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New Lit on the Block :: Zhagaram Literary Magazine

Publishing twice a year as a free downloadable PDF, Zhagaram Literary Magazine was founded to create a literary magazine of Indian origin that publishes international work. “In Tamizh, one of the oldest languages,” Editor Suchita Senthil Kumar explains of the publication’s name, “Zhagaram is a word that refers to a sound. The zh sound is pronounced as ɻ and is a reflex approximant (not the zz sound although it is written that way. The ɻ is a sound resembling an L and R sound together). Zhagaram is the word that refers to this zh sound.

“We aim at publishing work that explores the human condition through the lens of culture, heritage, and language,” Kumar says. “Thus, Zhagaram aims to be a creative space accessible to writers of marginalized communities, giving them an international platform to express their voices. At the same time, we are also open to submissions from international writers, which makes a magazine displaying a vast tapestry of cultures in our diverse publication.”

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Magazine Stand :: The Gettysburg Review – Final Issue

Due to Gettysburg College’s decision to close the Gettysburg Review, the final edition was made available for preorder only. Issue 35:1 features paintings by Michael Alvarez, fiction by Dariel Suarez, Leyna Krow, Leslie Pietrzyk, and others; essays by Marilyn Abildskov, Maura Lammers, Christina Pugh, and others; poetry by Natania Rosenfeld, Angie Estes, Virginia Konchan, Samyak Shertok, and others.

Editor’s Note: Our condolences and all due respect to the long history of editorial staff, writers, and readers who have loved and supported this publication since its debut in 1988. It is sad to witness such short-sighted decision-making by the administration, shuttering the college’s thirty-five-year reputation within the literary community and beyond.

Magazine Stand :: Blink-Ink – #54

Blink-Ink Issue #54 is themed “Family” and features 28 works of “approximately 50 words” each, including “When Baba Flew in from Florida” by Lois Villemarie, “When Relatives from the Cool Temperate Zone Visit” by Julie Dron, “The Corn is Angry” by Karen Walker, “Sisters” by Paul Beckman, “The Green Sofa” by Sarah Shum, “Hawk Logic” by Meg Pokrass, “LEGO City” by Caiti Quatmann, “Home for the Holiday” by Jeff Harvey, “My Family Jewels” by Catfish McDaris, “Blended Family” by Kathy Lynn Carroll, and “Gothic America” by Gay Degani. See the Blink-Ink website for subscription information as well as their 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominations.

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 are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: December 2023

The December 2023 Magazine Stand features our monthly roundup of great new literary and alternative magazine titles we receive. You can find brief descriptions for many new magazine issues with a link to their blog post for more information. Grab a warm cuppa and settle in to enjoy some good reading. You can also subscribe to our weekly newsletter to stay the most up-to-date on all things literary.

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 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 :: World Literature Today – January 2024

The January 2024 issue of World Literature Today headlines Gene Luen Yang, winner of the 2023 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Also spotlighted in this issue are Sona Jobarteh’s kora virtuosity, Icelandic noir by Katrine Jakobsdóttir and Ragnar Jónasson, and an essay on Holocaust survivor Stella Levi. Additional highlights include an essay on the untranslatable Korean term han as well as visits to Manitoba, Uruguay, and Wales. As always, lively mini-interviews, compelling poetry, and more than thirty book reviews—plus recommended reads and other great content—make the latest issue of WLT, like every issue, a passport to great reading.

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 are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

December 2023 eLitPak :: Discover the Journal of Literature Inspired by Art!

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The Ekphrastic Review is a journal of writing inspired by visual art. We bring brilliant writers to readers every day, with ekphrastic poetry, flash fiction, and more. View flyer and visit our website to learn more.

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December 2023 eLitPak :: Consequence Volume 15.2 is Now Out!

Inside this latest issue are works from authors and artists from around the world who offer hard-won truths and insights into the realities of war and geopolitical violence. These realities include a young transgender man making sense of his father’s experiences while fighting in Korea, the multiple perspectives surrounding US soldiers being spit on when returning from Vietnam, and the history of a country as revealed to a young woman by anonymous, pre-WWII photographs. Get your copy today!

