Cher Corbin is a mother of two, a scientist and a silver award winner in Photography at the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA). In 2011, she received two silver medals in Literary Arts in NIFCA for her prose pieces, “Intervention” and “The Pink Slip”. In 2012, she won NIFCA awards for her writing and in the Fine Arts category for her watercolour, “Bridge at the Hole”. Cher is presently working on two novellas, Silvered Mirrors and The Pink Slip.
Simon Dolcy is a proud son of Barbadian soil. In 2011, he entered his first ever NIFCA (National Independence Festival of the Creative Arts) competition and won a silver medal for Adult Prose. The same story, "The Windowsill", was also published in the online magazine Bajan Sun Online.
Robert R. Gibson is a member of the League of Extraordinary Poets (LXP) in Barbados and enjoys painting sensual images with his words, leading his audience into a sensory experience. In 2011, Robert entered the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) with three poems – Luscious, Rain, and Goblet. Luscious received a silver award, and Goblet and Rain received bronze awards. He also received the Most Promising Poet award for the year. In 2012, Robert entered NIFCA again and one of his poems – Tribute – received a bronze award. He maintains a personal blog called Passion's Pleasure.
Dawnell Harrison has been published in over 65 magazines and journals including The Endicott Review, Fowl Feathered Review, The Bitchin' Kitsch, Vox Poetica, Abbey, Iconoclast, Puckerbrush Review, Nerve Cowboy, Mobius, and many others. She has also had 3 books of poetry published; Voyager, The Maverick Posse, and The Fire Behind My Eyes.
Kevin Jared Hosein is a writer and artist born and raised in the Caribbean island state Trinidad and Tobago. He is a writer and poet who has a novella, Littletown Secrets, debuting in June, 2013. In 2009, he penned a poem entitled "The Wait is So, So Long" that would go on to be adapted as a short film that would be featured and win a Gold Key Award at the NY-based Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Although he is currently employed as a Biology and Physics secondary school teacher, he writes everyday to have a significant body of work, to build discipline and to create his own voice and style in the world of West Indian literature.
Glenn Johnson is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. He has lived in Tucson, Arizona since he was 7 years old and is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a major in Inter-Disciplinary Studies: Literature, Sociology, and Psychology. He has worked in the American Indian community for 18 years—both reservation and urban - with many experiences of the personal challenge of being American Indian in a dominant non-Indian culture. For many years, he has been telling stories from those American Indian experiences. As a story teller in the American Indian oral tradition, Glenn has decided it is time to put his stories in writing. He is also a visual artist.
Carol Mitchell is a native of St. Kitts and Nevis, best known for her innovative children's books, the Caribbean Adventure Series. www.caribbeanadventureseries.com
Afzal Moolla was born to exiled South African parents engaged in the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. He currently lives and works in Johannesburg.
Loretta Oleck is a poet and psychotherapist. Her poetry has been published in reviews/journals including The Westchester Review, Feminist Studies, The Mom Egg, Laughing Earth, Poetica Magazine, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Marco Polo Arts Magazine, among numerous others. More recently her work has been read at The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, as well as at other venues in and around New York. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from New York University.
Andrea Olivia Ottley was born and raised in the Federation of St.Kitts and Nevis. She is a mother of five children who enjoys motherhood as well as the kaleidoscope of life. She is a poet, a writer and a photographer who believes the world to be art in its natural and creative sense. She writes largely as a mean to comfort herself using native vernacular and vibrant descriptions to create her own voice and style in the world of Caribbean Literature.
Jenille Prince lives in Ottawa, Canada. Her parents are of Trinidadian descent and she lived in Trinidad for a few years during her childhood. In her stories, Jenille likes to focus on the mix of Caribbean and Canadian cultures and outlooks, and how they can co-exist in a single person. Her fiction has previously appeared in Poui and St. Somewhere Journal.
