New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter #108 Featuring 34 Submission Opportunities
Happy New Year! May 2024 be a better year for you all than 2023. Welcome to our first official newsletter in 2024. With a new year comes more great literature and even more submission opportunities. If you would like to support NewPages in the new year and gain early access to calls for submissions, writing contests, and upcoming events before they are posted to our site, please do consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you dropped the ball on a gift this holiday season, Substack does offer the ability for you to gift a subscription to our newsletter to someone else.
Keeping on in the vein of “new” things, discover Zhagaram Literary Magazine. This fledgling journal is published twice a year as a free downloadable PDF. They aim “at publishing work that explores the human condition through the lens of culture, heritage, and language.” Learn more about them here. We also have a few new issues from great literary magazines to let you know about, too, at the Magazine Stand.
The Winter 2023 issue of Cool Beans Lit is themed “A Light in the Dark.” It showcases the writing and art of talented creators expressing their way out of the shadows either through nature, other worlds, modern technology, family relationships, personal struggles, or mental illness. The Winter 2023 issue of Spoon River Poetry Review (SRPR) features cover art by Kitty F. Davies, the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature includes poetry by Edgar Garcia and an interview of the poet by Jose-Luis Moctezuma. New England Review 44.4 features work by Subraj Singh, Alison Thumel, Isabelle Appleton, Sean Cho A., and more. You can also enjoy captivating translations from the Korean, Spanish, and French.
Don’t forget to come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover The Shore Issue 20 and The Lake January 2024 issue.
In program news, Spalding University has announced they have added a new virtual residency option to their MFA in Writing. You attend the residency in June virtually and get to engage with the same immersive curriculum as the low-residency students. Learn more about this new option here.
Stay tuned to the NewPages Book Stand to learn more about Emily Jon Tobias’ forthcoming short fiction collection MONARCH which is due out from Black Lawrence Press in May 2024 and is currently available for preorder.
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! Jami Macarty finds Catriona Wright’s Continuity Errors to be full of “super real, feminist, and sharp-edged poems.” Meanwhile Susan Kay Anderson finds that the poems in Miracle Thorton’s Plucked “are about what is left after cruelties.”
Comeback to the blog during the week for a review of The Bee Sting by Paul Murray.
Calls, Contests, & More
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 34 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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