HIDDEN CHARM PRESS

New Online Journal by HCP Publisher

Update: The First Issue of WOC This Way for Poetry is live!
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The first issue of the online journal WOC This Way for Poetry will post in MARCH, 2023 – to celebrate Women’s History Month. Submissions Open: November 15, 2022 to February 15, 2023. No fee. No payment.

–The publisher seeks refined work by poets who are committed to the written word. A link to your blog/writer’s site is preferred as well as your JPEG photo and a very short bio. If you don’t have a writer’s blog/site, consider creating one.

–B+W artwork is also accepted, color images only considered for the cover art.

–To be transparent, the publisher is a Black woman, but this is an invitation to all women poets of color to share thoughts, ideas, experiences, feelings, philosophies, questions, answers…in the form of poetry!

DIRECT SUBS and QUESTIONS TO: woc_hcp @ outlook (dot) com

GUIDELINES

1– Submissions are accepted via e-mail only, with your submission pasted in the body of the e-mail. The only attachment that will be opened is your JPEG photo [or artwork].
SUBJECT LINE: WOC This Way for Poetry Sub.

2– Use Times New Roman 12, single-spacing, and include a very short bio, a link to your blog/site, and a JPEG photo. Give the work a title, and write your name in the e-mail exactly as you would like it to appear.

Shorter works preferred, a maximum of 30 lines long. Sub 1-3 POEMS.

3– No simultaneous submissions or previously published work, except under special circumstances (for instance, it appeared in a local newspaper; the publication is out of print…). If your work appears on your personal blog or website or on a writing workshop site, that’s fine, but by submitting your work here, you are agreeing to remove it from elsewhere on the internet if accepted for publication.

4– If your work is published by WOC This Way Poetry, you are agreeing not to publish it online elsewhere for five years and to credit this journal with having published the poem(s) first. You retain your copyright!

5– FYI: Rarely will rhyming poetry, religious writings, or vitriolic political works be published. Vulgarity, gratuitous violence, and bigotry will not be appreciated, much less published.

Thank you,

Mignon Ariel King

Publisher & Editor – WOC This Way Poetry

woc_hcp (at) outlook (dot) com

No fee. No payment. Donations are welcome via Paypal.

Extra MoJo! #3 Now Available

Hidden Charm Press’s 10th Anniversary is marked with the publication
of Extra MoJo! #3, now available on Amazon!

Thank you to the sistah writers, friends, hosts of poetry features, and receptive audiences for bringing Hidden Charm Press to this landmark year!

Mignon Ariel King’s New Chapbook

After a decade of being a “transient” in her home state, Massachusetts creative writer and Hidden Charm Press publisher Mignon Ariel King unknowingly begins an “Epic Couch Surf” in August, 2019. A year of homelessness later, King is middle-aged and solo in the big city during a world crisis. See how this third-generation New Englander keeps hanging in there, keeps her sense of humor, and reevaluates old friends while appreciating a new cast of real-life characters.

Rest in Peace, Margie Shaheed

On days like this, being a publisher is a terrible job. I clearly remember the day I first read Margie Shaheed’s submission to the HCP poetry chapbook contest, which she won. Her words were energetic, smart, and funny–and eventually I found out just how well they represented her personality. I was proud to publish her work and felt lucky to call her a friend. I looked forward to the coming years, getting to be closer friends despite the geographic distance between our homes. But that was not meant to be. Goodbye, Sister Margie. I miss you already.

Margie featured at the Stone Soup Poetry series in Cambridge, MA. She made a new room full of fans. The terms electric and dynamic were made for her.

Extra MoJo! #2 Available Now

Extra MoJo! #2, a print anthology of 14 Black women’s poetry and flash memoir, is now available on Amazon.

Writers: Cherrell Bates * Anna K. Betts * Atlas Brown * Featured Writer Marcie Eanes * Rekaya Gibson * Meredith King * Mignon Ariel King * Diane L. Lewis * Lynda McLellan * April V. Parker * Helen Patmon * Brittany Rogers * Reena Walker * Robin G. White

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Mignon Ariel King’s Memoir

The memoir of a 50-year-old Black American woman who survived the ideological race, class, and gender wars in academe in the ’90s! The narrative explains how Ms. King transformed from a former English instructor into a language artist and small-press publisher. Good for her…but what about the following generations of girls?

Available on Amazon