Althea Romeo-Mark was born in Antigua, West Indies. She is an educator who grew up in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. She has lived and taught in the Virgin Islands, USA, Liberia, England and in Switzerland since 1991. She earned a B.A. in English and Secondary Education from the University of the Virgin Islands and an M.A. in Modern American Literature from Kent State University, U.S.A. She also has a Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. She considers herself a citizen of the world, having lived and taught in the US, Virgin Islands, the USA, Liberia, England and in Switzerland since 1991. She is married to Dr. Emmanuel F Mark of Hermitage, Grenada and is the mother of three adult children.
She was awarded the Marguerite Cobb McKay Prize by the Editorial Board of The Caribbean Writerin June, 2009 for publication (short story “Bitterleaf,”) in Volume 22, 2008. Was one of a hundred guest poets invited to read at the XX International Poetry Festival of Medellin, Columbia. She writes poetry and short stories and has been published in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, USA, England, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Colombia, India, UK and Liberia.
She has published five collections of poems, If Only the Dust Would Settle, Authorhouse UK 2009, English-German, Beyond Dreams: The Ritual Dancer (Sabanoh Press, Liberia 1989), Two Faces, Two Phases (Speed-o-graphics, Liberia 1984), Palaver (Downtown Poets Co-op, New York, 1978), and Shu-Shu Moko Jumbi: The Silent Dancing Spirit, (Department of Pan-African Studies, Kent State University, 1974)
CHJ Rousseau, a Trinidadian, is better known in publishing circles by her pen name Liane Spicer. She has been an English teacher, newspaper editor (The Grenadian Voice), freelance editor, reviewer (Trinidad Guardian, Nassau Guardian, South Florida Caribbean News) and novelist (Café au Lait). She blogs at Wordtryst [https://lianespicer.blogspot.com/] and is co-founder and coordinator of Novel Spaces [https://novelspaces.blogspot.com/], the blog home of a group of authors from the Caribbean, the USA and Malaysia.
Barbara Sandiford is a multi-genre writer and artist from Barbados.
Kristine Simelda is the author of two adult novels, a children's novel, three novellas, a collection of short stories for young adults and numerous poems and other short fiction. Born in the U.S., she has lived on the island of Dominica for the past nineteen years.
Vanessa Simmons was born and raised on Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. She moved to Canada for her studies, where she received a degree in Comparative Literature and Culture, and currently works as a Library Assistant. In her free time she edits other people's writing instead of doing her own. She has been published by Compass, Inscribed, Calabash and The Caribbean Writer, and is a contributing editor at ARC Magazine.
Portia Subran was born in 1989 in Trinidad and has lived all her life in the growing city of Chaguanas. She was always interested in art as her father had always surrounded her with the works of the masters as well as the impressionists. She doesn't see herself as having a distinct style, but tries to encompass a range of styles from realistic portraiture, abstract pieces, to heavily design and detail oriented pieces. Subran is always trying to add new things to her artistic repertoire and draws something different almost everyday.
Clinton Van Inman was born in Walton on Thames, England in 1945 and received his BA from San Diego State in 1977. He is a high school teacher in Tampa Bay and plans to retire at the end of the school year. He lives in Sun City Center, Florida with his wife, Elba.
Sarah Venable was born in the US and educated all over the world. She has lived in the West Indies since 1992. This broad perspective influences her work as a writer, painter, tutor, and culinary creator. Her home is now Barbados.
The bulk of he
r published work has been non-fiction, primarily in regional and Barbadian magazine such as Maco, Ins & Outs of Barbados, and various in-flight publications. Other work - namely poems and a wacky piece of short fiction - can be found in Poui, the Cave Hill Annual, and The Truth About Oranges, an anthology of NIFCA-winning work.
Meanwhile, working with children in the WISE (Writers in Schools and Education) programme gives her a pleasurable challenge which sometimes leaves her hoarse.
Latoya Wakefield has been writing since her primary school days in Kingston, Jamaica. She's currently in the hospitality industry, but writing is her forever love. Her short story for children, "The Caterpillar That Was Afraid of the Cocoon", was published in Anansesem and her first book of poetry, Pieces of My Mind, Soul and Art was released in May of 2013. "Dreams and Reality" is excerpted from her, as yet, unpublished novel.
