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Hopefully you had a restful and relaxing Memorial Day Weekend and didn’t have to deal with too many travel plan hiccups and headaches. I got to spend one day walking around East Tawas here in Michigan and see how they honored troops from Iosco County.
June officially kicks off on Thursday, so that means some new submission opportunities! Plus, don’t forget June 1 is the deadline to enter Salamander’s Fiction Prize while June 15 is the deadline to enter Swan Scythe Press’ Poetry Chapbook Contest, the New American Fiction Prize, and The MacGuffin’s 28th annual Poet Hunt. Mini prose collections are due to Wordrunner eChapbooks by June 30. Learn about these and even more opportunities below.
Do you have a dad in your life that is also a writer? Did you know that you can give gift subscriptions to our newsletter? A perfect gift to give the writer-father in your life. The majority of submission opportunities and events featured on the NewPages website are featured first here in our newsletter.
NewPages Editor Denise Hill has started a new series of review comics exclusive to our Instagram account. So if you are not following us on Instagram yet, you’ll want to so you can enjoy these reviews as soon as they are available.
Catch up on the latest issue releases from literary magazines on our Magazine Stand. Besides learning about new issues (see a list of all new issue announcements received in May 2023 here), you can also discover fledgling magazines in our New Lit on the Block series. Recently featured is #Ranger, an online quarterly which was inspired by Theodore Enslin’s book-length poem Ranger, and The Stirling Review which was founded by a group of participants from the 2022 Sewanee Young Writers’ Workshop.
Issue 222 of The Malahat Review features their Open Season Award Winners Gloria Blizard, Caroline Harper New, and Deepa Rajagopalan along with work by Jenna Lyn Albert, Mehr-Afarin Kohan, Paul Dhillon, and more. The MacGuffin’s Winter 2023 issue features the grand prize winner (Judy Brackett Crowe) and honorable mentions of the 27th Poet Hunt along with work by Carolyn Watson, Scott Ragland, Carolyn Highland, and Gigi Cheng.
The Missouri Review’s Spring 2023 issue contains an art feature by Kristine Somerville, a Curio Cabinet, and the winners of the 2022 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize: Ann-Marie Blanchard, Robin Reif, and Heidi Seaborn. Arc Poetry celebrates a milestone with the release of Issue 100 and Editor Emily Stewart asks readers to consider the effort and labor that went not only into this issue, but the first 99 as well and thanks the literary community for their support. Chestnut Review rounds out their fourth year of publication with the release of the Spring 2023 issue featuring poetry, prose, and art reckoning with desire, time, and illness amongst other themes.
The Spring 2023 issue of The Baltimore Review features work by Jared Beloff, Kimberly Glanzman, Michael Minassian, and Huina Zheng, to name just a few contributors. The Midwest Quarterly Spring 2023 issue features articles by Liza Harville, Grant Moss and Harriet Bachner, and a portfolio of poems by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. The Spring 2023 issue of The Main Street Rag features author Patti Frye Meredith in conversation with MSR Editor M. Scott Douglass along with work by Roger Hart, Ann Levin, Joyce Compton Brown, Frank X. Christmas, Cynthia Ventresca, and Randy Lee White, to name a few contributors.
Don’t forget to check back on our Magazine Stand throughout the week to find more issues from Red Tree Review, Presence, and The Greensboro Review.
Let NewPages help build up your reading list with new and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses on our Book Stand. Releasing in June, discover Richard Meier’s poem-essays in A Duration in which Meier transmutes years of daily practices of attention into trajectories through and always unfolding present. J. R. Solonche’s Leda: Poems, published by Dos Madres Press, is his thirty-first poetry collection and shows that he has not lost his wit, insight, playfulness, honesty, and empathy.
Timothy Donnelly’s fourth collection, Chariot, ferries the reader toward an endless horizon of questioning that is both philosophical and deeply embodied. Meanwhile, Jason Tandon practices the poetics of breathtaking quietude in This Far North: Poems. Enjoy an anthology of contemporary poems about the biblical Eve from Orison Books and edited by Nomi Stone and Luke Hankins, Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems. Poets of diverse backgrounds and traditions conjure a heterogeneous concert of Eves to reckon with desire, blame, power, gender, the body, race, politics, religion, knowledge, violence, and time.
Susan Atefat-Peckham troubles preconceptions of nationhood and fixed systems of power in her poetry collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us edited with a Foreward by Darius Atefat-Peckham. Discover even more books this week by Gabriel Ebensperger, Maggie Queeney, Colin Pope, Tom Blank, Serena Piccoli, Carmen Fields, Barbara Lydecker Crane, and Melissa Crowe.
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Get even more reading recommendations from our reviewers. Enjoy three reviews from our regular reviewer Kevin Brown. First, Brown covers Elaine Hsieh Chou’s debut novel Disorientation which follows the almost-thirty Ingrid Wang in a life that appears to be going well, but appearances are never what they seem. Enjoy a book that “satirizes a variety of topics” and features notes at the end which “remind readers that everything in her work has too much basis in the world for us to ignore her critiques and questions.”
Next up is Ben Shattuck’s Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau in which Shattuck begins the first of six walks on a whim (but really as a coping mechanism). “Shattuck explores both grief and joy in his life and in Thoreau’s life, helping readers understand both emotions and both people more clearly.”
Margaret Webb blends research and memoir in her work Older, Faster, Stronger as she delves into the ways running can keep people younger and healthier, especially women. Webb was inspired to become serious about running thanks to her mother and sister. “Reading this book certainly serves to motivate, as Webb’s enthusiasm is infectious.”
Denise Hill covers Julia Wertz’s Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story which “allows us to feel not so alone, perhaps even accept how average each of us truly is, in the most beautifully desirable way possible.”
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