Redheaded Stepchild Magazine

22/03/2024

I’m thrilled to be in such good company in the new issue of The Banyan Review. Thank you Juan Pablo Mobili. I had difficulty adding this to previous post. The video is here: https://vimeo.com/924723711?share=copy Beautiful Cover art is by multi-talented artist Gerrie Paino

08/02/2024

The Redheaded Stepchild Magazine only accepts poems that have been rejected by other magazines. We publish biannually, and we accept submissions in August and February only. We do not accept previously published work. We do, however, accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted somewhere else. We are open to a wide variety of poetry and hold no allegiance to any particular style or school. If your poem is currently displayed online on your blog or website or wherever, please do not send it to us before taking it down, at least temporarily.
Submit 3-5 poems that have been rejected elsewhere with the names of the magazines that rejected the poems. We do not want multiple submissions, so please wait for a response to your first submission before you submit again. As is standard after publication, rights revert back to the author, but we request that you credit Redheaded Stepchild in subsequent republications.
We do not accept email attachments; therefore, in the body of your email, please include the following:
· a brief bio
· 3-5 poems
· the publication(s) that rejected the poems
Send your submission to
[email protected]

Submissions Now OPEN The Redheaded Stepchild only accepts poems that have been rejected by other magazines. We publish biannually, and we accept submissions in the months of August and February only. We Continue Reading

07/01/2024

20/12/2023

Please join us in welcoming Elizabeth Wilson to the editorial staff at Redheaded Stepchild! Elizabeth Wilson is a poet, tap dance enthusiast, patient advocate, and speaker for Project Sleep's Rising Voices of Narcolepsy program. In 2021, she received two prestigious awards for her poetry. Her debut book, Windowpanes, won Sappho's Prize in Poetry, and her poem titled "Your Sister Brings Me an Orchard" won the Patricia Dobler Award. Elizabeth's work has been featured in various literary journals and anthologies, including Asheville Poetry Review, Cold Mountain Review, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, South Dakota Review, and Voices from the Attic. She is also a recipient of the 2022-2023 NC Arts Council Artist Support Grant, which will help her promote her debut book and continue her work on her second poetry collection. Elizabeth resides in the North Carolina mountains with her partner and son.

07/12/2023

I'm excited to be included in this anthology along with so many of my favorite poets. Thank you Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing I'm thrilled to be in such good company:
Samaa Abdurraqib, CODED CORRECTLY

Samuel Victor Ajani, WHISTLES OF A BIRD

Malaika King Albrecht, SOUND KNOWS ITS PLACE IN THE AIR

Sam Barbee, DEMENTIA

Baba Badji, DANDELION

Mark Basquill, PORTAL TO THE IN-BETWEEN (IB)

Shani Berenholz, I TRIED NOT TO WRITE YOU AN ELEGY

Kovie Biakolo, YOU ARE ALREADY HOME

Lorcán Black, HAZMAT

Michael Brown, THE SCIENCE IS IN

Jenny Burkholder, LETTERS FROM THE LIVING

Diana Cejas, AFTER

Kai Coggin, DRY-SPELL OCEAN

Beth Copeland, TRUE NORTH

Panika M.C. Dillion, MEDUSA’S LETTER TO POSEIDON

Athena Dixon, AN IMPRINT INSTEAD OF A FLASH

Sandra Dreis, HEADLINES

Rosie Prohías Driscoll, TROPICAL DEPRESSION

Saddiq Dzukogi, DO BONES SPEAK?

Grace Ellis, ABSORPTION

Ellen Estilai, ON INDEFINITE LOAN TO THE UNIVERSE: EMPTY SPACES FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, MUSEUM OF MISSING THINGS

