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After a brief early summer feeling last week, we’re heading back into Autumn weather and temperatures. This means it is the perfect time of year to start staying in to read, write, and edit. Let our weekly newsletter help you out with submission opportunities, the latest releases from literary and alternative magazines, new and forthcoming books, and more!
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In magazine news, you can now enjoy issue 11.4 of Cumberland River Review, the literary magazine from the Department of English at Trevecca Nazarene University. This issue features work by Garret Keizer, Austin Segrest, Therese Gleason, Grant Clauser, Anna Girgenti, Jane Qwart, John A. Nieves, Kelsey D. Mahaffey, Elisabeth Murawski, and Jeff Hardin, with artwork (Cloud Shadow) by Chuck Thomas. As well as Exposition Review Vol. VII: Flux featuring work by Laura Freudig, Jodi Scott Elliott, Zachary Guerra, ARTARIANICA, Nate Hapke (to name a few contributors), plus an interview with Justin Chang.
Don’t forget Fictive Dream publishes one new story every Friday and Sunday. Recent contributors include Gary Duncan, D.P. Snyder, Mike Fox, Len Kuntz, Douglas A. Wright, Sandra Arnold, A. J. Ashworth, and Jo-Anne Cappeluti. Issue 12 of Fleas on the Dog is “dedicated to the Ukrainian saviours and the radical activist freedom loving spirits who have been so unjustly silenced.” The November 2022 issue of World Literature Today celebrates Ada Limón being named the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress and features work by Dacia Maraini, Alit Karp, Lea Nagy, Beth Piatote, Persis Karim, Beau Beausoleil, PL Henderson, Mónica Lavín, Lin Yi-Han, and Philip Metres.
The newest issue of Foglifter Journal (7.2), created by and for LGBTQ+ writers and readers, features work by George Abraham, Chinedu Gospel, Avra Margariti, Cassandra Whitaker, Nicholas Wong, and many more. Enjoy the special feature “Will Alexander: Poet-As-Spectrometer” in the November 2022 issue of Poetry which includes Alexander’s work and an interview of Alexander by Jenna Peng. EVENT, one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines, issue 51.2 contains work by Marc Perez, Janet Bartier, Robbie Chesick, Gillian Wigmore Fellows, Sandy Pool, MJ Malleck, cover art by Douglas Hampton, and illustrations by Nora Kelly.
Love music? Dive into the Fall 2022 issue of Musicworks which includes a CD with tracks from the featured musicians. This issue features violinist and composer Jessica Moss; a “musical repatriation” with Goombine, Marion Newman, and Jeremy Strachan; Tona Walt Ohama in conversation with Jesse Locke; and much more. The November/December 2022 issue of The Gay & Lesbian Review celebrates “50 years ago, a mental illness was abolished” with essays by Andrew Holleran, Hilary Holladay, Alfred Corn, Vernon Rosario, Barbara Gittings, Lawrence Hartmann, and Jack Dresher. Stop by the NewPages Magazine Stand throughout the week for more issue announcements.
Olympe is the latest journal featured in our “New Lit on the Block” column. They are a new online publication of global writing, visual art, and photography by women ages 16 to 24 that “describe the female experience and explore what women’s issues are relevant” to each contributor. In other magazine news, The Common is hosting its ninth annual Author Postcard Auction. This event kicks off today and runs through November 30. This is a great opportunity for book lovers around the world to bid on handwritten, personalized postcards from their favorite writers.
Looking for new titles to gift to yourself or others? You’ll want to check out a list of all the new titles NewPages has received recently. You can also swing by our Book Stand throughout the week to see several of these titles highlighted.
Recently featured find Composition, the debut full-length collection of Junious “Jay” Ward which dives deep into the formation of the self. This collection is due out in February 2023. Love true crime? Releasing this month is Harold Schecter’s Butcher’s Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness which explores the story of a Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the ghastliest mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime, a nineteenth-century female serial killer, a Gilded Age “Bluebeard,” and more. Released last month, discover Jacob Sunderlin’s collection This We in the Back of the House, the winner of the Saturnalia Book Editors Prize.
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, MG Noles tackles “Chelsea Manning’s astonishing new book README.txt: A Memoir” which reads like a spy novel of the highest order while Nicholas Michael Ravnikar dives into Insomniac Sentinel by Abraham Smith where “each poem puts on a voice that’s not his self’s but’s still his own.” Catherine Hayes enjoys Olivia Muenz’s debut nonfiction chapbook, Where Was I Again, which invites “all types of readers into her mindset and personal struggles” while Chloe Yelena Miller loves Julia Lisella’s collection Our Lively Kingdom, especially the poem “Hot Flash” which wisely talks of perimenopause and menopause.
