New Submission Opportunities & Great Lit
NewPages Newsletter Issue 86: Featuring 31 submission opportunities.
News from NewPages
NewPages has been adding newly opened bookstores to our Guide to Indie Bookstores in the US and Canada over recent weeks, including several that are the first in their communities. Head on over to our Guide and discover your new local happy place. If you know of any indie stores in your area that we may have overlooked, please let us know!
August is officially here next Tuesday. Don’t forget to check out our Big List of Writing Contests to see which have deadlines for the end of July and the rest of the year. The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize and the Press 53 2024 Poetry Prize both have deadlines of July 31. Discover more upcoming deadlines at the end of this newsletter (access available to paid subscribers).
Stop by the Magazine Stand this week to discover Editor Denise Hill’s latest Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week. Selected covers this week come from Catamaran (Summer 2023), Arkansas Review (April 2023), and Seneca Review (Spring 2023). When you are done admiring the artwork, don’t forget to check out the insides for great content. Speaking of new issues, check out a full list of all the new issues announced and received from literary magazines and alternative magazines this month. Featured issues include the Summer 2023 edition of online journal Allium which includes several watercolor panels from Leela Corman and writing by Gemini Wahhaj, Miranda Dennis, Lauren Hohle, Daphne Reed, Susan M. Schultz, Jake Bailey, and more. Enjoy poetry by Ed Coletti, Trent Busch, Rupert Fike, Matthew Freeman, Jeff Friedman, Jane Ellen Glasser, Jane McKinley, and more in the Summer 2023 issue of The 2River View.
The Summer/Fall 2023 issue of Kaleidoscope was released on July 15 featuring work that creatively explores the experience of disability. This issue featured the theme “The Ties that Bind” and includes the prominent threads of family and deafness with work by Paul Hostovsky, Kelly Simpson, Roly Andrews, Caitlin C. Baker, and more. EVENT 52.1 features the winners of the 2022 Non-Fiction Contest introduced by Judge Jenny Heijun Wills: Carolyn Chung’s “Black Pill” (1st Place), Shane Neilson’s “Differential” (2nd Place), and Eun Yoon’s “Real Magic” (3rd Place).
Learn more about fledgling publications with our New Lit on the Block feature. There you can discover more about Compass Rose Literary Journal which was founded in late 2022 as a home for all voices that seek direction. Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to find more new issues from Apple in the Dark, Vita Poetica Journal, The Awakenings Review, Under the Gum Tree, Split Rock Review, and South 85. Plus, you can discover more about the new journal The Howl.
Still trying to bulk up your reading list or in a rut trying to find your next favorite tome? NewPages is here to help with our Book Stand featuring new and forthcoming titles primarily from indie and university presses. Gail White’s first new chapbook in seven years, Paper Cuts, shows no abatement in her trademark formalist cynicism as she takes on cats, gators, Edna Millay’s goldfish, and God. Kimo RedeR’s The Tower of Babel Tipped on Its Side Turns Into a Tunnel of Love is a book of oral and acoustic wordplay pressed to a precarious brink. Due out in November 2023 from Able Muse Press, Stephen Kampa’s poems in World Too Loud to Hear confront today’s zeitgeist of dark social norms online or off.
Hilary Plum’s poetry collection Excisions investigates the feeling—the problem and the syntax—of being on a threshold. If you don’t know what will happen next, you can’t yet say what has happened. Connie Post’s latest poetry chapbook, Broken Metronome, focuses on her brother’s journey and eventual death from Parkinson’s disease. Unaccompanied: Stories of Brave Teenagers Seeking Asylum, a graphic novel by Tracy White, tells the true stories of five brave teens fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guinea, on their own, traveling through unknown and unfriendly places, and ultimately crossing into the US to find refuge and seek asylum.
Come back to the Book Stand throughout the week to discover new titles from Shubha Sunder, Joseph Kai, Saadia Faruqi with illustrations by Shazleen Khan, Ralph Sneeden, Bonnie Wolkenstein, and Xiang Yata.
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 and Kevin Brown. Reviewed titles include Joel Chace’s Maths in which each page is “serving as a threshold” between the author’s “original writing” and “mathematical commentary” and Lorrie Moore’s If I Am Homeless This is Not My Home in which “plot is not the point.”
Tyriek White’s novel We Are a Haunting follows three generations as they live in Brooklyn public housing. White shows the struggles of the family and the community, both in terms of the limited choices they have and the pressures that lead them to make some of those choices bad ones. Ephemera, by Sierra DeMulder, offers readers a “camaraderie among / women and death, ” acknowledging “the ecstatic briefness of it all.”
If you’re interested in seeing your own review featured on our blog, please check out our revised guidelines and consider submitting to NewPages today. It’s free.
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 31 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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