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New Magazines August 2025

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Discover new works to read with NewPages.com New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues, highlighting literary and alternative magazines with new issues of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art.

Each month, we offer readers a round-up of new issues with content blurbs for our featured publications. The newest in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, artwork, photography, media, contest winners, and much more!

Find out more about many of these titles with our Guide to Literary Magazines and our Big List of Literary Magazines and Big List of Alternative Magazines.

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Magazine Stand :: Baltimore Review – Print Annual 2025

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Baltimore Review 2025, an annual print compilation published by The Baltimore Review, features the poems, fiction, and creative nonfiction — the work of 63 writers — in the summer and fall 2024 and winter and spring 2025 online issues. The book also includes the winners of the summer 2024 (Final Judge Kathy Flann) and winter 2025 (Final Judge Francine Witte) short-forms contests: Amanda Auchter, Taylor Ebersole, and Al Dixon (summer 2024) and Dawn Dupler, Marika Guthrie, and Kayla Rutledge Page (winter 2025).

The Baltimore Review, founded in 1996, is a literary journal publishing poems, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The journal’s mission is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers from the Baltimore area, from across the U.S., and beyond. Visit the journal’s website to read current and past issues, and to submit your own writing.

Meet the editors at the upcoming Baltimore Book Festival (September 13-14), Baltimore Writers’ Conference (November 15), and AWP 2026.

Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag – Summer 2025

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The Main Street Rag Summer 2025 issue opens with an interview with Chuck Joy, poet and playwright, whose newest book of poetry, White and Blue, is forthcoming later this year from Main Street Rag.

Also included in this summer issue of The Main Street Rag is prose by Jackson Herring, Nathan Rohan, Fiona Sinclair, Scott Bassis, Margaret Benbow, and Dr. John A. Wilde; poetry by Rick Adang, Kenneth Baker, Rachel Barton, Francis Carpentier, Gianna Improta, Sasha Reese, E. Laura Golberg, Patricia L. Hamilton, Jane Hammons, Daniel Edward Moore, Colleen S. Harris, Mark W. Kumming, Craig Kirchner, Donald Levering, Alison Luterman, Daniel Thomas Moran, Will Nixon, Paul Rabinowitz, Anne Rankin, Laura Ann Reed, Timothy Robbins, R. James Sennett, Jr., Robert Sparrow-Downes, Diane Stone, Linda Stryker, Richard Allen Taylor, Jim Tilley, Dan Veach, Eric Weil, and Daniel A. Zehner.

Readers can also find book reviews of Love Sick Century by Elly Bookman, Bus Poems by Michael Franchioni, Midlife Calculus by Britt Kaufmann, and Only Believe by Jennifer Bartell.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Missouri Review – Summer 2025

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The Missouri Review Summer 2025 issue is themed “Location, Location, Location,” as Speer Morgan comments in the Foreword, “Location is as important in literature and art as it is in real estate. When and where and among whom — setting and milieu — anchor readers and allow them to enter an imagined world.” Referencing the unique perspectives of Honoré de Balzac, Andrew Wyeth, and Syd Mead, Morgan concludes, “The essays, poems, and short stories in this issue of TMR are quite different yet illustrate that location in art matters. These writers all take us somewhere special.”

Additionally, readers will enjoy new fiction from Katherine Cart, Thea Chacamaty, Maria Kuznetsova, and Perry Lopez; new poetry from Andrew Hemmert, J.S. Westbrook, and Emma Winsor Wood; and new nonfiction by Seán Carlson, Zack Ford, and Rose Whitmore. Also included is an art feature about the painter Suzanne Valadon. The publication’s feature ‘Curio Cabinet’ highlights “Alfred Cheney Johnston: Master of the Publicity Photo” and his “contributions to the iconic flapper figure.”

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The MacGuffin – August 2025

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The MacGuffin August 2025 features an expanded (and expandable fold-out) art portfolio of Sculptor Pascal Piermé to celebrate their fortieth volume in print. Returning contributor Max Blue offers a review of an obscure film by French auteur Jacques (“An Appeal to Unreason: On L’essai, the Banned Film of Jacques), and Ron McFarland revisits in poetry what is undoubtedly Vivaldi’s most famous work (“L’inverno”). Go for a ride with Angela Townsend’s nonfiction work, “Out to Dinner,” but do pull off for a pit stop to get the car’s-eye view in Colby Vargas’s fictional “Beast Runs.” Multidisciplinarian Laura Vogt bridges poetry and prose in a two-part mini feature, “Three Words for What We’ve Lost,” and in the poem “When My Kids Start to Speak English,” Kuo Zhang bridges cultures in a bilingual household to close the issue.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Fiddlehead – Summer 2025

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Welcome to The Fiddlehead’s Summer Creative Nonfiction issue!

Summer is a time to enjoy the great outdoors, but make some time in your schedule to enjoy an extra large helping of the best creative nonfiction The Fiddlehead could find! Inside this collection of 23 pieces, readers will find a diverse series of forms, including flash, hermit crab, lyric, collage, and diptych essays, along with personal narratives, a conversation between two nonfiction writers, and more traditional forms.

The issue features the winner of the Creative Nonfiction Collective’s 2025 contest, Karen E. Moore’s “Our Reflection in Flames.” The contest judge Danny Ramadan describes this piece as “a genre-bending essay on loss, grief, sorrow, and the aftermath of an intense trauma.” Other writers featured include Brian Braganza, Harper Hugo-Darling, Line Dufour, Ariel Gordon, Kevin Kellman, Frances Peck, and many more!

Stay tuned to The Fiddlehead website for details about a hybrid launch in September, as they continue to celebrate 80 years of publication!

Cover art: S’more Please by Terry Price.

Magazine Stand :: Chestnut Review – Summer 2025

Illustration of monarch butterflies on milkweed flowers with the text "Chestnut Review for Stubborn Artists Volume 7 Number 1 Summer 2025."