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Magazine Stand :: Memoir Magazine – December 2023

Memoir Magazine accepts submissions of nonfiction, art, photography, reviews, interviews, audio, and video on a rolling basis, with the mission “to be a witness to both factual and emotional truths that resonate with the human heart by supporting writers and artists in sharing their stories.”

Some recent features include “What Love Looks Like in Public” by Jacqueline St. Joan, “Vigil” by Shirlee Jellum, “A Lunchtime” by Kate Dowling, “Along Came Bobby” by Jordan Midgley, “The Sweetness of His Breath” by Kristen Lambertin, and “Atlantic Terminal 2015” by Tanya E. Friedman.

Memoir Magazine is a black-owned and woman-owned annual print and online publication.

Magazine Stand :: Chestnut Review – Autumn 2023

In the autumn 2023 issue of Chestnut Review online, artists and writers come together to contend with embodiment, relationships with the medical system, perception, love, and other pressing themes. This issue features a conversation with Erin Little, poetry by Tyler Raso, prose by Nicole Hazan, art by Shee Gomes, and so much more for readers to enjoy.

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 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 Kenyon Review – Black Estrangement Issue

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Guest edited by Elinam Agbo, this special online issue of The Kenyon Review centers on the experiences of Black individuals and communities grappling with limited infrastructure, health care systems, archival records, personal histories, grief, climate change, and the wounds of colonialism. Inspired by the historical erasure and ongoing violence against Black lives, the issue features nonfiction by b ferguson, Edil Hassan, Erica N. Cardwell, Rickey Fayne, Ariana Benson, and Jenise Miller, alongside fiction by Leila Renee, alex terrell, N.K. Iguh, Melissa Beneche, Jeneé Skinner, Allison Noelle Conner, and Mathapelo Mofokeng.

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 are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Rain Taxi – Fall 2023

For screen-time aficionados, Rain Taxi Review of Books has been continuing to post reviews, interviews, and features to their Fall Online Edition. Some gems in this “issue” include a dialogic review (by dynamic duo Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte) of Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author and a feature on Jim Starlin’s Warlock comics (any Marvel fans out there?); reviews of three new poetry books in translation; interviews with Mary Jo Bang and David Jauss; and a nice handful of fiction, nonfiction, and comics reviews. Check them out (and stay tuned for a few more additions) before this season’s Online Edition wraps up, and visit their website to find out how to have the print edition of Rain Taxi delivered.

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 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 :: SWING

Nothing invites company more than a gently swaying porch swing on a beautiful day, which makes SWING an aptly named biannual print publication of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics, welcoming readers and writers alike. Also aptly named, shares Editor Leigh Anne Couch, as SWING is published by “an incredible literary nonprofit in Nashville called The Porch. Not only do we share a budget and staff, but a spirit of openness and curiosity. The word swing points, prismatically, toward objects and actions and relationships, toward music and influence and ambivalence. It won’t be pinned down, and yet it’s securely attached to The Porch.”

For readers and writers, this connection bodes well in our tumultuous times of publication defunding and rocky start-ups, to which Couch is no newcomer. Formerly at Duke University Press, the Greensboro Review, and the Sewanee Review, she is now a freelance editor, who edits the poetry series Sewanee Poetry at LSU, and has published several poetry collections of her own. “SWING grew out of the ethos of The Porch,” Couch says, “and the longing of its editor to experience the thrill of treasure hunting and mysterious resonances again after a five-year break from working in literary magazines. Its ethos is about connection: the unintended and therefore mysterious dialogue between the poems, stories, and essays within.”

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Magazine Stand :: Valley Voices – Fall 2023

The Fall 2023 issue of Valley Voices includes contributions about experiences of memorable moments in the Civil Rights Movement. Robert Butler’s short memoir presents his experience as a teacher at Tougaloo College and his participation as a marcher in Port Gibson. Diane Williams remembers the riots in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967 when she was a 14-year-old girl.

Creative expressions by other writers include poetic tributes to historical figures, immigrant life, police violence, and racial crimes. Toru Kiuchi’s essay surveys the Kokura Incident and its significance as “a trigger for a true and definite integration in the Army and in the United States.” Charlie R. Braxton’s essay discusses human rights in Africa. Further, Mack Hassler’s empathetic poem about the goose and Ted McCormack’s essay about collective wisdom lead to other issues as well as harmony rather than discord in our global society.

Although Valley Voices has decided not to publish reviews anymore, it did gather a few related to the theme of the issue, including Jerome Berglund’s review of William R. Ferris’s book of photography, I Am A Man.

Magazine Stand :: Jewish Fiction .net Issue 35

The newest issue of Jewish Fiction .net just came out, and Editor Nora Gold welcomes readers to their 35th issue which celebrates Chanukah. In Issue 35 readers will find 12 terrific stories originally written in Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. “We hope these stories enhance your celebration of the upcoming holiday, and especially in these challenging times we wish you and those you love a Chanukah filled with miracles and light!” This is also an exciting time for Jewish Fiction .net: one of their stories was selected for the Pushcart Prize and published last month in the latest The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology!

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 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 Lake – December 2023

The Lake December 2023 issue of poetry and poetics is now online featuring works by Beatriu Delaveda, Chris Dornon, Alexanda Etheridge, Tim Fellows, Willian Ogden Haynes, Mary Beth Hines, David James, Carolyn Martin, Sandra Noel, Ian Parks, Frances Sackett, J. R. Solonche. Book reviews include Jaswinder Bolina’s English as a Second Language, Alan Catlin’s How Will the Heart Endure?, and J.V. Birch’s ice cream ‘n’ tar. “One Poem Reviews” features one poem from a poet’s new collection, and this month spotlights works by Katherine Coda, Jonaki Ray, and Hannah Stone.

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 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 Greensboro Review – Fall 2023

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The 114th Greensboro Review features the winner of the 2023 Amon Liner Poetry Prize, Madeleine Poole’s “Pile of Maggots,” as well as an Editor’s Note, “In Praise of LitMags,” by Terry L. Kennedy. In this Fall 2023 issue, discover new flash fiction, poems, and stories from an outstanding group of more than two dozen emerging and established writers, including Allison Field Bell, Stacie Cassarino, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, Corinne Dekkers, Chard deNiord, Arielle Hebert, John Hoppenthaler, Nalea J. Ko, AG Latham, Michael Meyerhofer, Ania Mroczek, John A. Nieves, Rachel Richardson, Robert Stone, and Mimi Yang.

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 are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Cutleaf – November 2023

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Cutleaf publishes a new issue online every other week and will update readers via email so they can keep reading fresh new prose and poetry that “responds to our common experience and reflects our differences.” Recent contributions: Kathleen Gibbons reunites a father and daughter after many years apart in “I’m On Highway 1”; Jude Marr explores concepts of space and movement in three poems beginning with “Moving Continents”; George Singleton remembers what could have been lost over a conversation in his local diner in “Thanksgiving”; Matt Cashion’s characters sweat it out in a waiting room in “Love Song for the Headless”; Jennifer LoveGrove reminds us that “it’s embarrassing to still hope / to be loved” in three poems beginning with “We are all touch-me-nots now, exploding at the slightest provocation”; and Mary Winsor examines how hard it is to be at the bedside of a miracle in “Defying the Gods.”

