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Lora Zill, Editor Time of Singing P.O. Box 149 Conneaut Lake, PA 16316 timesing@zoominternet.net Sample back issues available for $4 (postage paid). Make checks payable to Time of Singing and mail to the above address. GUIDELINES (Contests Below) Time Of Singing was founded in 1958 by Dr. Benjamin Browne and 2006 will mark its 33rd volume. It is published four times a year: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Three, 44 page issues are professionally produced with illustrations, the Fall issue (“Intermezzo”) is a “half” issue featuring book reviews, information, and some poems. Time Of Singing is a literary Christian poetry magazine with “Christian” defined in the widest sense of the word. TOS has published Luci Shaw, Barbara Crooker, Thomas John Carlisle, Glenn Asquith, Bob Hostetler, Evelyn Minshull, John Grey, Canadians such as Tony Cosier and Jack Brooks, and poets from England, South Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, Russia, Australia, and Ireland. Poems that are not "preachy" but "show, not tell" are preferred. Sermons and “greeting card” poetry have valid but different purposes. I suggest you obtain a sample back issue ($4 each or 2 for $6) to help you ascertain TOS's style. You will be pleasantly surprised! Studying a back issue is the best way to learn the likes and dislikes of any magazine. I welcome fresh rhyme, beg for more forms, and appreciate well-crafted free verse. Poems accepted up to 60 lines. I try to respond within three months and make every effort to publish poems within one year of acceptance. Time of Singing no longer publishes a theme list for each issue, except for contests, which may or may not have a theme. My goal is to place poems accepted for publication with seasonal themes, (e.g. Christmas, spring) in the appropriate issue. PLEASE, SASE with all submissions. You may submit via e mail. I will comment on work that has merit and is close to publication, and will clear major revisions with poet. All contributors receive one copy of the issue in which their work appears and the opportunity to purchase more at the contributor’s rate. Of course, subscriptions are always welcome! One year (four issues) is $17.00 ($21 US for Canadian friends). I hope that you’ll consider supporting small press poetry. Thank your for your interest in Time Of Singing. I look forward to reading your work. Lora Zill, Editor

CONTEST THEME: "Limericks" CONTEST FORM: Poems with the regular and expected five lines and rhyme/rhythm pattern of limericks. CONTEST DEADLINE: May 15, 2008 Winners will be published in the Summer 2008 Issue Rules: Anyone may enter. 5 line limit. Submit one to six unpublished poems. Submit five line poems that follow the regular and expected rhyme and rhythm pattern of the form. Name and address ONLY on the back of each poem. Up to three poems per page. 5. One prize per poet. SASE for winner’s list. All non-winning poems will be discarded. One cash prize per poet. Entries NOT accepted over email. FEES:$2.00 per poem. If you submit at least three entries to the contest you will receive a free issue of Time of Singing, Volume 35, Number 2. PRIZES: 75% of collected fees goes to prizes, of this amount: 50% to first place, 25% to second place, 15% to third place, 10% to honorable mention. (In case of ties, the prize amount will be divided equally among the winners of that particular place and both will be published.) THE DECISION OF THE JUDGES IS FINAL. Any poems not conforming to the rules will be disqualified. Entry fees will not be returned. (Canadian poets: I must ask that you pay in U.S. cash. Fees make it prohibitive to cash checks, even in US funds. Thanks for your cooperation.) Return to Guidelines

CONTEST THEME: "The Journey" CONTEST FORM: 32 line limit. Submit one to four unpublished poems. CONTEST DEADLINE: November 1, 2008 Winners will be published in Winter 2008/09 issue. Rules: Anyone may enter. You may submit one to four unpublished poems. No more that 32 lines per poem. Entries must center on the theme of “The Journey” and may incorporate Christmas imagery or center on other “journeys” in life. Name and address ONLY ON THE BACK of each poem. One poem per page. One prize per poet. SASE for winner's list. All non-winning poems will be discarded. Entries NOT accepted by e mail. FEES: $2.00 per poem. If you submit at least two entries to the contest you will receive a free issue of Time of Singing, Volume 35, Number 3. PRIZES: 75% of collected fees goes to prizes, of this amount; 50% to first place, 25% to second place, 15% to third place, 10% to honorable mention. (In case of ties, the prize amount will be divided equally among the winners of that particular place and both will be published.) THE DECISION OF THE JUDGES IS FINAL. Any poems not conforming to the rules will be disqualified. Entry fees will not be returned. (Canadian poets: I’m sorry, but I must ask that you pay in U.S. cash. Bank fees make it prohibitive for me to cash checks, even in US funds, for contests. Thanks for your cooperation.) Home