Providing “a literary home to stubborn artists and writers,” Chestnut Review maintains a strong business model, paying writers and staff while maintaining financial transparency. Their summer 2025 issue is available open-access online, with an interview by Kate Caraballo with Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, author of Uncensored Snapshots, as well as poetry by Amy Thatcher, Bethany Jarmul, Emma Bolden, Joemario Umana, Noreen Ocampo, Oladosu Michael Emerald, Ossian Houltzén, Sayuri Matsuura Ayers, Tim Stobierski, Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi; prose by Esme Kaplan-Kinsey, Mhembeuter Jeremiah Orhemba, Pauline Holdsworth, Sara Quinn Rivara, Yasser El-Sayed; and artwork by Camellia Paul, Jacelyn Yap, Mike Wheeler, Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel, and Rachel Feirman, whose gorgeous work, Monarch and Milkweed, is featured on the cover.

Chestnut Review also offers weeklong creative retreats for writers, providing workshops, professional feedback, and community in a supportive environment, with upcoming retreates in Wales, United Kingdom, and Merida, Mexico.

Magazine Stand :: Revolute – Volume .006

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Revolute, a digital literary magazine published by the Randolph College MFA program since 2019 has students contributing to every part of the publication process. Volume .006 features an interview and CNF from Lauren W. Westerfield whose book Depth Control: Essays and Autofictions (Unsolicited Press) was published spring 2025. The online issue also includes poetry by Jared Beloff, Mirande Bissell, Robert Krut, Tina Posner, Mary Simmons; fiction by Jon Doughboy, Teresa Milbrodt; and nonfiction, Jeff Dingler, Jess Lettieri, Sara Javed Rathore, Rachel M. Reis.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Plume – #168

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The newest online issue of Plume: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry (#168) features Hester Knibbe’s “The homeless roamer,” translated from Dutch by Arno Bohlmeijer; Elí Urbina’s “Beyond the Unnamed Thickets of Silence,” translated from Spanish by Jeremy Paden, and works by Tara Skurtu, Sydney Lea, Mary Jo Salter, Jane Springer, Gary Soto,  Sharon Dolin, Christopher Buckley,  Christina Pugh,  Billy Collins, Ron Smith, some of which include audio recordings, and commentary from the poets and translators.

The issue also includes “A Master of the Living Art: A Conversation with Paisley Rekdal by Frances Richey” and featured essay, “Obeying the Call of Luminous Things: Writing in Paris with Czeslaw Milosz by David Havird,” which “exegetes the Nobel Prize winning poet, Czesław Miłosz’s Aristotelean obsession with particulars over against ‘universals,’ which he referred to repeatedly in his poetry as ‘luminous things.’  In so doing he reveals just how effectively and memorably Miłosz transformed the recondite expression of philosophical parlance into ‘memorable speech.’”

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Permafrost – Issue 46

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“America’s Farthest North Literary Magazine,” Permafrost is a literary journal run by the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Readers can enjoy both print with online access and online-only issues each year featuring high quality poetry, prose, and hybrid works from both established and emerging writers. The newest print issue (46) includes poetry by Joshua Boettiger, Margaret Carter, Tyler Heath, Carol Durak, Emily Wall; fiction by Charlie Rogers, Alex Juffer; nonfiction by Brian Benson, Angela Townsend; and a hybrid piece coupling poetry and art by Dale Williams. Cover art: “Germination Sequence” by Kyle Agustines, 2024. Visit the Permafrost website to read the full content online.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: River Heron Review – 8.2

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Publishing poetry online since 2018, River Heron Review 8.2 features an interview with Rosa Lane and new works by Christine Degenaars, Jessa Queyrouze, Michael Lauchlan, Chrissy Stegman, Darren Demaree, Daniel Lurie, ariel rosé, Kathryn Petruccelli, William Rieppe Moore, David Eileen, Mike Bove, Cole Pragides, Alison Tanik, Rebecca Faulkner, and Lauren Elaine Jeter. Included in this update is the River Heron Poetry Prize 2025 Issue, spolighting the work of Winner Alison Tanik, Winner and Finalists Julia Foshee, Annette Sisson, and Maria Surricchio.

River Heron Review offers structured and generative workshops facilitated by experienced writers and editors following the Amherst Writers and Artists model of positive reinforcement to guide each writer in developing their unique voice. Limited seats are also still available for the River Heron Review Recharge: A Poet’s Retreat focusing on “Rewilding the Poem” scheduled for October 2025.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Thorn & Bloom 02: Breaking the Cycle

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Following the acclaimed launch of its debut issue, Thorn & Bloom — the literary magazine redefining self-care as resistance — presents its bold second edition, Breaking the Cycle. This quarterly publication continues its mission to fuse personal healing with collective liberation, now turning its lens toward dismantling oppressive narratives that bind us.

Thorn & Bloom 02: Breaking the Cycle features bold voices that interrogate societal conditioning and explore how unlearning can forge pathways to personal and political freedom. Where the first issue laid the foundation for self-care as radical honesty, this edition pushes further, offering language as a tool for fracture, freedom, and rebirth, all through essays, poetry, fiction, and expert insight.

“True liberation begins when we disrupt the stories imposed upon us,” says the editorial team. “This issue is an invitation to unlearn, to rise, and to rewrite.”

Inviting readers are over two dozen contributors, including Kara Dorris, Agbeye Oburumu, Grace Flaherty, CJ The Tall Poet, Rita Moe, Melanie White-Heron, Kristy Ettel, Mars Gorman, Mary M. Brown, Margaret Gibbs, Taslym Umar, Tinamarie Cox, and Rachel Turney, among others.

Rooted in inclusivity and empowerment, Thorn & Bloom is a haven for stories that break open and build a new, where vulnerability meets defiance, and self-care becomes revolution. Here, storytelling is not just art but alchemy, turning pain into power and words into weapons of liberation.

Magazine Stand :: Sky Island Journal – Summer 2025

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Sky Island Journal’s stunning 32nd issue (Summer 2025) features poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction from contributors around the globe. Accomplished, well-established authors are published — side by side — with fresh, emerging voices. Readers are provided with a powerful, focused literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. Always free to access, and always free from advertising, discover what over 160,000 readers in 150 countries, and over 1,100 contributors from 57 countries, already know; the finest new writing can be found where the desert meets the mountains.

