New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter Issue 99 Featuring 41 Calls for Submissions and Writing Contests
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Mother Nature in all off her fickleness seems to want to skip fall altogether and head straight into winter weather. I remember all of the years as a child living in Michigan where you were trick or treating with your costume either under or over your winter garments. This year seems like it will be no different. If you are facing the dreaded “s” word or your weather is getting cold, rainy, and gloomy, NewPages is here to help you find warmth and light with great literature. Plus, paid subscribers can find a bevy of new submission opportunities to help find a home for their work.
Let’s kick off our Monday afternoon appreciating some great art, shall we? Editor Denise Hill is back with three more cover art recommendations for her Lit Mag Covers Picks of the Week. Enjoy Cycles and Cyclones (2017) by Nnenna Okore on Prairie Schooner’s Winter 2022 issue, Maxwell Doig’s “Southwold Rooftops II” on the Autumn 2023 cover of Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Journal, and inkshark’s artwork is a perfect Halloween complement gracing the cover of The Deadlands’ October 2023 issue. Don’t forget to admire the work within as much as you admire the covers of these journals!
As it is the last Monday of the month you can catch up with all of the new issues of literary magazines received during the month of October at our New & Noted page. Looking for more literary magazine news? Dive into our Magazine Stand which features new issues from your favorites! While autumn color changes are probably mostly all done and many trees lay bare, Sky Island Journal’s Fall 2023 cover captures the brilliance of autumn foliage while the issue is filled with poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction from contributors across the globe.
World Literature Today November 2023 is bursting at the seams with lively culture essays, book reviews, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, and fiction. This issue features a cover story devoted to four artists of Iraqi descent who are achieving global recognition. Southern Humanities Review issue 56.3 features the 2023 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize winner, Samyak Shertok, and his poem “Mother Tongue: A Haunting” along with runners-up, finalists, and more. Volume 4, Issue 4 of Club Plum opens the door to October for you to tiptoe inside and enjoy this “Literary Horror Issue” with work by Faune Albert, Amy DeBellis, Enrico Gilberti, Claudia Tong, and more
.Bellevue Literary Review‘s latest issue (45) is on the theme of “Taking Care.” In the foreword, Poetry Editor Sarah M. Sala writes: “Three years since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, we continue to redefine what ‘taking care’ means for us as individuals but also as an interdependent collective. The Summer 2023 issue of Carve Magazine features work by Mary Grimm, Barbara Tomash, Jeffrey Utzinger, to name a few contributors. Plus, enjoy Carve’s delightful “Decline/Accept” in which an author previously declined by the journal but accepted elsewhere comments on the process along with Carve’s reading committee and the publisher that accepted the work.
Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover The Midwest Quarterly Fall 2023 issue and The Keeping Room’s November 2023 content.
Last week was the last Wednesday of October which means NewPages posted a roundup of all books received during this month to help you further build up your reading lists. You can also see several titles highlighted in our Book Stand to learn even more about them. Mirta Rosenberg (1951-2019) is a key poet of the ’80s generation in Argentina. In Interior Landscape, Rosenberg explores questions of life and death, of changes experienced in one’s body through time and the resulting changes in perspective. This title, translated by Yaki Setton and Sergio Waisman, is the first book-length translation of Rosenberg’s poetry to be published in English.
Literary magazine Tint Journal celebrates its five-year anniversary with the release of Tinted Trails, the first ever printed anthology entirely dedicated to those who write in English as a second language (ESL). This collection offers both authors and readers the chance to meet via the medium of the English language, in a whirl of perspectives, sensibilities, and idiolects. As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky’s The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape.
Shiloh Carroll offers an introduction to the idea of medievalism, how the literature and culture of the Middle Ages have been reinterpreted and repurposed over the centuries, and how the layers of interpretation have impacted Gaiman’s own use of medieval material in The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty. Holly Melgard’s Read Me gathers the tools necessary to make sense of contemporary problems so ubiquitous they seem too big to name.
Comeback to our Book Stand throughout the week to discover The JAB Anthology edited by Johanna Drucker & Brad Freeman and Ascent of the Mothers by Noelle Kocot.
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 gives her thoughts on Laynie Browne’s Intaglio Daughters which features “weird poems, weird-in-a-good-way weird because they excite the imagination.” Anderson also reviews Hilary Plum’s Excisions where “Each line of Plum’s poems is precise and layers itself against the next line so that each creates a huge, whole image.”
Jami Macarty reviews the post-humous collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us by Iranian-American poet Susan Atefat-Peckham. “Despite the fact that Susan Atefat-Peckham died in a car accident when her son was three years old, her mind, advocacy, heart, and soul remain ‘bright, burning, / and alive’ in her poetry.”
Visit our blog throughout the week to read reviews of Erin Noteboom’s A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen, Nathan Hill’s Wellness, and rob mclennan’s The Alta Vista Improvements.
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 42 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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