New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter #106 Featuring 40 Submission Opportunities
Next week is already the last full week of December. It doesn’t seem possible that a new year will be here soon, does it? NewPages will be on our annual winter break next week, but you will still get a newsletter packed with goodies as our present to you. And with January 1 being a holiday, our first newsletter in 2024 will be released on January 2.
If you will be traveling over the next few weeks, don’t forget to check out the indie bookstores in the area you will be visiting! NewPages has a great guide to new and used indie bookstores in the United States and Canada to help you out. We also offer mailing lists to indie bookstores in the US and Canada as well as to public and academic libraries in the US. Learn more here.
In case you missed it, our December 2023 eLitPak was emailed to subscribers last week. This month’s newsletter featured flyers from the 18th annual National Indie Excellence Book Awards, New American Press’ 2024 New American Poetry Prize, the Kenyon Review Summer Residential Adult Writers Workshops, Consequence Volume 15.2, Sixteen River Press’ annual call for book-length poetry manuscripts, About Place Journal’s Spring 2024 issue call for submissions, and an introduction to The Ekphrastic Review.
If you are still trying to figure out a quick and easy gift to give the writer and literature lover in your life, did you know you can give the gift of our newsletter? Perfect to help them find a good read or a good place to submit to or an upcoming event to attend.
Are you a lover of literary magazines? Swing by the NewPages Magazine Stand to discover the latest issues from your favorites. In the autumn 2023 issue of Chestnut Review online, artists and writers come together to contend with embodiment, relationships with the medical system, perception, love, and other pressing themes. Online journal Memoir Magazine accepts submissions and publishes on a rolling basis. Recent contributors include Jacqueline St. Joan, Shirlee Jellum, Kate Dowling, Jordan Midgley, Kristen Lambertin, and Tanya E. Friedman.
Volume 15.2 of Consequence features works from authors and artists from around the world who offer hard-won truths and insights into the realities of war and geopolitical violence. The January 2024 issue of World Literature Today headlines Gene Luen Yang, winner of the 2023 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Also spotlighted in this issue are Sona Jobarteh’s kora virtuosity, Icelandic noir by Katrine Jakobsdóttir and Ragnar Jónasson, and an essay on Holocaust survivor Stella Levi.
Come back to the Magazine Stand during the week to learn more about The Gettysburg Review’s final issue and Blink-Ink #54. As we do not, unfortunately, have the time to cover every issue we receive, you can view a full listing of magazine issues on our monthly roundup.
Build up your reading lists with the NewPages Book Stand featuring primarily books from indie and university presses. Christopher Stephen Soden’s collection Gusher features poems that re not “created to insight sighs from the audience. They are much more real than that, much more truly vulnerable than that, much more sticky and fun and difficult than that.” - Matthew Dickman author of Wonderland.
In Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey, wine merchant–turned–archaeologist and art historian Robert Bradley shares his past twenty-five years of personal discovery about the food of Peru and the history that led to its current culinary fluorescence today.
As we will be on break next week our full roundup of new titles received this month will be posted this Wednesday instead of next Wednesday. So, stay tuned for that update!
NewPages Blog
Stay caught up at our blog. There you can take in short reviews, new issues of literary magazines, along with new and forthcoming titles.
Get more recommendations from our reviewers! Susan Kay Anderson reviews Dale Houstman’s a dangerous vacation. “Much like the Dada expressionists after the First World War, Houstman is as much an artist as he is a poet and writer/reader, and we get to see his surreal view at work.”
Anderson also reviews Catharine Clark-Sayles’ The Telling, The Listening with poems that “are reports to professionals, from professionals, and to oneself.”
Come back to the NewPages Blog during the week to find reviews of Natalie Rice’s Scorch, Chetna Maroo’s Western Lane, and Slows: Twice by T. Liem.
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 41 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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