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Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 19 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.
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 email muse@rcc.edu. 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.
Our Doors are Open
Deadline: Year-round
The Blue Mountain Review launched from Athens, Georgia in 2015 with the mantra, “We’re all south of somewhere.” As a journal of culture, the BMR strives to represent all life through its stories. Stories are vital to our survival. What we sing saves the soul. Our goal is to preserve and promote lives told well through prose, poetry, music, and the visual arts. We’ve published work from and interviews with Jericho Brown, Kelli Russell Agodon, Robert Pinsky, Rising Appalachia, Turkuaz, Michel Stone, Michael Flohr, Lee Herrick, Chen Chen, Michael Cudlitz, Pat Metheny, Melissa Studdard, Lyrics Born, Terry Kay, and Christopher Moore. View full information and submit here.
Open Call for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, & Craft Essays
Deadline: March 15, 2023
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose publishes three issues each year: two online issues (Fall and Summer) and one print issue (Spring). Allium accepts simultaneous submissions, requests a maximum page length of five pages for poetry, fifteen pages (3,750 words, double-spaced, using a 12 pt. Times Roman font) for craft essays, fiction, hybrid, nonfiction, and creative nonfiction, and does not seek previously published work. We publish diverse creative voices, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and neurodiverse communities that have been underrepresented in literature, and recognized and emerging writers. Our submission period begins October 15 and ends March 15. Visit Submittable.
Actual Left Seeks Fiction, Nonfiction Focusing on Social Justice
Deadline: Year-round
Actual Left Publications seeks novels, novellas, memoirs, and biographies focused on social justice issues. Head to our website for submission guidelines.
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.
Kitchen Table Quarterly Seeks Poetry and Nonfiction Submissions
Deadline: December 10, 2022
Kitchen Table Quarterly is seeking previously unpublished poetry, nonfiction, and artwork. We are a journal preoccupied with history—cultural, political, geographical, personal. We are looking for work that spills secrets and wipes the dust off of old memories. We want honesty. We want an education. Submit up to five poems, five artworks, or a standalone nonfiction piece of up to 3000 words. For full guidelines, please visit our website.
Aji Magazine is Accepting Submissions for the Spring 2023 Issue
Deadline: Rolling
She pulls the tides of our lives . . . she has a dark side. . . . Queen of lovers’ dreams, accused of inspiring crime, lunacy, always aloof. Hunters wait for her, the mysterious mistress of our nights. Aji’s spring 2023 issue will be devoted to the moon. Graphic art, photography, poetry, short fiction, and essays on this and any other topic will be considered for publication. Once the spring 2023 issue is filled, submissions will close until May 1, 2023. View our website for more information.
MacGuffin Seeks Work that Takes Risk with and Evolves Form
Deadline: Rolling
The MacGuffin is seeking new work that innovates, inspires, and experiments: Prose that takes risks with and evolves the form of the short story; Poetry that speaks volumes in small spaces; submissions that reflect our now post-post-post-modern times. Send up to five poems and up to two stories (in separate files and no longer than 5000 words each, fiction and/or creative nonfiction) to us at Submittable or see our website for full submission guidelines.
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.
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 at muse@rcc.edu. 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.
Carve Magazine 2022 Prose & Poetry Contest
Deadline: November 15, 2022
Carve Magazine's Prose & Poetry Contest is open October 1 - November 15. Accepting submissions from all over the world, but work must be in English. Max 10,000 words for fiction and nonfiction; 2,000 words for poetry. Prizes: $1,000 each for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. All 3 winners published online in Spring 2023. Entry fee $17 online only. Guest judges are Maurice Ruffin for fiction; Thirii My Kyaw Myint for nonfiction; and David J. Daniels for poetry. See our site for more information.
Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry
Deadline: November 30, 2022
The Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry is an annual national poetry prize featuring a first place $1,000 cash award. Three runners up will each receive a $250 cash award. The winning and runner up poems are published in the Spring issue. These poems and honorable mentions appear online. The Crimmins Prize celebrates risk, innovation, and emotional engagement. We especially encourage poets from underrepresented groups and backgrounds to send their work.
Submit to the 2023 Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize
Deadline: November 18, 2022
Willow Springs Books is seeking submissions for the Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize, a first poetry book prize for poets 35 years old and younger who have not yet published a book-length poetry manuscript. Poets who have previously published chapbooks are welcome to submit. 48 pages minimum. One manuscript per submission. Open for submissions from 6/20/2022 to 11/18/2022. The winner receives $2,000 plus publication in our Emma Howell Rising Poets series. Submit via Submittable.
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