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Looking for some great reads for the upcoming winter holiday and break season? NewPages has you covered with the latest issues from your favorite literary magazines.
In Cave Wall #17 the editors hope to answer the question of “What good are we doing writing poems?” Enjoy work by Dion O’Reilly, Angela Dribben, John Poch, Laure-Anne Bosseleaar, and many more. Love themed issues? Valley Voices’ Fall 2022 issue is themed “Where Are You From?” - a deceptively simple question that may not have a simple answer. This issue also spotlights Mississippi Delta poet and musician Jack Crocker.
The Fall 2022 issue of The Balitmore Review is online and the editors invite readers to consider their relationships to reading and writing and the universe with works by Matt Barrett, Michael Beard, Brecht De Poortere, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Jared Hanson, Marcia L. Hurlow, Kael Knight, Lance Larsen, Winshen Liu, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, ZG Tomaszewski, Donna Vorreyer, Lydia Waites, and Lucy Zhang. Meanwhile Hole in the Head re:View is celebrating their third year of publication. Enjoy Issue 3.4 which contains a special section “Headlines - Thanksgiving recipes, real & imagined.”
Still Point Arts Quarterly is available to read for free online and also offers print issues. The latest issue, Winter 2022, is themed “Cities: Centers of Culture and Creativity” and features art and writing spanning the globe from San Francisco to China. The Fall 2022 issue of The Greensboro Review features Amon Liner Poetry Prize winner Dom Witten and Editor Terry L. Kennedy’s tribute to friends who have passed.
Don’t forget to stop by the Magazine Stand during the week to find more great issues from Rivanna Review, Aji Magazine, About Place Journal, The Woven Tale Press, and Topical Poetry.
Looking for literary presents or a new title to dive into? Stop by our regularly updated Book Stand for recently published and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses.
Interested in Chinese poetry? You’ll want to grab Taken to Heart: 70 Poems from the Chinese translated by Gary Young and Yanwen Xu. The poems in the collection are from Elementary School Chinese Textbook which is given to Chinese school children to aid their instruction in Mandarin while learning about their country’s rich literary history. Are you a fan or player of D&D? You’ll definitely want to check out Welcome to Dragon Talk: Inspiring Conversations About Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Love to Play It by Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito.
You can now enjoy Swiss poet Klaus Merz, praised as an artisan of the understatement, in a collection of his work spanning from 1963 to 2016 in An Audible Blue. Merz’s work is translated by poet, writer, editor, musician, and artist Marc Vincenz. In Hajar Hussaini’s Disbound the poems “scrutinize the social, political, and historical traces inherited from one’s language.”
Samantha Schnee translates Jeannette L. Clariond’s Goddess of Water into English. The book “draws upon Mesoamerican cosmogony to lament the present-day epidemic of femicides in Mexico.” Rattle has released a 16-poem collection from Afro-Indigenous writer and member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe CooXooEii: The Morning You Saw a Train of Stars Streaking Across the Sky. Current subscribers get the book with their latest issue, but you can also purchase it separately.
Don’t forget to discover more new titles with our December 2022 guide to new and forthcoming releases.
NewPages Blog
Stay caught up at our blog. There you can take in short reviews, contest & book award winners, book & literary magazine news, new issues of literary magazines, new and forthcoming titles, and cultural & political news.
In reviews, Keegan Waller tackles Heather Hansman’s Powder Days, a mix of literary journalism and memoir. Mina Weeks dives into Cream City Review’s Winter 2021 issue to discover Robin Gow’s “Sufjan Stevens and How I Taught Myself to Cry.” Meanwhile Taylor Franson Thiel appreciates the dry humor and surprising moments of tenderness in Jenny Catlin’s essay “A Place I Didn’t Try to Die in Los Angeles,” published in The Gettysburg Review.
Lauren McKinnon appreciates Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers’ “Shame” (originally published in The Cincinnati Review Spring 2022 issue) which “humanizes isolation as women observe the world around them but are unable to fully participate.” Sandra Edwards reviews “Deathbed” by Anna B. Moore which is a “seemingly simple piece on the surface” that captivates the reader.
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Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 20+ opportunities to get your work published or to enhance your writing craft. Paid subscribers get first and early access to these opportunities every Monday afternoon. Free subscribers receive access to these opportunities the following Monday.
Calls, Contests, & More
Here are the latest and featured calls for submissions and writing and book contests. Please note the ads featured here are paid listings. Subscribers with paid subscriptions receive early access to ads before they are posted to our site.
Calls for Submissions
RCC MUSE art + literary journal – poetry and prose submissions open
Deadline: December 15, 2022
MUSE is especially looking to publish work from under- or misrepresented groups, such as people of color, disabled people, LGBTQ+, present/formerly incarcerated people, and others from a culturally and linguistically diverse background. Through DEC. 15: submit one short story or CNF 1500 words max; up to three poems. Mail to RCC MUSE, Riverside City College, 4800 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside, CA 92506 or via email. If email, send as attachment with “Last Name – Genre – Title of Submission” in the subject line (e.g., Smith – Prose – “In Summer”). Please include contact information. See full submission guidelines at the RCC Muse website.
Applause International Undergraduate Literary Journal Open For Submissions—Paying Venue
Deadline: February 14, 2023
Applause Issue 33: The (In)Evitable Ending. Evitable; adj. That admits of being avoided; avoidable. Applause is looking for the most interesting angles we can find as your work approaches its “evitable ending.” We begin knowing there’s an end, but the ending doesn’t have to be inevitable to satisfy the reader. Sometimes the end of “what actually happened” is really the poem, story, or essay’s beginning. Sometimes the piece decides the end. We’re looking for original poems, stories, essays, and visual art that showcases what happens when we avoid the avoidable. Imagine the ending. Avoid it. Send it to us.
Third Street Review
Deadline: Rolling
Third Street Review is a new online literary journal for flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography. We are a paying market and welcome work from writers and artists from all cultural backgrounds and experience levels. For complete submission guidelines, please visit our website.
Seeking Stories of Sexual/Sensual Exploration and Discovery Post-Abuse
Deadline: December 20, 2022
Celebrations of Healing is seeking autobiographical stories of meaningful, uplifting, sensual and/or erotic moments of intimacy and discovery written by people of all genders, sexualities, abilities, and ethnicities who have previously experienced sexual abuse. People who have not often seen themselves reflected in the existing discourse about sexual recovery are especially encouraged to submit. Submissions are due December 20, 2022. For more information, please see Celebrations of Healing website.
Sky Island Journal: Issue 23 Call for Submissions
Deadline: December 31, 2022
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal dedicated to publishing the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish accomplished, well-established authors—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 115,000 readers in 145 countries with a powerful, free-access, advertising-free literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. We publish quarterly, and our average response time is 9 days. Every submission receives a prompt, respectful response detailing what we appreciated. Enjoy our previous issues and submit to our stunning Issue 23 before midnight on December 31st at our website.
Dark Onus Press seeks Unsolicited, Micro-sized Manuscripts starting 1.1.23
Dark Onus Press is an experimental, independent publishing house which produces short volumes of poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and artwork. We are open year-round, read blindly, do not charge reading fees and do not charge you for your first batch of books if you publish with us. We are a micro-publisher of experimental work, publishing print books and ebooks. Our response time is two months. It is our mission to stay small and stay afloat for many years to come. We are self-funded and independent, intending to publish new and established authors and artists. Submissions open 1.1.23. View submission guidelines.
Dark Onus Lit is seeking Submissions for Inaugural Issue - Open 1.1.23
Dark Onus Lit is an experimental literary magazine which puts out micro-issues of poetry, short stories, flash fiction, audio and artwork. We are open year-round, read blindly, and do not charge reading fees. We appreciate dark-themed work. Our response time is 3 weeks. Please review our Masthead and Submission Guidelines pages for our leanings. We are looking for experimental, challenging work for our inaugural issue. Submissions open 1.1.23.
Exploration and Catharsis: Mental Illness and The Awakenings Review
Deadline: Year-round
The Awakenings Review is an award-winning literary magazine committed to publishing poetry, short stories, nonfiction, and photography by writers, poets, and artists who have a relationship with mental illness, either self, family member, or friend. Located in the Chicago area but international in scope, our hardcopy publication, soon to be published biannually (beginning in Spring 2023), is one of the nation’s leading journals of this genre. While we are most interested in works of recovery and healing, at The Awakenings Review we are not averse to providing a forum and liberating experience of all manners of work and a vehicle of insight for our readers. Refer to our submission guidelines at our website.
The New Verse News Seeks Current Events Poetry
Deadline: Year-round
Since 2005, The New Verse News has covered the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from all over the world. The editors update the website every day with a poetic take on a current and specific headline. See the website for guidelines and examples. Then paste your non-simultaneous submission and a brief bio in the text of an email (no attachments, please) to nvneditor(at)gmail.com. Write "Verse News Submission" in the subject line of your email.
Artemis Journal 2023: Call for Submissions of Art and Poetry
Deadline: December 31, 2022
Artemis is a print journal for poetry and art that has been around since 1977. Artemis, the Greek Lunar Goddess, is our perpetual muse. Our mission is inspired by her, the protector of wild animals, wilderness, women, and children. This year allow our 2023 theme, “transformative nature,” to illuminate new pathways that prioritize the wild over the well-tread. Change is the only constant, and in an effort to envision a future that is more equitable, weird, and wonderful for all, Artemis Journal encourages work that moves beyond narrow conceptions of gender and environment. Consider our theme in the broadest possible terms. Visit website.
Atmosphere Press Reading Book Manuscripts in All Genres
Deadline: Rolling
Atmosphere Press currently seeks book manuscripts from diverse voices. There's no submission fee, and if your manuscript is selected, we’ll be the publisher you’ve always wanted: attentive, organized, on schedule, and professional. We use a model in which the author funds the publication of the book, but retains 100% rights, royalties, and artistic autonomy. This year Atmosphere authors have received featured reviews with Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist, and have even appeared on a giant billboard in Times Square. Submit your book manuscript at our website.
Literary Events
Apply Now for the Looking Glass Rock Writers' Conference
Deadline: December 15, 2022
Event Dates: May 18-21, 2023
Event Location: Brevard, North Carolina
Located in the mountains of western North Carolina, the May 18-21, 2023 Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference will explore the theme “A Sense of Place” with faculty Camille Dungy, Jamie Ford, and Margaret Renkl leading workshops on poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing. A partnership between the Transylvania County Library and Brevard College, the annual conference consists of writing workshops for select participants and community readings by the workshop leaders. Workshops are limited to 12 participants and scholarships are available. Acceptance is competitive and based on manuscript evaluation. There is no charge to apply. For more information visit our website.
Uncommon Hours: Design and De-stressify the Writing Life
Deadline: Year-round
Event Dates: Beginning January 11, 2023, monthly on second Wednesdays
Event Location: Virtual
Tap into the science of productivity for creative people. Gain emotional fortitude and mindful resilience. And write those beautiful pages with us. Join our warm and welcoming Uncommon Hours community, which is alive with writers and creatives like you who want to finish their passion projects—and do it by activating their joy, imagination, and inner wisdom. Find out how potent the combination of contemplation, creative visualization, and solidarity with a creative, supportive community can be. Second Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Mountain Time via Zoom.
Writing & Book Contests
RCC MUSE literary journal – Holden Vaughn Spangler Award for a poem about a child or childhood
Deadline: December 15, 2022
MUSE is especially looking to publish work from under- or misrepresented groups, such as people of color, disabled people, LGBTQ+, present/formerly incarcerated people, and others from a culturally and linguistically diverse background. Winner receives $200 and publication in Spring 2023 edition of RCC MUSE. $5 submission fee, by check payable to “RCC MUSE” or Venmo @RCCMUSE. Submit up to 3 poems about a child or childhood, through Dec. 15: Spangler Award, RCC MUSE, Riverside City College, 4800 Magnolia Ave., Riverside, CA 92506. Also accepting submissions via email. Please email attachment (prefer .doc) with "LastName – Spangler Award – Title" in the subject line. Do not put submissions in the body of the email. Please include contact information. IG: @rccmuse. See full submission guidelines at our website.
2023 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction
Deadline: December 31, 2022
2023 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction is awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of short stories. Reading Fee: $30. Award: $1,000 cash advance, publication, and fifty copies (35 softcover/15 hardcover). Enter: Submit online with Submittable or by mail from September 1–December 31, 2022. Press 53 short fiction editor in chief Claire V. Foxx will serve as the only judge. Winner and finalists announced by May 1, 2023; advance review copies sent to major reviewers and outlets; publication in May 2024. Complete details at Press 53's website.
2023 New American Poetry Prize
Deadline: January 15, 2023
2023 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE. $1,500 and book publication. Final judge: Jamaica Baldwin, author of Bone Language (forthcoming 2023). Deadline: January 15, 2023. Minimum length: 48 pages (no maximum). Reading fee: $25. Online submissions only, please. Complete guidelines at the New American Press website.
Interim Poetics: The Test Site Poetry Prize
Deadline: December 15, 2022
Interim will choose two winning books for the series—one title publicized as the winner of The Test Site Poetry Series and the other as the Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry. Both winners will receive $1,000 and their books will be published by the University of Nevada Press. Submit by: December 15. Visit Interim Poetics website.
4th Annual Short Short Story Contest to Support Literacy
Deadline: January 15, 2023
Flash Fiction Contest. Write a story using 100 words on one of four topics: dogs, ocean, umbrellas, or winter. Grand prize: $200. 6 Other Prizes: $100 including a Youth Prize for writers 14 years and younger. Publication in an e-magazine. No geographical restrictions but story must be written in English. The Contest supports Ethos Literacy, a nonprofit providing free reading, writing and ESL tutoring to adults. Fee: $12. Visit website.
DISQUIET Literary Prize
Deadline: January 2, 2023
Submissions are now open for the DISQUIET Prize for writing in any genre. Three winners will be published in Granta.com (fiction), NinthLetter.com (nonfiction) or The Common (poetry). One grand prize winner will receive a full scholarship, accommodations, and travel stipend to attend the eleventh annual DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon taking place June 25 – July 7, 2023. Runners-up and other outstanding entrants will also be considered for financial aid. Submission fee: $15. Visit website.
2023 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Deadline: January 14, 2023
$2,500 honorarium and book publication: Submit book-length collection of poems to the Colorado Prize for Poetry by January 14, 2023 (we will observe a 5-day grace period). $25 reading fee (add $3 to submit online) includes subscription to Colorado Review. Final judge is Felicia Zamora; friends and students (current or former) of the judge are not eligible to compete, nor are Colorado State University employees, students, or alumni. Complete guidelines at our website or Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 9105 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105.
$1,000 Gemini Magazine Poetry Prize
Deadline: January 3, 2023
Gemini Magazine 13th Annual Poetry Open. Winner receives $1,000 and publication for a poem of any length, subject or style. Rhyming or non-rhyming. Traditional or experimental. Second prize: $100. Four honorable mentions: $25 each. Entry fee: $9 for three poems. All six winners will be published online in our March/April 2023 issue. Read previous winners and enter at our website.
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