New Lit on the Block :: The Turning Leaf Journal

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While the colloquial phrase to turn over a new leaf essentially means to seek out a fresh start, something new, for The Turning Leaf Journal, “change” is both a theme for the journal’s content as well as a publishing philosophy.

Offering two, open access issues each year (June, December), The Turning Leaf Journal publishes creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, and art “that explore the turning over of a new leaf through life’s entrances, exits, seasons, formation, and destruction. This journal is a space to explore the uncomfortable, the things most usually run away from.”

“Change is the prompt for all of the work submitted to us,” says Editor-in-Chief Megan Eralie-Henriques, “but it is also the reason we started The Turning Leaf. As an undergrad, I felt disenchanted by the idea of publishing because of all the secrecy I saw. There was so much I didn’t understand, and I felt like no one was willing to talk about what it was really like to get involved with a journal. I wanted to know how competitive a journal is – show me the numbers! Tell me what a 3% acceptance rate really means. Were there a thousand submissions, or fifty? Transparency is something we really value at TTLJ and strive to always practice because we think you deserve to know. In my early attempts to publish my own work it would have completely altered my confidence to know just how many submissions my work was competing against.”

Continue reading “New Lit on the Block :: The Turning Leaf Journal”

Magazine Stand :: The Baltimore Review – Summer 2025

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The Summer 2025 issue of The Baltimore Review features the winners of their summer contest selected by final judge Pamela Painter: “It’s Not the End of the World, but I Can See It from Here,” prose poetry by Corey Zeller; “Tornado Family,” flash creative nonfiction by M.S. Reagan; and “Back Together Again,” flash fiction by D.E. Hardy. Filling out the rest of the issue that readers can access online include Stefan Balan, Adriana Beltran, Kate Broad, Tom Busillo, Dolapo Demuren, Sam Flaster, David Hansen, D.E. Hardy, Andrea Figueroa-Irizarry, Michael T. Lawson, M.S. Reagan, Fay Sachpatzidis, Tim Stobierski, Maureen Tai, Cammy Thomas, Julie Marie Wade, Carson Wolfe, and Corey Zeller.

Readers can also check out past issues online back to the Winter 2012. Before that — starting with Vol. I, No. 1, Winter 1997 — The Baltimore Review was print only and continues to publish an annual print compilation every summer.

Magazine Stand :: The Lake – August 2025

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The August 2025 issue of The Lake, online journal of poetry and poetics, is now fresh and features works by Dolo Diaz, Mike Dillon, Syvia Freeman, Norton Hodges, Shirin Jabalameli, Tom Kelly, Marion McCready, Maren O. Mitchell, Donna Pucciani, Fiona Sinclair, and Susan Stiles. Readers will also enjoy poetry book reviews of Donald S Murray’s Tales of a Cosmic Crofter, Victoria Gatehouse’s The Hawthorn Bride, Vicki Feaver’s, The Yellow Kite, and Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax. ‘One Poem Reviews’ offer a sample of poetry from recently published collections. August shares works from Indran Amirthanayagam, Diane Elayne Dees, Robin Houghton, Brenda Kay Ledford, Beate Sigriddaughter, and J. R. Solonche.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

New Lit on the Block :: Moonday Mag

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Moonday Mag is home to speculative writing, including horror, fantasy, scifi, magical realism, anything that spawns from the “what if” of a creator’s mind. Publishing quarterly online and in print, Moonday Mag was started by Editor-in-Chief Caridad Cole who sought to “bridge a gap” she experienced when seeking to publish her own work. “Moonday Mag will give speculative writers a more traditional platform for their work, and in turn, give them the confidence to pursue even bigger goals. I wanted to create a magazine that I myself would strive to be published in, a place that publishes work that makes me think, Wow I wish I had written that!“

The name for Moonday Mag, Cole explains, “comes from an old teenagehood blog, which was named for a combination of Monday (the day of the week I was born, and the subject of my favorite nursery rhyme, “Monday’s Child”) and the moon (an obsession for as long as I can remember). The first poem I ever wrote was called “Starstruck by the Power of the Moon,” and I have no idea why. Maybe I’m from there.”

Continue reading “New Lit on the Block :: Moonday Mag”

Magazine Stand :: Superpresent – Summer 2025

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Publishing online and in print since 2020, Superpresent‘s Summer 2025 issue is now available. This free quarterly magazine of arts and literature presents striking visual art and writing equally, always free to download or view online with print copies sold at cost of production plus postage.

This newest issue feature prose by Zach Murphy , Rituparna Mukerjee, Brittany A. Silveira, Andrew Wickham, Renée LoBue, Richard Abramson, Anna-Grace Tracy, Arjun Razdan, Ben Guterson, Devin Murphy, Dominic Pillai, Dorit d’Scarlett, Makhosini Mpofu, Katya Cengel; poetry by Duncan Forbes, Spider Dailey, Abi Tabor, Carole Greenfield, Edilson Ferreira, Effie Spence, Miriam Sagan, Rita Moe, Brittany A. Silveira, CJ Giroux, Flossie Hedges, Carolina Hospital, Kate Price, Kelsey Britton, Larry Kilman; art by -1, Alyona Fedorchenko, Aleksandra Sceptanovic, Sheridan Hines, Alex Charey, Oleksandra Viazinko, Anastasiia Teslenko, Cyril Oluwamuyiwa Emmanuel, Clara Hoag, Kamila Jantos, joni brown, Oksana Kami, Natali Agryzkova, Isomidddin Eshonkulov, Maria Faust, Shahriar Medi, Grzegorz Wroblewski, Ernest Compta Llinas, Julia Forrest, Anton Konovalenko, Leemour Pelli, Li Bilestka, Brent Galen Adkins, Maksym Romenskyi, Dănuț-Adrian-Iași Chidon-Frunză, Antonio Muñiz , Barak Rotem, Mariia Horshkova, Madeline Hernandez, Tyler Alpern, Mary Jane; video and sound Héctor Almeda, Jourden Fenner, Chalotte Leamon, Roxana Halina.

