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Contest for Poets & Writers! Submit your shortstory, flashfiction, or poems to our Spring Poetry and Prose Contest. Awarding Prizes for BOTH Prose and Poetry. A total of $1450 in awards! Winners are interviewed & works narrated on the Story Discovery podcast!
1st $500 | 2nd $150 | 3rd $75
Entry Fee $12.50 - Closes 5/5/24
Details:https://zurl.co/Ut7x

Happy to announce the Etched Onyx Mag Winter Edition is live! New short stories, essays, and poetry from: Hardy Coleman, Lisa del Rosso, Pennie B Walters, Matt Roberts, Mike Wilson, and Petra Elliott Read here: tinyurl.com/2t97bn3y

Our Spring Prose & Poetry Contest is open for subs too! Now closing 5/5. More info: https://tinyurl.com/yzvyx2ma

Happy to announce our Winter Edition is live with new poetry by Mike Wilson (). Read now at Etched Onyx Mag.
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Our Spring Prose and Poetry Contest is also open for submissions until May 5th 2024. Good luck.

Hey poets & writers! Submit your shortstory, flashfiction, or poems to our Spring Poetry and Prose Contest! Awarding Prizes for BOTH Prose and Poetry with a total of $1450 in awards. Winners are interviewed & works professionally narrated on our Story Discovery podcast!
1st $500 | 2nd $150 | 3rd $75 Fee $12.50 - Closes 4/21/24
Details:https://zurl.co/Ut7x

Our 2024 Spring Prose and Poetry Contest is open for submissions. The submission deadline is April 21, 2024. This year we will be awarding a First, Second and Third prize for both prose and poetry. For more information head over to our contest page: https://onyxpublications.com/contest/

An awesome quartet of authors are in the house! Podcasts will be uploaded over the coming weeks.

Well hello there. We know that we've been quiet for the past few months, 2023 was a rough one for the team at Onyx but we are back with a fantastic roster of writers for you to meet.

So much happening over the winter! Checkout the most recent edition of Etched Onyx Magazine with great stories and poems, including works by , Eric Diekhans, Author , Claire Scott, Poet, Bruce Overby - Author with two additional stories arriving soon! We've also completely redesigned the website - so stop by and read or listen away! Currently taking submissions for our Spring Edition! Details: https://zurl.co/XC4G

Read: https://zurl.co/9YRg
Listen: https://zurl.co/qKuL
Enjoy!

Congratulations to all Etched Onyx Magazine (Stories | Poetry | Flash Fiction) Fall Contest winners: Mary Carroll Moore, Smeep Smeep, Meggie Royer, Mike Mulvey, Delaney Gray, and Kevin Broccoli! You'll find their works moving, edgy, playful and profound. The author interviews are even better!

Read: https://tinyurl.com/48hxsx5k
Listen: https://tinyurl.com/y5s5dy8m
Enjoy!

The Fall Contest Edition is live! 1st Place: Rome, by all mean Rome, by Kevin Broccoli (
, Insta ) Congrats to all of the winners!
Read: https://zcu.io/W2zV
Listen: https://zcu.io/52qK
Enjoy!

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Happy to announce a new story, The Concrete and the Tree, by Skye Gilkerson (instagram ) is live at Etched Onyx Mag, along with her interview on the Story Discovery Podcast.

Her essay takes you on a personal journey revealing a parallel link between humanity’s connection with our planet and our bodies. During the interview, you’ll learn of Skye’s unique outlook on making both visual and prose art. She discusses burning her decades of journals as a form of creation, as well as the benefits of not completing your work.

Read: https://zcu.io/jEwn
Listen: https://zcu.io/3ZDN
Enjoy!

Our newest , Shrewd Women by Lynn Hesse, Author, is now live! After receiving repeated phone calls, messages, and inquiries asking to purchase her home, widowed Deloris sets out on a mission to deliver her own kind of justice to these phone spammers. What she discovers might surprise you. What she does about it reveals the true character of shrewd women.
Read: https://tinyurl.com/49m94x3c
Listen: https://tinyurl.com/y5s5dy8m
Enjoy!

Pleased to share that one of our short story contributors,
Stephen Policoff, has a new novel coming this September by Flexible Press! If you want a teaser, listen to his show "Blue Like an Evening Cloud" on our podcast: https://zcu.io/W8lP

“A wildly creative new novel, the absolute perfect chord of magic, a wifely ghost, a bit of shamanism and a lot about human bonds and beliefs, all set against the backdrop of a Greenwich Village blues club.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of With or Without You

We're so pleased to announce the first work of Etched Onyx Magazine's Summer Edition, A Selection of Poems by Elaine d'Entremont Sorrentino.

Find release in your breath, know the pain of violence and choice, and wonder at the seduction of luxury and the lack of courtesy. Elaine’s poems range from lighthearted reminiscence to shadow filled rooms. You can listen to the poems on the podcast and afterward, we talk with Elaine about the inspiration for these works and she shares the journey and joy of her upcoming, co-written book, The Girl Scout and the Hitchhiker.

Read: https://tinyurl.com/4em5cj9a
Listen: https://tinyurl.com/y5s5dy8m
Enjoy!

Pleased to share our interview & an excerpt from Fake by (
John DeDakis and Friends), (Insta: ). After the reading, John reveals his journalist beginnings and shares his writing wisdom! A fun & fascinating show!
Listen:https://zcu.io/DuF2
Enjoy

Happy to announce a new story, My Failed Career as a Novelist, by Larry Patten is live at Etched Onyx Mag, along with his interview on the Story Discovery Podcast. You’ll laugh, curse, and commiserate with Larry as he walks you through some early-highs and later-lows. On the podcast, we talk with Larry about lesson’s learned, the relationship of ministry to writing, and most importantly, about the first book that made him cry!

Read: https://zcu.io/i5lj
Listen: https://zcu.io/DuF2
Enjoy!

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Our Fall Edition Poetry and Writing Contest is Live! With amazing guest judges and . The Early bird submission fee is $7.50 until 7/31/22!
$1,000 in total prizes.
$500 1st | $250 2nd | 100$ 3rd | (3) Hon. Mentions at $50 Ea!
Stories/poems get narrated on the Story Discovery Podcast along with an author interview.

Final deadline is 8/28/22 ($12.50 entry fee after 7/31)

Contest Details: https://tinyurl.com/yzvyx2ma

Submit today!

New stories, flash fiction, and poetry in the Spring Edition of Etched Onyx Magazine & the Story Discovery Podcast. New poems by Sandra Newton, flash fiction by R Gene Turchin, Writer and James Roderick Burns, and poetry fusion by Living with Graft-Versus-Host Disease, by Brad Buchanan, PhD. Still more to come!

Read: https://zcu.io/i5lj
Listen: https://zcu.io/DuF2
Enjoy!

We're open for submissions for the Summer Edition of Etched Onyx mag. Closes 6/4/22.
Payment for selected works: $25 up to 2500 words | $50 up to 5000 words | $6 submission fee
All works are narrated and the author interviewed on the Story Discovery Podcast!
Details: https://zcu.io/xrsG

Our Winter Contest Honorable Mention winner, Green Tips and Orange Peels: A Prelude to when Boys Have Breasts, written by Francis Miller is on the website and podcast now!
A co-ed middle school sleep over, filled with awkward boys and confident girls, leads to competitions, dares, and firsts. During the interview, Francis reveals the inspiration for the story and how memoir-turned-fiction equals fun.

Read: https://zcu.io/YVJG
Listen: https://zcu.io/dmO6
Enjoy!

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