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NewPages Newsletter #121 Featuring 52 Submission Opportunities & Upcoming Events
Happy April 1. Hopefully you have managed to make it through the day without being beleaguered by pranks. There are a lot of submission opportunities closing today (sadly not a joke), so don’t miss out on them. As always, if you are looking for writing contests to enter, don’t forget to check out our Big List of Writing Contests to help plan out your submissions calendar.
Last week we published our New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues update for March as well as our New Books Received for March. We get so many new journal issues and new books in that it is just too hard to cover them all individually on our blog, so it’s a great way to catch up and decide what you want to read next. In other literary news, Able Muse Press has extended the deadline of its Book Award to April 8 and after a brief hiatus Snapdragon Journal has announced that they are once again open to submissions.
The Magazine Stand features the latest issues of literary and alternative magazines. The Shore Issue 21 brings fresh new poetry, a rush of color and chaos, just in time for spring with work by Madeline Allen, Erin Redfern, BEE LB, Brendan Byrne, and more.
The Spring 2024 online issue of Willawaw Journal highlights the graphic literature of J.I. Kleinberg’s found poetry (including the cover image). She and several poets in this issue responded to CMarie Furhman’s prompt “Hells Canyon Revival,” which is also included. Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover the Spring 2024 issue of The Writing Disorder.
In other lit mag news, our New Lit on the Block series is back with an introduction to Shadowplay. This new annual publication is edited by the students in the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Arkansas - Monticello.
Need help selecting your next book to read? Get help from our reviewers. Mary Beth Hines reviews George Bilgere’s Cheap Motels of My Youth. Hines finds Bilgere to be a “master of shifts in perspective and time.” Meanwhile, Kevin Brown covers Percival Everett’s James. The first half of the novel closely follows the plot of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn fairly closely before taking a different, much darker and more realistic turn.
Brown also covers Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters by Charan Ranganath. The goal of the book is to get “readers to see that our brains work quite well when it comes to memory, once we understand why we remember what we do.”
Come back to the NewPages Blog later this week for reviews of A Rupture in the Interiors by Valerie Witte, The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, and Romance Language by Amy Glynn.
Did you ever get bored in college and pay attention to footnotes and sidenotes in your textbooks? I must admit that sometimes during classes, I would be sketching and writing out of sheer boredom and one time I actually composed a poem inspired by the notes in one of Shakespeare’s plays. If you have not tried this exercise before, it can be quite interesting. What does that note say? How does it compare to the original language used? What did you learn that you can play with to help get your own creative juices flowing?
Calls, Contests, & More
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 52 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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