Magazine Stand :: The Meadow – 2025

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The Meadow is a free, annual print and online journal of Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada, publishing works from new and established writers and artists and one of the few literary journals in the country publishing students alongside well-known authors. Submissions are open every year from August 15 thru January 15. This newest issue features nonfiction by Trinity Smith and Landa wo, fiction by Billy Thompson, Kendall Klym, S. Frederic Liss, David W. Berner, and Laura Lambie, and poetry by Robert Wrigley, Jan Beatty, Ace Boggess, Dani Putney, Audrey Buccola, Melanie Diaz, Moon Grizzle, Jason D. Benjamin, Rachael A. Trotter, Brytlee Hansen, Hunter Brown, Isai Diaz, Christopher Linforth, Kimberly Ann Priest, Gabrielle Patterson, among many more contributors rounding out this reading experience. A beautifully crafted publication to savor slowly and deeply through the year or gobbled up in one sitting!

Magazine Stand :: Black Warrior Review – Spring/Summer 2025

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The Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Black Warrior Review (51.2) features the work of Artist Char Jeré with a full-color portfolio of work inside as well as on the cover. The issue also includes a dedicated portfolio of Palestinian writers with “amplified stories that challenge and inspire us, creating space for voices that refuse to be silenced.” In keeping with Black Warrior Review‘s “long tradition of pushing boundaries and championing brave new voices,” the editors write, “In putting together 51.2, we have read and written freely, unburdened by literary convention or fear of failure. We have shattered molds, challenged norms, and uplifted narratives that defy categorization. And in breaking with tradition, we have created a tradition that is entirely our own.”

Contributing to this new tradition is poetry by Angie Mazakis, Holly Zhou, Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, Ashley Warner, Hussain Ahmed, Milla van der Have, Brionne Janae, Kim Jensen, Iqra Khan, Dana Tenille Weekes, Lisa Suhair Mujaj, Rajiv Mohabir, Haya Abunasser, Sa Whitley, and Thaer Husien; prose by Amber Starks, Uyen Phuong Dang, Thalia Williamson, Nicole Chulick, Robert Randolph, Jr., Megan Walsh, Thea Lim, Mary Leauna Christensen, M. K. Thekkumkattil, Suchita Chadha; and comics and art by Emily Lewandowski and H. Roth-Brown.

Magazine Stand :: The Political Librarian – 8.1

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If you care about libraries and want to understand how recent decisions will impact the role they play in our culture, the newest issue of The Political Librarian is a good place to start. Published by the EveryLibrary Institute, The Political Librarian is “dedicated to expanding the discussion of, promoting research on, and helping to re-envision locally focused advocacy, policy, and funding issues for libraries.”

The newest issue (8.1, 2025) is a special issue: “The 2024 Election and the Future of Libraries” and features articles like “Sentiments on the State of Libraries After the Election” by Andrew Thomas Sulavik, “Thank You for Your Service to the American Public: A Perspective from a Fired Federal Worker” by Carrie Price, “Information Literacy Should Be About Democracy, Not Databases” by Stephen Kiel, “Culture War by Executive Order: President Trump’s Cultural Directives and the Threat to Libraries and Museums” by John Chrastka, “Fight if You Can Win. Otherwise, Negotiate.” by Bill Crowley, “Safeguarding Libraries, Schools, and Communities from Political Threats: A Strategic Framework for Engagement, Advocacy, and Sustainable Organizing” by Kacey Carpenter, and many more that can be read free access on the Open Scholarship platform at Washington University Libraries, ISSN: 2471-3155.

Magazine Stand :: Offcourse Literary Journal – Issue #101

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The newest issue of Offcourse Literary Journal (#101) is now available for readers to enjoy online. Since 1998, Offcourse Literary Journal has published diverse international literature — poems, stories, essays, and more — four times yearly, featuring authors globally with English translations. This June 2025 issue features “How long does it take to count 100?” a meditation by Lois Greene Stone, “The Mayor’s Peacocks,” a story by Harvey Sutlive, “Ode to Noses” and other poems by Sarah White, as well as works by Ruth Bavetta, Allain Blaithin, Rose Mary Boehm, Tony Dawson, Louis Gallo, John Grey, Kathleen Hellen, Robert Klose, Miriam Kotzin, Ricardo Nirenberg, James Penha, Marci Rich, Barry Seiler, Ian C. Smith, Harvey Sutlive, Kyle Walsh, and Sarah White with Rose Mary Boehm’s review of Gary Grossman’s Objects in the Mirror may be Closer than they Appear. All content is available to read open access online.

Magazine Stand :: Kaleidoscope – Summer/Fall 2025

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Kaleidoscope explores the experience of disability through literature and the fine arts, and the Summer/Fall 2025 issue (#91) is available now. Things are not always as they seem and coming to this realization usually requires a shift in perspective, a lesson learned by young and old alike in this issue.

In the featured essay, “Iron Girl,” Cassandra Brandt was a rarity as an iron worker and welder in a field that was predominately male. At thirty-two, she was a strong, fearless, self-sufficient, and adventurous single mom of a thirteen-year-old daughter. She felt at home on a construction site, hard hat and steel-toed boots on, climbing onto beams several floors above the ground. When a car accident left her paralyzed from the chest down, she went from fiercely independent to utterly dependent in the blink of an eye. It would take time for her to redefine herself and recover her mental toughness.

Artist Erika Marie York is featured in this issue along with many talented writers: Jennifer Lee Austin, David Bachmann, Notty Bumbo, Douglas G. Campbell, Mimi Eagar, Hannah Ehrlich, Elly Katz, Isolde Keilhofer, Rowan MacDonald, Allegra M. Marcell, Deb Robert, Wendy Sheehan, Naomi Stenberg, Poppy Reeves, Mary Ellen Talley, Joseph Trance, Susan Levi Wallach, Devon Wells, and Emily Yates.

