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
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,
Magic Dragon and the Catholic Courier,
and her poetry in The MacGuffin, Blueline,
Homestead Review, Quercus Review,
Sea Stories, The Red Wheel Barrow,
Silk Road, The Tipton Poetry Review,
Limestone, Willow Swept Review,
Halfway Down The Stairs, Breadcrumb scabs, The
Southern California Review, The Chaffey Review, Pearl,
Hazmat Review, The Dire Elegies, A Woman’s Voice,
The Language of Color and more. Her most recent
publication is Twisted Pair, a chapbook of experimental
poetry (FootHills, 2010), written in collaboration with David Tilley.
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 is currently on the Advisory
Board of the children's magazine, The Magic Dragon, and
regularly teaches creative writing workshops for both children
and adults under the auspices of Rochester’s Writer’s & Books,
ArtisanWorks, and other community organizations.
Contact Information:
Results Are Out
for the
Palettes & Quills
Third Biennial Chapbook Contest 2012
Final Judge was J. P. Dancing Bear.
***
Congratulations to
Meg Cowen
from Hamden, CT
for her winning manuscript
IF TIGERS DO NOT COME
Past Contest Winners book available
for purchase
To Order Click on the Link Below
Donna M. Marbach, Owner
Palettes & Quills
330 Knickerbocker Avenue
Rochester, NY 14615
Phone: 585-458-0217
Guidelines for general Poetry Submissions
Our Most Recent Book
Poems for an Empty Church
by Tom Holmes
Please Do Not Submit without reading our guidelines first.
Submissions thatdo 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.
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)
Email: palettesnquills@gmail.com
(Submissions Only)
While we are not tax-exempt, you can
support Palettes & Quills poetry
publishing work by donating:
