Black Lawrence Press

Manuscripts can be submitted through various writing contests throughout the year. Submit your complete manuscript on the website. Link below

Black Lawrence Press

Established 2003. The press seeks to publish intriguing books of literature- novels, short story collections, poetry collections, chapbooks, anthologies and creative nonfiction.

They publish 15-20 books/year, mostly poetry and fiction. Manuscripts are selected through open submission and competition. Books are 20-200 pages, offset printed or high quality POD, perfect bound with 4 color cover.

They pay out royalties and respond in 6 months

SUBMISSIONS CALENDAR

The Big Moose Prize: December 1 – January 31
Open competition, novels

The Hudson Prize: February 1 – March 31
Open competition, poetry and short story collections

The Spring Black River Chapbook Competition: April 1 – May 31
Open competition, poetry and fiction chaps

Open Reading Period 1: June 1 – June 30

The St. Lawrence Book Award: July 1- August 31
First book competition, poetry and short story collections

The Fall Black River Chapbook Competition: September 1 – October 31
Open competition, poetry and fiction chaps

Open Reading Period 2: November 1 – November 30

Black Lawrence Press accepts submissions exclusively through our online submission manager, Submittable. We are not able to accept submissions via email or postal mail. Please see individual contest and open reading period pages for specific guidelines and information.

All manuscripts should include a title page, table of contents, and when appropriate, an acknowledgments page. Manuscripts should be paginated and formatted in an easy-to-read font such as Garamond or Times New Roman. Take note of the length guidelines specified on Submittable for each category. Please include a brief bio or something about yourself in your cover note on Submittable.

 

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Trinitarian Wicca breakdown

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Many people are confused by our tradition called Trinitarian Wicca (from Nancy Chandler’s book Christian Wicca: The Trinitarian Tradition). I have tons of followers ask me to break down how we assimilate our path into Wicca and if the path is for them or not.

Trinitarian Wicca is Wicca foremost. The only difference between this tradition and other traditions is the pantheon of Gods and Goddesses we focus on throughout the year. Our pantheon consists of those from Gnosticism, the Kabbalah, and Canaanite times. Our focus of the God of the Wheel of the Year is that of the mythos that surround Jesus. Jesus can be seen as the Solar Lord of many other pantheons as an archetype. Alongside of Jesus we have our 13 Goddesses of the year.

January- Inanna

February- Brighid

March- Zoe

April- Barbelo

May- Shekinah

June- Mary Magdalene

July- Asherah

August- Guadalupe

September- Sophia

October- Lilith

November- Holy Spirit

December- Mother/Virgin Mary

The Blue Moon- Levannah

We combine this pantheon to achieve the Wiccan Wheel of the Year as each Goddess is in an aspect of the year that the Goddess of the Wheel of the Year falls through. Most do not see the close resemblance of the life of Jesus and his mother Mary. She births him, watches him grow into the young man he becomes, and watches him die and be reborn (just as the God of the Wheel of the Year does son, father, and sage).

In our follow up book to Christian Wicca, we have explained in detail how the Goddesses sync up to the year and create our Lunar path of the Tradition as well as explain much of what critics have came to us with low blows. The basic breakdown of our views is no different than that of other pagan pantheons or wiccan pantheons. We put the craft first and follow through with our chosen set of deities to worship. We do not use the Bible or anything referencing scripture. Those do not pertain to our beliefs at all. Our beliefs rest solely in the fundamentals of Wicca.

What does it matter that we want to name our Solar Lord Jesus whereas some have their God as Horus? People are too engrossed in a fundamentalist way of thinking as opposed to just opening their minds and embracing what we have to say. This tradition is a real tradition and works. There is no dogma we leave it at the door. There is no holy rollies, they hate us. What is the big deal? So we want to use an icon of religion as a mythological stand point as the Greeks and Egyptians did.

The point behind this is that every single one of the Goddesses we have chosen for our religion are no where found in the Holy Bible as a Goddess or most even mentioned. They were never venerated like should have been. We are now opening this back up for those who believe there was a Goddess alongside of God, and we named them for them. This tradition isn’t necessarily baby steps from Christianity. You have to be completely open to the ideals presented int his tradition and not just playing witch with a wand and Bible. Leave the Bible at the door. Its a book written by man for man to sway them into another cult of religion.

Religion is about finding your inner temple and exploring it, not finding a local temple and saying you praise God when on the inside you haven’t battled the correct demons. Jesus did not teach in churches, in synagogues, or temples but in open nature as we do. Jesus was not a Christian. In that simple statement, there is no oxymoronic use of his name in our traditions. We are not blending Christianity and Wicca. We are using an icon that Christians were forced into believing. Jesus is not Christianity; Jesus is open belief of finding within yourself the gnosis to receive enlightenment and knowledge. You don’t find those in church, but you find that in our tradition.

Let us show you the way.

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Apologies for non posting

I recently moved and still getting settled into my new home. Apologies to those who follow my blog and eagerly await my posts. As of now, my agent is submitting my Wastelands of Oz novel to publishing companies and I received my first offer! Exciting, yes, but I will not be taking the offer as I feel the company doesn’t suit my perceived outlook on publishing.

Those of you who seek more writing information and what comes after writing, I will start posting work shops and helpful tips starting in the new year. It is one of my promises to help all Indie authors who self publish, and to help those seeking traditional publishing as I am.

Those of you who follow the Trinitarian aspect of my writing, we will be bumping up our posts via our blogs and our groups. We are crossing our fingers and hope to release the follow up book to Christian Wicca: The Trinitarian Tradition within a few months. I know we have promised it longer than we have said but we have put our blood, sweat and tears into this book and are making sure its perfect before it hits the internet.

Those of you who follow my poetry, I am still writing and hopefully my next book of poetry can be submitted to a traditional publisher. =]

Everyone keep writing and being your quirky selves. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

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Guardians of Light series

What if everything you were told about the creation story was slightly skewed just to make it sound better? What if you found out that there really is no Satan and Lucifer was actually Jesus? What if you found out the person made into “Satan” was actually the Goddess and only because she was the only one who loved God the most to become his adversary? What if God pisses her off by lying, saying he would always love her and then turns her beloved Adam against her by removing the memory of her from his mind? What if what we were taught was demons were just angels that lost their light and were trying to get it back? What if I told you I could answer all of these questions?

Firefly the Immortal- Novel 1

Guardians of Light Series

Coming soon

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