Magazine Stand :: Cool Beans Lit – Summer 2025

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The latest issue “Summer 2025” (Vol. 2, Issue 2) of Cool Beans Lit features 25 talented authors and artists of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art that capture the sharp human element and unpredictable nature of our current state. Some of the pieces involve themes of upending stages of life, a comedic view on the pervasiveness of social media influencers, a true tale of sudden life-altering hearing loss, and the struggle of an immigrant seeking a new life by means of escape and survival. These contributors represent a broad range of backgrounds, experience, and viewpoints and hail from several countries and walks of life, including physicians, educators, actors, editors and novices, as well as seasoned authors/artists and best sellers. Take a break and dip a toe in this refreshing summer issue of Cool Beans Lit.

Magazine Stand :: Blink-Ink – #60

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The theme for Blink-Ink Issue #60 is “Seeds,” which could mean a small thing that we plant and nurture to grow bigger things we need, or it could mean a promise, a hope, a plan to provide and to make things better. Seeds can also be where the future waits and dreams or even stays dormant, waiting for just the right moment to burst forth. Writers submitted their best stories of “around 50 words,” and those whose works were planted in this issue include Maddie W. White, Kathy Lynn Carroll, Anne Anthony, Richard Zboray, Vali Hawkins Mitchell, Sushmita Sridhar, S.A. Greene, Tracy Royce, Lisa Williams, Daryl Scroggins, Francine Witte, Ayesha Gallion, Jill Holtz, Carolyn R. Russell, Chris Bowen, Kate Noble, Rachel Turney, Sharon J. Clark, Rosaleen Lynch, Nadja Maril, Rowan Tate, and Marcy Arlin.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Southern Humanities Review – 58.2

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The sunny new Summer 2025 issue (58.2) of Southern Humanities Review features poetry selected by Guest Poetry Editor Gabrielle Bates.

The issue includes poetry by Sean Cho A., Rhony Bhopla, Leia K. Bradley, Patrycja Humienik, Willie Lee Kinard III, Jeni O’Neal, and Mandy Shunnarah. Readers will also enjoy new nonfiction by Allison C. Macy-Steines and Julie Marie Wade, and fiction by Nwanne Agwu, Leslie Pietrzyk, Alyssa Quinn, and William Pei Shih.

Cover art by Jaye Bartell, Gray Stray Cat 68th Avenue, December, 2022. (Olympus Pen FT half-frame camera. Courtesy of the artist.)

Magazine Stand :: The Shore – Issue 26

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The Shore Issue 26 meets the blistering heat and the storms of early summer with its face turned directly into the weather. Scorched or soaked, it features electric new poems by Samuel Dickerson, Richard Siken, Natalie Padilla Young, Yishak Yohannes Yebio, Ryan Wong, Bethany Schultz Hurst, Yan Zhang, Rongfei Mu, Kathleen Winter, Carter Rekoske, S Janaki, Rebekah Rykiel, Anastasia Nikolis, Emily Pérez, Lorrie Ness, Ken Holland, Deirdre Lockwood, David Dodd Lee, Donald Pasmore, Haley Hodge, Ann Chinnis, Jenny Maaketo, Amrita Noor, Jordan Cobb, Rowan Tate, Chloe N Clark, F M Stringer, Kelle Groom, Charles Kell, Melissa Hughes, Virginia Kane, Lindsay Kellar-Madsen, William Varner & D A Angel. It also features art that screams with life and smoke and shade and brightness by Derek Ellis.

Magazine Stand :: Zone 3 – Issue 39.1

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Zone 3 annual literary journal published by Austin Peay State University and their Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts is now available for readers to enjoy online, including their Editor Prize Winners as well as new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Sara Beth Childers, Heather Hawk, Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nicole R. Zimmerman, Amy Bagwell, Derek Jon Dickinson, Anna Abraham Gasaway, Hailey June Gross, Morgan Hamill, Callie Jennings, Quincy Gray McMichael, Mary Meriam, Dayna Patterson, Laura Ribitzky, Carson Sandell, Jon Tobias, Milagros Vilaplana, Genevieve Abravanel, Brett Biebel, Frank Reilly, and many more.

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Magazine Stand :: Hiram Poetry Review – Spring 2025

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In the Editor’s Note for the Spring 2025 issue of Hiram Poetry Review, Willard Greenwood writes, “When the HPR first came into existence, we published poems by Charles Bukowski — see our first couple of issues. Since then, we have been on the lookout for outlaw poets and their various desperado philosophies in poetic form.”

Joining the ranks in the newest issue of Hiram Poetry Review are works by Fred Arroyo, Katie Berta, Neil Carpathios, Lynn Gilbert, Jake Hunter, Jeff McRae, Daniel Morris, J. Alan Nelson, Gloria Parker, Robert L. Penick, Joseph Powell, Beth Brown Preston, Gabriel Ricard, Claire Scott, JR Solonche, Jeff Tigchelaar, and many others.

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Magazine Stand :: New England Review – 46.2

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New England Review 46.2 features stirring prose by Kirk Wilson, Nur Turkmani, and Rebecca Chace; luminous poetry by Bridget Lowe, Inkyoo Lee, and Jon Pineda; the special folio “The Sharpened Will of Us All”: Contemporary Salvadoran Writing in Translation, guest edited by Alexandra Lytton Regalado; and much more. Cover art: Homogenized, 60×36 inches, acrylic and multimedia on canvas, by Josué Rojas.

Additionally, in the Editor’s Note, Carolyn Kuebler contemplates with readers on the shifting threats we are negotiating daily and the role of literature in the fray: “Authoritarianism has always been antithetical to literature, which questions what we’re told and how to think. Even when it’s being ignored, literature works as a tool for freedom: freedom to create, reflect, observe, tell the truth, and imagine; freedom from ‘the tyranny of the present.’ But when the margins no longer offer cover, when you’re no longer invisible but vulnerable at the center, then what? Like in dodgeball, is it preferable to concede? To dodge and continue to play by the rules, or walk away from the game entirely? Maybe the metaphor ends here, because when it comes to writing, publishing, and the work of NER, we plan to stay in the game as long as possible.”

Magazine Stand :: About Place – May 2025

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“Careful/Care-full Collaboration,” the May 2025 issue of About Place Journal, is now available for readers to enjoy open-access online in addition to the publication’s full archive.

