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NewPages Newsletter Issue 100 Featuring 45 Calls for Submissions and Writing Contests
Happy November and welcome to our 100th issue on our new platform. So hard to believe we’ve hit such a milestone already. A huge thank you to all of our readers for your support. If you are enjoying our newsletter, don’t forget that you can gift a subscription to a friend or family member who loves literature and is looking for submission opportunities!
If you live in a state that observes daylight savings time, I do hope you remembered to set your clocks back an hour yesterday. Even though November has just started, it will already be half over with next week. Do you know what that means? The NewPages eLitPak Newsletter will be hitting your inboxes next Wednesday! Nothing like extra literary and submission goodies.
As always, let’s kick off our Monday afternoon appreciating some great art, shall we? Editor Denise Hill is back with three more cover art recommendations for her Lit Mag Covers Picks of the Week. Enjoy Eric Lunde’s Old Early Script gracing the cover of deLuge online literary arts journal’s Summer 2023 issue, the cover of the Fall 2023 issue of The Elevation Review themed “Black as the Ocean,” and Sam Williams’ work on the cover of The Twin Bill’s Issue 13. Don’t forget to admire the work within as much as you admire the covers of these journals!
Get more of your literary journal fix on the NewPages Magazine Stand featuring the latest issues from your favorites. The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought Fall 2023 issue features a wide range of essays to pique reader’s interests: “Outbreak Communication: Exploring the Relationships between Health Information Seeking Behaviors, Vested Interests, and COVID-19 Knowledge in U.S. Midwest Populations,” and more. Recent work featured on Minerva Rising Press’ online journal The Keeping Room includes a review by Colleen Lutz Clemen, creative nonfiction by L Grace G, and fiction by Cindy Knoebel.
Issue 26 of The Common features a portfolio of work from Latinx farmworkers exploring issues of labor, immigration, identity, and “the farming culture that once coursed through the valley where Amherst is now located.” Don’t forget to come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover The Main Street Rag’s Fall 2023 issue, AGNI Issue 98, The Lake November 2023, and Broadsided Fall 2023.
With the holidays approaching, now is the perfect time to bulk up your reading lists for any vacation time you may get or to find the perfect gift for that book lover in your life. Our Book Stand regularly features new and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses. The Journal of Artists’ Books: Selections from the Journal of Artists’ Books, 1994–2020 contains some of the best critical writing on artists’ books produced in the last quarter of a century. The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 10 is edited by Gayle Reaves and collects the ten winners of the 2022 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.
Half new and selected essays, half spiraling memoir, They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So by Lori Jakiela is experimental in both voice and form and offers a fresh approach to age-old questions about life, love, mortality, and the fine art of living, even so. Noah William Smith knows the blessings and challenges of intelligence, creativity, high sensitivity and being a minority, underdog and outsider. While his books are based on his experiences, they offer valuable insights without being prescriptive or offering advice. His latest title 2024… Your Year of More aims to be your go-to book to set goals and mindfully invest your efforts.
Ascent of the Mothers, Noelle Kocot’s ninth collection, is a sagacious testament to the ways in which poetry can shape personhood. “I am nothing” they write, “Or else I have made myself / Too big for words.” In her long-anticipated fourth collection, The Engineers, Katy Lederer draws on the newfangled languages of reproductive technology, genetic engineering, and global warming to ask the age-old questions: What is “the self”? What is “the other”? And how to reproduce “one’s self”? DEGREES OF ROMANCE by Peter Krumbach won the 2022 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. As contest judge Candice Reffe describes the book, these dazzling prose poems are a portal into “a realm where some great secret is to be divulged, the gate to what’s been sought but never found briefly ajar.”
Comeback to our Book Stand throughout the week to discover Dead Men Cast No Shadows: The Managua Trilogy 3 by Sergio Ramirez and translated from Spanish by Daryl R. Hague; Anthony McCann’s I am the dead, who, you take care of me; Carlos Soto-Román’s 11; Cutting the Stems by Virginie Lalucq, translated from the French; and Uncollected Later Poems (1968-1979) by Ernst Meister, translated by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick.
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! Jami Macarty reviews Erin Noteboom’s A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen in which “Noteboom positions readers on the fine line between the ‘sting and sweetness’ of ‘lives in depth and distance.’” Kevin Brown gives his thoughts on Wellness by Nathan Hill, “a novel that is of its time, while still being timeless.”
NewPages Editor Denise Hill reviews A Sky of Paper Stars by Susie Yi which “is both satisfyingly predictable and enticingly surprising.” Susan Kay Anderson voices her opinions on rob mclennan’s The Alta Vista Improvements in which the poems feature “pandemic angst which the entire planet can relate to.”
Visit our blog throughout the week to read reviews of Heating the Outdoors by Marie-Andrée Gill, a beautiful rebellion by Rita Bouvier, Hood Vacations by Michal ‘MJ’ Jones, and Once These Hills by Chris McGinley.
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 47 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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