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It is already the end of March. It feels like a joke that April starts on Saturday. With the changing of months, don’t forget to check out NewPages’ Big List of Writing Contests for upcoming April deadlines. With the ending of March comes the end of our 20% offer for paid annual subscriptions to our Newsletter. This makes the price only $40 (the equivalent of $3.33/month). With an upgrade to a paid subscription, you can unlock our submission opportunities and upcoming events in every newsletter.
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Deadline updates! Don’t forget Barrow Street Press has extended the deadline of their inaugural Prose Book Contest to April 30 and The Missouri Review has extended their 2023 Perkoff Prize deadline to April 2. Speaking of deadlines, these opportunities all close on March 31: Sky Island Journal Issue 24, Prime Number’s 2023 Magazine Awards, Cleaver’s Form & Form-Breaking Poetry Contest, Fall for the Book’s New American Voices Award for Immigrant Writers, and Able Muse Press’ 2023 Book Award. Learn more about all of these opportunities and more at the end of this newsletter.
It’s time to check out the complete list of New & Noted Lit & Alt Mags received by NewPages during the month of March 2023. Several of these issues are highlighted in our Magazine Stand.
The Spring 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review includes a folio of literature in translation guest edited by award-winning translators Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, and Jeremy Tiang. Meanwhile, Tint Journal’s Spring 2023 issue includes 25 new stories and poems by authors from 23 different countries. These writers choose to write in English as their non-native or second language. EVENT’s lates issue, 51.3, is their latest Notes on Writing Issue. Enjoy notes by Aimee Wall, Sydney Hegele, and Brandi Bird. Issue 46.1 of Room is themed “Around the Table: Asian Voices.”
Arboreal Literary Magazine becomes the latest journal to be featured in Editor Denise Hill’s New Lit on the Block Series. This quarterly journal features poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Issues can be read online for free, or you can purchase a print edition. A portion of proceeds from the print editions are donated to One Tree Planted.
Keep coming back to our Magazine Stand throughout the week for issue updates from The Sunlight Press, The Shore, The First Line, and New England Review. Special this week is an introduction to a journal launching on March 29, Short Reads. You’ll also get to learn more about The Thalweg as the latest edition to our New Lit on the Block series.
There are plenty of new and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses to enjoy on our Book Stand as well. Gathering Sunlight brings together two extraordinary North American poets, Silvia Scheibli and Patty Dickson Pieczka, whose work exemplifies the depth to which the natural world and our place in it is perceived.
pH of Au by Vanessa Couto Johnson utilizes chemistry, alchemy, citizenship, and social connections to navigate location and displacement, physical and otherwise. Joshua Edwards’ longish poem in iambic pentameter, The Exhausted Dream, is available from Marfa Books.
Coming next month, discover Anthony Robinson’s Failures of the Poets. After more than 20 years of publishing, this is Robinson’s long-awaited first full-length collection full of beauty, heartbreak, humor, pain, absurdity, sorrow, friendship, and love. Leah Poole Osowski’s Exceeds Us takes its title from a line in Rilke’s second Duino Elegy and, at its core, is a book about new love and underlying illness.
Michael Sturza chronicles England’s history through the revolution in 1641–1642, which toppled the feudal political system, and its aftermath in The London Revolution 1640-1643. Meanwhile, Donna Spruijt-Metz attempts to reconcile the death of the father, the lies of the mother, a hidden half-sister, and the love for her daughter in General Release from the Beginning of the World.
Kristen Jokinen chronicles her travels with Ville Jokinen in Joy Ride, due out from Hawthorne Books in May 2023. Follow the pair as they meet, fall in love, and embark on a 2-year life-changing cycling adventure covering 18,000 miles.
Don’t forget to stop by throughout the week to discover more titles from Marc Vincenz, Connie Post, Owen McLeod, Matthew Johnson, Anthony Madrid, Lee Upton, and John W. Evans.
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Get even more reading recommendations from our reviewers. Kevin Brown covers Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood which evokes Shakespeare’s MacBeth. Catton’s characters have ambitions and are willing to do what they need to achieve them, “but the characters are more nuanced than in a typical tragedy.” Brown also tackles Jenny Odell’s Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock which critiques time as a construct used by “those in power” to “reinforce hierarchies, often based on race, ability, or gender, but especially socioeconomics.”
NewPages Editor Denise Hill gives her views on Seth Christian Martel’s graphic novel The Mare, whose “pacing drives readers through several well-connected layers of development.”
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