Here’s How to Submit to The POM
By: Christina M. Ward
Tags: The Pom, Guidelines, Admin, Poetry, Submissions

Meet Our Editors!

It is not a requirement of our publication, but it would be nice if you would follow the editors and pay attention to newsletters and other forms of communication. This ensures we all stay on the same page and can work well together. (Plus, the editors work really hard to make sure this publication and the Facebook group are running smoothly. These are lots of volunteer hours, as you can imagine.)

◦•●✿ Christina M. Ward ✿●•◦ Owner and founder of The POM publication and Facebook group.

She’s driven and a bit squirrely. She’s got lots of ideas. And she’s the creative force behind The POM, the 💗POMfam💗, and the POMprompts.

About Christina:

Christina earned her Bachelor of Science from Catawba College in 2007 with a minor in English and Writing. She was awarded the Creative Writing Prose Award while in attendance. While she’s written poetry since childhood, her true gifts weren’t fully developed until her college years.

Today, she is most known for her poetry and her work with poets around the globe in an editing and mentoring role. Her first poetry collection, organic: Fiddleheads & Floss Vol. 1, has been on and off the best seller’s list on Amazon since its debut in November, 2019.

Christina found early love for words with dark themes and writers such as King, Koontz, and Plath, while admittedly loving the complexities of Shakespeare. Today, Christina’s passion and purpose is to inspire people, and to help people learn and grow through her work. Her writing, heavily influenced by the human experience and nature themes, has been loosely compared to the likes of Mary Oliver and Gary Snyder — however accurate or inaccurate — she takes those compliments to heart.

Christina works as a fulltime freelance writer and editor for a self-owned company, Fiddleheads & Floss Writing Services.

If you would like to leave a tip to thank Christina for her work in The POM, you are welcome to do that here.

Samantha Lazar Fantastic Editorial Sidekick and Crucial Cog in The POM.

She’s talented. She’s hardworking. And she’s steady working behind the scenes to polish your work for publication. It’s a thankless job somedays — be good to her!

About Samantha:

Samantha Lazar is a teacher and writer living in North Carolina. She teaches 5th graders everything from Language Arts to How to Be a Good Human. She studied English and secondary education with a concentration in creative writing at Appalachian State University. After two decades in the classroom, Samantha decided to delve deeper into the study of how people learn. She has a Masters in Education from Meredith College.

As a child, she knew she wanted to be a writer after connecting with the characters in Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh and Daphne’s Book by Mary Downing Hahn. She spends most of her time encouraging kids and young adults to dig deep and use their power of language to inspire the world.

She is at home wherever she is with her husband and son.

Her debut poetry collection, Reaching Marrakesh was released on November 24, 2020. You can check it out here.

If you would like to leave a tip to thank Samantha for her work in The POM, you are welcome to do that here.