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Celebrating the end of poetry month with the first Bimbo Anthology. It’s chock-full of cheeky in-your-face poetry.

“Kinky” by Denise Duhamel
“Self Portrait as a Great White” by Terin Weinberg
“Triptych: The Evolution of My Ass” by Kristin Marie


 




Writing can feel lonely

But we are here for you!

One of the best tools in writing is someone else’s eye and advice.

Purple Ink offers feedback services to help your work reach the next level.

Feedback is offered for
Poetry
Fiction
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Small press backlist gems!
Theme: feminist anthologies 🌈

If you’re a fan of poetry, short stories, essays, photography, and micro fiction themed around intersectional feminism…. you’ll want to check these collections out!

S***S: Anthology edited by , from

The Bimbo Anthology edited by Madison Whatley & , from

Coming Out Like A P**n Star: Essays on P**nography, Protection, and Privacy edited by , from

You can get all three of these collections from your local indie bookstore! 💎

PS: Had to edit out a couple vowels so we don’t get zucced 😳 (not very intersectional feminist of him 😑)

Check out interview and reading with PIP poet Koh An Ting this Thursday with .us

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This week’s poet guide is Koh An Ting (.an.ting).

Koh An Ting is a writer and educator based in Singapore.

Before pivoting to writing, Koh An Ting taught students with dyslexia English and Mathematics in Singapore for 15 years, beginning their career at the Dyslexia Association of Singapore.

They enjoy writing poetry and essays about life. Food Haikus is Koh An Ting’s first collection of poetry, blending love haikus with a delicious assortment of photographs of food found in Singapore. They also released, Fearfully & Wonderfully Made: Stories from Conversion Therapy Survivors in Singapore.

Koh An Ting currently writes for Q***r in Asia, an online magazine that features q***r individuals, businesses, and books from different parts of Asia.

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We continue to celebrate Poetry Month with a prompt from PIP poet, Leticia Urieta:✨

PROMPT
✏️WRITE FROM THE POINT OF VIEW
OF A PART OF YOUR BODY
YOU HAVE
STRUGGLED WITH.
WHAT WOULD IT SAY?

📚Recommended Reading:
Disfigured
On Fairy Tales,
Disability, And Making Space
By Amanda Leduc

And take a peek at Leticia’s book
📚OFFERINGS TO A
TUMBLED TEMPLE
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We are celebrating April, poetry month. By default, PIP is a poetry press; four of our five books are poetry.

This month, we will share some of our favorites.

My Heart Is
by
Leticia Urieta

From
Offerings to a Tumbled Temple
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Submissions are open at Purple Ink. 🫟🐙
Come on down
👠Bimbos!!!
✨Himbos!!!
Thembos!!! 💋
Send in your poetry, non-fiction, fiction, hybrid, multimedia.

We are also looking for Full-length Poetry and Hybrid Collections.
68 pages or over,
well-rendered poetry
Hybrid collections can combine poetry, prose, and/ or multimedia.





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It’s April, poetry month! A big congratulations to PIP contributor Clayre Benzadón.

Her full-length collection Moon As Salted Lemon is a finalist for the Lammy Award in Bilingual Poetry!

Check out her work and other prominent Florida poets in: Chameleon Chimera: An Anthology of Florida Poets!

Grab her beautiful collection from Driftwood Press!

And the other nominees’ collections:

antibody by Rebecca Salazar.
Blue Opening by Chet’la Sebree.
Hover by Liza Flum.
The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson.
Congratulations again! 

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Purple Ink’s Open Calls for Submission:

The Bimbo Anthology is back, baby, and ready for submissions!
Send in your beauties.

For the first time ever, our submissions are open for full-length poetry and hybrid collections. Send us what you’ve got!

DM us with questions