Setu: A Bilingual Journal of Literature
2023 Western Voices Special
5th Annual Edition

Submission Guidelines:

Please send 3-5 poems
Times New Roman 12-pt font
Attach as a Word Document
Include a brief third person bio

Subject Line: SETU 2023 WESTERN VOICES – Your Name

Deadline is February 20, 2023.

Submissions should be addressed to:

17Numa@gmail.com

We look forward to receiving and reading your work!

Selah,
Scott Thomas Outlar
Guest Editor

Please visit Setumag.com to access past issues and find out more about other upcoming special editions, projects, and events.

My poem “Peeking Buffet” was published this week at Dissident Voice and can be read here…

https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/01/peeking-buffet/

It was an honor to serve as a virtual panelist recently for an event held at Bayelsa State in Yenagoa, Nigeria. Thank you to Ebi Robert for inviting me to participate in the launch of his new book, The Creed of the Oracles. The full presentation can be seen here…

https://www.facebook.com/100000999353070/videos/1204075140462628/?_rdc=1&_rdr

Thank you to Angie Tibbs at Dissident Voice for including my poem “Oracle of Awakened Love” at her site recently….

Oracle of Awakened Love

I’m stoked to share that three of my poems were published recently in the 13th anniversary issue of Live Encounters. Big thank you to Mark Ulyseas for including my work in his venue, and congratulations on reaching such a cool milestone!

“Grace and Beauty,” “In It, of It, and Can’t Skip Around It,” and “Dozen Bottle Black Light Special” can be read here…

https://liveencounters.net/2022-le-pw/12-december-le-pw-v4-2022/scott-thomas-outlar-grace-and-beauty/

I’m thrilled to share that my essay “Dispatches and Declarations (Circa October 2019)” was published recently by ILA Magazine. Big thank you to Annette Nasser for including my work at her site. That piece about the season of autumn can be read here…

https://www.ilamagazine.net/post/dispatches-and-declarations-1

Thank you to Glory Sasikala for including my prose poem “Mum’s the Word” in the new print edition of GloMag released out of Chennai, India. Copies of the issue are available here on Amazon…

https://www.amazon.com/GloMag-August-2022-Glory-Sasikala/dp/B0BBY5Q2VB?

Thank you to Dustin Pickering for including my poem “Ham & Havarti on Sourdough” in the new print edition of The Literary Parrot. Copies of volume 3 are available here…

https://worldinkers.com/book/the-literary-parrot-series-3/

I’m thankful that an excerpt from Evermore was published recently out of Texas by Mad Swirl. “Over Both Shoulders” can be read here…

Over Both Shoulders

Copies of Evermore (co-authored with Mihaela Melnic) are available here…

Thank you to Sand Pilarski for including my poem “Separate Islands, Same Map” at Piker Press recently. That piece can be read here…

https://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=9158

I’m pleased to share that an excerpt from my book, Abstract Visions of Light, has been published in the new issue of Talon Review from the University of North Florida. My poem, “Natural Reflection of Your Palms,” can be read here…

https://fliphtml5.com/bitmz/cehf/