Orenaug Mountain Publishing

12/15/2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Trees play a vital role in cleaning the air, stabilizing the terrain, dispersing rainfall, and providing habitat and sustenance for the smallest life forms to the largest. Trees figure as the center of the universe in mythologies around the world.

This collection will be a celebration of trees, and you are invited to submit poetry, fictional and nonfictional prose (500-word limit), and visual art (be sure it is high-resolution, please).

Please submit one work only, and be sure it's your best. Be sure you have read our guidelines before completing this form.

Please note that producing a collection takes a significant amount of time and effort. We do not charge reading fees or require contributors to jump through nonsensical hoops. We ask, in return, that you submit original, AI-free work that you have not submitted elsewhere or work that has been published previously. Please be patient as we work hard to produce a high-quality book.

You will hear back from us once we start working on the book in late spring 2026!

SUBMIT HERE = https://www.orenaugmountainpublishing.com/about/submissions

12/03/2025

For the last month of 2025, here are the poets appearing in the Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal.

At the end of the month, it will be the end of our second full calendar year, and we love you all for coming along on this adventure.

Halfway through 2026, OMPJ will turn three.

12/02/2025

Baseball poetry is a genre. You may have noticed. But there aren't "genres" for other sports. But we're going to change that.

By all means, submit your baseball poetry. But let's hear what you have to say about other sports in your life, too. Even the slightest reference to a sport in your poetry counts for this collection.

Visit the link in our bio to get to the submission page, or visit www.orenaugmountainpublishing.com and click Submissions in the top navigation. Have fun.

11/15/2025

UB Book Blast. Happening now. Come on out to Wheeler Recreational Center and check us out, along with scores of other writers. 10 to 4 Saturday 11/15.

11/14/2025

Here are all the readers from our event. The edges were cut off in the previous post.

11/14/2025

Some photos from our first event at St. Paul's Episcopal Church at which we collected 32 bags of food for the church's little free pantry.

You can watch the video of the event at www.orenaugmountainpublising.com/about/bards-against-hunger

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11/14/2025

Here's the video of our Bards Against Hunger event at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Woodbury. We collected 32 bags of food for the church's little free pantry during our first such event.

Orenaug Mountain Publishing and Woodbury poet laureate Katie Baker hosted the local event.

Woodbury poet laureate Katie Baker and Orenaug Mountain Publishingteamed to host Bards Against Hunger food drive for the little free pantry in front of the S...

11/08/2025

At the for the book festival. Come on down and visit, talk about our international anthologies, and how you can participate, our online poetry journal and how you can submit, and your next book.

And while you're at it, pick up an incredible volume of poetry.

10/20/2025

Poetry for a cause... Poets and poetry lovers, please join us Nov. 11 in Woodbury, Connecticut, and help us stock the little free pantry at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Main Street.

Everyone is encouraged to bring a non-perishable food donation. Poets wishing to read must bring a donation.

Each poet gets five minutes. Read about the monthly theme (heritage) or hunger or whatever else calls to you.

Details in the slides, and a link in our bio for more.

10/18/2025

SPECIAL EVENT NOVEMBER 11, 2025 at 6 p.m.

Bards Against Hunger
Poetry pen Mic to benefit St. Paul's Episcopal Church little food pantry

Sponsored by Orenaug Mountain Publishing and Woodbury poet laureate Katie Baker.

Learn more about what you can bring at

Orenaug Mountain Publishing - Bards Against Hunger
https://share.google/JPLbD09egYOJfhilZ

10/06/2025

Actor Bill Perley Reads Original Works & Open Mic
Saturday, October 18 at 3:30 p.m.

Hosted by the Arts Alliance of Woodbury at Old Town Hall, 5 Mountain Road, Woodbury

Veteran actor Bill Perley, known for his longstanding performances as Mark Twain, will read his poetry in Woodbury on October 18 at 3:30 p.m. Bill's reading will be a part of the Arts Alliance of Woodbury's Arts Saturday event.

Come early and browse the work of local artists ahead of the holiday season. Better yet, make a day of it in Woodbury and take a walk along the historic Main Street, have a nice lunch at one of the town's award-winning cafes, and then take in the art and poetry.

10/03/2025

We wanted to remind you that there are three open calls for submissions for Orenaug Mountain Publishing anthologies.

Tough Kids - Contribute a poem, work of short prose (500 words, maximum), or work of visual art. What does it mean to be tough? In what ways can kids be tough? How do we honor that toughness? DEADLINE: October 31 (6 p.m. ET)

Stillness Between the Lights - The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, there’s a special kind of magic in the air, a magic you could feel in the stillness of a snowy night, in the searching for just the right tree, in the finding or creating of just the right gift for a loved one. What makes the holiday season special? What is your magic? Do you still feel it, or where do you try to find it when you can’t? Please dig deep and submit poems that are more than just about what’s on the surface of the season. DEADLINE: November 1 (6 p.m. ET)

Echoes, Whispers, and Shouts - This collection focuses on the milestone of the coming new year, moves between looking back and looking forward, encompassing themes of reflection and closure, of hope and new beginnings, of resolution and self-Improvement, of time and mortality, or of human connection. Your poem should be a meditation, an invitation for readers to find a quiet place to sit, read, and contemplate the changing of the calendar year. DEADLINE: November 15 (6 p.m. ET)

SUBMIT HERE: https://www.orenaugmountainpublishing.com/about/submissions

We will give away two books of each collections via a random drawing of contributors.

Looking forward to reading your poetry.