New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter #113 Featuring 50 Submission Opportunities & Upcoming Events
February is officially here, but the weather reports say we’ll get some decidedly un-winter like weather this week with a high in the 50s. And then March will come in and sucker punch us with wicked snow and cold as per usual. But it is still pretty cold overnight and in the mornings, so grab a cup of coffee or hot chocolate if you aren’t being forced into a low acid no fun diet (it’s not that bad, but such forced lifestyle changes are never fun and worth a complaint or two).
NewPages will not be attending AWP this year, but if you are, we hope you have a safe trip and enjoy yourselves. When you are back next week you will have a double treat with our regular newsletter and our monthly eLitPak newsletter. In other news, don’t forget that the deadline to apply for a $7,000 LANDO Grant from The de Groot Foundation is midnight PST tonight!
The Magazine Stand features new and noteworthy issues of literary and alternative magazines. Sky Island Journal now boasts over 150,000 readers in 150 countries. Their stunning Winter 2024 issue features work from Aditi Bhattacharjee, Alan Swope, Andrea Penner, Antonela Pallini-Zemin, and more. In the Editor’s Note for the Fall 2023 issue of Blue Collar Review, they thank readers for their support, for the strong words and poetry sent, and for the ability to continue publishing in spite of rising prices and postal rates. In this issue you can enjoy some poetry struggling with whether our protests and resistance “even matter in the face of overwhelming odds and the stubbornly deaf power of the corrupt monstrosity of our seemingly insane ruling class.”
The MacGuffin Fall 2023 (vol. 39.2) issue welcomes a familiar name to the masthead’s editor slot: Brett M. Griffiths. Readers will remember Brett as a Poetry Staffer, and this issue’s diverse poetry selections should give a sense of this, from Angie Macri’s elegiac “The rain suddenly silver over the diamond,” to Rebecca Foust’s trio of Orwellian poems to, MacGuffin fan-favorite Joey Lew’s contemplative closing poem, “Holding Pattern.” The Main Street Rag Winter 2024 features an interview with poet Anne M. Kaylor by Kim Blum-Hyclak and work by Mark Brazaitis, Jan English Leary, Johnny Cordova, and more.
The Missouri Review Winter 2023 issue (46.4) is themed “Family Affairs.” Inside, readers will find work from the winners of the 2023 Perkoff Prize along with new fiction, new poetry, and features on Robert Henri and Eva Tanguay. Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover Philly Chapbook Poetry Review in our New Lit on the Block series, the Winter 2023/24 issue of The Writing Disorder, and The Lake February 2024 issue.
In book news, we have posted a complete list of new and forthcoming titles received during the months of December and January. If you missed out on seeing all the titles from November, you can still view them here. If you are an author looking to promote your new book at an affordable rate (only $39!), you can learn more about our sponsored post offerings here. If you would like your own book considered as an Editor’s Pick and to be featured in our list of books received, you can submit a listing request here.
Get more recommendations from our reviewers! Kevin Brown reviews Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow’s All the Little Bird-Hearts which follows Sunday Forrester, a woman who is decidedly different from her family and friends. New neighbors come into her life and into her daughter’s, opening up their world, but not without consequences. “They use Sunday’s differences to create conflict, heightened by the difference in wealth and class, leading to a difficult ending for all involved.”
Brown also covers Dimitris Xygalatas’ Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. Xygalatas “brings a wealth of research about rituals, both from the laboratory and the field, but also a depth of passion and interest in a subject that doesn’t get as much study as it does reflection.”
Come back to the blog for reviews of The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis, Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, and A House for Alice by Diana Evans.
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, are you looking for a gift for the writer in your life? NewPages does offer gift subscriptions to our weekly newsletter so they can gain access to submission opportunities, the majority before they are live on our site. If you would like to show NewPages some love, we do accept donations.
Calls, Contests, & More
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 50 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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