New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter Issue 92 Featuring 38 Calls for Submissions and Writing Contests
News from NewPages
It’s Monday again and can you believe September will be half over with on Friday? Guess what that means? The September eLitPak will be heading to your inboxes on Wednesday, so a little extra goodness to look forward to. It being Monday also means there are new covers to admire on the blog. This week Editor Denise Hill has chosen Nicole Holloway’s digital collage, It’s a Different Kind of Cold, featured on Geist #123; Michael Snyder’s photograph from his “The Queens of Queen City” longform photo documentary on the cover of the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review; and Jessamyn Violet’s photograph on the cover of Breakwater Issue 34. Once you are done admiring the covers, don’t forget to read and admire the work lying between them.
Want to enjoy even more issues from literary magazines? Don’t forget to check out the Magazine Stand. The newest issue of Blink-Ink is themed “Secrets” and features twenty-five stories of “approximately 50 words” each. The newest issue of Plume online (#144) features poems by Bruce Bond and Dan Beachy-Quick, Sandy Solomon, Troy Jollimore, and more. The Fiddlehead No. 296 (Summer Poetry 2023) is the publication’s triennial summer poetry extravaganza! This issue features poetry from over 50 contributors, including Kim Addonizio, Derek Austin, Ali Blythe, John Barton, Sadiqa de Meijer, to name a few.
The September issue of The Lake online journal of poetry and poetics is now online and features work by Charlie Brice, Abby Caplin, Eric Chiles, Joe Flood, Katie Kemple, Lanny Ledeboer, Betsy Martin, Kushal Poddar, Lisa Rossetti, Rochelle Shapiro, J. S. Watts, Sarah White. Don’t forget to come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover even more new issues from Boulevard, Walloon Writers Review, and learn more about The Dawn Review.
Need help building up your reading list? The NewPages Book Stand is here to help with new and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses. Coming from Tailwinds Press in November, Notes from the Trauma Party sees Michael Keen create a post-Knausgaard fictional reality that is as devastating as it is hilarious. In The Way Land Breaks, award-winning poet Rebecca Brock uses time—human and geological—as both anchor and engine.
Distinguished by expert attention to image and phrase, line and sentence, rhythm and tone, George Witte’s An Abundance of Caution proves much more than a showcase of virtuoso technique. Lisa C. Krueger’s Floriography Child is a book about salvation: what gives people strength in the face of adversity, not just to endure, but to move through and beyond our myriad human sufferings.
Don’t forget to come back to the Book Stand this week to discover Jared Harél’s poetry collection Let Our Bodies Change the Subject.
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Get more recommendations from our reviewers. Kevin Brown covers Jeffy Boyd’s debut novel The Weight. “Julian and his friends are an enjoyable group to spend time with, even when they’re making decisions the reader (and everybody else in the novel) knows are choices that will lead them in the wrong direction, at least until the end.”
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Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 38 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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