New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter #105 Featuring 44 Submission Opportunities
It sure is a Monday in all of its chaotic craziness. Something to brighten your day? The NewPages eLitPak for December will be hitting your inbox this Wednesday afternoon, so do stay tuned for that. If you’ll be traveling for the upcoming holidays or if you are still looking for a particular gift for someone, don’t forget about your local indie bookstores! We are constantly adding new stores, some long-established, and some that just opened this year. So stop by our guide to help you shop for that literary lover in your life…or yourself.
Are you a lover of literary magazines? Swing by the NewPages Magazine Stand to discover the latest issues from your favorites. The Lake December 2023 issue of poetry and poetics is now online featuring works by Beatriu Delaveda, Chris Dornon, Alexanda Etheridge, Tim Fellows, Willian Ogden Haynes, and more. The 35th issue of online journal Jewish Fiction .net celebrates Chanukah. Readers can enjoy 12 stories originally written in Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, and English.
The Fall 2023 issue of Valley Voices includes contributions about experiences of memorable moments in the Civil Rights Movement with work by Robert Butler, Diane Williams, Toru Kiuchi, and more. For screen-time aficionados, Rain Taxi Review of Books has been continuing to post reviews, interviews, and features to their Fall Online Edition. Some gems in this “issue” include a dialogic review (by dynamic duo Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte) of Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author and a feature on Jim Starlin’s Warlock comics (any Marvel fans out there?).
The Black Estrangement Issue from Kenyon Review is guest edited by Elinam Agbo. This special online issue centers on the experiences of Black individuals and communities grappling with limited infrastructure, health care systems, archival records, personal histories, grief, climate change, and the wounds of colonialism.
Discover fledgling literary journal SWING in our latest New Light on the Block feature. Nothing invites company more than a gently swaying porch swing on a beautiful day, which makes SWING an aptly named biannual print publication of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics, welcoming readers and writers alike. Also aptly named, shares Editor Leigh Anne Couch, as SWING is published by “an incredible literary nonprofit in Nashville called The Porch.” Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to learn more about Chestnut Review’s Autumn 2023 issue and Memoir Magazine’s December 2023 content.
Build up your reading lists with the NewPages Book Stand featuring primarily books from indie and university presses. Dead Men Cast No Shadows by Sergio Ramirez, translated from Spanish by Daryl R. Hague, is the final installment of The Managua Trilogy and follows Inspector Dolores Morales and a cast of brave priests, corrupt secret service agents, washed up former foot soldiers, and out-for-themselves vestiges of mid-century ideals, all colliding in this exuberant portrait of the depredations of oligarchs and dictators, the human cost of promises deferred, and the implacable hopes and resolve of Nicaraguans.
Slim Blue Universe is acclaimed author Eleanor Lerman’s seventh collection of poetry. Her work speaks to readers in different voices – the Woodstock generation grown older, social activists still raging at the powers that be, lovers remembering days of paradise, and lonely dreamers still dreaming of better days to come – that weave together both the joys of life and its many afflictions.
NewPages Blog
Stay caught up at our blog. There you can take in short reviews, new issues of literary magazines, along with new and forthcoming titles.
Get more recommendations from our reviewers! Susan Kay Anderson covers Jeff Darren Muse’s Dear Park Ranger whose “essays satisfies” some of the curiosity of just what a park ranger does during their off hours. Meanwhile, Kevin Brown reviews Naomi Alderman’s The Future which is set in a near-future America that’s dominated by three tech companies. “Alderman’s satire of our technology-obsessed world and the egos that run it is spot on, but she also creates characters worth caring about.” Brown also reviews Tracy K. Smith’s To Free the Captives which brings Smith’s lyrical writing style to the essay form.
Come back to the NewPages Blog during the week to find reviews of Dale Houstman’s a dangerous vacation and Catharine Clark-Sayles’ The Telling, The Listening.
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 45 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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