Open Heart Forgery - Halifax's Grass Roots Literary Movement

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

The May Issue of Open Heart Forgery is available
Download HERE or pick up copies around town
Poems and lyrics by 20 talented writers from the Halifax Regional Municipality will help you ring in spring.

Click to download & forge the latest monthly edition here
FORGE THIS JOURNALvia:
• 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 loca

Open Heart Forgery by the Numbers
22 monthly issues 415 poems and lyrics published 100% original work May 2012 latest issue March 2010 first issue	158 local writers 100% HRM residents 9 years most junior writer 80 years most senior writer

lSpecial Open Heart Farming edition!
Download HERE or find copies at Farmers Markets across NS
Food and farm-centric poems by 20 talented writers from all over Nova Scotia celebrate what we grow and what we eat in this special Open Heart Farming edition, available in 20 farmers markets across Nova Scotia (or freely downloadable HERE). Bon apetit!

OPEN HEART FORGERY NEWS

March issue marks OHF's 2nd year
at the Company House (Feb. 29, 2012)

OHF Writers Showcase at the
Seaport Farmers' Market (Feb. 5, 2012) Carmel Mikol, László Szantor, David Pretty

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

OHF Featured in Halifax Magazine
To read the article Click Here

Read a local writer • BE a local writer

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