“Creative collaboration,” write the editors, “is an opportunity to summon and practice ways of being in the world that honor multiplicity, reciprocity, reflection, and, foremost, care. Challenging myths of exceptional individualism as constructed within colonial and capitalist contexts, collaboration arises as a method of and commitment to seeding and nurturing webs of knowledge, histories, practices, and relationships with each other and the places that are sacred to us. Guided by these understandings, the most recent issue of About Place Journal contemplates what it means to entangle in co-creative practices and processes that are both careful and full of care.”

About Place is a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute, dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society.

Consequence Volume 17.1 Now Available

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In Consequence Volume 17.1, a theme emerges of how affecting a difference doesn’t only have to happen on a global scale—it can and should include the more local ones. This is maybe most conspicuously expressed in the essay “A Trip to Kosovo” where a doctor returns to the war-torn country to navigate its broken bureaucracy in hopes of getting his nephew immediate cancer treatment and ends on the line: If the world can be saved, it will be by small acts of kindness. View flyer for more information.

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Magazine Stand :: Posit – Issue 39

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Introducing readers to Posit Issue 39, the editors write, “Four months into the ever-more-alarming New World Disorder seems like as good a time as any to offer something other to contemplate…if not an antidote, then at least a respite, and perhaps a reminder of what else we humans can produce.” The works in this open-access online issue, note the editors, “we believe they can help. Help us see and feel more deeply. Help us confront where we are in these drastic and alarming times. And help us imagine going forward.”

Featured in Poist Issue 39 are poetry and prose by Joan Baranow, Daniel Biegelson, Charles Borkhuis, Julie Carr, Shou Jie Eng, MK Francisco, Shawnan Ge, Julie Hanson, Denise Newman, Randy Prunty, Elizabeth Robinson, and Dan Rosenberg; paintings and sculpture by Steve Greene, Elizabeth Hazan, and Sarah Peters; and text + image by Dale Going and Marie Carbone.

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New Lit on the Block :: Apotheca Journal

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If literary publications are concerned about their future, they might do well to assess what they are doing to fuel the creative interests of the next generation, as evidenced by Apotheca Journal, a monthly online publication showcasing poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, creative non-fiction, photography, artwork, and more by contributors aged 14-22.

Founder and Editor Ann Sproul explains how one experience encouraged her to launch a literary magazine, “When I was in seventh grade, I received my first writing award: publication and a $1,000 scholarship from Bluefire Journal. The whole experience really raised my confidence not only as a writer but as a person. Ever since then, I have wanted to edit for a magazine. The world needs young writers and artists who realize that their voice is valuable. Those are the people who are going to grow up and be unapologetic for what they have to say. It can be difficult for young writers and artists since the majority of magazines are for adults. Through Apotheca, I am hoping to afford other young writers and artists the same confidence I felt when I was first published.”

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Sponsored :: Magazine Stand :: Walloon Writers Review – Ninth Edition

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Walloon Writers Review Ninth Edition is a collection of short stories, poetry, and nature photography inspired by northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula’s natural beauty. More than sixty contributors pack this year’s edition with reflections, adventures, memories, and discoveries. Suitable for general audiences, readers in Michigan can pick up a copy while they’re exploring “up north” (see the list of booksellers and shops the magazine’s website under the “Where to Find Walloon Writers Review” tab) or armchair explore and order a copy online from most independent bookstores in Michigan, BarnesandNoble.com, Bookshop.com, or Amazon.com.

Magazine Stand :: Red Tree Review

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Red Tree Review Issue Five online is a stellar collection of fine poetry from many talented voices, some seasoned and some emerging: Ron Riekki, Martha Zweig, Robert S. King, Glen Armstrong, Dan Sicoli, Jane Rosenberg LaForge, Kenton K. Yee, Kimberly White, Jason Fraley, Dan Raphael, Lynn Domina, Austin Allen James, Peter Mladinic, Jacqueline H. Harris, and Elizabeth Girdharry. As always, the selected works deliver moments of surprise, harrowing urgency, and sheer awe that brings us, if only for a second, outside of our small selves.

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Magazine Stand :: The Common – Issue 29

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This newest issue of The Common features a special portfolio highlighting photography and translated prose from Amman, Jordan; short stories from Hawai‘i, Kenya, Baton Rouge, and an Austin boxing gym; an essay on ritual and clothmaking in Cameroon; and poems by Erica Dawson, Rick Barot, Mary Jo Salter, John Kinsella, Julia Kolchinsky, and more. The Common is available for purchase in print as well as in Kindle, PDF, or e-book format.

TEACHERS: see Teach the Common. The editors will help with selecting the best issues for your curriculum, scheduling a classroom visit with Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Acker who answers students’ questions and provides a look into the publishing process, and providing resources, like sample lesson plans, complementary readings, audio, and interviews tailored to your chosen issues to enhance student engagement.

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Magazine Stand :: The Lake – June 2025

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The June 2025 issue of The Lake online journal of poetry and poetics is now available and features works by Ian Clarke, Barbara Daniels, Lyudmyla Diadchenko, PM Flynn, Gabrielle Meadows, Sreeja Naskar, Tony Press, Hannah Stone, Jeanine Walker, and Louise Worthington. Book reviews include Greg Rappleye’s Barley Child and John Gilham’s Footprints in the Mud. The Lake’s unique feature of One Poem Reviews spotlight one poem from a recently published collection, with June shining a light on works by Whitney Coy, Dagne Forrest, John Savoie, and Elaine Sexton.

Readers can also find Editor John Murphy’s new book, Notes, on The Lake‘s SHOP page.
The subject for these poems are artists and producers in the music industry, covering all major genres: rock, jazz and blues, and some of the artists included are Joni Mitchell, John Mayall, Cleo Laine, Chuck Berry, Brian Wilson , Buddy Holly, and Jimi Hendrix.

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Magazine Stand :: New Letters – Winter/Spring 2025

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The Winter/Spring issue of New Letters features winners of their 2024 Award Series. Congratulations to Sébastien Luc Butler, winner of the Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry; Tanya Pengelly, winner of the Robert Day Award for Fiction; Elisabetta La Cava, winner of the Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction; and Laura Newbern, winner of the Editor’s Choice Award, Essay.

