Palettes
& Quills
Palettes
& Quills
for the love of writing and the arts
Founded in 2002, Palettes & Quills is devoted to the celebration and expansion of the literary and visual arts, offering both commissioned and consulting services. It works to support beginning and emerging writers and artists to expand their knowledge, improve their skills, and connect to other resources in the community. Further, Palettes & Quills seeks to increase the public's awareness and appreciation of these arts through education, advocacy, hands-on program assistance, and functioning as a small literary press.
General Services
Consultation
Program develop, design, and implementation assistance
Speaking engagements
Workshops and classes
Additional Services in the Literary Arts
Editing, proofreading
Critiques (poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction)
Newsletters
Small press
About the Owner:
Donna M. Marbach is both a writer and a visual artist.
She has published
non-fiction, fiction, and poetry in a variety of anthologies and periodicals
from Philadelphia
Medicine and The Friend to
The Poetry Shell and New Author Journal. Her
recent non-fiction has been published in the Messenger Post
newspapers and the Catholic Courier, and her poetry in The
MacGuffin, Hazmat Review, The Dire Elegies, A Woman’s Voice, and The Language of Color.
Donna is formerly the poetry editor of the national monthly writers' magazine, Byline, as well as a listed member of the writers directory of Poets & Writers. She regularly teaches creative writing workshops for both children and adults under the auspices of Rochester’s Writer’s & Books, ArtisanWorks, and other community organizations.
She is a founder and past president of Just Poets, Inc. and former member of the planning committee for the annual poetry festival RochesterInk
As a visual artist, Donna has exhibited her watercolor paintings and pastel drawings at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester’s annual Clothesline Art Festival. She is also a member of the Rochester Arts and Cultural Council, Rochester Contemporary and the Penfield Art Association, where she regularly exhibits in their shows. Donna has taught art to both elementary and middle school youth.
Contact Information:
Palettes & Quills
Second Biennial
Poetry Chapbook Contest 2010
Final Judge, Dorianne Laux
Donna M. Marbach, Owner
Palettes & Quills
330 Knickerbocker Avenue
Rochester, NY 14615
Phone: 585-458-0217
General Poetry Submissions
Please Do Not Submit without reading our guidelines first.
Submissions that do not follow guidelines risk being rejected unread.
Palettes & Quills is at this point in time a poetry press only, and produces only a handful of publications each year. It specializes in anthologies, individual chapbooks and broadsides.
Unsolicited manuscripts of individual poems are considered for possible publication as broadsides.
Manuscripts of chapbooks by individuals are also considered for possible publication, but our output is limited and our standards high.
We will also consider proposals from editors for the publication of themed anthologies. We particularly like collections of works that have some element of collaboration between the individual poets or which highlight an under-represented population (e.g. refugees, mental health patients, homeless, etc.)
Most of our material, however, is produced from open calls for submissions to projects and anthologies we produce ourselves, such as the series of chapbooks on Women Celebrating Women.
Email: dmmarbach@gmail.com (General Information/No submissions please)
Email: palettesnquills@gmail.com (Submissions Only)
