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NewPages Newsletter Issue 81 Featuring 48 vetted submission opportunities!
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Happy Monday. Hard to believe yesterday was Father’s Day and that June only has two weeks remaining. Last week we emailed out our mid-month eLitPak Newsletter featuring flyers from Howling Bird Press, Winning Writers, author Terry Tierney, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Gival Press, Taos Writers Conference, Hole in the Head Review, and Women at Woodstock. If you missed out, you can access the full June 2023 eLitPak here. Don’t miss out on future eLitPaks. If you haven’t done so already, subscribe to our newsletter today.
Did you know that NewPages offers mailing lists to indie bookstores in the US and Canada, Barnes & Noble Bookstores (this is a new list!), public libraries in the US, and academic libraries in the US. We are currently running a promotion where you can buy our US Indie Bookstore List and get our Canadian List for free or you can purchase the Public Library List and get the Academic Library List for free. Starting next month, NewPages will be raising the rates for our mailing lists, so if you would like to get them at a discounted price, you have until the end of this month! Get details on the NewPages mailing lists offer here.
Speaking of the end of the month, New American Press has announced a deadline extension for the New American Fiction Prize. You now have until July 1 to enter your novels, novellas, or fiction collections. Paid subscribers can get more details at the end of this newsletter.
NewPages Editor Denise Hill is reviving her Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week! This was an old favorite feature of our readers that originally ran from 2013-19. Covers are picked at the sole discretion of the editor. Enjoy the relaunch of this series here.
Speaking of literary magazines, have you stopped by our Magazine Stand recently to check out who has new issues available? Online literary magazine bioStories is devoted to biographies with one new essay featured each week. Recent contributors include Julie Lockhart, Yoon Chung, Cathy Fiorello, Joshua David Laine, Pamela Kaye, Michelle Cacho-Negrete, Sally Carton, and Sydney Lea. The Spring 2023 issue of Consequence features place-specific repercussions of war and geopolitical violence across eighteen different countries. Bear Review’s Spring 2023 features work by Alyse Bensel, Lawrence Di Stefano, Whitney Hudak, Mitchell Nobis, Meghan Sterling, and more.
Issue 14 of graduate-run online literary magazine Arkana features interviews with Michael X. Wang and Matthew Salesses and work by Lucy Zhang, Sekhar Banerjee, Donna Steiner, and others. CutBank is celebrating 50 years of publication. Their current issue, #98, features work by Melissa Kwasny, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Michael Caleb Tasker, and Kathleen Walker to name a few contributors. Broadsided Press’ June 2023 release is the final of their monthly installments as they move instead to biannual portfolios of work.
The Spring 2023 issue of The Fiddlehead includes the winner of the 32nd annual Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, Moni Brar. Jo Taylor is the featured poet in the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of triannual online literary magazine MockingHeart Review. You can enjoy new issues of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine on the 30th of every other month. The April/May 2023 issue features an interview with Joe Haldeman and work by Ray Daley, Kim Whysall-Hammond, Yuliia Vereta, and more. The June 2023 issue of 805 Lit+Art features cover art by Michael Noonan and works by Christine Vartoughian, Nicholas Wright, and Melissa Fitzpatrick.
Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to find even more new issues from Decolonial Passage, The Courtship of Winds, Exposition Review, Southern Humanities Review, Fleas on the Dog, and Foglifter Journal.
Looking to build your reading lists and to discover new and forthcoming titles? Dive into the NewPages Book Stand which features recently published and upcoming titles from indie and university presses. A good place to start? Our full list of Books Received for the month of June 2023. Award-winning children’s book author René Colato Laínez teams up again with illustrator Fabricio Vanden Broeck to explore the experiences of newcomers in schools in Do I Belong Here? / ¿Es este mi lugar? Zaji Cox’s memoir Plums for Months explores the challenges of growing up mixed race and low-income on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon.
Player’s Vendetta A Willie Cuesta Mystery by John Lantigua sees PI Willie Cuesta on the hunt for a missing fiance who disappeared while investigating the death of his parents in Cuba more than thirty-five years ago. The companion to The Moving Out: Collected Early Poems, John Morgan’s The Hungers of the World: New & Collected Later Poems is available now from Salmon Poetry. Enjoy a poetic biography that tracks the life and career of landscape artist Albert Bierstadt in Best Material for the Artist in the World by Kenneth Chamlee.
Embarrassed of the (W)Hole by Panoply Performance Laboratory is an operating manual for an opera-of-operations. Winner of the 2022 Prize Americana, HIGHER by Robert Stewarts is currently available and features poems that are at once direct and resonant, celebratory of the natural world and of spiritual aspirations. Tierra, Tierrita / Earth, Little Earth by Jorgue Tetl Argueta is the fourth installment of the Madre Tierra/Mother Earth series of trilingual pictures books about the natural world. Joseph D. Reich’s 300-page, lyrical epic poem How to Shoot a Tourist (With a Bow & Arrow) in a Hot-Air Balloon contains surreal, confessional, stream-of-consciousness stanzas that run up and down the page in a desperate, fantastical rage.
Don’t forget to come back to the Book Stand throughout the week to discover even more new titles from Brynn Saito, Caroline Baker and Don Baker, Walter Weinschenk, Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher, Rodrigo Dorfman, and Max Sessner Translated into English by Francesca Bell.
NewPages Blog
Stay caught up at our blog. There you can take in short reviews, contest & book award winners, book & literary magazine news, new issues of literary magazines, new and forthcoming titles, and cultural & political news.
Get even more reading recommendations from our reviewers. Denise Hill covers Sara Venart’s “Epiphany” which was featured in Arc Poetry Magazine’s Spring 2023 issue in their “How Poems Work” case-study appreciation feature. Bardia Sinaee’s added commentary on Venart’s poem helps “make connections I would not have, and offered a more authoritative assessment in ways I might not have felt confident making, but which made complete sense.“
Denise also reviews comics by Jac Dellaria created in collaboration with University of Wisconsin - Madison Sociology Professor Sarah E. Frank based on interview research conducted in 2018-19 with trans and nonbinary adults ages 18-29. “These four comics are worth visiting and sharing, especially in light of continued basic bathroom rights for all and to understand what it is like for others whose experiences are real and valid yet not justly recognized.”
If you’re interested in seeing your own review featured on our blog, please check out our revised guidelines and consider submitting to NewPages today. It’s free.
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 48 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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