New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter Issue 88 Featuring 36 Calls for Submissions and Writing Contests
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Happy August! Due to the wacky weather we’ve had over the spring and summer, leaves in Michigan, particularly on the maple trees, are starting to turn. It was weird to be in the UP at the end of July and see a lot of maples starting to show purple and red. Fall colors and the UP are something I can never seem to catch at the right time.
Next week our August 2023 eLitPak newsletter will be going out on Wednesday. If you’re interested in participating in the eLitPak this month, we still have plenty of space. You can learn more here.
While the start of the week has been a bit rough today, you can still enjoy some cover selections recommended by NewPages Editor Denise Hill as part of our Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week column. Picks this week include Jake Lever’s cover art for the Summer 2023 issue of Image, Las Hermana Iglesias’ cover art for The Georgia Review Summer 2023 issue, and an untitled detail photograph of James Baldwin gracing the cover of the Summer 2023 issue of The Massachusetts Review. Don’t forget to dive between the covers of these journals to discover more great writing and art.
Looking for more new issues? Stop by our Magazine Stand throughout the week to catch up. In the Summer 2023 issue of Colorado Review, readers encounter people watching and waiting, anticipating and missing signs of one kind or another, move uneasily through this issue. The baseball-themed literary journal The Twin Bill celebrates the Major League Baseball All-Star Game with the release of Issue Twelve. Redactions Poetry & Poetics Issue 27 is “The Sitcom Issue” and has poems revolving around sitcoms, including M*A*S*H, Gilligan’s Island, Seinfeld, Hogan’s Heroes, Night Court, and more.
Blue Collar Review: Journal of Progressive Working Class Literature Spring 2023 has much to offer readers looking for both solace and inspiration during these tumultuous times. The editors introduce poems by Lyle Estill, John Zedolik, and Ada Negri, as translated by Thomas Feeney. The newest issue of Cholla Needles (80) features beautifully mesmerizing cover artwork by Douglas A. Blanc welcoming readers into the issue filled with contributions from Douglas A. Blanc, Rose Baldwin, Brian Harman, Bruno Talerico, and more.
Learn more about fledgling literary magazine Twin Bird Review in our New Lit on the Block series. This new open-access online biannual, whose name comes from legend, publishes poetry, creative nonfiction, art, comics, and graphic narratives. Come back to the Magazine Stand later this week to discover more issues from The Main Street Rag, Mudfish, and discover more about online literary magazine Clinch.
Find your next read on the NewPages Book Stand which features new and forthcoming titles primarily from indie and university presses. Something to look forward to in January of next year is John Philip Drury’s The Teller’s Cage: Poems and Imaginary Movies which features works that swell the heart and the imagination through their cinematic storytelling. Coming in October, we have Charles Goodrich’s novel Weave Me a Crooked Basket which sees a sister, brother, and their adopted cousin back at the family farm for different reasons. Can they save the farm and preserve a way of life? Also forthcoming in October is Chris Rugeley’s novel Take Creek, For Example. The story follows an unnamed photography student who is tasked with surveilling the new transfer student for his final project, kicking of a wild and unpredictable final year of college.
Kathy Nelson’s poetry collection The Ledger of Mistakes explores the complexities of mother-daughter love in the context of a mother’s Alzheimer’s decline and death. Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing, due out in September, by Esra Mirze Santesso offers the first major study of comics by and about Muslim people. In Fig Season, poet Joan E. Bauer explores what it has meant to her to be Italian-American.
Come back to the Book Stand throughout the week to discover even more titles from Maddie Gallegos, Jahan Khajavi, Grzegorz Wróblewski translated by Piotr Gwiazda, Omekongo Dibinga, Kandi Maxwell, Joe Taylor, and Emma Wippermann.
NewPages has been working hard on updating our Guide to Indie Bookstores and we have been adding newly opened stores and recently discovered stores that are well-established in their areas. Don’t forget to stop by our Guide and support your local indies. It’s also a great reference if you have any late summer travel plans and you want to check out the local bookstores in that area.
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. Mary Beth Hines reviews Rachel Custer’s new poetry collection, Flatback Sally Country, in which “Custer’s linguistic alchemy draws the reader in from the start.” Kevin Brown gives his thoughts on Idra Novey’s Take What You Need which “explores the divide between the small towns that have deteriorated over the past years and the larger cities that have thrived.” Meanwhile Eleanor J. Bader reviews Francesca Nesi’s first novel, Imagine: A Tale of Love, Art, and Anarchy, which “is a paean to chosen family. . . . [and] also much more than this.”
If you’re interested in seeing your own review featured on our blog, please check out our revised guidelines and consider submitting to NewPages today. It’s free.
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 37 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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