Poor Yorick

Poor Yorick Reading Series: “Year End”
2020-12-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
We’re continuing our monthly reading series with a virtual open mic and fireside chat! Cozy up with your favorite beverage and share your poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Stick around for an open discussion between readers and writers.
This event will be hosted on Microsoft Teams. Contact the Poor Yorick team for an invitation.

This month’s theme is the feeling you get when you release the breath you’ve been holding for nine months. Relief, elation, closure, and the anticipation of what comes next.
YEAR: a length of time, specifically 525,600 minutes
END: a conclusion, finale, or stop
This event is brought to you by the editorial team at Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovery, which is the online literary publication of Western Connecticut State University’s M.F.A. Program. The journal publishes poems, stories, essays, photo essays, and other innovative works about rediscovery, the lost and the found – what we bury, and what we dig up. The editor will be on hand at the open mic to talk submissions, too; if this sounds like your kind of publication, contact us!

Poor Yorick Reading Series: Bal Masque
2020-10-29 19:00 - 21:00
We’re continuing our monthly reading series with a virtual open mic, fireside chat, and masquerade ball! Don your most debonair mask and share your poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Stick around for an open discussion between readers and writers.
This month’s theme is a celebration of mischief and mystery, in the name of good, clean fun. Featuring special presentations from contributors to our “Hallows Eve Horror” special publication, to be released on Halloween.
This event will be hosted on Microsoft Teams. Contact the Poor Yorick team for an invitation.
BALL (BAL): a fun sphere or a good time
MASK (MASQUE): a face covering to hide one’s identity, for protection or intrigue
This event is brought to you by the editorial team at Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovery, which is the online literary publication of Western Connecticut State University’s M.F.A. Program. The journal publishes poems, stories, essays, photo essays, and other innovative works about rediscovery, the lost and the found – what we bury, and what we dig up. The editor will be on hand at the open mic to talk submissions, too; if this sounds like your kind of publication, contact us!

Poor Yorick Reading Series: "Free Fall"
2020-09-24 19:00 - 21:00
We’re continuing our monthly reading series with a virtual open mic and fireside chat! Cozy up with your favorite beverage and share your poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Stick around for an open discussion between readers and writers.
This event will be hosted on Microsoft Teams. Contact the organizer for an invitation.
This month’s theme invites you to let go and embrace whatever lies ahead (including, but not limited to, pumpkin spice).
FREE: uncontrolled, unattached, or unburdened
FALL: what comes after pride or before winter
This event is brought to you by the editorial team at Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovery, which is the online literary publication of Western Connecticut State University’s M.F.A. Program. The journal publishes poems, stories, essays, photo essays, and other innovative works about rediscovery, the lost and the found – what we bury, and what we dig up. The editor will be on hand at the open mic to talk submissions, too; if this sounds like your kind of publication, contact us!

Poor Yorick Reading Series: "Soap Box"
2020-08-27 19:00 - 21:00
We’re continuing our monthly reading series with another virtual open mic! Cozy up with your favorite beverage and share your poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. This month’s theme is a ready platform for our ideas and truths, whether we choose to stand on it our think outside of it.

SOAP: a cleansing agent or saucy melodrama

BOX: a container used to protect objects or limit thinking
We will be hosting the event virtually on Microsoft Teams. Contact the event organizer for an invitation.

This event is brought to you by the editorial team at Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovered Objects, which is the online literary publication of Western Connecticut State University’s M.F.A. Program. The journal publishes poems, stories, essays, photo essays, and other innovative works about rediscovery, the lost and the found – what we bury, and what we dig up. The editor will be on hand at the open mic to talk submissions, too; if this sounds like your kind of publication, contact us!

Call for Submissions: "Hallow's Eve Horror" Special Issue
2020-07-31 - 2020-08-31
It’s been a long, hot summer, but we sense a chill in the air. What better way to celebrate the arrival of fall than with a sanguine sampling of literary chills and thrills? Show us your best flash fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or photo essays that will make our hearts pound and skin crawl–monsters, haunts, gothics, psychological thrillers, or murders most foul.
Please limit submissions to a maximum of 500 words. There is no reading fee for this special issue, and multiple submissions are welcome. Selected submissions will be published on the Poor Yorick website on Halloween, and authors will be invited to read at a special virtual open mic on Thursday, October 29.
Please submit all work via the Poor Yorick Submittable page.
SUBMISSIONS OPEN: July 31-August 31
