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NewPages Newsletter Issue 97 Featuring 42 Calls for Submissions and Writing Contests
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Hopefully you have survived Friday the 13th unscathed and are ready to dive into another week of discovering new issues of lit mags, new and forthcoming book titles, and (for paid subscribers), new and ongoing submission opportunities. With autumn and winter holidays approaching as the year draws to a close, you can gift yourself or the lit lover in your life a subscription to our newsletter!
As October is half over with this means that you will get to enjoy our monthly eLitPak newsletter this week. This monthly special will be hitting your inbox on Wednesday, October 18, so please look forward to it. Interested in advertising in our eLitPak newsletter yourself? You can learn more here.
Today is the deadline to submit work to New Letters’ Editor’s Prize and Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize, so if you were planning on submitting to either or both contests, today is your last chance!
Last week we did have a spelling error. The Adorable Knife is by Jessica Purdy. We had accidentally misspelled her last name as Prudy. Our sincerest apologies for that. You can learn more about her book below.
Back again is Editor Denise Hill’s Lit Mag Covers Picks of the Week. Featured this week is Raoul P. Brosseau’s work, Le Protecteur, gracing the cover of The Healing Muse Fall 2023 issue; Sarah Sense’s collage of woven inkjet prints on the cover of Copper Nickel’s Fall 2023 issue; and work of experimental writer and visual poet Andrew Brenza on the cover of petrichor. Don’t forget to enjoy the work between the covers once you have finished admiring the art.
Our Magazine Stand highlights noteworthy issues of literary and alternative magazines so you can learn more about the latest releases from your longtime favorites and discover new favorites. The October 2023 issue of About Place Journal sees co-editors Nickole Brown and Erin Coughlin Hollowell gather work attempting to decenter our human story to speak not just about plants and animals, but for them, bringing them into the human realm. Online poetry journal The Lake’s October 2023 issue features work by Sarah Carleton, Lisa Delan, Julian Dobson, Erica Goss, as well as reviews.
The Fall 2023 issue of Superpresent is now available. This issue’s theme is “Naturally.” Enjoy reading this issue and consider submitting work to their next issue themed Provocations/Instigations. Enjoy original fiction by Pamela Painter, Sharon A. Pruchnik, and so much more in the September 2023 issue of online quarterly Brilliant Flash Fiction. Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to learn more about the 2023 print edition of Baltimore Review, the Fall 2023 issue of The Apple Valley Review, the Summer 2023 issue of SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review), and The Missouri Review Fall 2023 issue. You can also discover more about Wyngraf in our New Lit on the Block column.
In book news, don't forget to check out the Book Stand which highlights new and forthcoming titles primarily from indie and university presses. The Adorable Knife by Jessica Purdy is an intriguing poetry chapbook that explores the miniature crime scene creations of artist Frances Glessner Lee. In Purdy’s own words, “the poems are named after each ‘Nutshell,’ which are meticulously crafted crime scene dioramas meant to help police officers hone their observation skills.” The stories in No Use Pretending by Thomas A. Dodson encompass diverse genres, from ecologically informed realism to a Kafkaesque fairy tale, from fabulist “weird fiction” to an episode from The Odyssey that becomes a meditation on what distinguishes human beings from animals.
If It Comes to That is a collection that thoughtfully considers the human condition. Poet Marc Frazier shares deep reflections on the creative spirit, on the archetypes that encapsulate our behaviors, and on our relationship with the natural world. mahogany takes its name from the dark wood prized for its durability, workability, and elegant look, and from the Diana Ross movie, whose theme song asks if what lies ahead is what you really want. This book is the third in a trilogy by Erica Lewis, and like the first two books, it is steeped in pop music.
Mary Ruefle’s latest prose publication The Book feels both omniscient and especially intimate. In the spirit of friendship, Ruefle generously invites us to query ourselves as readers and thinkers in a world that will eventually endure without us. In Furniture Music, Montreal luminary Gail Scott chronicles her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era, in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art.
Don’t forget to come back to the Book Stand throughout the week to discover even more titles like Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences by Matthew J. C. Clark; Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi; and Nadia: A Novel by Christine Evans.
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Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 42 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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