New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature #119
NewPages Newsletter Featuring 53 Submission Opportunities & Upcoming Events
Happy Monday. The weekend was filled with charging woes. Technology, a friend and a foe, which led to the unfortunate purchase of a new phone. Hopefully you did not have to while away hours in a phone store just to get a new device and were able to spend your weekend relaxing and recharging. Did you read a good book? Get some much-needed writing and editing in?
Last Wednesday we sent out our March 2024 eLitPak Newsletter. If you’re a brand-new subscriber or somehow missed out, you can view it online here. In it you will find calls for submissions, writing and book contests, book news, and upcoming literary events guaranteed to keep you busy.
On the Magazine Stand, you can learn more about the latest issues of your favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) literary journals. The Spring 2024 issue of Humana Obscura features poetry, prose, and art by 87 new, emerging, and established contributors from around the globe, as well as interviews with poet Djana Kolaj and artists Rosemary H. Williams and Flick.
Money. Blink Ink #55 asks, “Is it the root of all evil or a reward for solving problems? If you build a better mousetrap will money beat a path to your door?” You’ll need to check out the issue to find what Lisa K. Buchanan, Ben Roth, Lisa Marie Lopez, and more had to say on that topic in 50 words or less.
Coffee, Tea, Cocoa is the theme of the spring 2024 issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly, featuring art and photography, fiction and nonfiction, and poetry. Contributors include Vivien Zielin, Carole Greenfield, Anne Seymour, Diane Funston, Sheree K. Nielsen, and Richard LeBlond to name just a few. Come back to the Magazine Stand later this week to learn more about New England Review 45.1
In book news, we posted several new reviews to our blog last week for you to enjoy and help you decide to pick up that new book you’ve been considering for ages. First, Kevin Brown reviewed Helen DeWitt’s The English Understand Wool. “While The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt book is a couple of years old now, Ann Patchett recently revived interest in it during one of her weekly videos for Parnassus Books.”
Brown also reviewed Lauren Groff’s latest novel The Vaster Wilds in which a girl runs away from a settlement in Colonial American for reasons readers get to discover later in the book. In it, Brown finds “While Groff tells a believable story about a girl several hundred years ago, she is just as interested in talking about what it means to be a female in the twenty-first century.”
Lastly, Brown reviewed Guy Gunaratne’s second novel Mister, Mister. The novel is a letter written by the main character to the Mister of the title, a shadowy figure who seems to work from an intelligence/military arm of the British government. “Gunaratne wants to remind readers of the power of taking back one’s story, even if one has to stop talking to do so.”
Calls, Contests, & More
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 53 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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