New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter Issue 94 Featuring 41 Calls for Submissions and Writing Contests
News from NewPages
It sure is Monday. It’s also the final week of September. October officially starts this Sunday. The fall veggies are starting to fill the farmers market along with mums and dried sunflower heads. Everything pumpkin spice and maple seasoned are starting to hit the shelves and stores are putting up both Halloween and Christmas displays. The last of the summer yardwork is finishing and there is hopefully more time to sit, read, and write.
Have you recently released a book? NewPages offers marketing lists for indie bookstores, public libraries, and more. We are also now offering sponsored posts for new titles and new issues of magazines on our blog. You can learn more about this option here. Speaking of bookstores, we have been doing even more work on keeping our list of bookstores up-to-date and accurate, so do check that out when you have time.
The NewPages Magazine Stand features the latest issues of print and electronic literary journals. The Fall 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review includes the winner and runners-up for the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, selected by Ruth Awad, and a Food-themed folio. Issue 34 of Jewish Fiction .net just came out – a brilliant, 8-language issue, where, for the first time, more than two-thirds of the stories in it are translations. Tint Journal‘s editors Lisa Schantl, John Salimbene, Matthew Monroy, and Andrea Färber selected 25 texts for this 10th issue which features authors’ with geographical backgrounds ranging from Namibia to Belgium and from India to Mexico.
Independent nature-focused literary magazine Humana Obscura’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue features work by 53 new, emerging, and established contributors from around the globe, including Amy Aiken, Bryan Stewart, Debbie Strange, and more. The Shore online poetry journal Issue 19 drops a little before the leaves with a longing for shadows and solace. These poems lace their lines across distance to celebrate the shortening days. Plus, discover fledgling publication 128 LIT, a new publication offering open access to literature, art, audio, and video content posted online on a rolling basis as well as offering readers an annual print and digital download issue. Started by New York-based writer Andrew Felsher and Yehui Zhao, a multi-media artist, 128 LIT’s origin is numerical and “is intended to be liberated from the confines of language.”
In new book news, Hilary Zaid’s Forget I Told You This: A Novel released this month. Zaid’s book is the winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction and follows Amy Black, a queer single mother and an aspiring artist in love with calligraphy, who dreams of a coveted artist’s residency at the world’s largest social media company, Q. Stop by the Book Stand later this week to discover 18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages edited by Nora Gold, American Roulette (a novel written by eight authors), and Strip Mall: Stories by Matthew Thomas Meade.
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 more recommendations from our reviewers. Kevin Brown tackles Alice Winn’s debut novel, In Memoriam, which follows two British teens during their time at an elite boarding school through their time as soldiers during WWI.
Jennifer Martelli reviews Sarah Dickenson Snyder’s latest collection Now These Three Remain in which a “delicate balance of faith and doubt” is struck.
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 41 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.
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to NewPages Newsletter to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.