New Submission Opportunities & Great Lit
NewPages Newsletter Issue 85: Featuring 29 submission opportunities.
News from NewPages
Hard to believe that back to school time is just around the corner. If you still have travel plans and want to get one last hurrah in while surrounding yourself with some great literary magazines and books, NewPages has you covered. Trying to fit as much submitting you can in before a busy fall? We have your back, too!
Our July eLitPak was emailed last week featuring more submission opportunities, upcoming events, and new releases. Speaking of submissions, Driftwood Press has announced it has extended the deadline for its Adrift Short Story Contest and Adrift Chapbook Contest to July 31 which is also the deadline to enter 1-3 poems to the Red Wheelbarrow Prize for Poetry. See more details about these opportunities below.
Are you a fan of cover art? Then you will love our Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week series curated by NewPages Editor Denise Hill. This week The Cincinnati Review Spring 2023 issue, Conjunctions Issue 80 “Ways of Water,” and Southern Poetry Review 60.2 covers were selected. Don’t forget to give these issues a read after you’re done admiring the covers. Speaking of new issues of literary magazines, don’t forget to stop by the Magazine Stand to discover more.
As You Were: The Military Review Volume 18 contains more than thirty works in literary fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art representative of the full spectrum of those impacted by military service. The July 2023 issue of About Place Journal is themed “On Rivers” and features a curated wide range of prose, poetry, visual art, and hybrid and multi-modal work which creates a new collective view on rivers that is expansive and surprising. Work recently featured in Minerva Rising Press’ online magazine The Keeping Room includes pieces by Marty Kingsbury, Monica J. Casper, Norma Schafer, Tracy Harris, and Anne E. Beall.
The Summer 2023 issue of BOMB features painters Merlin James and Victoria Morton, poet Paisley Rekdal, visual artist Kenneth Tam, filmmaker Khalik Allah, and more. The Gay & Lesbian Review explores new territory in the July-August 2023 issue with the theme “Fantasy Land.” All four theme articles were written by first-time contributors Andrew White, Ashton Corsetti, Hannah Matthews, and Aislin Neufeldt.
Love discovering new and fledgling journals? Don’t forget NewPages’ New Lit on the Block series. Recently featured we have online journal The Palisades Review which publishes quarterly issues of short-form nonfiction that favors “compressed stories that reverberate and deepen our collective sense of self.” Keep coming back throughout the week to discover more new issues from EVENT, Kaleidoscope, and Compass Rose Literary Journal.
The NewPages Book Stand features new and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses and is an excellent way to discover your new favorite and bulk up your reading lists. The perfect place to start is our full list of Books Received for the month of July. Jared Moore’s The Strength of Illusion is forthcoming from Ergal Press in September. This debut satirical novel follows AI researcher Ty who has discovered how to teach a machine to write. Also releasing in September from the University of Nevada Press is Jarret Keene’s Hammer of the Dogs: A Novel, a literary dystopian adventure set in the wasteland of post-apocalyptic Las Vegas.
Arthur Kayzakian’s The Book of Redacted Paintings is part of the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series. This poetry collection follows a boy in search of his father’s paintings which may or may not exist. The writing is accompanied by a series of paintings that are real, incomplete, and/or missing. Barbara Siegel Carlson’s What Drifted Here: Poems features work that takes dreamlike leaps into worlds both personal and historical letting us glimpse through the cracks something we can never wholly know but which leaves us changed.
American Scapegoat by Enzo Silon Surin is a book of painstakingly honest and chilling poems about America’s neglectful relationship with its own history. Forthcoming in September, Montana Kane translates Layers: A Memoir by Pénélope Bagieu. This graphic memoir is composed of 15 short stories about friendship, grief, love, and those awkward first steps towards adulthood pulled from Bagieu’s childhood diaries. Ype Driessen’s The Last Gay Man on Earth: A Photo Comic follows Ype as he must confront his fear of flying and come to terms which his social and sexual anxieties, neurotic nature, and serious case of imposter syndrome.
Don’t forget to come back to the NewPages Book Stand throughout the week to discover more titles from Tracy White, Connie Post, Hilary Plum, Kimo RedeR, Stephen Kampa, and Gail White.
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.
Get more recommendations from our reviewers! Jami Macarty covers Emily Stoddard’s Divination with a Human Heart Attached, a poetry collection concerned with father-daughter relationships, gendered power structures, and venustraphobia. Meanwhile Colm McKenna reviews Alejandro Zambra’s first novel Bonsai which feels like it is over before it has even begun. Kevin Brown gives his thoughts on Fatimah Asghar’s novel When We Were Sisters which follows three sisters who are orphaned and taken in by their uncle who squanders their money to fund get-rich-quick schemes that never work. “Given their childhood, readers should be amazed at how well the sisters are able to manage largely on their own, but readers will also spend the novel wondering about the misogyny and greed that leads to their having to.”
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Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 29 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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