New Submission Opportunities & Great Literature
NewPages Newsletter #110 Featuring 44 Submission Opportunities
2024 is off to one heck of a start, isn’t it? Hopefully everyone survived the winter storms and dipping temperatures safely. Did you know that many indie bookstores have online ordering systems? A perfect excuse to stay indoors in the safety of your own home while still shopping local and feeding your literary sweet tooth. Don’t forget that NewPages has an online guide to indie bookstores in the US and Canada selling both new and used books to help you there.
January is already half over with this week, so that means you can look forward to our very first eLitPak of the new year! It will be hitting your inboxes Wednesday afternoon chock full of upcoming events, submission opportunities, and more. We have also been making a lot of updates to our Big List of Writing Contests. We have been adding new contests and updating deadlines, so don’t forget to check it out!
The Magazine Stand features new and noteworthy issues of literary and alternative magazines. “Living with Art” is the theme of Still Point Arts Quarterly’s Winter 2023 issue and is truly beautiful and engaging. Provocations/Instigations is the theme for Superpresent Winter 2024 issue, which is most fitting since “provocation and instigation is really what the artists and writers do,” says Editor Kevin Clement. “Some the contributors instigate and provoke, others point out when it’s being done to us.” Kaleidoscope: The Art and Language of Inclusion has launched episode five of its podcast. Focusing on issue 87 of the same-named Kaleidoscope magazine, this episode aims to lift the words from the pages to present them to an audience through a different perspective.
If you love discovering new journals, you will love Editor Denise Hill’s New Lit on the Block series featuring interviews with the editors of fledgling publications. The latest journal to be featured is 7th-Circle Pyrite. Founder and Editor in Chief Keiraj M. Gillis describes 7th-Circle Pyrite, an online bi-monthly of spirituality/religion, occult, horror, gothic, paranormal, mythology/folklore, and fantasy in all genres of writing and artwork.
Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to learn more about the Winter 2024 issue of The Kenyon Review. And don’t forget to drop by the Book Stand later this week to discover Three Sixes and a Forked Tongue or Cold Medicine and a Liar by James Tyler Toothman which was released in December 2023.
Get more recommendations from our reviewers! Kevin Brown reviews two titles. The first is This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America, a graphic memoir by Navied Mahdavian. “Navied and Emilie move to Idaho just before the 2016 election, which highlights such comments even more, making the book ultimately about Navied and Emilie’s attempt to find a country, to truly make a home, in a place that doesn’t welcome them.” The next book is Paul Harding’s This Other Eden in which “Harding reminds readers that what we do to others today will appear quite different a hundred years from now, which should give us pause before we alienate those who don’t match our definitions of normalcy.”
Colm McKenna reviews A Shining by Jon Fosse, a pamphlet compared to the doorstop that is Fosse’s multi-volume Septology. Coming in at 75 pages, “the story can be summarized as follows: in the midst of a dérive, a man drives aimlessly (much like Fosse himself did while calming his nerves before the announcement of his being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature), turning left and right without a thought, before he finds himself deep in the forest, his car stuck in the mud.”
Drop by the blog throughout the week for reviews of Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, Telling the Truth as It Comes Up by Alice Notely, Transitions: A Mother’s Journey by Elodie Durand, and Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke.
Calls, Contests, & More
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 44 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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