Readers will also find plenty of new fiction by Amy Day Wilkinson, Andrew Bertaina, Joe De Quattro; essays by Fox Rinne, Jacob Aiello, Courtney Kersten, Adam O. Davis, Amy Rowland, Heather Sellers; poetry by Leonore Hildebrandt, Lance Larsen, Lisa Lewis, Kara Lewis, Mary B. Moore, Katie Erbs, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, and Daniel Donaghy.

The hauntingly compelling artwork of Nicholas Erker is featured on the cover as well as with a full-color portfolio and introduction inside the issue. Grab your copy today!

New Lit on the Block :: KUDU

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Despite what can feel like global doom and gloom on the daily, the literary world still finds much to inspire its community to create, share, and engage. While seemingly small, KUDU: A Journal Of South African Writing is a free, professionally designed online publication of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, and visual art by both new and well-known names with a growing reputation. Twice a year, readers can enjoy reading online or downloading a printable PDF.

While the name may seem unique to those of us on this continent, KUDU is a Khoikhoi term chosen to honor the Khoisan peoples, the first indigenous peoples of South Africa. “It goes back to thousands of years ago,” Founder and Editor Claudio Perinot explains, “to the first recorded inhabitants of South Africa, the Khoisans.”

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Magazine Stand :: Consequence – 17.1

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Consequence Volume 17.1 is full of prose, poetry, and visual art addressing the consequences of war and geopolitical violence. In this issue, a theme emerged of how affecting a difference doesn’t only have to happen on a global scale — it can and should include the more local ones.

This is expressed in “A Trip to Kosovo” where a doctor returns to the war-torn country to navigate its broken bureaucracy in hopes of getting his nephew immediate cancer treatment (a piece that pointedly ends with: If the world can be saved, it will be by small acts of kindness). It appears in “Withdrawal” with the narrator always answering his phone in case it’s a fellow soldier or a refugee in dire need. It’s there in “The Lucky Ones” as a director for an adoption agency in Korea reveals to women the tricks necessary to help their babies find safe homes.

Maybe the most conspicuous example of this theme, though, is in the Translations Feature, which consists of works written in Arabic and centering on the Palestinian experience. Translations Editors Parisa Saranj and Fathima M. frame all ten pieces of the feature by stating, What else can we do but bear witness to the pain of our fellow human beings? Literature has been the first recordkeeper of what humans are capable of doing to and for each other.

Magazine Stand :: Southern Humanities Review – 58.1

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The newest issue of Southern Humanities Review is introduced by Guest Poetry Editor Jeremy Paden, “On Appalachian Roots,” which opens:

“Who gets to speak for a region? What voices, stories, and accents get to represent a place? And when the place is as vast as Appalachia, one that spans thirteen states and is divided into five subregions? [. . . ] Once J.D. Vance was picked as the vice presidential running mate for the Republican ticket in the summer of 2024, his 2016 book, Hillbilly Elegy, returned to bestseller lists and the national conversation. As a result, I was asked to curate a selection of poems on Appalachia by Appalachians. After all, whatever people think of his memoir, it is not about Appalachia.”

Those poets featured here include Willie Carver, Bernard Clay, Dorian Hairston, Pauletta Hansel, Marc Harshman, Jane Hicks, Silas House, Lisa J. Parker, Randi Ward, William Woolfitt, and Marianne Worthington. The issue also includes nonfiction by Joanna Acevedo and Madeline Jones, and fiction by Sara Levine, Sumita Mukherji, Enyinna Nnabuihe, and Cotton O’Connell. Cover art by Frederic Edwin Church, Storm in the Mountains, 1847, oil on canvas.

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Magazine Stand :: Valley Voices – Spring 2025

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The Spring 2025 issue of Valley Voices is a special issue themed “River and Land: The Mississippi Delta” and is dedicated to Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr. (July 31, 1943 — February 8, 2025) “respectful board member, scholar, and friend.”

In celebration of Dr. Jerry W. Ward’s legacy is an interview with Dr. Ward, poetry, literary theorist, editor, professor, and cultural activist, conducted by C Liegh McInnis on July 18, 2007, Charlie Braxton’s poem, “Doc,” and the essay “This is Not a Poem #1 (For Doc Ward)” by McInnis.

Opening the themed content “River and Land: The Mississippi Delta” are “Prim Notes” and “Hurricane Isabel 2003: True Story” by Hermine Pinson and “The Geography of Self: An Interview with Hermine Pinson” by Editor John Zheng. Also featured are poems by Claude Wilkinson, Sterling D. Plumpp, Larry D. Thomas, George Drew, Philip C. Kolin, CT Salazar, C Liegh McInnis, and Michelle McMillan-Holifield; art/photography by Claude Wilkinson (including cover art) and J. Guaner; fiction/nonfiction by Jack Crocker and Dick Daniels.

Criticism pieces include “From Trauma to Triumph: Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir” by John J. Han, and “Mississippi Masochism: Agentic Pain in Jesmyn Ward’s Where the Line Bleeds and Claude Wilkinson’s World Without End” by Allison Wiltshire.

Magazine Stand :: South Dakota Review – 59.2

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Published quarterly at the University of South Dakota through the Department of English and under the sponsorship of the College of Arts and Sciences, this newest issue of South Dakota Review has much to offer readers, beginning with the captivating cover photo by Editor-in-Chief Lee Ann Roripaugh, expressing the disjointedness so many of us are feeling as of late.

In response, the content holds a salve for our weary selves: poetry by Mrityunjay Mohan, Tami Haaland, Grace Bauer, Francine Witte, Ellen June Wright, Isabelle Ylo, Josephine Gawtry, William Trowbridge, Brandon Krieg, Amorak Huey, Kalpita Pathak, Sarah Barber, Carl Watts, Judith Harris, Remi Recchia, and Jim Peterson; short stories by Tina Tocco, Michael Caleb Tasker, Alexandria Peary, Luke Rolfes, nat čermák, and Reuben Sanchez; essays by Gary Finke and Ellie Gomero, with a hybrid excerpt from Sutured Memorī, by Michelle Naka Pierce.

