New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter #104 Featuring 39 Submission Opportunities
Happy December! Mother Nature decided to be a trickster on Halloween and give us snow and then we really didn’t have any snow again until the end of November. But we did have some beautiful snow this past weekend (that didn’t really last…but still) which was fitting since December started on Friday. If you live in a state or country that’s being hit with winter weather, NewPages has great literature to help you keep warm indoors and our paid subscribers have plenty of submission opportunities to keep them busy.
Catch up on new issues of literary magazines at the NewPages Magazine Stand. The Malahat Review is a quarterly literary magazine dedicated to publishing the best poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by Canadian and international writers. Their current fall issue #224 showcases cover art by Cammie Staros, Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction winner Eleanor Fuller, and new work by Odette Auger, Chee Brossy, Alicia Gee, Karine Hack, and more.
Consequence Volume 15.2 (Fall 2023) features works from authors and artists from around the world who offer hard-won truths and insights into the realities of war and geopolitical violence. These realities include a young transgender man making sense of his father’s experiences while fighting in Korea, the multiple perspectives surrounding US soldiers being spit on when returning from Vietnam, and so much more. Questions of identity and self are at the heart of the Fall/Winter 2023 issue of Colorado Review, as characters — and writers — examine themselves closely in pivotal moments and ask some hard questions. Contributors include Stephanie Harrison, Christopher Citro, and Arah Ko to name a few.
Online journal Cutleaf publishes a new issue every other week. Recent contributors include Kathleen Gibbons, Matt Cashion, Jennifer LoveGrove, and Mary Winsor. The 114th Greensboro Review features the winner of the 2023 Amon Liner Poetry Prize, Madeleine Poole’s “Pile of Maggots,” as well as an Editor’s Note, “In Praise of LitMags,” by Terry L. Kennedy. Come back to the Magazine Stand this week to discover The Lake’s December 2023 issue, Jewish Fiction’s latest issue, Valley Voices Fall 2023, and Rain Taxi Fall 2023. You can also learn more about SWING in an upcoming New Lit on the Block feature.
A few days late, my apologies, but you can now see a full list of all new and forthcoming books that NewPages received during the month of November 2023. This is a great place to start building your holiday reading lists from and also getting a jumpstart on your 2024 must-read list. Want to discover even more books? The NewPages Book Stand is here to help you with sponsored titles and our Editor’s Choice selections.
The stories in Sara Hosey’s stunning collection, Dirty Suburbia, trace the lives of girls and women struggling to live with dignity in a world that often hates them. This book is forthcoming from Vine Leaves Press in January 2024 and is currently available for preorder. In Andy Mozina’s novel Tandem, currently available from Tortoise Books, Mike Kovacs is an economics professor who’s trying to get over a bitter divorce. He is barely on speaking terms with his only child. And he has just killed two bicyclists in an inebriated hit-and-run at a deserted Michigan beach.
NewPages Blog
Stay caught up at our blog. There you can take in short reviews, new issues of literary magazines, along with new and forthcoming titles.
Get more recommendations from our reviewers! Susan Kay Anderson covers Kathleen Rooney’s Where are the Snows which is dedicated “To the future.” Rooney’s book of prose-influenced poems consists of “long sentences reaching across the page like obsessions.” Anderson also reviewed Karen Massey’s Songs From The Dementia Suitcase where she found “Two Blue Songs,” a poem composed of found material utilizing Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves” as its source, to provide “a moment of grace and understanding, if such a thing can be said of the understanding of dementia and its stealth.”
Coming later this week, enjoy reviews of Jeff Darren Muse’s Dear Park Ranger, Naomi Alderman’s The Future, and To Free the Captives by Tracy K. Smith.
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 42 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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