New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter Issue 101 Featuring 47 Calls for Submissions and Writing Contests
November will be half over with on Wednesday which means that our eLitPak will be hitting your inboxes that afternoon, so please look forward to it! Are you interested in promoting your own organization or new book in an upcoming eLitPak? You can learn more about it here.
While the one local radio station was all doom and gloom mentioning the dreaded “S” word happening in our area, we remained precipitation free this weekend, which was nice. I am not ready to jump straight into winter yet. If the weather in your area is looking gloomier and precipitation filled, we are here to help keep you indoors with a warm drink, good literature, and great submission opportunities.
Discover the latest issue of your favorite literary magazines on the NewPages Magazine Stand. The Fall 2023 issue of The Main Street Rag, in keeping with the long-standing tradition of hosting interviews to open the magazine, invites readers to enjoy Editor M. Scott Douglass (& friends) in conversation with Minion TRUNION – who is also featured on the cover and whose origin story is provided in the “Welcome Readers” intro. Consequences. AGNI 98 fronts the world as we find it, parsing enigmas and celebrating the drive to engage necessary truths.
The November 2023 issue of The Lake online journal of poetry and poetics is now online featuring Fizza Abbas, Ken Anderson, Maria Berardi, Jennifer Blackledge, Clive Donovan, & more. The Fall 2023 issue of Broadsided marks the launch of their first-ever biannual folio, bringing together multiple collaborations, lesson plans for teachers to use in their classrooms, and book reviews. South Dakota Review is delighted to wrap up Volume 57 with a marvelous roster of authors! Volume 57, Number 4 includes work by Craig Blais, Sara Moore Wagner, Alyse Bensel, Joanna Acevedo, just to name a few contributors.
Don’t forget to come back to the NewPages Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover the Summer 2023 issue of The Louisville Review and the Black Estrangement issue of The Kenyon Review. If you’re looking to discover some new books to add to your fall reading list or holiday must haves, NewPages is here to help with our Book Stand. Forcibly exiled to Honduras at the conclusion of No One Weeps for Me Now, Inspector Dolores Morales returns in Sergio Ramirez’s final, stand-alone volume of The Managua Trilogy, Dead Men Cast No Shadows, translated into English by Daryl R. Hague.
The poems in Anthony McCann’s I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead. The title of Carlos Soto-Román’s 11 evokes the “other” September 11: Chile’s September 11, 1973, when Augusto Pinochet led a military coup to oust the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and inaugurated a brutal 17-year dictatorship. Assembled from found material such as declassified documents, testimonies, interviews, and media files, 11 immerses readers in the State-sponsored terror during this period and the effects it would continue to have on Chile.
Translated from the French, Cutting the Stems by Virginie Lalucq is a playful, long poem in sections that contains a pastiche of various unlikely influences: manuals on gardening and plant propagation, etymological dictionaries, gemstone and mineral guides, a how-to for florists, and other “un-poetic” texts. Uncollected Later Poems (1968-1979) by Ernst Meister features skillful new translations by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick of Meister’s last decade of work.
In The Hurricane Book, Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones pieces together the story of her family and Puerto Rico using a captivating combination of historical facts, poems, maps, overheard conversations, and flash essays. Don’t forget to stop by the Book Stand throughout the week to discover High Lonesome: Poems by Allison Titus and The Capture of Krao Farini by Nay Saysourinho.
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.
The Common‘s annual postcard auction opens for bidding today! This annual fundraiser allows you to bid to receive a postcard from your favorite author. This year’s list of 40+ authors includes Gina Chung, David Sedaris, and Ann Patchett.
Get more recommendations from our reviewers! Ashley Holloway voices her thoughts on Once These Hills, a novel by Chris McGinley which “introduces the reader to life in eastern Kentucky on Black Boar Mountain, a world relatively untouched by modernization.” Susan Kay Anderson loved “seeing the various styles/forms of poems in Hood Vacations by Michal ‘MJ’ Jones and the way they’re never the same from one to the next.”
Jami Macarty reviews Rita Bouvier’s a beautiful rebellion which “invokes Linda Hogan’s belief that ‘The cure of susto, soul sickness, is not found in books’” and “Heating the Outdoors, an intimate lyric written by Marie-Andrée Gill and tenderly translated from the French by Kristen Renee Miller.”
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 49 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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