Jamming Playlists, New Titles & Mag Issues, & Deadline Extensions
NewPages Newsletter - Issue 37
Online literary magazine The CHILLFILTER Review not only publishes stories, essays, and poems from independent artists around the world, but also prides itself in the music playlists they curate. Learn more about the playlists and find some great music to listen to today.
And while you are perusing playlists, how about registering for Rain Taxi’s first 2022-23 season event? It’s completely free and completely virtual. They will be hosting a virtual coffee break to celebrate the new novel W. with Swedish author Steve Sem-Sandberg and translator Saskia Vogel. Learn more here.
Don’t forget that Cleaver Magazine extended their deadline to enter their Summer Flash Contest to today at midnight! And speaking of contest extensions…Kallisto Gaia Press has announced that they extended the deadline of their annual contests from August 20 to August 31. Don’t miss these opportunities! Plus, don’t forget to check out a full list of calls and contests below.
The August 2022 issue of Plume features “On Muse Found in a Colonized Body, lovemaking, and activism” - an interview with Yesenia Montilla by Mihaela Moscauliuc along with their section The Poets and Translators which has each contributor offering notes on their work. Learn more about Paterson Literary Review’s 50th issue in which they celebrate 40 years of publishing and discover more about online journal Terrain.org which recently published the Lookout: Writing + Art About Wildfire series in partnership with the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. Plus don’t forget to stop by the NewPages Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover more of the latest issues from your favorite literary journals.
Due out this month, these are great titles to add to your reading list! The Gospel of Wildflowers & Weeds by Orlando Ricardo Menes expands the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics. Fandom, the Next Generation edited by Bridget Kies and Megan Connor is the first collection of essays to offer a close study of fan generations which are not defined only by fans’ ages, but by their entry point into a canon or via their personal politics. E.A. Mares’ poignant bilingual collection Reflections Through the Convex Mirror of Time: Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War shares his passionate journey into the broken heart and glimmering shadows of the Spanish Civil War.
Coming next month is a nonfiction and poetry collection by Mary Mackey, Creativity: Where Poems Begin. Find these and more titles by swinging by the NewPages Book Stand which is updated throughout the week.
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NewPages Blog
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In reviews, Jami Macarty tackles A Sybil Society by Katherine Factor which is “ancient Greek meets textspeak [. . .] while invoking Ariadne, Pythia, Sybil, Joan d’Arc, and various other goddesses, saints, sisters, and witches.
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Calls, Contests, & More
Check out the latest and featured calls for submissions, writing and book contests, and more in the NewPages classifieds. Please note the ads featured here are paid listings.
Submit for Interim's Print Issue
Deadline: September 1, 2022
Interim is looking for poems, art, essays and short fiction devoted to music for the 2022 Print Issue. We’re interested in work that is not so much “about” music, but rather enacts or composes, it. Send 3-5 poems, an artwork, essay, and/or short fiction to Claudia Keelan, Editor of Interim through our Submittable.
CHESTNUT REVIEW Invites Submissions Year Round
Chestnut Review (“for stubborn artists”) invites submissions year-round of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography. We offer free submissions for poetry (3 poems), flash fiction (<1000 words), and art/photography (20 images); $5 submissions for fiction/nonfiction (<5k words), or 4-6 poems. Published artists receive $120. Notification in <30 days or submission fee refunded. We appreciate stories in every genre we publish. All issues free online which illustrates what we have liked, but we are always ready to be surprised by the new!
Consequence’s Fall Reading Period Now Open
Deadline: October 15, 2022
The reading period for Consequence Volume 15.1 is now open. As always, we are after any and all literary work or visual art that deals with the human consequences and realities of war or geopolitical violence as experienced by combatants, victims, or witnesses. We are especially interested in works of translation and fiction this time around. We also strongly encourage BIPOC and people from other under-represented communities to submit. Please spread the word. Have questions about what work we’re inclined to publish and/or how much we pay? Visit our FAQ. To submit, go here.
Cherry Tree Now Open for Submissions!
Deadline: October 1, 2022
Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal would like to read your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction through October 1, 2022. All accepted work is also considered for our distinctive Literary Shade section. Contributors receive $20 and 2 copies of the issue in which their work appears. Our $3 reading fee helps us to pay contributors and 10% of those fees will be donated to Minary's Dream Alliance, a community nonprofit organization with strong mentorship programs for at-risk youth. (The editors make a matching donation.) For more about what we're looking for and to read our guidelines, please visit our website.
Qua Magazine Seeks Submissions for Fall 2022 Issue
Deadline: October 2, 2022
Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine is a student-run publication of the University of Michigan-Flint. Founded over 50 years ago, we invite submissions of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Arts, and Photography from anyone living in the state of Michigan. No submission fees. For the Fall 2022 issue, all submissions must be made by October 2, 2022 here. (Art by Ra-Londa Southwell, published in the Qua winter 2022 issue.)
Woodcrest Literary Journal Open for Submissions
Deadline: November 1, 2022 (or until we reach our limit)
Woodcrest is pleased to announce an open reading period. Submissions are now open and can be sent through Submittable. The literary journal of Cabrini University, Woodcrest aims to publish work that surprises and challenges the human experience. Please read our recent issue to familiarize yourself with our journal. We accept work from around the world and we want to hear from you. Visit our Submittable account to learn more and submit!
