One of the most FRUSTRATING things
for poets is finding an:
* ACCURATE
* UP TO DATE
* ORGANIZED
* INFORMED
Publications list!

Every year our team puts hard working hours in to provide you with the best list on the net - organized by submission due date (I know, incredible!) with entry fee and if the publication pays!

This mega publications list is included in the Summit, but if you just want the list you can order it separate here!

Organized by submission date! You’ll not find this extensive of a list online. Most online resources have HUNDREDS of mislabeled sites that aren’t actually accepting unsolicited submissions, and NONE of them are organized by submission due date!

A time management class that empowers you to follow up, follow through, organize and stop self sabotage.

Learn different scheduling tactics + how fight / flight / freeze is manifesting in your life (and how to move through it) + productivity hacks + rituals to train your brain + how to deal with energy vampires + follow through strategies. Learn more

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Take at your own pace pre-recorded course. This trauma training course will take you through skills and practices to better serve students with severe behavioral health challenges. This is not a training where you just get a packet and get sent on your way, this training is a 3 hour in depth dive focused on real situations that occur in the classroom and in the lives of your students plus how to navigate them when they arise.

This training is also different from others because over 100 students who have behavioral challenges contributed to the design of this course. You'll know exactly what they're going through and what your students are struggling with.

Certificate is granted at the end of the training.

You will walk away supported, informed and equipped with ways to help your students heal and learn.

Course is lead by Trauma Course Trainer Shane Manier. You will receive your course information upon payment.

Review from previous training courses:
"By taking Shane's Understanding Behavioral Challenges for young people in Middle and High School you are not just attending a class but entering a paradigm shift in terms of how institutions can become safe spaces and minimize the harm. Shane's personal experience and trajectory from a student coping with traumatic adaptations in a hostile learning environment to an arts-based facilitator for at-risk and vulnerable students who have been failed by society before they come to her makes her a rare guide and source of wisdom. Having worked with conflict-affected populations in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Central America recovering from severe trauma, as well as homeless populations in the US, I have attended numerous trainings on trauma-informed education. This training surpassed all of the others and is truly unparalleled because it was co-created with hundreds of students through their perspectives of what an educator/facilitator needs to understand to build bridges and not put up walls to reach those who need it most." - Cameron Middleton

The new album is here! Featuring Daniel Arthur Gurley, Dan Boughton and Mama Tried!

This album has spoken word pieces on personal themes, hard moments in my life and an honorarium to my parents, Walter Jim “Tex” Mainer and Carolyn Davis Mainer. Tracks are accompanied by some amazing local musicians right here in NC. This album will shake your spine and leave you with goosebumps, so get yourself a copy and get shook.

Comes with Road Trip Playlist + Driving Scavenger Hunt (delivered to your email with purchase of book)

“May you stay feral and hungry.” For those who know what happens when the witching hour casts its pall through pale windows, calling the creatures of the wild to leap in the shadows of your room, this is a prayer. Your prayer. And Shane Manier has written it, in all of its fierce hunger and many tongues. From the shadow of a wolf worn by a father, to the wet dog insomnia plaguing the narrator, Manier knows that the heart is a beast of its own making and the poems in this collection howl with the need to feel the road unwind beneath its feet, breathless and fervent with wild abandon. Open the cover. Take this journey. You will feel the wind lay your hair back and you will learn to speak moonlight with a thirsty tongue.

~ Zachary Kluckman, Founder of MindWell Poetry, author of Some of It is Muscle and Rearview Funhouse

Shane Manier has written a poetic playlist for a road trip filled with so much colorful imagery, hope, and raw honesty. This book continues the character of vulnerability that Manier is known for. Never backing down from showing the broken parts of her human experience but also taking time to show the reader the joy of her living. It's a wonderful balance of laughter, tears and self revelation of your journey. The journey you've been on as well as the one you have yet to embark. I'm not always inspired to write after reading another poet's work, I just like to let it sink in and reflect, but this collection of Shane's work is calling me to write, calling me to the road, calling to my hunger for more.

~ Boris “Bluz” Rogers, National Spoken Word Champion, Emmy Winner, Slam Charlotte NC.

