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Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – January 20, 2025

January 20, 2025
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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Tahoma Literary Review Summer 2024 cover image

The Summer 2024 Tahoma Literary Review cover is After the Rain by Shyama Golden which “depicts a face-off with a yakka from Sri Lankan mythology” and is “a semi-autobiographical painting that represents a transformative time” in the artist’s life.

From our friends in Toronto, Juniper is an online poetry journal that seeks to “bring readers back to themselves and leave them with a deeper understanding of the world(s) in which they live.” Cover photo by Susan Winemaker.

A literary magazine dedicated to the spirit of the Adirondacks and beyond since 1979, Blueline features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art focused on nature’s shaping influence.

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.

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Magazine Stand :: Cleaver – Winter 2024

January 18, 2025
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Publishing quarterly online, Cleaver Magazine publishes cutting-edge contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, essays on craft and the writing life, and book reviews showcasing Philadelphia voices among national and international artists that represent the fullest diversity. The Winter 2024 issue spotlights Creative Nonfiction Finalists: Pamela Balluck, Ellen Wilson, Margo Sanabria, Barrett Warner, and Judith Serin. Readers will also enjoy fresh poetry by Christopher David Rosales, John Minczeski, Herman Beavers, Bradley J. Fest, Elly Katz, Anders Howerton; flash works by Eden Royce, Jeffrey G. Moss, Zoé Mahfouz, Coleman Bigelow, Tracie Adams, Connor Fisher, Kiely Todd Roska, Jessica Klimesh; fiction by Lindsey Godfrey Eccles, David Lydon-Staley, Jeff Gabel, Sinclair Cabocel, Krista Puttler; and a visual narrative by Clifford Thompson. Cover design by Karen Rile.

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Issue 90 of Kaleidoscope Available Now! Accepting Submissions Year-Round

January 17, 2025
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Kaleidoscope takes a closer look at relationships, aging, neurodiversity, chronic illness, ableism and resilience in its first issue of 2025. Each issue of the magazine explores the experience of disability through the lens of literature and fine art. Submit your best work to us today! View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Magazine Stand :: Humana Obscura – Winter 2024

January 17, 2025
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Humana Obscura Winter 2024 features work from 44 contributors from around the globe, including cover art by Maggie Lerum, an interview with artist Sally Podmore, and spotlights on the work of photographer Jason Dean and poet Alison Granucci.

Other contributors include Abby Harding, Amy Aiken, Anne Kulou, C.X. Turner, Civil Winters, Cristina Sanchez, D. Dina Friedman, Dani Selyebi, Dawn Erickson, Debbie Strange, Deirdre Hennings, Doug Stone, Hilda Weiss, Holly Willis, Janet Ruth Heller, Jenny Ward Angyal, Jonny Rodgers, Karin Wegmann, Kathleen Christensen, Kathryn P. Haydon, Lindsay Rockwell, Lucía Tartaglione, Lucie Bonvalet, Luke Levi, Marcie Flinchum Atkins, Randy Brooks, Rebecca Weil, Robert René Galván, Rick Bogacz, Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig, Sally Arapari, Sarah Hewitt, Sean Felix, Shane Coppage, Stella Damarjati, Susan Marsh, Tim Dwyer, Victoria Bracher, Walter Heineman, and Wendi Schneider.

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Magazine Stand :: BALLOONS Lit. Journal – December 2024

January 16, 2025
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BALLOONS Lit. Journal is a young-reader-oriented open-access online journal also available as a ready-to-print PDF. An independent journal based in Hong Kong publishing poetry, fiction, art, and photography from contributors creating for school-aged readers 12 and over, they offer readers works that are “fresh, surprising, unforgettable, extraordinary, mind-blowing, humorous, bold, unique, layered, witty, educational, original.”

Dr Ho-cheung LEE, founding editor, introduces this newest issue, “Like in the previous issues, this 16th installment of BLJ offers you a well-planned journey from fear to bravery, from the dance of wildlife to the inner struggles of a young mind, and from authentic imagery to fanciful and perhaps rhetorical thoughts.”

Readers can enjoy poetry by Andrew Sprung, John Grey, Richard Smith, Eric Bryan, Dean Flowerfield, Erica Chester; fiction by Makayla Nielson, Catherine Kelley, Plamen Vasilev, Kelly Hossaini, Stephanie Yu Lim; and artwork by Joseph A. Miller (including cover art, Archer).

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New Lit on the Block :: Meraki Review

January 15, 2025
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Hey, readers and writers! There’s this incredibly beautifully crafted magazine online with a most seditious editor-in-chief. They’re pirates, on a mission to make teenage voices heard and counted. They sculpt, shape, and help these voices find themselves through writing. It’s a place where ideas run wild, get a bit messy, and then come out as the most brilliant, unapologetic version of themselves. Are you game? Then check out Meraki Review!

According to Founder and Editor-in-Chief Meheru Alaspure, “This magazine is for the dreamers, the tortured souls who understand that writing is both a violent act that sears the skin and a sacred one that inscribes meaning upon it. Writing is rhapsody, adrenaline, and joy—the tide that rushes against the shores of pain and begins the healing.”

Publishing every four months, Meraki Review features poetry, fiction prose, creative non-fiction, memoirs, prose-poetry hybrids, and artwork online by both teens and adults for an international teenage readership.

Alaspure wants Meraki Review to be “a community where teenagers feel safe to express themselves freely, support one another, and inspire each other to improve. Together, we will form a global platform that shines a spotlight on hidden voices and their galvanizing stories. The word Meraki means to do something you love and are passionate about. That pretty much sums up the ethos of our magazine!”

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Magazine Stand :: Still Point Arts Quarterly – Winter 2024

January 14, 2025
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“Self-portrait” is the theme of Still Point Arts Quarterly Winter 2024, featuring art and photography, fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. Widely praised for its rich and valuable content and splendid presentation, Still Point Arts Quarterly from Shanti Arts is intended for artists, writers, nature lovers, seekers, and enthusiasts of all types. Current and past copies may be downloaded for free from the publication’s website and print copies are available for individual purchase as well as by subscription.

Contributors to the Winter 2024 issue include Marcia Yudkin, Dave Donelson, Diana Woodcock, Jeri Griffith, Elizabeth Rose, Mark Mathew Braunstein, Elise Chadwick, Ella Vilozny, Lorraine Jeffery, Karly Van Vliet, Karen Elias, Jiana Cipriano, Rosalyn Kliot, Wendy Lou Schmidt, and Judith Skillman.

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Magazine Stand :: Cimarron Review – 221 & 222

January 13, 2025
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This newest double issue of Cimarron Review (221 & 222) offers readers fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with a wide-ranging aesthetic, favoring the bold and ruminative, the sensitive and shocking, imaginative and truth-telling. Contributors include Eryn Green, H. Thao Nguyen, Ash Good, Michael Mark, Tara A. Elliott, Angela Ball, Lydia T. Liu, Nicole Melanson, Cecil Morris, Sergio Reyes, Jane E. Martin, Bergita Bugarija, Ashira Shirali, Ben Walter, Richard Sonnenmoser, Divya Mehrish, and many more. Cover art: “State Forest Campground” by Michelle Disler.

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Magazine Stand :: The Capilano Review – On Collective Care

January 12, 2025
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Edited by Emma Jeffrey, ti-TCR 20: On Collective Care is a special issue of The Capilano Review that examines the potential of art and writing to expand our capacity for empathy and care on a collective scale, and to activate tangible forms of community-building. Why write poetry during the apocalypse, if not for the hope of a kinder world?

The issue includes contributions by Kristin Bjornerud, Leah CL, Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal, Mark Foss, Christina Hajjar, Amanda Hiland, Penn Kemp, Alysha Mohamed, Dora Prieto, Belén Rios Sialer, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, and Jasper Wrinch.

This web folio is free to access, with the option to donate to Islamic Relief Canada’s Gaza Emergency Appeal, which provides urgent aid to displaced civilians in Gaza.

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Magazine Stand :: Atlanta Review – Fall/Winter 2024

January 11, 2025
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In addition to a full line-up of general contributors to its Poetry 2024 issue, Atlanta Review Fall/Winter 2024 features contest finalists and winners. Selected and introduced by Atlanta Review Editor JD Reilly, Elina Kumra’s “God Is My Love” won the Dan Veach Prize for Young Poets, and selected and introduced by Poet Jeannine Hall Gailey, Carol O’Brien’s “The Woman in the Attic” won the Poetry International Grand Prize.

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Magazine Stand :: The MacGuffin – Fall 2024

January 10, 2025
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Celebrate forty years of publication with Fall 2024 The MacGuffin 40.1! Party in literary style with poetry from perennial MacGuffin fan-favorites Rebecca Foust, Poet Hunt 26 winner Patrick Wilcox, and Pushcart Prize awardee Jim Daniels; along with stories from Stephen A. Geller and Mary Lotz. Looking toward the future with authors new to MacGuffin’s pages: hit the mat in Tim Loperfido’s WWE-inspired epic, pay a three-poem visit to Susanna Rich’s Grandmother Mumchy, and take a relaxing, if somewhat hectic, family trip to the pool in Maureen D. Hall’s “The Pool.” Cap off the anniversary with the hometown art spread of woodcuts by Ernest Fackler.

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Magazine Stand :: The Greensboro Review – Fall 2024

January 9, 2025
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The Fall 2024 issue of The Greensboro Review (#116) features the Amon Liner Poetry Prize winner, James Daniels’s “We Are All Starved for Touch,” an Editor’s Note by Terry L. Kennedy, and new poetry, stories, and flash from Sean Cho A., Jake Bauer, Nathaniel Bellows, Mark Brazaitis, Sébastien Luc Butler, Lucas Cardona, Adrienne Celt, K.S. Dyal, Jason Gray, Mickie Kennedy, Sally Rosen Kindred, Kip Knott, Alejandro Lucero, Jennie Malboeuf, Cori McKenzie, Eric Paul, Lizzy Ke Polishan, Bryan D. Price, Colleen Kearney Rich, Flannery Maeve Rollins, Anna Sheffer, Hannah Treasure, Alex Tretbar, Audrey Toth, Ross White, Christopher Stetson Wilson, and Haolun Xu.

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Magazine Stand :: The Lake – January 2025

January 8, 2025
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The January 2025 issue of The Lake is now online featuring Fizza Abbas, Edward Alport, C. J. Anderson-Wu, John Bartlett, Melissa A. Chappell, Daniel Dahlquist, Tim Deere-Jones, William Ogden Haynes, Maren O. Mitchell, J. R. Solonche, Rodney Wood.

The Lake also publishes reviews of new poetry collections, this month spotlighting Deborah Harvey’s Love the Albatross, Sanjeev Sethi’s Legato Without a Lisp, and Angela Topping’s Earwig Country. “One Poem Reviews” share a single poem from a poet’s recent book as a way to help them reach a wider audience. This month, readers can sample works from John Bartlett, Estil Pollock, and Myra Schneider.

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Magazine Stand :: The Shore – Issue 24

January 7, 2025
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The Shore Issue 24 faces the brutal cold of our literal and figurative winter with wide, unflinching eyes. It features breathtaking new poems by Sagar Nair, Sierra Hixon, Derek Chan, Mary C Sims, Stella Reed, Dylan Tran, Kyla Guimaraes, Jacob Sheetz-Willard, JP Dancing Bear, Sophia P Smith, Yev Gelman, Michael Okafor, Hana Widerman, Jenna Jaco, Amber Rose Crowtree, Melissa Strilecki, Annie Przypyszny, Dan Albergotti, Zack Carson, Ammara Younas, Brian Satrom, Bri Griffiths, Jan Hallaman, Aiman Tahir Khan, Christien Gholson, Maree Cianci, Joseph Radke, Jeff Whitney, Zebulon Huset, Mihaela Mihailova, Allison Cundiff, Jennifer R Edwards, Lila Cutter, Meagan Chandler, Chris Hutchinson, Lucas Cardona, Jodi Balas, Jo Ann Clark, Johanna Maqiin, Sascha Feinstein, Barbara Duffey, Derek Ellis, and Jennifer K Sweeney. It also features memorable art by Ari Koontz.

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Magazine Stand :: Consequence – Volume 16.2

January 6, 2025
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Consequence Volume 16.2 is full of beautiful and thought-provoking prose, poetry, and visual art that addresses the consequences of war and geopolitical violence. This issue is focused on voices and perspectives from the BIPOC community through a special featured section.

Here’s what poet, artist, and Guest Editor, Marcus Jackson, had to say about the feature: “The editing team and I agreed this issue’s BIPOC Feature should be borderless and present writers and artists who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color from across the globe, not just North America, as diasporas wonderfully outreach regional and continental parameters.

“In this installment of Consequence, the voices range valiantly from stark documentation to elaborate styles and structures, though they all share a sincere belief the written word and the visual image can transcend the horror and grief of geopolitical violence. The profound care and the unblinking courage of the writers and artists in this feature are the enduring reflections and testimonies of communities whose humanity and luminosity refuse to be dimmed by empires’ ruthlessness.“

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New Magazines December 2024

January 4, 2025
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Literary magazines are the finger on the pulse of our world, publishing emerging and veteran writers and artists whose works stand in cultural testament to world events. Check out the New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine titles received here at NewPages.com!

Each month, we offer readers a round-up of new issues with content blurbs for our featured publications. Browse the newest in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic narratives, artwork, photography, media, contest winners, and so 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.

Want your publication listed here or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

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Magazine Stand :: bioStories – December 2024

January 4, 2025
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bioStories online features new essays every week contributed by writers from around the world offering readers “portraits of the people surrounding us in our daily lives, of the strangers we pass on the street unnoticed and of those who have been the most influential and most familiar to us but who remain strangers to others.”

Contributors in 2024 include Nicole Alexander, MerriLee Anderson, Beth Benedix, Phil Cummins, Mark Cyzyk, Sarah DeParis, Sky Karam de Sela, Hailey Duggirala, Michael Engelhard, Mary Fairchild, Erin Hesse Froslie, Paul Graseck, Lory Widmer Hess, Barbara Krasner, Angela Lam, Zoe Lambert, Sydney Lea, Mark Lewandowski, Alexandra Loeb, Mark Lucius, Bryan Mammel, J. Bryan McGeever, James McKean, Mario Moussa, David Newkirk, Sharman Ober-Reynolds, Leanne Phillips, David Riessen, Anup Saswade, and Clare Simons.

bioStories publishes semi-annual volumes of collected works, all available open-access online.

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Magazine Stand :: Southern Humanities Review – 57.4

January 3, 2025
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Southern Humanities Review issue 57.4 features translations of Sri Lankan literature in Sinhala and Tamil thanks to a travel grant from the University of Chicago South Asian Literature in Translation (SALT) Project. The magazine’s managing editor was able to attend the 2024 Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka to find emerging translators.

This issue features poetry by Liyanage Amarakeerthi translated by Alexander McKinley, Ruwan Bandujeewa translated by Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake, Christian J. Collier, Staci Halt, Arielle Hebert, Isurinie Anuradha Mallawaarachchi, Brandi Nicole Martin, Matthew Nisinson, M.A. Nuhman translated by Sumathy Sivamohan, Tina Schumann, Nathan Spoon, and Lloyd Wallace. Nonfiction contributors include Brooke Champagne and Austin Segrest. Fiction by Trevor Crown, Jihoon Park, Sunethra Rajakarunanayake translated by Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake, and Ashley Wurzbacher.

Some content can be read online, and individual copies, as well as subscriptions, are available on the Southern Humanities Review website.

Cover Art: Blood Orange Moon, 2024, oil on linen, by Shyama Golden.

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Magazine Stand :: Cool Beans – Winter 2024

January 2, 2025
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The Winter 2024 issue of Cool Beans Lit celebrates the philosophy of Yutori, a form of decluttering your personal space and mind. It’s a Japanese-originated practice of slowing down to give oneself more spaciousness or room to breathe in order to recharge and rejuvenate the senses. A clear mind can also inspire one to explore new genres of writing and art.

In Cool Beans Lit Volume 2 Issue 1, editors are proud to bring readers 31 unique contributors who range from brand new authors and artists to well-established creators with many published works. Authors hail from all corners of the globe, including one who is currently unhoused and sharing his reality in eye-opening detail. The issue features poetry by Arvilla Fee, Marc Meierkort, Alan Perry and Grant Shimmin; prose by Angela Townsend and Li Ruan; and visual art by Kelly DuMar, Nuala McEvoy and Robin Young.

To read and experience art is to walk in another person’s shoes and experience new thoughts and events that stay with you long after reading. It’s a way of channeling a deeper connection to others and gaining greater compassion. This new issue of Cool Beans Lit aims to do just that.

Cover Art: Feel No Evil by Robin Young

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Magazine Stand :: Good River Review – Fall 2024

January 1, 2025
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Good River Review comes to readers from the Spalding University Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. Editor in Chief Kathleen Driskell introduces the Fall 2024 issue noting, “There’s something beautiful in this issue for all readers to find—prose, lyric, dramatic work as well as Lynnell Edwards’s interview with Kevin Prufer focused on his debut fiction Sleepaway: A Novel.” Contributors also include Theodore Brady, Elizabeth Burton, Willie Carver, Andrew Chapman, Quintin Collins, Amanda G. Fillebrown, Anne Marie Fowler, Vincent Frontero, Stacey Goldstein, Michael V. Hayes, Sara Henning, Julie Hensley, G. Wesley Houp, Nicholas Hulstine, Hope Kidd, Jennine DOC Krueger, James Long, Lisa Low, Julia Lundy, Norman Minnick, Hibah Shabkhez, Phillip Sterling, William Waters, and Cecilia Woloch.

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Magazine Stand :: Chestnut Review – Autumn 2024

December 30, 2024
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Chestnut Review: For Stubborn Artists is an online quarterly of poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, art, and photography from around the world. This newest issue features Therese Gleason, author of Hemicrania, in conversation with Maria S. Picone. Readers can also enjoy new poetry from Amelia Loeffler, Ann Weil, Callan Latham, Isaac Akanmu, Jacob Sheetz-Willard, K. Mobley, Kaitlyn Airy, Liz Robbins, Shiyang Su, Therese Gleason; prose by Andrew Zhou, Jennifer Robinson, Pamela Painter, T. Cutler, Theresa Sylvester; and art by Cynthia Yatchman, Moses Ojo, Nuala McEvoy, Ron Perovich, and Vasundhara Srinivas.

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Magazine Stand :: New England Review – 45.4

December 26, 2024
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The print edition of New England Review‘s cinematic winter issue (45.4) features gripping prose by Roy Kesey, Alysia Han, Kathleen Wheaton, and Dan Musgrave as well as contemplative poetry by Kazim Ali, Perry Levitch, Garous Abdolmalekian, and Rena J. Mosteirin. This special issue features Chunking Express at 30: Rewatching Wong Kar Wai curated by contributing editor J. M. Tyree, which presents readers with “the urban landscape of Hong Kong—rendered in Wong Kar Wai’s 1994 cinematic breakthrough—reenvisioned through the lenses of nostalgia, memory, and most of all disappointment at the shattered hopes of Hong Kong’s handover from the UK to the People’s Republic of China in 1997.” Readers will also enjoy translations from the Persian, Russian, and Korean, and much more. See a preview of contents here.

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Magazine Stand :: Gargolye Online – #9

December 23, 2024
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Known for its massive print tomes, Gargoyle Online upholds the tradition by sharing some of the best works by unknown writers and artists in keeping with its mission to seek out the overlooked and the neglected. In this newest issue, readers can enjoy fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from almost 90 contributors, including audio of Susan Hankla, George Kalamaras, and Kathleen Rooney interviewed by John King (Drunken Odyssey Podcast–Episode #570, April 1, 2023); and video by Belinda Subraman.

In issue #9, discover fiction by Jody Lannen Brady, Joel James Davis, Gary Fincke, Stefanie Freele, Amy Halloran, Thom Hawkins, Kateema Lee, Erin Mahoney, Terence Mulligan, John Picard, Charles Rammelkamp, Ben Roth, Steven Schutzman, Alice Stephens, Elizabeth Tracey, Michael Tyler; poetry by Brenton Booth, Chris Bullard, Sara Cosgrove, Deborah Elliott Deutschman , Marc A. Drexler, John Eustis, April Ford, Sid Gold, Paul Ilechko, Craig Kirchner, John Marvin, Alice Morris, Susan Notar, Ken Poyner, Stephen Roberts, Helen Ruggieri, Claire Scott, caren stuart, Kevin Sweeney, Renée Weitzner; a play by D. Harlan Wilson; nonfiction by Katelynn Adrian, Alissa Bader Clark, Karen Paul Holmes, Susan Isla Tepper; and art by Roberta Allen (including cover art), Franetta McMillian, Jody Mussoff among many more contributors.

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Magazine Stand :: Jewish Fiction – Issue 38

December 20, 2024
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Hot off the press, a splendid new Issue of Jewish Fiction! Issue 38 contains 12 stories originally written in Serbian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, or English. The one translated from German, “Alfred Menazbach, Subletter” (which is often humorous), is excerpted from one of the first novels in German by a Jewish author about the events surrounding the Holocaust. Along with this excerpt and all the stories in this issue, readers will find much to engage, fascinate, and delight!

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Magazine Stand :: Prime Number Magazine Issue 263

December 17, 2024
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Prime Number Magazine Issue 263 is our third and final issue of the year offering up our winners of the 2024 Press 53 Award for Poetry and Short Fiction, the winners of the monthly 53-Word Story Contest, the winners of the annual Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge, poetry selected by guest poetry editor Michael Beadle and fiction selected by Clifford Garstang. Contributors include Anemone Beaulier, Lauren Crawford, David Capps, Candice Kelsey, Mark Brazaitis, Toby Donovan, and Tracy Winn.

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Magazine Stand :: Arts & Letters – Fall 2024

December 16, 2024
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The Fall 2024 issue of Arts & Letters will be its final issue, as Founding Editor Martin Lammon writes in his “With Gratitude” to readers, “After 25 years, this is the final issue of Arts & Letters, which I founded in the spring of 1999.” Having stepped down in 2014, Lammon notes, “I wrote a farewell essay in which I addressed the history of the journal’s first 15 years. [. . . ] On this occasion, then, I do not say farewell. Instead, again, I say thank you.”

Closing out the magazine’s 25 year history, the Fall 2024 issue features the 2024 Arts & Letters Annual Prize Winners, Siavash Saadlou, Liza Katz Duncan, and Faith Shearin, as well as new poetry by Bruce Bond, Ian Hall, Caroline King, Suphil Lee Park, Matt Schroeder, Brenda Taulbee, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, Michael Waters; fiction by Theron Montgomery; creative nonfiction by Joseph Bathanti, Emma Coomey, Tatiana Hollier, Angela Townsend; and flash by Maya Dobjensky, Joy Juliet Gallagher, Tyler McAndrew, and Sarah Seybold.

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Magazine Stand :: Allium – Fall 2024

December 13, 2024
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Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose is a multi-genre print and online journal published three times a year by Columbia College Chicago’s School of Communication and Culture. The Fall 2024 issue features fiction by by Sharleen Mondal, Charlie Wade, Nicholas Rivera, Elizabeth DeKok, Michael Lutz, Katie Altstadt, David Gonzalez, Rea Vinkler, Brian J. Buchanan; poetry by Stuart Ross, Terence Winch, MICHAEL CHANG, Michelle Alexander, CAConrad, Cindy Buhl, Samantha Imperi, rob mclennan, Zia Wang, Patrick Paridee Samuel, A Kaiser, James Cushing, C. Russell Price, RJ Gibson, Huckleberry Shelf, Meg Jerit, Mark Fishbein, Lake Angela, Spencer S., nat raum, Emily Perkovich, Ricki Cummings, Bob King, Courtney Hitson, Marie Marchand, Seth Copeland, Dana Jaye Cadman, Olivia Sanchez; and nonfiction by Celene Chen, Wren Sager, Brittany Ackerman, Morgan Rose-Marie, William Vandegrift, Richard Cross.

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Magazine Stand :: The 2River View – Fall 2024

December 12, 2024
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The 2River View publishes new poetry and art quarterly online as well as publishing authors in the 2River Chapbook Series, which are all available for free online reading and download. The Fall 2024 issue features poetry by Mary Buchinger, Daniel Brennan, Deborah Brown, Maureen Clark, Therése Halscheid, Jeff Hardin, Joseph Mills, Dana Murphy, Matt Poindexter, JeFF Stumpo, and Wendy Wisner with artwork by Christie Taylor. The 2River View also offers audio recordings of authors reading their works.

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Magazine Stand :: The Kenyon Review – Fall 2024

December 11, 2024
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The Fall 2024 issue of The Kenyon Review includes the winner and runners-up for the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, selected by Richie Hofmann; the winner of the First Annual Poetry Contest selected by Pádraig Ó Tuama; and a Rural Spaces folio guest-edited by Jamie Lyn Smith, Brian Michael Murphy, and Andrew Grace, with poetry by ethan s. evans, JP Grasser, Faylita Hicks, and Alberto Rios; fiction by Nick Bertelson, Chee Brossy, Kai Carlson-Wee, and Issa Quincy; and nonfiction byapyang Imiq translated by brenda lin; and much more, including interior and cover art by Ming Smith.

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Magazine Stand :: The Lake – December 2024

December 10, 2024
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The December issue of The Lake is now online featuring new works by Ken Cathers, Adele Evershed, Phil Kirby, Niall McGrath, Isabella Perez, Tony Press, Myra Schneider, Finola Scott, Stuti Sinha, Tina Tocco, Tad Tuleja, Sarah White, David Mark Williams, Phil Wood. Reviewers also offer their perspectives of Imtiaz Dharker’s Shadow Reader, Niall Campbell’s The Island in the Sound, and Jenny Grassl’s Magicholia. “One Poem Reviews” share a single poem from a newly published collection, with selections this month from LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Judith Priestman, Alice Rothchild, and J.R. Solonche. For social media followers, The Lake is now on Bluesky: @thelakepoetry.bsky.social

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Magazine Stand :: Blink-Ink – #58

December 9, 2024
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Blink-Ink Issue #58 is themed “UFO” – just at a time when we think we’ve seen it all. But have we? Jimmy Carter saw one. So did Ronald Reagan. Harry Truman never saw one but worried about them. Bill Clinton never saw one but always wanted to. Gerald Ford wasn’t sure if he’d seen one or not. Former Israeli security chief, Haim Eshed, says they are here and world leaders know it. How about you?

Answering the question – and the call for submissions – two dozen contributors offer their ‘visions’ in “approximately 50 words,” including Ewen Glass, Carolyn R. Russell, Jacqueline A. Seaberg, Tanya Azarenko-Schram, Frederick Melancon, Birdie, Catfish McDaris, Giulietta Nardone, Sarah Meade, Ujjwala Kaushik, Daryl Scroggins, and Richie Narvaez. Cover art by Anne Anthony.

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Magazine Stand :: Posit 37

December 6, 2024
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Posit is excited to announce the publication of the Fall 2024 issue (37), featuring incredible new poetry and prose by Charles Byrne, Mark DeCarteret, Sharon Dolin, Susanne Dyckman, Jeff Friedman, Jeffrey Hecker, Karen Holman, Marie de Quatrebarbes (translated by Aiden Farrell), Judith Roitman, Alison Stone, G.C. Waldrep, and Andrew Zawacki; sculpture and drawings by Nancy Bowen, Nancy Davidson, and Elise Siegel; and text + image by Doug Hall.

Posit publishes three issues a year online in January, May, and September.

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Magazine Stand :: Radar Poetry Issue 40

December 5, 2024
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Radar Poetry Issue 40 features the winner of the 2024 Coniston Prize selected by January Gill O’Neil, Nina C. Peláez. You can also enjoy poems by Destiny O. Birdsong, Caitlin Cowan, Alyssa Froehling, Cara Waterfall, Chelsea Woodard, Rosemary Herbert, Cynthia Maria Hoffman, Natalie Homer, Kathryn Hunt, Louie Leyson, and Jennifer Stewart Miller. Plus, enjoy artwork from Loretta Libby Atkins, Kelly Cressio-Moeller, Abbie Doll, P. Dubroof, Taryn FitzGerald, Nuala McEvoy, and Sarah J. Sloat.

The Coniston Prize is an annual award recognizing an exceptional group of poems by a woman writing in English. Any poet who identifies as a woman is eligible to enter. It is hosted annually with an August 1 deadline.

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New Magazines November 2024

December 4, 2024
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Looking for great new literary and alternative magazines to read the freshest in literary writing and current issues? Check out the New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine titles received here at NewPages.com!

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 so 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.

If you’d like your publication listed here or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to stay the most up-to-date on all things literary!

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Magazine Stand :: The Malahat Review – 228

November 21, 2024
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The Malahat Review 228 features the 2024 Far Horizons Award for Poetry: Craig Francis Power, “Walking My Three-Year-Old to Nanny’s Place, Easter Sunday 2017,” as well as an interview with Power on his poem. Also included in this issue is poetry by Marilyn Bowering, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Klara du Plessis, Guy Elston, Eva Haas, Glenn Hayes, Jim Johnstone, Meghan Kemp-Gee, H. R. Link, D. A. Lockhart, Annie MacKillican (interview with MacKillican on magazine’s website), Jessica Lee McMillan, Mezi, A. F. Moritz, Jesse Norman; fiction by Rob Benvie, Alison Braid-Fernandez, Marlene Cookshaw, Sophie Crocker (interview with Crocker on magazine’s website), Marc Labriola, Sanchari Sur; creative nonfiction by Cassandra Caverhill, Joyce Li, Colleen Sutton (interview with Sutton on magazine’s website), and numerous reviews of newly published books of poetry and nonfiction with cover art by Eli Bornowsky (Penrose_5 Complete Aphex Twin 1 [detail], 2024; egg tempera, gesso on wood, aluminum).

The Malahat Review

Magazine Stand – Colorado Review – Fall/Winter 2024

November 19, 2024
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Editor Stephanie G’Schwind opens the Fall/Winter 2024 Colorado Review noting that, by the time readers have this issue in hand, the elections will have passed, acknowledging that “many of us are particularly on edge about what lies ahead for our country, for our world. . . So perhaps it’s not surprising that the stories and essays here are freighted with anxiety.”

Those stories include fiction by Margot Livesey, Anne-E. Wood, Sammy Stevens, Nathan Blum, nonfiction by Emily Wortman-Wunder, Sara Heise Graybeal, Nina King Sannes, as well as poetry by Victoria Chang, Katie Berta, No’u Revilla, Thea Matthews, Miguel Martin Perez, Tommy Archuleta, L M Brimmer, Antonio Lopez, Catherine Esposito Prescott, Monica Rico, Sara Lupita Olivares, E. Huges, Kim Hyesoon, Nyds L. Rivera, Ayesha Raees, and J C Talamantez.

G’Schwind closes, “These are not stories and essays in which fear and anxiety are nearly conquered. But they are works that show us how we survive our fears. As Graybeal writes, ‘I have come to make my home beside that fear.’ And perhaps that is enough.”

Colorado Review

Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag – Fall 2024

November 18, 2024
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The Main Street Rag Fall 2024 opens with Associate Editor Jessica Hylton’s interview with singer/songwriter Keely Faile and moves on to “stories & such” by Kathy McMullen, J. Allen Nelson, Jeremy Schnee, and Mark Wolters. There is also plenty of fresh poetry by Craig Beaven, Ujjvala Bagal Rahn, Paula C. Brancato, Chris Butters, Kevin Carey, Chris Bullard, Ricks Carson, Richard Cole, Patrick Dungan, Ken Fifer, Jan Ball, Matthew Friday, Patricia L. Hamilton, Leslie Hodge, Ken Holland, Terry Huff, Brad Johnson, Jeanne Julian, Tyler Lemley, Michael Mintrom, Cecil Morris, R.H. Nicholson, Angela Patten, John Perrault, Timothy Robbins, Russell Rowland, Bradley Samore, Claire Scott, Meganne Smith, Deig Sullivan, Kevin Sweeney, Eric Torgersen, Gabriel Welsch, Richard Widerkehr, and John Zedolik. Readers will enjoy book reviews of Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss, Daybreak by Mark Smith-Soto, Caravaggio’s Kimono by Ken Fifer, Dark Souvenirs by John Amen, and Dropping Sunrises in a Jar by Melinda Thomsen by reviewers Jeanne Julian and Richard Allen Taylor.

The Main Street Rag

Magazine Stand :: Booth – 19

November 15, 2024
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The 19th print issue of Booth includes interviews with Jo Ann Beard and Viet Thanh Nguyen; a comic by Jesse Lee Kercheval; nonfiction by Jerilynn Aquino, and K.S. Dyal; fiction by Mialise Carney, Courtney Craggett, Sam Fouts, Rachel Salguero Kowalsky, Justin Noga, Adrian Perez, Tim Raymond, Dan Reiter, Claire Stanford; and poetry by nicole v basta, Michael Beard , Willow James Claire, Hannah Cohen, Fee Griffin, Naomi Leimsider, Hannah Marshall, Calgary Martin, Erin Pinkham, Maggie Yang, and Mimi Yang.

Included with this issue is Table Talk &. Second Thoughts a new memoir in prose poems by Michael Martone, serving up toothsome anecdotes of brief encounters with other writers. Each impromptu sketch, spanning 1976 to 2016, traces a memory menu of quotidian details, slightly seasoned, glimpses of the daily downtime between all the bon mots.

Booth

Magazine Stand :: The Midwest Quarterly – Fall 2024

November 14, 2024
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Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought is published by Pittsburg State University with the expressed purpose “to discover and publish scholarly articles dealing with a broad range of subjects of current interest” to encourage “discussions of an analytical and speculative nature.” The Fall 2024 issue includes articles by Stephanie Alexander (“The Spectacular Feminine Body: (Re)Writing Maternity in Rich, Walker, and Cisneros”), Christopher Au (“‘I think of old friends’: Reflective Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Speculative Fiction Narrators”), Pingfan Zhang (“The Cinematic Past and Literary Present of Yan Geling’s Novel The Flowers of War [2012]), David McCracken (“Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ as Recovery Story”), Ian Hall (“Shirkers and Sophisticates: Contrasting Notions of Class, Caste, and Status in Absalom, Absalom!“) Phillip Frank & Donald Baack (“Connection? Conspiracy Theories and Influencer Marketing: An Analysis Using Core Marketing Spokesperson Characteristics”). The issue also includes a folio of thirty-seven poems by Ted Kooser.

The Midwest Quarterly

Magazine Stand :: Bennington Review – Issue 13

November 13, 2024
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Bennington Review Issue 13 is themed “Family Gathering,” about which Editor Michael Dumanis writes in the “Note From the Editor, “While two-thirds of Americans have attended a family reunion and over a quarter say they attend them annually, high numbers report approaching them with dread. So why do we still gather?” Contributors to this issue exploring possible answers to this question include Rachel Lyon, Douglas W. Milliken, Angela Ball, Joanna Luloff, Rick Barot, Cole Swensen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Iain Haley Pollock, Adrienne Raphel, Stella Wong, Ish Klein, and Anne Waldman, who is also interviewed by Sandra Simonds. Cover art by the Thai-Australian ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa.

Bennington Review

New Lit on the Block :: Midwest Weird

November 13, 2024
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The editors of Midwest Weird hope their audience will be drawn by a certain level of morbid curiosity that will make them say, “Oooh, that show is so weird…and I can’t stop listening!”

A new audio literary magazine, Midwest Weird publishes fiction and nonfiction in podcast form with new episodes released every other week during their season, and transcripts posted on their website.

Midwest Weird, New Lit on the Block

Magazine Stand :: New Letters – Summer/Fall 2024

November 12, 2024
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Publishing since 1934 from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the mission of New Letters magazine is to discover, publish and promote the best and most exciting literary writing, wherever it might be found, and to publish and serve readers and writers worldwide. This Summer/Fall 2024 issue continues this tradition with fiction by Hema Padhu, Bryan D. Price, Scott Ditzler, Christopher Coake, Richard Bausch, essays byt Ted Kooser, Rachel Weaver, Patrick Hunt, poetry by Abbie Kiefer, Lance Larsen, Bethany Schultz Hurst, Joshua Garcia, John Gallaher, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Jacob Sunderlin, Liane Strauss, and artwork by Melanie Johnson.

New Letters

Magazine Stand :: The Baltimore Review – 2024

November 11, 2024
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For readers who enjoy holding print copy in their hands, The Baltimore Review 2024 annual print edition features poems, stories, and creative nonfiction from the Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, and Spring 2024 online issues. Readers are invited to visit the publication’s website to read contributors’ comments and listen to recordings of their work. Founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996 as a publication of the Baltimore Writers’ Alliance, the journal became an independent nonprofit organization in 2004. Their mission has always been “to showcase the best writing from the Baltimore area and beyond,” as they continue to explore new ways to share the world of writing, writers, and the writing life with their audience.

The Baltimore Review

Magazine Stand :: The Lake – November 2024

November 10, 2024
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The November 2024 issue of the online journal of poetry and poetics The Lake has new works by Ruth Aylett, Belinda Cooke, Seth Crook, Deborah Diemont, Judy Dinnen, Julian Dobson, Michael Durack, Jeff Gallagher, Rosie Jackson, Sheila Jacob, Charles Rammelkamp, and Hannah Stone. Readers can also discover new poets with a review of John Amen’s collection Dark Souvenirs and the unique feature “One Poem Reviews” in which poets share a single poem from recently published collection. This month, readers can explore new works by Marianne Brems, Mary Gilliland, Tom Kelly, Michael Salcman, and Kirby Michael Wright. Poet Hannah Stone offers a tribute to “grande dame of literature” Fleur Adcock (1934 – 2024).

The Lake

Magazine Stand :: THEMA – Autumn 2024

November 8, 2024
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Designed to stimulate creative thinking, THEMA challenges writers with a unique premise for each issue. The editors ask contributors to make the premise “an integral part of the plot, not necessarily the central theme but not merely incidental.” The premise for the Autumn 2024 issue is “The Missing Piece of the Puzzle” and features stories, short-shorts, poems, and photographs by Allan Lake, Erica Hoffman, James Scruton, John Savoie, Judith Overmier, Kathleen Gunton, Larry Lefkowitz, Linda Berry, Lora Berg, Lynda Fox, Morgan Carlock Clark, Paul A. Freeman, R.G. Halstead, Robinne Weiss, Sandra Schnakenburg, and Sarah Gay Edwards. THEMA invites contributors to submit theme-related works on the following upcoming premise “The lost sock” with a March 1, 2025 deadline.

THEMA

Magazine Stand :: The Missouri Review – Fall 2024

November 7, 2024
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The Fall 2024 issue of The Missouri Review is themed “Hard Truths.” As Editor Speer Morgan writes in the Foreword, “Most literature goes beyond period and type and deals with something hard, elusive, or even contradictory. Its power lies in the odd beauty and coherence of this particular engagement with a subject.” Inside, readers will discover powerful works ready to engage: new fiction from Parul Kaushik, Andrew De Silva, and Joe Wilkins; new poetry from Amy Miller, Austen Leah Rose, and Talin Tahajian; and new essays from Shannon Cain, Nancy L. Glass, and Joshua Ritter. Plus an Art Feature on Otto Dix, a Curio Cabinet about Peggy Guggenheim, and a brand-new interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. Cover art: The Death of Icarus, Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889).

Missouri Review

Magazine Stand :: Agni – 100

November 6, 2024
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The marks the world leaves. The 100th issue of AGNI exemplifies the engagement, nuance, and spirit that are AGNI’s trademark. As Editor William Pierce writes in the introductory essay, “This last year at the magazine has raised more questions about publishing and literature than any other since I started editing. About purpose and scope, meaning and place – about caring for community and actively recognizing how one’s own ideals can clash.” Pierce goes on to examine the role of literary magazines, belles lettres, “the tailings of New Criticism,” the question of merit, and “the radical act.”

This issue’s cover artist, Chitra Ganesh, welcomes readers with a playful visual rendering of “Sultana’s Dream,” a 1905 feminist utopian fiction by Rokeya Hossain. Inside, stories by Colin Winnette, Xueyi Zhou, and Monique Schwitter (translated by Susan Bernofsky) follow women’s subversion of the gaze, into places of throttled emotion. A bounty of poets, including Paisley Rekdal, J. P. Grasser, and janan alexandra, join the formal ingenuities of DeeSoul Carson, Danielle Pierrati, and others to reach a new intimacy with the past. And essayists Wiam El-Tamami, Elvis Bego, and Anna Badkhen bring a rigorous, compassionate seeing to their meditations on loss and conflict. All this and much more, including loads of online content not included in the print issue.

AGNI

Magazine Stand :: Apple Valley Review – Fall 2024

November 5, 2024
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The Fall 2024 issue of the Apple Valley Review features flash fiction by Mary Grimm; short stories by Franz Jørgen Neumann and Anna Gáspár-Singer (translated from the Hungarian by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess); a piece of creative nonfiction by Annabel Jankovic; and poetry by Judith Harris, Michael Diebert, Lulu Liu, Susan Johnson, Svetlana Litvinchuk, Zhang Zhihao (translated from the Mandarin by Yuemin He), Triin Paja, Susana H. Case, and Jeff Mock. The cover artwork is by Catalan painter and poet Santiago Rusiñol.

Apple Valley Review

Magazine Stand :: The Common – Issue 28

November 4, 2024
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Ahead of their 15th anniversary next year, the Amherst College-based, Whiting Award-winning literary magazine The Common presents Issue 28, featuring a portfolio of contemporary writing by Catalan women in translation. Editor in Chief Jennifer Acker says, “So few books published in the US are translations, only about 3%, with works from German, French, and Spanish making up a full 45% of that. We wanted to showcase vibrant stories and poems from a tradition that our readers might be wholly unfamiliar with. These Catalan authors are award-winning, established women, but some have never before been published in English.” This issue marks a continuation of the magazine’s commitment to publishing translated works for English-language readers.

Each spring for the past eight years, The Common has published an Arabic fiction portfolio in translation. The spring 2025 issue will feature work from Amman, Jordan. Beyond the portfolio, Issue 28 contains writing from Disquiet Prize-winning poet Iqra Khan, MacArthur Fellow Brad Leithauser, environmental economist James K. Boyce, and fiction and essay writer Douglas Koziol, among others.

The Common