Kade Anthony Walker hails from Jamaica, where he attended Holmwood Technical High School. He enjoys reading, writing and socializing.
Patricia Whittle is Jamaican. She has published two books, namely Mi Waan Fi Publish A Book: An Anthology of Jamaican Dialect Poems and Johnny, Mass Tom and the Fatal Error: Three Short Plays for the Jamaican Audience. She is a librarian and a teacher of English Literature.
Tracey-Ann Wisdom is a writer, journalist, blogger and online content specialist from St Ann, Jamaica. She is a graduate of The University of the West Indies, Mona, with a BA in Media and Communication. Tracey has been an avid reader all her life and credits her late grandmother for instilling in her a love of books (and celebrity gossip). Her favourite writers include Toni Morisson, Zadie Smith, Nora Roberts and Elizabeth Gilbert. She hopes to one day become a Nobel Laureate. In the meantime, check out her blog write-overthink-rewrite.blogspot.com.
Submission Guidelines
St. Somewhere Journal is published quarterly. New issues will be released in January, April, July and October. We accept English language submissions for publication in our online journal. Works written in English lexicon dialect/creole are also encouraged, as well as translations. Submissions are accepted via email only.
We welcome all genres, though we lean toward what is typically referred to as literary. The Caribbean region is our primary focus, with secondary emphasis on works with an international or general appeal. Work that has a strong connection to these areas, either literally or philosophically, has the best chance of acceptance. However, quality carries its own weight, regardless of subject matter.
Fiction: Please submit short fiction of 5,000 words or less. Submit your fiction as an attached document or in the body of your email. We prefer a web-friendly format, meaning that we'd appreciate it if you'd single space your paragraphs and double space between paragraphs, with no indentations.
Poetry: Any form is acceptable. Unlike some publications, we have no particular bias for or against rhyming poetry or free verse. Send no more than 5 poems, single spaced in the body of your email.
Essay: Please submit essays of 5,000 words or less. Submit your essay as an attached document, or in the body of your email. We prefer a web-friendly format (see above under "fiction"). For our purposes, we consider an essay to be literary, film or cultural criticism, book reviews or creative non-fiction.
Visual Art: Submissions of visual art will be accepted and considered for use as cover art for our publication, as well as interior art. Scanned images of visual works are acceptable, as well as photography. For photography that includes identifiable individuals, you must be able to provide a copy of a signed model release form. Please submit your art work as an attachment in .jpg format.
Submitting: All submissions should be sent via email to: mailto:[email protected]
Subject lines should be formatted as follows:
Submission - Fiction
Submission - Poetry
Submission - Art
Submission - Essay
Include your name (no internet "screen names") and a brief bio of no more than 150 words. If you have a website related to your writing or art, please provide a link. Please include all of this information in both the body of your email, as well as in any attached documents.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but we expect an immediate notification if your work has been accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is not generally accepted, though exceptions may be made, particularly for previously self-published work (including personal websites).
Compensation: At this time, we do not offer financial compensation for works published in St. Somewhere Journal. All contributors will benefit from exposure for their work, including a bio and reference to their own websites, if any. In an effort to further recognize our contributors, however, St. Somewhere Journal will submit annual nominations to the prestigious Pushcart Prize.
Rights: Upon acceptance, St. Somewhere Journal assumes first online publication rights, the right to include your work indefinitely in our online archives, the right to digitally distribute and archive your work through downloadable media (i.e. .PDF or .DOC files) or electronic book formats. For work that has been previously self-published, in print or online, please inform us of the publication specifics (including links to online locations, if applicable). We ask for exclusive online rights for 60 days after publication, after which you are welcome to publish your work elsewhere, either online or in print.
Words of Advice: Failure to follow the submission guidelines as outlined and explained here may result in your submission being rejected. Please proof read your work before submission, as well. While we are pleased to consider all submissions, anything that needlessly slows down the process may increase your chances of rejection. If you don't take your work seriously enough to follow these simple instructions, there is little reason for us to take your work seriously.
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