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Deadline updates: Able Muse Press has extended the deadline of its Book Award to Monday, April 10 at midnight PST meanwhile Cleaver has extended the deadline of its Form & Form-Breaking Poetry Contest to April 15. Don’t forget the First Pages Prize deadline is April 10. If you miss that deadline, you can still submit until April 24, but with a higher entry fee. Narratively is seeking entries to its inaugural Profile Prize through April 14 while Passager seeks poetry from writers over 50 for its annual Poetry Contest with a deadline of April 15. Don’t forget to check out these and more submission opportunities and events below.
Enjoy the latest issue announcements from literary magazines on our Magazine Stand. Recently featured, discover Southern Humanities Review Spring 2023 issue featuring work by W.P. Osborn, Coda Canepa, Hussain Ahmed, Timothy Donnelly, Haesong Kwon, and many more. Issue 44.1 of New England Review features work by Shaan Sachdev, Suzanne Jackson, Megan J. Arlett, and translations from Italian, German, Spanish, and Hungarian.
Enjoy work that all starts the same but takes you to different places in The First Line’s Spring 2023 issue which kicks off its twenty-fifth year of publication. Enjoy stories from Keith Casto, Dana Hufe, Philip Umbrino, Sayward MacInnis, Morag Allan Campbell, Heather McCoubrey, Ralph Hornbeck, and Christie Cochrell. The Sunlight Press publishes new works on Mondays, Wednesdays, and the occasional Friday. In March 2023, they featured work by Caleb Coy, Brett Ann Stanciu, Denise Alden, Murray Silverstein, Emma Burnett, Rebecca Field, and Wadzanai Nhongo. Starting today they are accepting submissions to their 4th annual no-fee Flash Fiction Contest.
Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to learn more about Issue 33 of Jewish Fiction .net, the April issue of The Lake, the Spring 2023 issue of The Writing Disorder, and be introduced to Copihue Poetry.
In other literary news, four former employees of Creative Nonfiction have banded together and launched Short Reads, a brand-new publication featuring original and reprinted flash nonfiction. Early contributors include Jaswinder Bolina, Brian Broome, Beth Ann Fennelly, Beth Kephart, Patrick Madden, and Deesha Philyaw.
The Thalweg becomes the latest publication featured in our New Lit on the Block series. The name comes from the geological term for “the deepest part of a canyon, the primary navigable channel of a waterway, a boundary between two formations where the current is the strongest.” Discover more about this annual publication of prose, short essays, poetry, stories, and visual art.
Enjoy new and forthcoming titles from independent and university presses on the NewPages Book Stand. Recently featured, discover Marc Vincenz’s The Pearl Diver of Irunmani which charts the paths of consciousness on an aquatic journey into the heart of mind and matter. Connie Post’s Between Twilight delves into the difficult journeys of everyday life and intersects them with the difficult maps of the past.
Owen McLeod’s Before After interrogates and celebrates the paradoxes of living in a world both beautiful and brutal while lovingly subverting the works of great poets in the search for novel meanings that match this world. Matthew Johnson constructs a space where the rural communities of Upstate, the suburban living of the Lower Hudson Valley, and the metropolitan landscapes of the City are woven together in a mosaic snapshot in his second volume of poetry Far From New York State.
Due out next month, Anthony Madrid’s fourth book Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise appraises this world “full of ancient things whose shapes and colors have changed.” Meanwhile Lee Upton’s seventh collection of poetry, The Day Every Day Is, allows the ordinary and supernatural to inhabit one another. John W. Evan’s collection The Fight Journal is now available. The winner of the Rattle Poetry Chapbook Prize, the collection is a bittersweet account of the complexities of connection, the power of sympathy, and the many forms that love takes in lives that continue.
Keep coming back to the Book Stand throughout the week to discover even more titles from Usman Hameedi, Joy Manesiotis, Barbara Tomash, Geoffrey Jacques, Sierra DeMulder, Nate Duke, and Emma Pérez.
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