Creative Guts

NH Gives returns June 9–10! Mark your calendar and get ready to support the causes you care about most (like Creative Guts! 🎙💙🎧).

Join us for a live podcast recording tomorrow! 🎙🎧

Creative Guts is hosting a live panel discussion at the New Hampshire Art Association (NHAA) nhartassociation with three amazing panelists, Maria Oakley, Lori Moretti, and Catherine Graffam, for a discussion on women in the arts.

Featured in this post is the work of Maria Oakley, a painter and sculptor based in Chester, NH. Maria is also an arts educator and the 2026 NH Art Educator of the year. Find more of her work at www.mariaoakley.com.

EVENT DETAILS:

📆 Saturday, May 16th | 2:00pm
📍 Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery | 136 State St, Portsmouth NH
🎟 Tickets required | $20 for NHAA members, $25 for non-members
Seating is limited so reserve your tickets now:

https://www.nhartassociation.org/events/creative-guts-live-panel-podcast-at-nhaa

The deadline for poetry for our Spring 2026 Zine has been extended to Sunday, May 31st!

Calling all poets: We’re seeking poems that upend the solitary and thrive on connection with other writers, works of art, and community. We will consider all explorations of collaboration and are especially interested in poems written by collaborative pairs, ekphrastic poems, erasure poems, and poems that reach outside of themselves into the collective.

The Creative Guts team aims to stimulate and inspire creativity, by telling the stories of those who are brave enough to put themselves out there. This zine is another format where creatives can share with the world what they make. A physical edition of the zine will be sent to each participating contributor and available for purchase for non-contributors, while digital editions of the zine will be available for free for all on our website.

ELIGIBILITY: Creatives 18 years and older, from any country, are welcome to apply.

FEE: Submission is $15 for up to five pages of poetry. As a nonprofit organization, Creative Guts relies on these modest fees to cover production costs and sustain opportunities like this for our creative community. If this fee is a barrier, please email [email protected] to request a submission waiver.

SUBMISSION: Please upload a single text document of poetry (up to five (5) pages of poetry, no more than one (1) poem per page).

Visit www.CreativeGuts.org/zine to submit!

QUESTIONS? Email [email protected].