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.

Open Heart Forgery - by the Numbers
194 WRITERS 100% HRM residents 30 monthly issues 573 poems and lyrics 100% original work	April 2013 - latest issue March 2010 - first issue 9 years old - most junior writer 80 years old - most senior writer

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The April Issue of Open Heart Forgery is out!
Click to download & forge this month's OHF
or pick up copies at libraries and cafes around town
Thanks to all who came out to the Coburg Cafe to celebrate the launch of OHF's 30th issue featuring many talented HRM writers. Here's to many more inspiring years to come for all of us!

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 Halifax Regional Municipality to keep it local

OPEN HEART FORGERY NEWS

March issue of OHF launched
at Coburg Coffee House (Feb. 28, 2013)

February issue of OHF launched
at Just Us Café/Coburg Coffee House (Jan. 31, 2013)

OHF Featured in Halifax Magazine
To read the article Click Here

Call for submissions!
Open Heart Farming: Second Seeding
Now accepting poems about farming and food issues for the second edition of Open Heart Farming.
- Deadline: April 19, 2013
- Can reside ANYWHERE IN NOVA SCOTIA
- Maximum poem size: 28 lines long, 43 letters wide.
The issue will be distributed at the Farmers Markets of Nova Scotia’s AGM this spring and available online. Please email submissions to Mary Ellen Sullivan at openheartfarming@gmail.com

Click to see 2012's Open Heart Farming issue

FORGE THIS JOURNALvia:
• photocopier • emailed PDF • fax	• Gestetner • telepathy • word of mouth

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

Read a local writer • BE a local writer