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March just started last week and next week the month will be half over with already. That just doesn’t seem possible, does it? But what does that mean? Stay tuned as the NewPages March 2023 eLitPak will be coming out next Wednesday! Also coming soon, tomorrow to be exact, enjoy an introduction to biannual journal Action, Spectacle which draws its name from Marxist theorist Guy Debord’s well-known book The Society of the Spectacle as part of the New Lit on the Block series.
Speaking of introductions to journals, NewPages has added a handful of journals to our Guide to Literary Magazines since January including Cutthroat, a publisher of high-quality poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction from well-known as well as previously unpublished authors. They publish a regular online edition as well as an annual print anthology. Hypertext Magazine & Studio publishes the online journal Hypertext Magazine as well as the print journal Hypertext Review. They are a place where innovative and genre-bending work coexists with more traditional forms.
After the release of the Fall 2022 issue, Crazyhorse was officially rebranded as an online-only magazine now titled swamp pink. While the name may have changed, they are still dedicated to publishing exceptional work from writers at all stages of their careers. The Sunlight Press publishes twice weekly with a special interest in how people turn toward light and hope, respond to darkness, and navigate unknown spaces.
Mistake House Magazine is an annual literary journal that juxtaposes work by both student and professional writers and artists. They are also currently accepting submissions of work from graduate and undergraduate students across the globe for their next issue. Mudfish, whose name is taken from the storyteller’s stool in Nigerian art, is back and as good as ever. They are also currently accepting entries to their annual poetry prize.
We were a little light on new issues from literary magazines last week but stay tuned to our Magazine Stand this week! You’ll find the Winter 2022 issue of The Missouri Review which features the winners of the 2022 Perkoff Prize (the 2023 prize is underway with a March 15 deadline) along with new work by Dina Guidubaldi, Bridget O’Bernstein, Faith Shearin, and more.
Cholla Needles is a monthly publication whose Issue 74 is currently available and features artwork by Nancy Brizendine and words by Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, and Peter Nash to name a few contributors. Issue 3.4 of online literary magazine Cutleaf features work by Craig Holt, Maya Kanwal, and Carolyn Oliver, with stills from John Frankenheimer’s film Seconds. Meanwhile, The Lake’s March 2023 issue features works by Jean Atkin, Jimmy R. Coleman, Sandra Hosking, Beth McDonough, Bruce McRea, Jeff Mock, Leah Mueller, Wren Tuatha, and Susan Waters.
Good news for those who were waiting for the 2023 edition of Driftwood Press. It officially releases tomorrow! This is their first release in their new annual format and features over 150 pages of fiction, more than 50 pages of poetry, and around 80 pages of comics.
If you love discovering new books don’t forget to check out our Book Stand. Recently featured is Urayoán Noel’s translation of Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s adjacent islands, an intimate yet poised toward the radically communitarian collection of poetry. Sinners on Fox Street: A Novella and Stories by Yolanda Gallardo is a poignant and often humorous account of growing up in the Bronx in the 1950s.
Rebekah Anderson’s book The Grand Promise transports readers back to the 1930s New Deal public works program while Kate Brandt’s Hope for the Worse asks just how far someone will go for love. Zeb Hogan teams up with award-winning journalist Stefan Lovgren to tell the remarkable and troubling story of the world’s largest freshwater fish in Chasing Giants: In Search of the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish.
Alan Botsford’s recently released Dreamer: Poems in Culture is a companion volume to Possessions: Poems in American Poetry. This collection features poems spoken in the voices of 170 contemporary cultural figures including Lady Gaga, Clint Eastwood, Toni Morrison, and Saul Williams just to name a few. Sita in Exile by Rashi Rohatgi was chosen as the winner of the 2022 Novella Prize from Miami University Press and is due out in May 2023. Drawing upon Hindu Mythology, Sita in Exile is a lyrical exploration of migrant sisterhood and brown motherhood in today’s Europe.
Currently available, enjoy Like Hankins’ Testament. This poetry collection bears witness to traumas—cultural, personal, and spiritual—as well as moments of revelatory transport. Michelle Gil-Montero translates Exilium by María Negroni into English. The Argentine poet sketches the trace exile leaves in a poetic form that approaches opposite extremes of material immediacy and evanescence.
The Sins of Mortality is a collaborative project featuring a collection of poems by Marilyn Fox and illuminative paintings by Nancye McCrary. With the juxtaposition of voice and image, wonder and sensation, they create a literary and visual work that is impassioned, thought-provoking, disturbing, and healing. Rob Kirby’s Marry Me a Little recounts his experience of marrying his partner just after same-sex marriage was legalized in Minnesota in 2013 two years before the Supreme Court decision made same-sex marriage the law of the land.
Lawyer and author Maureen McTeer explores key medical research and legal developments in assisted human reproduction since the birth of the first IVF baby in Fertility: 40 Years of Change. Don’t forget to stop by the Book Stand throughout the week to discover more titles from Carl Fuerst, Gillian Conoley, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Glenna Luschei, Gerald Vizenor, Daniel Galef, and an anthology edited by Delia García.
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