), 2020. His poems have appeared in Frontier, Lolwe, Perhappenned, Boulevard, and elsewhere. Adedayo curated and edited Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry. He is a co-editor for New International Voices Series at IceFloe and the Editor-in-Chief of Agbowó: An African magazine of literature and art. Adedayo is a member of the Unserious Collective. You can find him on Twitter: @adedayo_agarau or http://agarauadedayo.com
V.C. McCabe (Assistant Editor): is an Appalachian poet, the author of Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019), a former Contributing Editor of Barren Magazine, and Assistant Editor of New International Voices at Ice Floe Press. Her work has appeared in ekphrastic exhibits and journals worldwide, including EPOCH, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and The Galway Review. She has lived in Ireland, England, and West Virginia. Her website is http://vcmccabe.com. Twitter: @vcmpoetry
Dr. Robert Frede Kenter is the series VISPO Director, make the art, and designs the pages for New International Voices. Publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press, Robert is a poet, visual artist and the press midwife. Work is published widely. Robert is a Pushcart Nominee, receipient of grants, and author of a new VISPO collection, EDEN, available October (2021) from Floodlight Editions. Twitter: @frede_kenter
Series Banner: New Voice Flag, A Digital Art Work by Robert Frede Kenter.
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