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NewPages Newsletter Issue 83: Featuring 36 submission opportunities!
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Happy July! Tomorrow is already the fourth. We at NewPages wish you a happy and safe holiday. If you are on vacation this week, NewPages is happy to supply you with new lit mag issues and new book titles to help keep you busy!
Speaking of keeping busy, are you ready for a submission bender? Driftwood Press’ Adrift Short Story and Adrift Chapbook Contests close on July 15 as does Nimrod’s Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers. Meanwhile, you have until July 31 to enter the Press 53 2024 Award for Poetry and the 2023 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. Learn more about these opportunities below. Enjoy submission opportunities and upcoming writing and literary events before they go live on our site by subscribing (or upgrading to a paid subscription) today.
Are you a fan of cover art? NewPages Editor Denise Hill picks her favorite covers of literary magazines each week and shares them with our blog readers. This week’s selected covers are 45th Parallel’s Summer 2023 issue, Louisiana Literature’s Issue 40.1, and Zeniada’s Summer 2023 issue. Check out these awesome covers here. Speaking of lit mags, The Palisades Review is a new featured journal on NewPages. They are an online and print literary magazine founded in the Summer of 2022 to celebrate short form nonfiction. You can learn more about them here.
Get caught up on recently released issues of your favorite magazines on our Magazine Stand. Online literary magazine The Shore has just released Issue 18 which brings the heat of distance and language and parenthood into haunting haze and burning light of the new season. The Lake’s July 2023 issues is also available to read online and features Catherine Arra, Ace Boggess, L. J. Carber, Eva Eliav, George Franklyn, Ann Malaspina, and Liz McPherson, to name a few contributors.
Radar Poetry Issue 36 continues its pairings of poetry and visual media. This issue features poetry by Jacqueline Berger, Alecia Beymer, Luke Eldredge, Josh Exoo, and more, as well as art by David Boyle, Kiley Brockway, Adam Dahlstrom, Armando Jaramillo Garcia, and Jim Ross. Glassworks, a publication of Rowan University’s MA in Writing program, has released Issue 26 featuring work by E. O. Conners, Faith McNaughton, Joanna Acevedo, Devon Brock, and more.
Online multi-lingual review of contemporary international fiction, The Barcelona Review Issue 107 includes their regular quiz feature where readers can test their knowledge of cyberpunk - 21st century AI that has appeared in literature. You’ll also get work by Bandi (an anonymous North Korean dissident who smuggled short stories into South Korea), David Frankel, Garry Vass, and more. Issue 9 of online journal Plant-Human Quarterly, devoted to exploring the many ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world, features work by Candela Murillo, Robert Bensen, Margaret Chula, Deborah Doolittle, Camille Dungy, and others.
The July/August 2023 issue of World Literature Today hit the road to explore “The Bookstores of Middle America” and chose favorite destinations in nine states. You’ll also be able to enjoy Veronica Esposito’s new “Untranslatable” column, Andrew Lam’s moving homage to his mother, Shahd Alshammari’s favorite books on disability and illness, and so much more. Issue 5 of Good River Review features poetry and prose by Adeleke Adeyemi, makalani bandele, DeMisty Bellinger, Kris Bigalk, Bea Bolongaita, and more. Between their biannual issues, stop by their site to enjoy book reviews, interviews, essays on the practices of writing, and other literary news.
The Spring/Summer 2023 issue of Tiferet offers readers over 80 pages of works to enjoy with cover art by Richard Stocker. Contributors to trampset in June 2023 include Brett Biebel, Sean Ennis, Sumitra Singam, and Erik Kennedy. Aji Issue 18 is themed “Moon” and contributors include Joe Bisicchia, Elizabeth Crowell, Michael Hettich, Jocelyn Quevedo, Sharon Tracey, and Ellen June Wright. Issue 11 of online annual Waxing & Waning is themed “As Water We Rise.” Enjoy fiction, poetry, and art from David Bradley, Tomislav Silipeter, R. Nikolas Macioci, Nathan Shipley, Catherine DiMercurio, Monica “Mono” Campbell, and more.
Don’t forget to come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to enjoy more issues from Superpresent, Paterson Literary Review, Salamander, Bending Genres, and The Writing Disorder. Love books? Then you’ll love discovering new titles from university and indie presses at our Book Stand! Tell Me What You See is the debut short story collection of Terena Elizabeth Bell and offers readers ten experimental works about coronavirus quarantine, climate change, January 6th, and other events from 2020-21. Coming in September, readers can enjoy Tony Trigilio’s Craft: A Memoir which is an exploration of the writer’s craft through a series of short, linked personal essays.
E. J. Koh’s The Liberators: A Novel is due out from Tin House Books this November. The novel spans continents and four generations of two Korean families forever changed by fateful past decisions made in love and war. Love horror stories? Then A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories, edited by Richard Z. Santos, will be right up your alley. Enjoy a wide range of styles, themes, and even a little poetry! Aquarius Press is bringing back Margaret Walker’s collection October Journey with the addition of works not seen in decades for a special 50th anniversary edition.
Joseph Bathanti’s The Act of Contrition & Other Poems is a series of linked stories and one novella that continues the adventures of Fritz Sweeney and his outrageously memorable parents, Travis and Rita, began in Bathanti’s The High Heart. Meanwhile, the poems in True for the Moment by Ian Ganassi address the transient and impermanent nature of internal life as it intersects with life in the world. Gordita: Built Like This is an autobiographical comic by Daisy “Draizys” Ruiz. The 28-page color comic follows Gordita, a young Mexican-American teenager who lives in The Bronx and struggles with low self-esteem and body dysmorphia.
Petrochemical Nocturne, a novel by Amos Jasper Wright IV, is a discursive and often surreal exploration of environmental racism, southern history, the prison-industrial complex, police brutality, inter-generational trauma, and climate change. Good things come to those who wait…anticipation is half the fun, right? Amy Glynn’s Romance Language: Poems was winner of the 2022 Able Muse Book Award for Poetry and is due to be released in January 2024.
Come back to the Book Stand throughout the week to find more titles from Laura Mullen, Trevor J. Houser, Judy Rowe Michaels, Faith McClaren, Ben Hatke, Hayley Gold, an anthology of dark military science fiction stories edited by Eric Fomley, and the next book in The Unsung Masters Series edited by Dana Leven and Adele Elise Williams.
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Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 36 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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