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April will reach the halfway point at the end of this week. Hard to believe, isn’t it? With that date means submission opportunities are coming to a close. Don’t forget Able Muse Press’ deadline extension for their Book Award ends today at midnight PST. Plus, today is the deadline to enter the First Pages Prize. If you decide to wait to enter until their extended deadline, the entry fee does go up. Narratively’s inaugural Profile Prize closes to entries on April 14 and Cleaver’s Form & Form-Breaking Poetry Contest extension ends on April 15.
This is also the final month to register for the inaugural Tremont Writers Conference taking place in the Smoky Mountains in October. Don’t forget to scroll down through the end of our newsletter to get reminders and more information on other submissions opportunities and upcoming events. Become a paid subscriber today to unlock these opportunities.
Have you heard about Copihue Poetry? They are the next journal to be featured in our New Lit on the Block series. One of their main goals is to be accessible to poets and translators at all stages of their careers. Stop by our Blog to learn more. While you’re there, don’t forget to check out our regularly updated Magazine Stand. There you’ll find the latest issue of Jewish Fiction .net. They are excited to feature a translation from Albanian to English in Issue 33. This story, and others, will appear in an anthology they are publishing this fall, so stay tuned.
The Lake April 2023 issue features work by Angela Arnold, John Bartlett, Clive Donovan, Tim Dwyer, Tom Kelly, Phil Kirby, Mercedes Lawry, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, Charles Rammelkamp, and Shane Schick. Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Rosa Parks” can be found online at Poetry Magazine. Meanwhile, online journal The Writing Disorder’s Spring 2023 issue features budding new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, & art from Charles Joseph Albert, Leila Alliu, Lorelai Bacht, Kate E. Lore, and more.
Stop by the Magazine Stand later this week to learn more about 805’s Issue 9.1 and Superpresent’s Spring 2023 issue.
Get the latest information on new and forthcoming books from indie and university presses at the NewPages Book Stand.
Chika Unigwe’s The Middle Daughter follows seventeen-year-old Nani after she loses her older sister and father in quick succession. In celebration of Second Chance Month, Lifeline Education Connection released John McLaughlin's Lifeline to a Soul: The Life-Changing Perspective I Gained While Teaching Entrepreneurship to Prisoners.
Queering the Border: Essays reveals the influence of Gloria Anzaldúa’s scholarship; recounts the controversy surrounding artist Alma López’s digital print, “Our Lady”; and evaluates interviews with 25 LGBTQ people in the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez area to expose life on the border as a queer of color. Besides essays, Emma Pérez’ collection features short fiction and an epistolary love poem.
Nate Duke writes about Americana singers like Lucinda Williams and Tom T. Hall in A Suit of Paper Feathers. Coming in June 2023 from Button Poetry, learn more about Sierra DeMulder’s melancholic yet beautifully hopeful poetry collection Ephemera.
Geoffrey Jacques’ The Orchestra of Wind Chimes draws on American and African-American experimental lyric traditions, pushing language and form to their limits. Her Scant State by Barbara Tomash is the brilliant reworking of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. A Short History of Anger by Joy Manesiotis is both a book-length poetic hybrid and live performance which takes its source material from the Destruction of Smyrna. Discover Usman Hameedi’s debut collection Staying Right Here which features thematic metaphors for family, wellness, and American biases.
This week find more new titles from Catherine Kyle, Ron Slate, Christopher Norris, Mark Hyatt, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Brandon Shimoda. Plus, stay tuned for a full list of books received for the month of April 2023.
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