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Happy first day of Spring! Chances of snow are sadly still in the forecast, but we’re trying to stay positive and think of warmer weather and no storms for a while at least. If you somehow missed it, our March eLitPak newsletter was sent out to subscribers last Wednesday. You can access it online here.
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Deadline updates! Don’t forget if you’re a student currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program, tonight’s the deadline to submit to online literary magazine Mistake House. Able Muse has announced they have extended the deadline for their Write Prize to midnight PDT tonight while Barrow Street Press has extended the deadline of their inaugural Prose Book Contest to April 30. The Missouri Review has also announced a contest extension. You now have until April 2 to enter their Perkoff Prize. Learn more about all of these opportunities and more at the end of this newsletter.
With a change in season, it means we get more new issues of great literary magazines! You can find new issue announcements on our Magazine Stand. Recently covered, find the Spring 2023 issue of online and print Still Point Arts Quarterly, themed “Minimalist Wisdom.” CUTTHROAT is donating all profits from the sale of Issue 27 to Endangered Species Preservation. This 357-page anthology is chock full of poetry and prose devoted to the climate crisis with work by Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, J. Drew Lanham, Linda Hogan, Luis Alberto Urrea, and many more.
The March 2023 issue of Poetry contains “How It Continues to Astonish: The Poetry of Ann Lauterbach” with an introduction by Richard Deming and works by Kinsale Drake, Nam Le, Dorothea Lasky, Yahya Hassan, Jenny George, Laura Villareal, and more. You can now enjoy the eighth edition of Cholla Needles’ Young Writers and Artists series. These special issues appear twice a year. Spring 2023 issue of Rattle features a tribute to Irish Poets with 17 poems from contemporary writers and a conversation with Frank Dullaghan.
The San Francisco Youth Anthology was highlighted in our New Lit on the Block Series. This online quarterly offers middle-school, high-school, and college-aged writers and readers of any age a platform for all genres of creative writing. Stay tuned this week for new issues from Room, EVENT, and Tint Journal. You will also get introduced to Arboreal Literary Magazine.
We also have plenty of new and forthcoming titles to introduce to you this season as well. Don’t forget to frequent our Book Stand to help build your reading list with titles from indie and university presses throughout the year.
Emily Lee Luan’s 回 / Return is set to be released by Nightboat Books next month. The collection is rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese “reversible” poem and is engaged in the act of looking back. J.T. Mahany translates Catherine Pioli’s Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story into English. In this graphic novel Pioli tells the story of how she was catapulted from being a healthy young woman into the world of the seriously ill.
A perfect release for the season, Sarah Blake’s In Springtime is now available. This epic poem features a nameless main character lost in the woods to enjoy a magical world without using any magic at all. Aby Kaupang’s & there’s you still thrill hour of the world to love was released by Parlor Press last month. The collection invokes life’s relentless suffusion of “&.”
Robert Lunday’s Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness is available now from the University of New Mexico Press. This hybrid memoir was the winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize and recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author’s stepfather, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Paul Peart-Smith offers the first graphic adaptation of W. E. B. Dubois’ The Souls of Black Folk. This new release vividly conveys the continuing legacy of Du Bois’ seminal work, effectively updating it for the era of the 1619 Project and Black Lives Matter.
Ranjit Hoskote’s eighth collection of poems, Icelight, enacts the experience of standing at the edge of a life, a landscape, a world assuming new contours or going up in flames. Ray Gonzalez’ Suggest Paradise offers up rich and complex poems that embody the Southwest and the borderlands, including a poignant look at the massacre at the El Paso Walmart. Catherine Rockwood edits a collection of works from Reckoning Press, an annual journal of creative writing and environmental justice. Our Beautiful Reward is a special issue on bodily autonomy that was anthologized on the occasion of the repeal of Roe v. Wade.
Seth Christian Martel’s The Mare follow’s Indy as her life spirals out of control with her father’s public divorce and drinking problem, the loss of her job, and what she believes is stress-induced sleep paralysis.
Don’t forget to stop by the Book Stand throughout the week for more new book releases from Kristen Jokinen, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Michael Sturza, John W. Evans, Leah Poole Osowski, Anthony Robinson, Joshua Edwards, and Vanessa Couto Johnson.
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