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NewPages has your reading needs covered this holiday season. Check out the latest issues from print and online literary magazines on our regularly updated Magazine Stand!
The Iowa Review’s Double Issue 2022 which features rich and diverse contributions includes “an ode to a drag queen, an account of growing up with a Chinese last name in small-town Minnesota, and a meditation on a cane used as a mobility aid.” Catch up on recent events in verse form with Topical Poetry’s December 2022 selections which include works by David Chorlton, Dustin Brookshire, Lois Perch Villemaire, Lynne Kemen, Jen Schneider, and Bänoo Zan.
Enjoy “haunting images, eco-friendly sculpture, unusual mixed media, poetry, fiction and more” in The Woven Tale Press Volume 10 Number 8. Contributors include Craig Cotter, Stacey Fletcher, Jana Harris, Nell Jungyun, Kenneth Kesner, Roberto Loiederman, Joseph A. Miller, Natalie Oliphant, Craig Palmer, Sara Joyce Robinson, Susan B. Wadsworth. The December 2022 issue of online literary magazine About Place Journal is themed “Center of Gravity” which explores poetry, prose, and visual art that articulates the possibilities of resistance and envisions the worlds in which justice is a reality.
Issue 17 of online journal Aji Magazine is now available and editor-in-chief Erin O’Neill Armendarez writes that work “in this issue invites readers to consider alternative experiences and ways of being.” Also in this issue find an interview with Keith Hamilton Cobb and featured artist Shelley Schrieber. The December 2022 issue of Poetry Magazine includes the special feature “Wholly Seen: The Work of Diana Solis” along with work by Cindy Juyoung Ok, Tacey M. Atsitty, Alan Pelaez Lopez, Peter Mason, Donte Collins, Rebecca Hazelton, Dara Yen Elerath, Dorianne Laux, Marcus Wicker, Diamond Forde, and Charif Shanahan.
Issue 6 of Rivanna Review features work by Jerry Gabriel, Christine Schott, Dylan James, and Mitchell Toews; a tribute to Melody Edwardsend by Ed Meek; and so much more. Stay tuned to the Magazine Stand throughout the week for more new issues.
Are books more your forte? Stop by our regularly updated Book Stand for recently published and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses to help plan your next read.
The Entre Ríos Trilogy is three novels by Perla Suez that have been expertly translated into English by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan. These stories all take place in Entre Ríos, the Argentine province where thousands of Jewish immigrants settled at the end of the nineteenth century. In Mark Levine’s Sound Fury poems by metaphysician Robert Herrick are refashioned into phantasmagorical oddities of likeness and difference.
Saturnalia Press has turned 20 and has honored this important milestone by publishing Lords of Misrule: 20 Years of Saturnalia Books. This anthology, edited by Henry Israeli and Rebecca Lauren, gathers poetry from all of their poets’ books. Nationally acclaimed scholar Richard A. Tapia tackles the topic of the lack of minorities in the US in STEM education and careers in his new book Losing the Precious Few: How American Fails to Educate Its Minorities in Science and Engineering.
Richard Gid Powers’ Secret Agent Gals is forthcoming in 2023 and features quick-witted secret agent gals that outwit bumbling Nazi assassins, boneheaded Communist spies, and slick Irish manure cart bombers. Meanwhile Karen Lee Brown’s Secret Waltz is a coming-of-age journey of three teens whose lives are turned upside down by the secrets they keep.
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Get even more reading recommendations from our reviewers! Recently Alexandria Machado gave her thoughts on Borealis: An Essay by Aisha Sabatini Sloan which “reckons with the vast expanse of nature, simultaneously negotiating her relationship to queerness, blackness, and the Alaskan landscape.” Colm McKenna dives into I am Jonathan Scrivener by Claude Houghton who “protects his characters from material constraints, because ‘leisure reveals us.’”
Justin Courter gives his thoughts on Luke Rolfes’ Impossible Naked Life which is full of “heartfelt and hilarious” stories while Kevin Brown tackles Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts which is a dystopian novel in the vein of The Handmaid’s Tale. Meanwhile Megan Eralie enjoys exploring the liminality of language in Jessica Moore’s “Porous” (published in the Summer 2022 issue of Brick) while Virginia finds Catherine Sinow’s “Tom Is Dead” (Marrow Magazine, Issue 3) to be a succinct but lingering essay.
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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
Call for Submissions - great weather for MEDIA
Deadline: January 15, 2023
great weather for MEDIA seeks poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, creative nonfiction, and cross-genre for our annual print anthology. Our focus is on the unpredictable and experimental. Please visit our website for guidelines. We look forward to reading your work.
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.
Emerald City Seeks Fiction
Emerald City, an online quarterly of fiction, seeks compelling, original stories for our upcoming spring and summer issues. Fiction can be of any genre or style; as long as the stories are character-driven and hard to put down, we want to see them. Submit anything from flash fiction to stories up to 10,000 words. Beginning in 2023, our stories will also appear in print in the form of an annual anthology and multiple stand-alone stories. For more information, visit our website.
Creation & Technology
Deadline: Rolling
NOMADartx Review would love to see your interpretations on the theme of "technology!" Our cross-disciplinary journal currently publishes one piece of visual art and one piece of writing (usually under 3500 words) monthly, and we like personal essays, paintings, poetry, photography, sketches, stories, and creative industry-specific articles: ideas about the artistic process, project logistics, getting your work to the world, mentorship, critiques/interviews/reviews, etc. Our current theme of technology is open to broad interpretation: ancient, everyday, or futuristic tech, practical and/or philosophical approaches. We especially welcome under-represented voices. Complete guidelines are here at our website.
Textual-Sexual-Spiritual: Art and Ritual as Queer Becoming: Deadline for Submissions Now January 5
Extended Deadline: January 5, 2023
This issue of Rejoinder addresses the relationships between text/artwork, sexuality, and spirituality to navigate tensions of being and becoming. The idea of ‘‘queer becoming” involves not only never “straightening up” and “flying right,” but also the possibility of “one’s becoming something other than queer” (McCallum and Tuhkanen 2011, 10-11). How do our approaches to “becoming” allow us to cultivate community, extend work, shape praxis, guide pedagogy, and beyond? We invite interdisciplinary contributions (nonfiction/fiction, poetry, and artwork) that use a queer feminist lens. More information and submission information at our website. Guest Editor: Dr. Jocelyn E. Marshall (Emerson College).
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
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
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
Extended Deadline: January 15, 2023
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: January 15. Visit Interim Poetics 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.
Grants for Writers. Apply now!
Deadline: February 15, 2023
If your writing explores issues and challenges of migration, immigration or refugee experiences, you’re eligible to apply for the newly launched $7000 LANDO writer’s grants. The LANDO grants, in addition to the $7000 Courage to Write grants, are sponsored by The de Groot Foundation and are designed to encourage and support emerging writers writing in any genre. This year ten $7000 grants and up to ten Writer of Note $1500 grants will be awarded. Learn more and apply at The de Groot Foundation website. Applications close February 15, 2023.
I-70 Review Announces the Bill Hickok Humor Award for Poetry 2023
Deadline: February 28, 2023
I-70 Review announces the Bill Hickok Humor Award for poetry. The winner receives $1,000, and the poem will appear in I-70 Review 2023. Submit one to three poems with a $15 entry fee to i70review@gmail.com. Reading period: January 1 to February 28. No submissions before January 1. Submissions will be eligible for publication in I-70 Review. The judge reader is Christopher Buckley. For more info email us at the above-stated email address. Visit website.
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