New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter #112 Featuring 49 Submission Opportunities & Upcoming Events
Happy Monday! As happy as any Monday can be. This past week and weekend felt an awful like the week of Christmas, weather-wise that is (no ER visits and daily hospital visits thankfully). We had balmy weather in the 30s, rain, and fog. A lot of fog. You know it’s bad when you can’t see the woods across from my house. I am sure we will get another arctic blast coming our way. Milder times always seem to lead to some great, nasty weather that lasts twice as long as the nice weather does. February tends to be a hobgoblin of a month…either giving us false promises of a spring that’s farther off than it seems or slamming us with cold and snow.
The craziness of weather is the perfect excuse to stay indoors sipping some hot chamomile tea (because coffee is sadly bad for you) and relaxing with some great literature…or stressing over editing and submitting (in which case you may need to be drinking a LOT of chamomile tea). Either way, NewPages has you covered. Oh, and if you are an editor, The MacGuffin is currently seeking to fill empty positions on their prose staff. You can learn more about that here.
If you are an editor or writer looking to promote the latest issue of your journal or your new book, don’t forget NewPages is now offering sponsored posts on our blog at a very affordable rate. We also have mailing lists available for indie bookstores in the US and Canada, public and academic libraries in the US, and more.
The Magazine Stand features new and noteworthy issues of literary and alternative magazines. You can view a full list of all the new issues that NewPages received this past month on our New & Noted page. And if you missed out on what journals had new issues in December, don’t worry we did archive that for you.
Issue 88 of Kaleidoscope features several authors sharing ways they’re mastering the art of living with disability as an essential element of a creatively crafted life. Dave Wisniewski is the featured artist whose artwork also graces the front cover and is phenomenal. Southern Humanities Review issue 56.4 is full of water. A poem about renaming rivers. The story of a flight that ends in the ocean. An essay following boats full of refugees, landing in different countries, in different years. Themes of motherhood and mothers’ bodies are also woven throughout.
Where the Meadows Reside is a fledgling journal that was recently featured in our New Lit on the Block Series. Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief Meadow Sherif is a literary artist whose name you might think was the inspiration for the publication, but its inception is much more than that.
I’ve always been intrigued by the liminality of the world,” Sherif says, “particularly in Augé’s non-places, though even beyond when I could ever put a name to it. Where The Meadows Reside is endlessness, an inevitability. I find the relationship between humanity and endlessness very enduring.
Come back to the Magazine Stand this week to dive into Sky Island Journal’s Winter 2024 issue, Blue Collar Review’s Fall 2023 issue, The MacGuffin’s Fall 2023 issue, and The Main Street Rag’s Winter 2024 issue.
Recently on the Book Stand, dive into Red Hawk’s (aka Robert Moore) Book of Lamentations: Poems. The book opens with the poem, “Come Sisters, Let Us Lament,” which begins, “Where do we go, how / shall we make our way / when the Stars go out?” The collection is divided into sections of poems that seek to answer the question – or take readers on a quest of their own.
Yun-Yun’s debut novel, Unnie, has been revised and is set to be released by Libre Books to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster this April. Unnie follows Yun-young and her family as they await the news of what happened to her older sister as well as Yun-young’s journey to discover more of her unnie’s life.
Stay tuned to our roundup of new and forthcoming titles received in December and January. That will be coming on Wednesday. You still have time to check out all the new and forthcoming titles from November here.
Get more recommendations from our reviewers! Kevin Brown reviews Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri. While all stories take place in Rome, many of the characters in the stories are not actually Roman by birth. “By taking such an approach, Lahiri gives voice to a wide variety of characters, pointing out the multitude of stories found in a city like Rome.”
Debbie Pierre covers Fiona Lu’s debut chapbook How to Become the God of Small Things, winner of the 2023 Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award. The collection “delivers startling reality checks on mortality, leaving readers to ponder its visceral imagery in moments of stillness.’
Nick Agelis reviews The Parrot and the Igloo by David Lipsky, a nonfiction work focusing on climate change and the growing denial of its existence “rife with pop culture references.” Lipsky makes reading about a potentially pending apocalypse fun.
Drop by the blog throughout the week for reviews of All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow and Ritual by Dimitris Xygalatas.
Calls, Contests, & More
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 49 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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