"Shane Manier’s Road Hunger is a high energy volume of poems. The book has many strikingly intense images. There is at least one on every page. The book is a voyage into the senses, not just hunger: “You can read of thirst, / Rimbaud’s mouthless hydra / You can find it in the sweat / beating blushes across the night’s bruise. . . .” There are many aspects of Road Hunger that are brilliant, but I am going to focus on two.

One of them is the vibrant urgency of Manier’s voice. The other is how she insists on painterly showing instead of telling. For as gritty as most descriptions are in a captivating way, there are images that are surreal and powerful. When the latter is the case, there is almost always the presence of the road: “A streetlight makes love to the asphalt.” She never loses focus on her theme.

The speaker of these poems has an integrity to what she is writing about, meaning she has lived these experiences, or they have come to her from a close secondhand source. They are more than literary conventions. This is important in a book that seems to be so autobiographical.

It is, however, also true that Manier is bringing the wild woman archetype to the surface in a new and exciting way. Celtic Queen Maeve and Addiction: An Archetypal Perspective by Sylvia Brinton Perera and Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by author and poet Clarissa Pinkola Estés are excellent predecessors to Road Hunger. What is different in Road Hunger and the other two classics is that Manier’s Road Hunger has a drama and immediacy that the others do not have, so Road Hunger could be considered an instant classic. Also, Manier does not shy away from writing shocking images. Throughout Road Hunger, one essential feature of the wild woman archetype, which Manier insightfully captures, is that this archetype is not one with nature, but one and the same as nature. Jackson Pollock, a wild man, once said, “I am nature.” It is great statement, but it is another thing to experience it. Shane Manier does not tell readers she is one with nature or that she is nature; she shows us, and that shows her to be a great poet. I highly recommend Road Hunger.”

~ Nelson Gary, Poet and Published Author of Pharmacy Psalms and Half-Life Hymns—for Nothing.

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My First Chapbook! These are currently out of print only so many left! These poems are all based on people I’ve met in waffle houses all across the south. What started out as a fun project, got serious quickly as the stories and moments of late night humanity came sweeping through the doors. See additional info for reviews! GO TO CART

PURCHASE INFO: 100% Buyer safe. You’ll receive the album in the email you provided at check out. If you have any questions, please email me at shanemanierart@gmail.com

Bootstraps is my first poetry album and features various bands to accompany the poetry on the album. The tracks tell of what happens when you find your passion, let it consume you and then have to find your way back home to yourself. It’s innovative ~ experimenting with selective music to extenuate the emotion ~ it’s daring ~ if you don’t feel the fire or the shiver in some of these tracks - check your pulse! GO TO CART

TEASER TRACK HERE

Divine Disturbances is a collection of poems by Shane Manier about vulnerability, grace and the disturbances in our lives that make us. These poems are based off of her personal experience with adrenaline disorder, a condition that happens when a body is caught in fight or flight for too long. GO TO CART

Reviews:

“In Divine Disturbance, Shane Manier embraces the halo under the horns, as if to say they are the same, or misunderstood, or maybe to say neither exists, to say this is where humanity is most visible; in the things that hold us darkly. The poems seem alive, conscious of themselves, always breaking the fourth wall to ask ‘you know this is about you right? Us?’ The poems want to “pull the smooth cloak off the room, expose how afraid we all are.” Insightful and exciting work!” - Jay Ward, National Spoken Word Champion

Divine Disturbances trouble the waters with verse that realigns, reimagines, and recreates the energetic metaphorical pulsations of disturbances and discordance. These poems are a landscape unto themselves of nakedness, vulnerability, or “it’s the nothingness yelling its absence.” Shane Manier calls out the madness of the Muse; kisses the surfaces that dig and bury themselves deep. These verses are evidence of her truth that life does often flash before, over, and underneath us. This collection creates portals into the vulnerability of that nakedness, reminding us that the messiest of truths is sometimes a controlled spill or a tidal wave. Divine Disturbances invites the reader to be keen witness to poetics that stitch and shift messages of survival, fragility, and self-awareness.

- Jaki Shelton Green, NC Poet Laureate

Shane's work resonates with compassion. Her poetry dances through forms, taking shape according to the need of the moment. At times her words live in ordered verses, and at other times they are expressed in lines as broken as her subjects. Her ability to see beyond the veneer of daily life and reach into the humanity that lives just under the surface is at once a reminder to readers to recognize the value and beauty of our shared experience and a gentle assurance that we are never alone. - T. Shontelle MacQueen, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist