OPEN HEART FORGERY
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Open Heart Forgery is a free monthly journal of poems & lyrics that aims to energize Halifax area writers from the grass roots up.

    OHF Year 1 Anthology features 64 writers from the Halifax Regional Municipality:
Click here for details



Join OHF at the Seaport Farmers' Market
Sunday, Feb 5, 9am-2pm
(ground floor, by the central staircase)
Come on down to the Seaport Farmers' Market, where we'll be promoting the Open Heart Forgery monthly and anthology, plus works by a few of our 140 writers:
László Szantor - anthology "Season's Light"
David Pretty - novel "Brother's Keeper"
Carmel Mikol - album "Creature" + book "Creature of Habit".
Also join in Carmel's public art project "Waywords" involving a typewriter that asks: What kind of Creature are you?


Calling ALL Nova Scotia writers
Open Heart Farming food poetry issue

Poetry is wanted for a special OHF edition about farming and food called Open Heart Farming, to be distributed at farmers' markets around the province this spring. Submissions need from ALL OVER Nova Scotia, not just HRM, so send in your savory stanzas!
• Submission dealine is April 30th, 2012.
• Send poes/queries to Mary Ellen Sullivan:
OpenHeartFarming@gmail.com

  Latest Issue

Click to download & forge the latest monthly edition here

FORGE THIS JOURNAL via:
• photocopier
• emailed PDF
• fax

 

Email your poems & lyrics for the next issue to:
Here are the submission guidelines:
Rule 1 28 lines long, 43 letters wide max
Rule 2
No hate. No sexism. No racism.
Rule 3
Must live in the HRM to keep it local

 
OPEN HEART FORGERY NEWS

OHF February Issue Launch / Open Mic
Coburg Coffee House (Jan. 26, 2012)

OHF joins Stanzas in the Stacks Event
at the Spring Garden Library (Jan. 20, 2012)

Poetry & Music Therapy Night Open Mic
NS Rehabilitation Centre (Dec. 8, 2011)

ohForgery Featured in Halifax Magazine
To read the article Click Here



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