{"id":2623,"date":"2015-11-03T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2015-11-03T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:51:10","slug":"blue-mountain-arts-submission-guidelines-300-for-greeting-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/blue-mountain-arts-submission-guidelines-300-for-greeting-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Mountain Arts Submission Guidelines: $300 for Greeting Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Mountain Arts is an established publisher of greeting cards. They pay $300 for exclusive worldwide rights to use poetry in greeting cards and other products.<\/p>\n<p>They want &#8220;contemporary prose or poetry written from personal experience that reflects the thoughts and feelings people today want to communicate to one another, but don&#8217;t always know how to put into words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They have regular deadlines for annual themes. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christmas &amp; General Holiday: July 15<\/li>\n<li>Valentine&#8217;s Day: September 12<\/li>\n<li>Easter: November 8<\/li>\n<li>Mother&#8217;s Day: December 13<\/li>\n<li>Father&#8217;s Day: February 7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They accept submissions via email as well as postal mail.<\/p>\n<p>They also have an annual poetry contest, which oddly pays just as much as a normal greeting card. The deadline is December 31st. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sps.com\/poetry\/index.html\">enter the contest here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To read their complete submission guidelines, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sps.com\/help\/writers_guidelines.html\">visit this page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Mountain Arts is an established publisher of greeting cards. They pay $300 for exclusive worldwide rights to use poetry in greeting cards and other products. They want &#8220;contemporary prose or poetry written from personal experience that reflects the thoughts and feelings people today want to communicate to one another, but don&#8217;t always know how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}