New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter Issue 98 Featuring 37 Calls for Submissions and Writing Contests
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Happy Monday and welcome to the last official full week of October. Hopefully your weekend went better than mine which was filled with family members asking about my writing and why I never submit it on top of a small case of food poisoning. If you are a brand-new subscriber or just missed out on the notice of our monthly eLitPak newsletter, it was emailed last Wednesday with flyers from The RavensPerch, the Tartt First Fiction Award, the 2024 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize, Madville Publishing, the UNCG MFA, the National Indie Excellence Awards, the MAYDAY Prizes, Midway Journal’s Action/Words Poetry Contest, Third Street Review, Under the Madness Magazine’s two teen writing contests, Stone Circle Review, and NOMADartx Review. Enjoy reading it here.
With weather getting more like fall in the Midwest, now is a great time to grab your favorite warm beverage of choice and curl up with a good book or literary magazine. It’s also a great time to visit your local bookstores. NewPages is still making a lot of updates to our online guide, so please check out the listings for your state to see if your favorite is there!
Wyngraf was recently featured in our New Lit on the Block series. If you’re the kind of reader who enjoys snuggling up with fantastical stories, Wyngraf is just the ticket! Wanting something “warm and welcoming and a little fantastical,” the editors took the name from wyngrāf, the Anglo-Saxon word meaning “wondrous grove.” In more magazine news, enjoy the latest issues of online and print journals on the NewPages Magazine Stand. The Baltimore Review 2023 print annual features the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction published in the summer and fall 2022 and winter and spring 2023 online issues.
The Apple Valley Review Fall 2023 edition features work by Jackie Sabbagh, J. Malcom Garcia, Phillippe Forest (translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer), and so much more! The Spoon River Poetry Review Summer 2023 issue is the perfect way to transition from one season to the next. In this issue, readers can enjoy the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with poetry by Jose-Luis Moctezuma and an interview of the poet by Edgar Garcia and that’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
The Fall 2023 issue of The Missouri Review is themed “The Curious Past.” Inside, readers will find historical fiction by Aaron Gwyn, a consideration of Norman Mailer in his centennial year by Bill Barich, and work by Gregory Martin, Tin Fogdall, and more. Don’t forget to stop by the Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover Carve Magazine’s Summer 2023 issue, Bellevue Literary Review Issue 45, Southern Humanities Review 56.3, and Club Plum 4.4.
In book news, swing by our Book Stand for new and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses. In Bjarki, Not Bjarki, Matthew J. C. Clark wants nothing less than to understand everything, to make the world a better place, for you and him to love each other, and to be okay. Peter Gizzi has said that “the elegy is a mode that can transform a broken heart in a fierce world into a fierce heart in a broken world.” Enjoy his latest collection of poetry Fierce Elegy, currently available from Wesleyan University Press.
Nadia by Christine Evans moves between the competing perspectives of two survivors of the 1990s Balkan Wars who have escaped to London, only to discover that the war has followed them there. Larry Beckett’s The Book of Merlin is the first translation of Merlin of the Wild’s complete works. Don’t forget to come back to the Book Stand throughout the week to learn more about Read Me: Selected Works by Holly Melgard, The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty by Shiloh Carroll, and The Shining by Dorothea Lasky.
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 covers Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Flare, Corona in which the “coronae that flare . . . allude to solar explosions, coronavirus infections, cancer scare symptoms, and multiple sclerosis diagnosis.” Meanwhile, Susan Kay Anderson tackles What Just Happened by Richard Hell and Christopher Wool, a “book of poems, scribble scrabble drawings, photographs of crows, essays, and a memoir/list.” Ashley Holloway reviews Jen Knox’s revised edition of The Glass City, “a brilliant collection of seventeen stories that fluidly combine seemingly unrelated themes together in unexpected ways.”
Visit our blog throughout the week to read reviews of Laynie Browne’s Intaglio Daughters, Susan Atefat-Peckham’s Deep Are These Distances Between Us, and Hilary Plum’s Excisions.
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 37 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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