Saying Goodbye to September with Great Lit
Saying Goodbye to September with Great Lit
NewPages Newsletter #146 Featuring 37 Submission Opportunities & Events
Autumn is officially upon us. Time for the leaves to change their color and be strewn all over the place. Time for sweater weather, pumpkin spice, spooky season, and even more great literature landing.
If you missed out somehow last week, our September eLitPak was sent out featuring upcoming events, new books, and submission opportunities from Winning Writers, the Colorado Authors League, UNC Greensboro’s MFA program, Todos Santos Writers Workshop, Permafrost, Haiku Crush, December, Caesura Poetry Workshop, Forest Avenue Press, the National Indie Excellence Awards, and Colorardo Review.
On the Magazine Stand enjoy learning about Blink-Ink #57 themed “Summer Nights.” Writers featured in this issue include Jennifer Mack, Angela James, Kendra Cardin, Katheryn Kulpa, Eileen M. Hector, Daryl Scroggins, Sarah Shum, Kathryn Silver-Harjo, Susan Israel, Cameron Vanderwerf, E.C. Traganas, Carolyn R. Russel, Emery Caroline Little, and many more.
Alaska Quarterly Review‘s annual summer and fall 2024 double issue marks a milestone as AQR’s 80th book-length edition! Its five stories, a collection of poems by forty-four poets, and eleven narrative essays on the themes of human-animal interactions and welfare provide exceptional content for readers to enjoy as they transition from one season into the next.
Come back to the Magazine Stand later this week to discover the latest issues from New England Review and The Shore. Posting later this week, you can view an entire list of new issues received by NewPages during the month of September.
Since 1974, Black Warrior Review championed literature that challenges norms and amplifies marginalized perspectives, providing a platform for bold, risk-taking writers and artists across the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Learn more about this magazine here.
Time to bulk up your reading lists! New on the NewPages Book Stand, discover Words That Mend: The Transformative Power of Writing Poetry for Teachers, Students, and Community Wellbeing by Sarah J Donovan, et al. This book provides a compelling look at writing poetry as a powerful transformative agent to support teachers, their students, and community.
Dreams the Stones Have by David Chorlton continues his firm legacy as a great Southwestern poet whose current Arizona roots have established him in the deserts, the wildlife, and all its surprising vegetation revived after each year’s monsoon season. These poems bring a recognition of what’s been lost among all he loves and what he discovers each day as a kind of supplement to that loss.
Come back to the Book Stand to learn more about Just YA: Short Poems, Stories, & Essays for Grades 7-12 and Thanassis Valtinos New Moon: Day One translated by Jane Assimakopoulos and Stavros Deligiorgis. We will also be posting our collection of new and forthcoming titles received in September later this week.
If you need more book recommendations, check out the NewPages Blog for book reviews. Eleanor J. Bader reviews Kursid Kids: Winter Turns [Book Two]. The book is the second of a series of three intertwined books written by a grandson and grandmother who weave a social justice fantasy into the harsh realities of class inequality.
Bader also covers The Three Melissas: The Practical Guide to Surviving Family Homelessness. This book underscores the learning challenges that result from housing precarity and is a self-help manual for those navigating extreme poverty. Meanwhile, Jami Macarty reviews Suzanne Frischkorn’s fourth collection, Whipsaw. In it, Frischkorn brings necessary attention to the profound vulnerabilities and strengths of women and girls in a dangerous “American landscape.”
Last, but not least, Kevin Brown gives his thoughts on Real Americans, Rachel Khong’s second novel which follows three generations of a family, beginning with the middle generation. “Khong clearly explores how parents try to do what is best for their children, how children misunderstand those actions, how parents sometimes make mistakes, and how children sometimes forgive them and sometimes don’t.”
Calls, Contests, & More
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 37 opportunities to get your work published or to enhance your writing craft. Please note: only paid subscribers get access to this information! You can become a paid subscriber for only $5 a month and get early access to submission opportunities and events before they go live on our site.
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