New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter #114 Featuring 50 Submission Opportunities & Upcoming Events
Hopefully if you ventured out to AWP you have arrived back home safely and with a good experience under your belt. If it’s a slow day for you, we have some great literature and submission opportunities to keep you busy while you slowly get back into the groove of normal life. Something to look forward to? Our monthly eLitPak Newsletter will be hitting your inboxes on Wednesday with even more literary goodies including submission opportunities and some great reads.
Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, so if you can, enjoy a traditional Polish paczki with your beverage of choice. With Valentine’s Day happening on Wednesday, if you have a writer in your life that would like to keep up with some submission opportunities, don’t forget you can give them the gift of our newsletter if you’re fresh out of gifting ideas or forgot what day it was.
Our New Lit on the Block series interviews fledgling literary magazines so that you can get to know more about them. Philly Poetry Chapbook Review is the latest journal to be featured. This journal is devoted to reviews of poetry chapbooks and so much more. “Readers of the site can expect to find short book reviews, long-form single-book reviews, long-form multi-book essays, craft essays on poetry and chapbooks, interview-driven author features, and weekly updates of poetry books.” Later this week you can learn more about ONLY POEMS, so stay tuned!
On the Magazine Stand, discover the Winter 2023/24 issue of The Writing Disorder featuring all-new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. Is it possible to read 100 books in a year? Visit The Writing Disorder online and read CL Glanzing’s article and find out. Salamander Issue #57 features the winners of the 2023 Fiction Contest, selected by Kirstin Valdez Quade: “Come Tomorrow” by Nina Sudhakar and “Americanos” by A.J. Rodriguez. The February 2024 issue of The Lake is now online featuring Bharti Bansal, Mark Belair, Frances Boyle, Bob Bradshaw, Lynn Hoggard, Laura Celise Lippman, Niall Machin, Beth McDonough, Ruby Hansen Murray, Michael Salcman, Alison Stone, Stephen Wing.
Get more recommendations from our reviewers! Kevin Brown reviews Ayana Mathis’ The Unsettled which follows three main characters, Dutchess, Ava, and Toussaint, who are all unsettled in some significant way. “In the same way that the characters struggle to find a place that is truly their own, Mathis shows how systemic racism and white supremacy have denied African Americans a home in this country.”
Brown also covers Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. The story follows two friends who are writers, one a success and the other not so much. When the successful friend dies, the other friend, June, steals an unpublished manuscript to pass off as her own. “June is not treated all that well when she’s a no-name novelist, and Kuang doesn’t hold back from criticizing the insularity of the industry.”
Brown’s last review is of Diana Evans’ novel A House for Alice which follows the Pitt family whose patriarch perishes in a fire on the same day of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. “Evans wants readers to think of house even more broadly, as most of the characters are searching for a home of some sort, whether that’s in their marriage or within themselves or in their country, especially given the UK’s colonial past.”
Jami Macarty reviews Sarah Rosenthal’s chapbook, We Could Hang a Radical Panel of Light, in which the reader is offered the opportunity to view the manual labor behind making cut-up and collaged poems from a dream journal.
Come back to the blog throughout the week to find reviews of The Last Day Before Exile by Selin Bucak, Life Cycle of the Mayfly by Maya Clubline, and A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery by Tina Carlson.
Calls, Contests, & More
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 50 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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