New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter #115 Featuring 53 Submission Opportunities & Upcoming Events
The Winter-Spring weather whiplash continues strongly here in Michigan. Cold and blustery with snow over the weekend and balmy and rainy predictions for later this week. But do you know what can be more dependable than the weather? Our monthly eLitPak newsletter. February’s was emailed to our subscribers last Wednesday. If you’re a new subscriber or managed to miss out somehow, you can view it online here.
We had a few technical snafus happen last week with things not posting on time and issues when anyone outside of the US and Canada tried to access our website, but all of those things have been fully resolved thankfully.
Editor Denise Hill recommends three new covers in her Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week series. Enjoy Jj D’Onofrio’s photograph In the Garden of Grace and Chaos gracing the cover of Kestrel #50, lush and mesmerizing photography by Don Patty on the 2023 cover of Slippery Elm Literary Journal, and lazy dork working by Émilie Gleason on the Spring 2024 issue of Epoch. Once you’re done admiring the covers, don’t forget to enjoy the work inside them.
Speaking of magazines, ONLY POEMS becomes the latest journal to be featured in our New Lit on the Block series. The unique platform of ONLY POEMS includes a Poet of the Week series which shines the spotlight on a poet’s oeuvre of work (“or a small beautiful sample of it”) by publishing 3-10 poems by the same poet. Come back to our Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover the journal Postcard and to learn more about the February 2024 issue of Rogue Agent and Issue 7.1 of River Heron Review.
In other literary news, Sarabande Books is presenting Zine Lunch! This is a free weekly online workshop “designed to be a fun and low-stakes way to make time for creativity.” Sessions are one hour and hosted by an author or friend of the press who guides participants in a uniquely designed practice. Learn more here. And speaking of free workshops, the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) is offering free weekly online comics workshops on Fridays. These are hosted by a professional cartoonist who leads participants through a structured drawing and/or storytelling exercise. Discover more here.
Get recommendations from our reviewers! Eleanor J. Bader covers The Last Day Before Exile: Stories of Resistance, Displacement and Finding Home by Selin Bucak. While the stories told here are not representative of all asylum seekers and refugees, “they nonetheless provide a nuanced introduction to the dangers facing political activists, LGBTQIA+ people, feminists, and select ethnic groups by anti-democratic governments.”
Jami Macarty reviews Maya Clubine’s chapbook Life Cycle of the Mayfly, a series of poems memorializing her relationship with her grandfather and father through the sport of fly fishing. Macarty also covered Tina Carlson’s third collection A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery where “In these poems, there is an alternative to sorrow; there is perseverance.”
Denise Hill enjoys Pénélope Bagieu’s newest memoir collection of comics, Layers, which “seems to follow the standard course of symbolism in deconstructing a past through layers of memories, some connected experiences, and some seemingly random recalls.”
Come back to the blog this week for reviews of In a Body by Emily Hockaday, Absolution by Alice McDermott, and Come & Get It by Kiley Reid.
Calls, Contests, & More
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 53 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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