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NewPages Newsletter Issue 84: Featuring 35 submission opportunities.
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The July fourth holiday is behind us. If you were able to get away on vacation, we hope you had a fun and relaxing one. NewPages has now set up a Threads account and are working out how to use it and keep it updated regularly. If you’d like to join us there, you can find us by searching newpagesdotcom in the app or view our Threads profile here.
With July already being half over with this week that means our monthly eLitPak Newsletter will be hitting subscriber inboxes on Wednesday, so stay tuned. July being half over with also means that a few submission opportunities will be ending soon, too. In writing contests, the no-fee swamp pink Prizes for Indigenous Writers close July 15 as does Nimrod’s Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers, and Driftwood Press' Adrift Contests. In general calls, Wordrunner eChapbook’s extended call for prose mini-collections closes on July 15 as does Able Muse’s regular submission period, MER - Mom Egg Review’s themed Ages/Stages issue, and Molecule’s current reading period for tiny works of 50 words or less.
Since it is Monday, you can find the latest Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week. And don’t forget that these journals don’t just have great covers, but also great content! Featured this week is Your Impossible Voice Spring 2023, 86 Logic Issue 9, and Yolk Literary Magazine Summer 2023. Speaking of lit mags, enjoy discovering the latest issues on our Magazine Stand. Featured contributors of The Writing Disorder’s Summer 2023 issue include Jennifer Blake, Rozanne Charbonneau, George Capaccio, Beatrice Feng, Sydney Hollins-Holloway, Eric Lee, and Maja Lindberg.
Bending Genres seeks “thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction pieces.” Issue 33 contributors include Catherine O’Brien, Jess Richardson, Erin Mizrahi, Pat Foran, Kathryn de Lancellotti, Kristin Idaszak, and Samuel Edwards to name just a few. Issue 56 of Salamander features more fiction and creative nonfiction than ever before with work by Leanne Ma, Alyson Mosquera Dutemple, Martha K. Petersen, Zach Semel, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Chelsea Dingman, and more.
Paterson Literary Review Number 51 includes work by Martin Espada, Joe Weil, Marge Piercy, Dante DiStefano, and the winning poems from the Allen Ginsberg Award, plus so much more! Superpresent’s Summer 2023 issue is themed “Inquiries” and unlike past themes, they did not expand on the theme as they sometimes do in their submissions call. Enjoy all the different takes on this theme including poetry by Duncan Forbes and art by Aimée Beaubien.
Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to enjoy more new issues from Cholla Needles, Collateral, The Gay & Lesbian Review, The Palisades Review, Bomb, and About Place Journal.
Love discovering new and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses? Then you will want to take a gander at our Book Stand. Forthcoming in August, discover Trevor J. Houser’s The Prumont Method in which math hobbyist Roger Prumont creates a formula that may predict just when and where the next mass shooting will occur and sets out on a road trip with his unimpressed daughter to test if the Method can save lives. Ben Hatke’s graphic novel Things in the Basement is also due out in August. When Milo is sent to fetch an errant sock from the basement of the historic home his family moved into, he discovers a door and a whole world down there filled with Things that live in the shadows and gloom.
Currently available, enjoy Dread Space Volume 2 edited by Eric Fomley. This anthology is filled with dark military science fiction stories where soldiers are doing their best to stay alive against otherworldly odds and unimaginable terrors. Contributors include Wendy Nikel, Robert Bagnall, Liam Hogan, Dawn Vogel, and Jonathan Ficke. Judy Rowe Michael’s poetry collection This Morning the Mountain deals with her sixth bout of cancer which coincided with the deeper grief of her husband’s death. These poems find the music to explore not only our natural fears of loneliness, insufficiency, heartbreak, and death but the celebration of love.
Ellie is Cool Now is the result of Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren “plopping” an adult romcom chapter onto Wattpad which earned them favorable readership and a Watty Award. The novel follows Ellie, a former nerd and outcast during high school, as she writes for a TV show about popular high school kids and can only get the promotion of a lifetime by attending her high school reunion. The fourteenth volume of The Unsung Masters Series focuses on Bert Meyers. Enjoy a large selection of Meyers’ very best poems along with appreciations from José Angel Araguz, Jim Bogen, Victoria Chang, Amy Gerstler, Garrett Hongo, Daniel Meyers, Barry Sanders, Ari Sherman, Maria Simon, Sean Singer, and others.
Hayley Gold’s Nervosa is a graphic memoir that traces how her own life was irrevocably damaged by a callous medical system and her own eating disorder, offering readers a remarkably candid exploration of the search for hope in the darkness. Available in November, EtC by Laura Mullen explores contemporary American selfhood, socially mediated and economically motivated, within a system where we learn to see and represent ourselves as one marketable image among many.
Stop by the Book Stand throughout the week to discover more titles from Ype Driessen, Pénélope Bagieu translated by Montana Kane, Enzo Silon Surin, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Jarret Keene, and Arthur Kayzakian.
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! Keven Brown gives his thoughts on Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions, a novel formed from interlocking stories following four Nigerian girls as they become women. NewPages Editor Denise Hill reviews three titles from Maamoul Press and The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature.
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Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 36 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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