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Magazine Stand :: The Midwest Quarterly – Spring 2025

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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought Spring 2025 theme is “Library Issue(s)” with Guest Editor Sara DeCaro and includes the articles “The Options when DEI Initiatives in Libraries are Not Working or Nonexistent” by Casey Phillips, “Digital Commons and Accessibility” by Madison Price, “Mathematical Marvels in a Midwestern Library” by Cynthia Huffman, “The Rise and Fall of Wine Gardens in Kansas City 1880-1920” by Sara DeCaro, “From TV Screen to Family Scene: Bluey and the Art of Invitational Rhetoric” by Blayne Thorton, and “Unreconciled Visions of War: Japan and America in World War II (A Literature Review)” by David F. DiMeo, as well as a selection of new poems.

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Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag – Spring 2025

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The Main Street Rag Spring 2025 issue opens with an interview with Anna Pauscher Morawitz by Jessica K. Hylton, who recently moved Salina, Kansas, and ventured out to a showcase of the arts at a local theatre where the two met. Morawitz is a “triple threat,” a visual artist who works with the Salina Arts and Humanities Department and also plays with the band Enna and the Snapdragons.

This issue also includes ‘Stories & Such’ by David Bradley, Robert Earle, Tim Keppel, Mary Lewis, Robert Page, Joe Taylor, and R. Craig Sautter, as well as loads of new poetry by Bonnie Bishop, Jane Blanchard, Cameron Bushnell, Jim Carpenter, Ricks Carson, Alan Harawitz, Jim Daniels, Rupert Fike, Pamela Brothers Denyes, Alfred Fournier, Rachel Greenberg, Cleo Griffith, Leonore Hildebrandt, PMF Johnson, Jasmine Kumalah, Elizabeth Libbey, Joseph McGreevy, Michael Milburn, Frank C. Modica, Baruch November, Madeline Cohen Oakley, Marjorie Power, Phyllis Price, Patrick T. Reardon, David Sapp, Hannah Ringler, Mary Rohrer-Dun, Cecil Sayre, Susan Shea, Carol Shillibeer, Beate Sigriddaughter, Phillip Sterling, Diane Stone, L. Sweeney, Moira Walsh, Michael Demetria Tsouris, Richard Weaver, Warren Woessner, and Robert Wooten.

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Magazine Stand :: The Greensboro Review – Spring 2025

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If evil is the “absence of empathy,” as defined by G. M. Gilbert, the American psychologist known for his observational commentary during the Nuremberg trials, then Editor Terry L. Kennedy offers an antidote in the Spring 2025 Editor’s Note of The Greensboro Review when he writes that the “magic of literature” is “its ability to dissolve the boundaries that separate us, revealing the common threads of fear, hope, and longing that connects us all.”

This newest issue features much to help us connect, including the Robert Watson Literary Prize winners: Jeni O’Neal’s “Loving a Man and His Kids and His House” in poetry and Emily Harper Ellis’s “The Fairy Swap” in fiction, as well as new work by Miriam Akervall, Megan Blankenship, Alex Bullock, Flora Field, Abigail Ham, Max Kruger-Dull, Seth Leeper, Angela Ma, Elisabeth Murawski, Michael O’Ryan, Leslie Pietrzyk, Caroline Porter, Lindsay Stewart, Zach Swiss, David Thoreen, Amber Train, and Andy Young.

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Magazine Stand :: The Malahat Review – 230

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The Malahat Review 230 features winners of the 2025 Open Season Awards as well as interviews with the authors. Creative Nonfiction Winner: “Singularity Packet” by Tanis MacDonald; Poetry Winner: “Anxiety Attack” by Georgio Russell; Fiction Winner “Bubble Bath and the Ecstasy of Diminishing” by Catherine St. Denis.

Also included in this issue is new poetry by Lucas Crawford, Jannie Stafford Edwards, Jonathan Focht, Michael Goodfellow, Grace, Patrick Grace, Umma Habiba, Danielle Hubbard, PW Jarungpiterah, Barbara Bruhin Kenney, Timothy Liu, Rebecca Lawrence Lynch, Sadie McCarney, Gerald Arthur Moore, Jonathan Moskaluk, Maureen Paxton, Hannah Polinski, Emily Riddle, Jay Ritchie, Spenser Smith, Gordon Taylor, Claudia Yang; fiction by H Felix Chau Bradley, Olga Campofreda, K. S. M.; and creative nonfiction by Alana Friend Lettner, and Sina Queyras.

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Magazine Stand :: AGNI – 101

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AGNI 101 is inhabited by gravity and grace in counterpoise, from the cover and art feature by Palestinian painter Malak Mattar to the essays, poems, and stories, the inescapable world finds its match in soaring gestures of imagination. In fiction, the characters of Silja Liv Kelleris, Alp Türkol, and Haytham el-Wardany (trans. Katharine Halls) give terrible circumstances a powerful second shape. Speakers in poems by Kazim Ali, CooXooEii Black, Amy Beeder, Hera Naguib, and Robert Pinsky gaze unflinchingly to counter the sturdiest myths. And in essays, Graison Gill, Brandi Bird, and Angela Pelster — among many others — invite readers into truths more complicated than the surface suggests. Available for purchase in single issue and subscription, AGNI also publishes unique online content readers can access for free.

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Magazine Stand :: Baltimore Review – Spring 2025

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The Spring 2025 issue of Baltimore Review is now available online for readers to enjoy, with creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry by Hannah Keziah Agustin, Stephanie J. Andersen, Nicholas Barnes, Merrill Oliver Douglas, Jake Bienvenue, Kimberly Gibson-Tran, Erik Harper Klass, Andrea Lewis, Ron MacLean, Hila Ratzabi, Jemma Leigh Roe, Daniel J. Rortvedt, L. Soviero, Kelly Terwilliger, and Qiwen Xiao.

Published since 1996 as print journal and re-launched as an online, quarterly journal in 2012, work accepted for online publication in Baltimore Review is also collected for annual print issues. The journal features the work of Baltimore-area writers, as well as writers from around the world.

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