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Happy June! A new month and some new submission opportunities are available along with upcoming deadlines. Subscribers with a paid subscription gain first and early access to these opportunities, i.e. Swan Scythe Press and The MacGuffin both having contests running with deadlines of June 15 (that’s next week already). Speaking of contest deadlines, don’t forget to view our Big List of Writing Contests to plan out your submissions calendar! Have a young writer on summer break in your life? Don’t forget to share our Young Writers Guide with them.
NewPages is adding more publications to our featured Guide to Literary Magazines. Recently added discover The Decadent Review, a l’art pour art non-commercial publication focusing on poetry, criticism, literature, art, and the abstract. They publish work on a rolling basis and read submissions year-round. Online quarterly New Note Poetry is a believer that poetry is the jazz of the written word and is always free to read and free to submit to. Their next reading period will open August 1.
Stay caught up with new issues of literary magazines at our Magazine Stand. KidSpirit celebrates its 15th anniversary with the release of a 250-page full-color print anthology 15 Years of KidSpirit. Issue 25 of The Common features a special portfolio of Arabic fiction from Kuwait, stories set in the USSR during perestroika, and more. It’s that time of year again. Time to celebrate young writers in the 2023 edition of Rattle’s Young Poets Anthology. This is not an issue featuring poetry for children, but poetry written by children for readers of all ages. This little chapbook is mailed to current Rattle subscribers along with the Summer 2023 issue.
The Greensboro Review Spring 2023 issue sees Editor Terry L. Kennedy describing the importance of community and our shared literary future and invites readers into that conversation. This issue also features the winners of the Robert Watson Literary Prizes, Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio and Jordan Brown. The 2023 issue of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry contains over ninety pages of new poetry and twenty-five book reviews. This issue’s featured poet is Robert Cording and contains a brief portfolio of his work.
Issue 3 of Red Tree Review is available online for readers everywhere to enjoy and is filled with poems that promise to surprise, harrow, and awe. Contributors include Sam Moe, Carolyn Guinzio, and Anna Laura Reeve. The Malahat Review, one of Canada’s leading literary journals, has published its Spring 2023 issue. This issue features the winners of the Open Season Awards: Gloria Blizzard, Caroline Harper, and Deepa Rajagopalan. Stay tuned throughout the week to discover more new issues from Cholla Needles, Blink-Ink, and Posit.
#Ranger is the latest entry in our New Lit on the Block series. This online quarterly of text, audio/visual, and video was founded by David A. Bishop with the goal to provide a home for works that may not fit in elsewhere.
Discover new and forthcoming titles from independent and university presses on the NewPages Book Stand. John Messick’s Compass Lines: Journeys Toward Home brings readers on adventures that traverse latitudes and continents in pursuit of that most elusive place: home. Melissa Crowe’s poetry collection Lo was the winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and released last month. This collection maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman who manages to emerge.
Published posthumously, enjoy Man of the People: The Autobiography of Congressman Robert Garcia. This book shares Garcia’s story of struggle, rising from poverty to become a Korean War veteran, New York State Assemblyman and Senator, and ultimately a US Congressman representing his beloved community. Carmen Fields’ Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s.
Interested in improv comedy? Check out Tom Blank’s The Principles of Comedy Improv - an authoritative handbook for beginners and experts alike. Colin Pope’s latest poetry collection Prayer Book for the New Heretic inquires what it means to believe while living through unbelievable times. Maggie Queeney’s In Kind: Poems is part wunderkammer, part grimoire, and focused on survival.
Worn Smooth Between Devourings by Lauren Camp is set to be released by NYQ Books in September. The poems featured in the collection travel through fears of ecological devastation and national and global tragedy, and map routes away from despair. Meanwhile Barbara Lydecker Crane’s collection of sonnets, You Will Remember Me: Ekphrastic Poems, is due out from Word Galaxy Press in October. The poems illuminate the work and lives of artists from medieval through contemporary times.
Stay tuned throughout the week for more new title announcements from Elizabeth A. Trembley, Kathleen L. Housely, Bruce Beasley, Mohsen Mohamed (translated by Sherine Elbanhawy), Tara Flint Taylor, Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, Dan Kaplan, and Elías David (with illustrations by Claudia Delgadillo).
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