New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter #102 Featuring 44 Submission Opportunities
Happy Monday and an early Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Hopefully you can find some time to rest, recharge, get writing, get editing, get submitting, or just read for pleasure. Whichever of these options, NewPages has you covered with great literature recommendations while paid subscribers can access great submission opportunities as well.
If you will be traveling for the holidays, don’t forget about NewPages’ Guide to Indie Bookstores across the US and Canada. The list is constantly being updated as we learn of new stores and long-established stores all of the time. Ready to start marketing your book? NewPages does offer mailing lists for indie bookstores, public libraries, and academic libraries. Learn more here.
If you missed out somehow, our November eLitPak was released last Wednesday featuring flyers for Livingston Press’ no-fee Tartt First Fiction Award, Kevin Carey’s new book Junior Miles and the Junkman, december Magazine’s 2024 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize, the University of North Carolina - Greensboro’s MFA in Creative Writing program, the National Indie Excellence Book Awards, Third Street Review’s November reading period, a special subscription offer from Poets & Writers magazine, The Kenyon Review’s online Winter 2024 writing workshops, Consequence’s Volume 15.2, the Amsterdam Review’s Fall 2023 issue, and Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Black Fox Prize and general submission period.
On the Magazine Stand you can find new issue announcements from literary and alternative magazines. The Louisville Review’s Summer 2023 issue Number 93 features Alfred Conteh’s painting Aaron on the cover and an essay about the work contributed by Alice Gray Stites along with so much more. Consequence Volume 15.2 features works from authors and artists from around the world who offer hard-won truths and insights into the realities of war and geopolitical violence. Amsterdam Review’s Fall 2023 issue is filled with poetry, translations, interviews, and visual arts by local and international artists and includes an exclusive interview of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Don’t forget to come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week for Issue 8.2 of Collateral and the Fall 2023 issue of The First Line.
Time to bulk up on your reading list with the help of the NewPages Book Stand which features new and forthcoming books primarily from indie and university presses. High Lonesome by Allison Titus is a radio left on in a candlelit room, playing softly into the shadows as the hours fall through the evening. Interruptions of static, a slow confetti of grief drifting into the corners, mysterious white noise dispatches. Kevin Carey’s Junior Miles and the Junkman, says Naomi Shihab Nye, is a “tender, transformative novel for all who sometimes feel they don’t fit in, for anyone who’s ever been struck down by scamming or bullying, and for anyone who ever suffers profound pangs of loss.”
The Capture of Krao Farini by Nay Saysourinho is part Turing test, part circus flyer. Written in the imagined voice of Krao Farini, a real sideshow performer brought to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, the book dissolves the line between algorithm and spectacle to reveal the ultimate consolation prize. Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932–2019) was a prolific and prize-winning French poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. In her poetry, she combines an erudite vocabulary and references to classical literature with an earthy sensibility and a fascination with experiencing the smallest moments of everyday life fully. Enjoy her collection With Death, an Orange Segment Between Our Teeth translated into English by Wendeline A. Hardenberg.
Come back to our Book Stand to discover Janice Deal’s Strange Attractors: The Ephrem Stories. Also, since next week is already the final week of November, you can enjoy a roundup of new issues and new titles that we received during the entire month, so stay tuned for that next Monday and Wednesday.
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! Kevin Brown reviews Kelly Link’s White Cat, Black Dog, a collection drawing inspiration from Grimm’s fairy tales to create new stories. “Though Link has modernized some of the settings and plots from Grimm’s collection of tales, humanity never seems to change.” Kevin Brown finds that Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend “is more concerned with Annis’ inner life and her relationships with her family and others who are enslaved than she is with recreating the brutality of the system.”
Meanwhile Susan Kay Anderson finds the prose poems in How To by Heather Cadsby to be “hilarious, and their titles are satisfying enough let alone the body of the poems.” She also believes Leesa Dean’s Apogee/Perigee “is a sacred, esoteric book of poems not to be approached offhandedly.”
Jami Macarty finds that the poems of Claire Wahmanholm’s Meltwater “read like a glossary of ‘every passing catastrophe,’ acknowledging that everything is ‘made of / vanishing.’” Macarty also finds that “Margaret Ray’s Good Grief, the Ground ‘sparkles with impermanence,’ ‘the most delicious tingling.’”
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 46 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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