Atmosphere Press Reading Book Manuscripts in All Genres
Deadline: Rolling
Atmosphere Press currently seeks book manuscripts from diverse voices. There's no submission fee, and if your manuscript is selected, we’ll be the publisher you’ve always wanted: attentive, organized, on schedule, and professional. We use a model in which the author funds the publication of the book, but retains 100% rights, royalties, and artistic autonomy. This year Atmosphere authors have received featured reviews with Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist, and have even appeared on a giant billboard in Times Square. Submit your book manuscript at our website.
Plus more calls for submissions at our website:
Blueline Seeks Exceptional Nature Writing
Submit to Clinch—A Martial Arts Literary Magazine
Sleet is open for Submissions
Call for Submissions: Storm Cellar
Parhelion Annual Halloween Issue
Jokes Review Seeks Pulp Fiction
Literary Events & Writing Programs
The Daphne Review Mentorship Program (Rising Seniors Only)
Deadline: Rolling; Event Dates: Session II: September 5-26, III: November 7-28, 2022; Location: Virtual. Mentorship Program (Rising Seniors Only)! Both mentee and mentorship are now open! Apply to the 2022 Daphne Online Mentorship Program! We will be selecting 5-7 students to work with professional writers on a 1on1 basis. Our students have benefited greatly over the years. They’ve used the time to work on their existing body of work to get them published by literary magazines, win awards at Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, PYAA and gain acceptance to top colleges! Recent Daphne mentees have been accepted to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and top creative writing programs, e.g., Iowa, Kenyon, Juniper, and Emerson!
Writing & Book Contests
$1500 each plus Publication - Poetry & Short Story
Extended Deadline: August 31, 2022
Kallisto Gaia Press sponsors two annual prizes of $1,500 each and publication in Ocotillo Review. Zoë Fay-Stindt will judge the Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize; Jen Knox will judge the Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Prize. Submit up to three poems of no more than 65 lines each or a story of up to 4,200 words with a $20 entry fee, which includes a copy of Ocotillo Review, by August 31. Visit Submittable for guidelines. Proceeds are donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease and the MD Anderson Foundation for Breast Cancer.
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Deadline: September 30, 2022
20th year, sponsored by Winning Writers. Win $3,000 for a poem in any style and $3,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Total prizes: $8,000. The top two winners will also receive two-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor, Duotrope (a $100 value). Both published and unpublished work accepted. Winning entries published online. Submit 1-3 poems for a $20 entry fee. Length limit: 250 lines per poem. Judged by S. Mei Sheng Frazier. This contest is recommended by Reedsy. Winning Writers is one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2022). See past winners, advice from the judge, and submit online at our website.
Cleaver's Summer Flash Contest—Deadline Extended!
Extended Deadline: August 15, 2022
Enter Cleaver's Summer '22 Flash Contest judged by Meg Pokrass. Open theme, any topic for flash fiction and nonfiction up to 500 words. Deadline extended until August 15. $500 first prize; $250 second prize, $100 first prize. Prizewinners will be published in Cleaver’s Winter Issue, December 2022. Finalists may also be offered publication.
The St. Lawrence Book Award for Debut Poetry and Prose
Deadline: August 31, 2022
Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The St. Lawrence Book Award for an unpublished first collection of poetry or prose. The St. Lawrence Book Award is open to any writer who has not yet published a full-length manuscript in any genre. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes are awarded on publication. For more details and information about how to submit your manuscript, follow this link.
$1,000 + Publication: New Letters Editor's Choice Award
Deadline: October 17, 2022
The New Letters’ Editor’s Choice Award is now accepting entries for experimental work that crosses the traditional boundaries of genre and form. Enter your hybrid work—your lyric essays, prose poems, short-shorts, collages, micro-memoirs. . . whatever you’re doing that’s experimental, that defies easy categorization. The maximum word count is 8,000 and entries must be previously unpublished. The winner will receive $1,000 plus publication in New Letters. Visit New Letters' website for guidelines and to enter online via Submittable.
Button Poetry Seeks Video Submissions
Deadline: August 31, 2022
Button Poetry is now accepting entries for the 2022 Video Contest. We are looking for brave poetry that crosses borders or effaces them completely, work that enters into larger social conversations, work that lives in the world, work with a strong, unique voice and palpable energy. The winner will receive $500 and be featured across our social media, which collectively has 5M+ followers. Finalist Judge: Sabrina Benaim, author of Depression & Other Magic Tricks. The contest closes August 31, 2022. Find guidelines at our website.
MAYDAY Creative Nonfiction Prize
Deadline: October 1, 2022
$1,000 award and publication. Deadline: October 1, 2022. To submit, send an essay (2,000–7,500 words) exploring the theme of “Disappearance” (of people, places, things, etc.). Final judge: Darin Strauss, bestselling author of several books, including the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning memoir Half a Life and most recently the acclaimed novel The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story. Reading fee: $20. Online submissions only, please. Complete guidelines: www.maydaymagazine.com/contests.