Death Rattle at Shared Stories Books 

May 22 - 7pm-9pm 

All Ages - $7 Donation for supplies & instructor 

• Instructor: D Kopec

“informed form” is a workshop class that aims to prepare students to craft poetry structured around a self-invented form. This workshop will ask students to come with a simple, written idea for a poem– a handful of sentences or even a small list of images is ideal for this class! We’ll begin by looking at some examples of intentional uses of particular forms in poetry: the sonnet, sestina, and the cento. After this, we’ll look at a few poems that are using a form to structure themselves, but are definitely not using any established, familiar, or classic form. Line breaks, meter, repetition, and other points of structure will be broken down, so each form can be basically and mechanically understood. From there, we’ll discuss as a group what these constraints do for the pieces on a mechanical, emotional, and contextual level. We’ll examine how the marriage of form and content come together to create an overall impression of a poem, and if our examples are doing this successfully. In the last chunk of the workshop, we will have some generation time with the ideas each student brought with them to the workshop, wherein each participant is encouraged to proceed writing their ideas with some formal constraints in mind. Finally, we’ll engage in a short, round table discussion on next steps for our students’ poems. Anyone who’d like to share aloud may do so, time permitting.

• Limit 15 slots

Materials required: 

• A simple, low stakes collection of ideas for a poem. 
• A notebook and pen, laptop computer, or other dependable way to write.

May 22 - 7pm-9pm 

All Ages - $7 Donation for supplies & instructor 

D Kopec is a 29 year old poet, translator, essayist, and sous chef from Idaho's Treasure Valley. Their work has nestled itself in Equatorial Mag, Oroboro, and Paper Plane. 2024's American Literary Translation Association Conference found D sharing readings of their translations of Adam Mickiewicz's sonnets from the Polish. D is the author of the chapbooknight cries, an erasure of The Walking Dead's television script, Walk Dad, andbiosphere 3,a book length poem about living in a dome. They hold a BFA in Creative Writing from Boise State University, aiming to pursue graduate school this fall.

Poetry:  5-6 poems and / or 10 pages. We look at excerpts from long poems, too. Submissions should include work in one file in .docx or pdf.

For all Submissions:

• All submissions must include a cover letter. A cover letter includes a short biography about yourself and your work.
• Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, just let us know if a portion or the whole of the submission  is accepted elsewhere via a submittable note or email.
• Submissions should include work in one file in .docx or pdf.
• We accept submissions from all ages and from anywhere in the world
• Past submitters to previous issues of Oroboro are totally welcome to submit!
• Please do not send us previously published work.
• Only one submission per open reading period.
• All rights revert to the authors upon publication, though we ask you cite OROBORO when published elsewhere or in anthology.
• If you are unable to submit your work online or experience any difficulties with our submittable, please let us know at deathrattlewriter@gmail.com

Fiction: 1000 word limit. We look at excerpts from longer work, too. Submissions should include work in one file in .docx or pdf.   

For all Submissions: 

• All submissions must include a cover letter. A cover letter includes a short biography about yourself and your work.
• Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, just let us know if a portion or the whole of the submission is accepted elsewhere via a submittable note or email.
• Submissions should include work in one file in .docx or pdf.
• We accept submissions from all ages and from anywhere in the world
• Past submitters to previous issues of Oroboro are totally welcome to submit!
• Please do not send us previously published work.
• Only one submission per open reading period.
• All rights revert to the authors upon publication, though we ask you cite OROBORO when published elsewhere or in anthology.
• If you are unable to submit your work online or experience any difficulties with our submittable, please let us know at deathrattlewriter@gmail.com

Comics:

5(ish) page submission limit. 

Again, we prefer more than one page of comics / multiple pieces submitted so we are more able to get a feel for your style and intention. If you don’t have more than one piece, giving us context for your comic submission and your work (and include links to other work if you can) in your cover letter would be greatly appreciated in reviewing your submission.

Submissions should include work in one image file, .jpeg, or pdf.

300 dpi minimum. No larger than 8.5 x 11 in: (there’s some artistic wiggle room with this one.)

For all Submissions:

• All submissions must include a cover letter. A cover letter includes a short biography about yourself and your work.
• Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, just let us know if a portion or the whole of the submission is accepted elsewhere via a submittable note or email.
• Submissions should include work in one file in .docx or pdf.
• We accept submissions from all ages and from anywhere in the world
• Past submitters to previous issues of Oroboro are totally welcome to submit!
• Please do not send us previously published work.
• Only one submission per open reading period.
• All rights revert to the authors upon publication, though we ask you cite OROBORO when published elsewhere or in anthology.
• If you are unable to submit your work online or experience any difficulties with our submittable, please let us know at deathrattlewriter@gmail.com

As a writing community working remotely and with submission opportunities opening, we want to be sure to still offer as many ways to work together as possible.
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If you are preparing work to submit to submit to our publication or elsewhere and want that extra personal feedback on your work before sending it out into the submission world we are here for you.

We are un-paid editors reading hundreds of submissions monthly for our regular published issues of OROBORO. Charging here helps to offset that time, labor and expertise when reading general submissions. Let's support each other and get your art out into the world! 

Thank you for sharing your work with us and for the courage to have feedback/constructive criticism with your work! 

$65 in-writing review for:
Up to 3 poems

• In-depth 1-1 feedback towards your work
• Line-Editing
• Advice and resources on submitting for publication

+ $10 Cover Letter and Artist bio Editing and Advice

• Feedback on your cover letter and artist bio
• Advice on what information to include and how

$65 in-writing review for:

One Flash Fiction (Less than 900-1000 words)

• Feedback towards your work
• Line-Editing
• Advice and resources on submitting for publication

+ $10 Cover Letter and Artist bio Editing and Advice

• Feedback on your cover letter and artist bio
• Advice on what information to include and how

We will get our feedback to you within 2-4 weeks as we are able.

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IMPORTANT NOTE!! This form is for EDITING SERVICES only and are NOT a submission for PUBLICATION in our journal. They will not be considered for publication. If submitted in error, we of course can refund your editing fee.

$135 in-writing review for:
 

4 to 8 Poems (12 Pages Max)

• In-depth 1-1 Feedback towards your work
• Line-Editing
• Advice and resources on submitting for publication

+ $10 Cover Letter and Artist bio Editing and Advice

• Feedback on your cover letter and artist bio
• Advice on what information to include and how

$135 in-writing review for:

One Flash Fiction  (800-1600 words, 12 Pages Max)

• Feedback towards your work
• Line-Editing
• Advice and resources on submitting for publication

+ $10 Cover Letter and Artist bio Editing and Advice

• Feedback on your cover letter and artist bio
• Advice on what information to include and how

We will get our feedback to you within 2-4 weeks as we are able.

Thank you for sharing your work with us and for the courage to have feedback/constructive criticism with your work!

We are un-paid editors reading hundreds of submissions monthly for our regular published issues of OROBORO. Charging here helps to offset that time, labor and expertise when reading general submissions. We try to keep our pricing affordable and accessible because we believe in up-and-coming writers, writers outside of a university setting, writers outside of a robust writing community deserve the same time and attention to their work as anyone inside more established writing resources. However; to be transparent about the time spent individually critiquing 8 pieces, we as editors are making $10-$15 an hour, which is to say, below industry standard. We take the reading of and feedback towards yours work seriously and want to take the time to give you the best, most personalized feedback towards your work as we can! 

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IMPORTANT NOTE!! This form is for EDITING SERVICES only and are NOT a submission for PUBLICATION in our journal. They will not be considered for publication. If submitted in error, we of course can refund your editing fee.