Gabe Eyrich, GENTLE

lydia falls, EMBRACE

Kelsi Folsom, FINALLY

Regina Yvette Carter Garcia, REQUIEM FOR THE POETS I NEVER KNEW

Mollie Gordon, My Rose Window

John Grey, BALD WOMAN

Lázaro Gutierrez, TERRA NOVA

Bija Gutoff, A NEW VESSEL

Cara Hagan, TWENTY CRIMES PUNISHABLE BY DEATH

Matthew Hamilton, WHY I LEFT THE MONASTERY

Alan Harris, LIFE IN THE PAST LANE

John Haugh, SISTER SCAR-SONG

Shira Haus, DEEP BREATH

Sister Lou Ella Hickman, MITZVAH: SITTING SHIVA IN SOLIDARITY

Heather M. Hoover, TEACHING LITERATURE

Mike Horan, OLD NEW ORLEANS

DeLon Howell, THE OCCASIONAL GUEST

D. R. James, GOOD TO KNOW IT COULD BE SUNNY

Keren Johnson, WITH NO HELP

Paul Jones, SCAVENGERS

Laurie Klein, PARTING BADLY

Tricia Knoll, WHAT TO EXPECT

Hilton Koppe, THE MEDICINE OF PRESENCE

Pamela Kress-Dunn, BACK PAGES

Gabrielle Langley, RESPIRATION IN ONE-HUNDRED WORDS OR LESS

Brent Livingood, ORPHANED

Luis Lopez-Maldonado, FEBRUARY

Laura Lucas, DIAGNOSIS

Heather M. F. Lyke, I TOLD HIM SO

Katharyn Howd Machan, 7:55 P.M.: APRIL 1: 2021

Rachel Markell, A WALK ON NEW YEAR’S EVE

Thea Matthews, FUCHSIA| FUCHSIA MAGELLANICA

Carol Mikoda, OUT OF THE FOG

Joe Mills, AFTER THE PULSE MASSACRE

Nofel, LE BONHEUR Á QUÉBEC

Gunilla Norris, DURING A DARK TIME

Kelly O’Rourke, LUCKY: ST. JOSEPHINE BAKHITA

Michelle Ortega, DEAD RIVER ROAD

Gay Pasley, CARE PLAN TO RECOVER FROM AN INVISIBLE RELATIONSHIP

Vanessa Poster, STAGES OF GRIEF

Michele Parker Randall, ALTERNATE TUNING

Mary Redman, THE CHANGELING

H. E. Riddleton, FATIGUE FROM [EN]COUNTERING ECLIPSES

Joyce R. Ritchie, BREAKING STORM

Natalie Rose, EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL UNTIL IT ISN’T

Ivy Rutledge, PORTALS

Heidi Sander, FILL THIS ROOM

Adrienne Ross Scanlan, DAYENU

Nicole Scott, OUR JOB AS HUMANS

Lou H. Second, WHICH WATERFRONT HAS EVER BEEN SILENT?

Syd Shaw, THOUGHT

Jon Shorr, THE PROBLEM WITH IDENTITY

Jeddie Sophronius, ANNOTATIONS

Maya Sorini, IN DEFENSE OF THE ICD SYSTEM

Bonnie Larson Staiger, YET HERE’S A SPOT

F Cade Swanson, CONVERSATIONS ON INSTAGRAM

Sonya Carol Vann DeLoach, GARDEN OF DELIGHT

Sherre Vernon, BUT JANE, I HAVE SEEN THE ROOM WEEP

Catherin Violante, WHAT IF

Walter Weinschenk, SISTER DYING IN THE WEEDS

Pat Phillips West, SUNDAY

Ellen June Wright, SYMMETRY

James K. Zimmerman, APOTHEOSIS

We are excited that our very first anthology, featuring select poets and writers we have published throughout our first eight years, will be released late December 2023! 

10/10/2023

EPIC Update — 5 Min Read Announcing the EPIC Carteret Winter Hauntings Ghost Story Writing Contest! By Autumn Ware EPIC Update — 5 Min Read Announcing the EPIC Carteret Winter Hauntings Ghost Story Writing Contest! By Autumn Ware

09/10/2023

Here it is FINALLY! Our Fall 2023 issue.

Fall 2023 Issue Thank you for your patience as we rebuilt the website following the hacking that destroyed 15 years of publications!

20/05/2022

New issue! https://www.redheadedmag.com/poetry/

With cover art by Katrina Denza and poetry:
DOG DAYS OF TRUTH by Mary O'Keefe Brady
CITIES by Ted Mc Carthy
MOURNING CLOAK by Jeanine Stevens
COMPANION PIECES by Sam Barbee
WHEN YOU LEFT by Teresa McLamb Blackmon
PATRONAGE by Ken Chamlee
2 Poems by Claire Bateman
SKIN DIVING IN THE KERMADEC TRENCH by Mary Cresswell
IN VELO VERITAS by William Waters
LAST TIMES by Bill Griffin
FAVOR by James B. Nicola
WHAT I WILL NEED by Jenny Bates
LUCKY JUANITA by Juanita Rey
A PURLOIN OF BLUEBIRDS by Allison Thorpe
BOGWOMAN TO THE TURF CUTTERS by Deborah Doolittle

Redheaded Stepchild is a home for poetry that has been rejected elsewhere

15/03/2021

Yay!!!

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