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June will be half over with this week. This means that our eLitPak will be coming out on Wednesday, so stay tuned to your inboxes for that. Did you miss out on last month’s eLitPak? You can still access it online here. Are you perhaps interested in including a flyer for your own book, magazine, event, etc.? You can learn more about participating here.
Speaking of June being half over with, this means that you have until Thursday to enter the 28th Poet Hunt Contest from The MacGuffin and to enter your short poetry collections to Swan Scythe Press’ Poetry Chapbook Contest. June 15 is also the deadline to submit story collections, novels, and novellas to the 2023 New American Fiction Prize. Paid subscribers can learn about these and more opportunities below. Not a paid subscriber yet? Consider upgrading your subscription today.
It is Father’s Day this Sunday. If you have a father or father figure in your life who is also a writer, do consider giving them a gift subscription to our newsletter so they can enjoy the submission opportunities and upcoming events featured each week, the majority of which before they go live on our site.
Viewless Wings: Celebrating the Art of Poetry hosts the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast which features original poems along with interviews with poets, songwriters, and artists. Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more about them. Speaking of literary magazines, get caught up on new issue releases on the NewPages Magazine Stand. The Spring 2023 issue of THEMA is themed “The Crumpled Yellow Paper.” This theme was born when an editor opened an envelope and pulled out a crumpled piece of yellow paper containing an author’s scrolled inquiry.
The Summer 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review includes a women’s health-themed folio along with the annual Nature’s Nature feature edited by David Baker. The Decadent Review publishes work on a rolling basis. Recent contributors include Ruth Towne, James M. Magrini, Karin Falcone Kriefer, Charles Upton, Johnny Payne, and Nancy Chapple. Issue #52 of the small but mighty Blink-Ink features 26 stories on the theme “Waiting on a Friend.” Each story is 50 words or less.
Online journal The Lake’s June 2023 issue features poetry by DS Maolalai, Hannah Jane Weber, Gerry Grubbs, and more. Issue 33 of Posit features new poetry, prose, and art by Zoe Darsee, David James Miller, Grace Smith, Jane Kent, and more. Issue 78 of Cholla Needles is edited by Juan Delgado and features work by Dana Burton, Paul Marion, Craig Svonkin, Ellsworth Scott, Danny Romero, André Katkov, Micah Tasaka, Christopher Buckley, Ernesto Trejo, Shawn Levy, C. Mikal Oness, and Gina Hanson.
Catch up with more issue releases from your favorite literary magazines throughout the week, including 805 Lit + Art, Aji, and MockingHeart Review.
Let NewPages help bulk up your reading lists with books from indie and university presses. A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate by Will McLean Greeley recounts Senator George P. McLean’s crowning achievement of overseeing one of the country’s first and most important wildlife conservation laws. William Edward Taylor Carver, Jr.’s Gay Poems for Red States counters the injustice of a persistent anti-LGBTQ+ movement by asserting that a life full of beauty and pride is possible for everyone.
In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind is a collaboration of poetry by Marjorie Maddox and art by her daughter Anna Lee Hafer. This book was inspirited by a rainy-day excursion when Maddox and Hafer visited the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Mis días con Papá / Spending Time With Dad by Elías David follows a boy and his stay-at-home dad who takes care of him while his mom goes to work at the port.
Love or are intrigued by erasure poetry? Check out Dan Kaplan’s 2.4.18 which is an erasure of the February 4, 2018 issue of The New York Times. Proximal Morocco is a collection of poems by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine written in fits and starts during a span of ten years during the fever pitch of his political exile from him homeland of Morocco. The winner of the 2022 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest, Bone Wishing by Tara Flint Taylor is now available.
Sherine Elbanhawy translates Mohsen Mohamed’s Arabic poems into English in No One Is on the Line: The Poetry of Mohsen Mohamed. The poems arose from the depths of incarceration after Mohamed was sentenced to five years of harsh imprisonment after a campus protest. Mohamed then went on to win Egypt’s two most significant literary prizes. Bruce Beasley makes his ruptured way toward a faith that relies not on dogmas and creeds, but on a broken utterance for a torn and living faith in his collection Prayershreds: Poems.
Kathleen L. Housely’s in-depth biography of true American polymath James Gates Percival, a poet, linguist, unstable savant, and brilliant geologist, Stone Breaker explores the confluences of literature, art, and geology. Stay tuned to our blog throughout the week to discover even more titles from Joseph D. Reich, Jorgue Tetl Argueta with illustrations by Felipe Ugalde Alcantara, Robert Stewart, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Kenneth Chamlee, John Morgan, John Lantigua, Zaji Cox, and René Colato Laínez with illustrations by Fabricio Vanden Broeck.
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Get even more reading recommendations from our reviewers. Eleanor J. Bader reviews Harrison Scott Key’s How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told, “a heartbreakingly honest, and often hilarious, account of marital infidelity and the resultant fallout.” Meanwhile NewPages Editor Denise Hill reviews Diana: My Graphic Obsession by Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth and 1/6: The Graphic Novel by Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan.
Colm McKenna tackles Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay, translated by Jennifer Croft. The story follows a writer as he travels from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to exchange a 15,000-dollar advance for his last book and to spend time with a young girl from a literary conference he is trying to bed. The main character is an “anti-hero in the truest sense” who is still able to draw readers towards him “due to his playful, vivid style, his biting social criticism, and most importantly the strength of his writerly ambitions.”
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