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 are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Colorado Review – Fall/Winter 2023

In her Colorado Review Fall/Winter 2023 essay, “Reconsidering the Sunflowers,” Stephanie Harrison recalls her father’s habit of painting just one side of their family’s house a different color each year and the moment she saw this through fresh eyes: “Something in me had blinked and refocused. It was like the optical illusion I’d marveled over in fifth grade: beautiful woman or hag? Definitely hag. Once I’d seen it, I couldn’t stop seeing it.” A stand-in for her father’s sense of self, the house reflects the elusiveness of his identity — ever-shifting throughout their relationship — and ultimately his struggles with mental health. Questions of identity and self are at the heart of this issue, as characters — and writers — examine themselves closely in pivotal moments and ask some hard questions. This issue also features work by Jonathan W. Chu, Christopher Citro, Timothy Donnelly, Lindsey Drager, K. S. Dyal, Suzie Eckl, John Gallaher, Adam Giannelli, Jacob M. Hall, Chengru He, Karan Kapoor, John Kinsella, Arah Ko, Brandon Krieg, Jami Macarty, Caleb A. P. Parker, Susan Rich, Petra Salazar, Liane Strauss, Amy Stuber, Jaz Sufi, Eugene Stein, Cole Swensen, Sher Ting, Marc Vincenz, Hannah V. Warren, Tana Jean Welch & Brad Wetherell.

Magazine Stand :: Consequence – Fall 2023

Consequence Volume 15.2 (Fall 2023) features works from authors and artists from around the world who offer hard-won truths and insights into the realities of war and geopolitical violence. These realities include a young transgender man making sense of his father’s experiences while fighting in Korea, the multiple perspectives surrounding US soldiers being spit on when returning from Vietnam, and the history of a country as revealed to a young woman by anonymous, pre-WWII photographs. There are also works that address the ways we express these realities in the latest installation of our “What is War Poetry?” series. Earlier installations focused on these expressions via The Iliad and the Bhagavad Gita. In this iteration, writers explore these depictions through a different lens, through texts and ideas that could be construed as antiwar. The editors are excited to share this volume!

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 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 Malahat Review – Issue 224

Established in 1967, The Malahat Review is a quarterly literary magazine dedicated to publishing the best poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by Canadian and international writers. Their current fall issue #224 showcases cover art by Cammie Staros, Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction winner Eleanor Fuller, and new work by Odette Auger, Chee Brossy, Alicia Gee, Karine Hack, Warren Heiti, Mark Anthony Jarman, Joseph Kidney, Y. S. Lee, Winshen Liu, Sadie McCarney, Matt Robinson, Kawai Shen, Sun Tzu-Ping (translated by Nicholas Wong), Rhea Tregebov, and Olivia Wenzel (translated by Sylvia Franke). Visit their website for more info and to sign up for their email list to receive their monthly newsletter with author interviews, contest entry deals, info on upcoming issues, and 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 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 – Autumn 2023

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The Fiddlehead No. 297 (Autumn 2023) features poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews written by some of the best new and established writers. Contributors include Anne Marie Todkill — winner of our 2023 Creative Nonfiction contest — Jack Wang, David Ly, Annick MacAskill, Bryn Harris, and many more. Visit The Fiddlehead website to see a full list of contributors, read excerpts from selected works, and order a copy of No. 297. Cover art is Fall Canoe Route by Réjean Roy.

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 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 First Line – Fall 2023

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The First Line Fall 2023 issue tasked writers with the line, “As soon as Harriet entered the building, she headed to the seventh floor.” Contributors include Brian Shaw, Gretchen Oliver, Footnotes by Doug Devaney, Georgi Presecky, Ruswa Fatehpuri, Alison Morretta, Vernon McDonald, Harriet Takes a Ride by Mary Corbin, and an essay by A. R. Cochrane. The First Lines for 2024 have been announced along with their deadlines. Visit the publication’s website for complete submission information.

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 are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Collateral – 8.2

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The Fall 2023 (8.2) issue of Collateral is now online for readers to share in the contributions of literary and visual art revealing the impact of military service and violent conflict beyond the combat zone. The publication features poetry by Karen Arnold, Sarwa Azeez, Sarah Colby, Leonore Hildebrandt, James King, Ron Lavalette, Antony Owen, Zara Raab, Siavash Saadlou, Danielle Sellers, J.C. Todd, B.A. Van Sise, and Charles Weld; fiction by J. Malcolm Garcia, Marc Levy, Joseph Porter, and Yuhan Tang; creative nonfiction by MaxieJane Frazier, Barbara Krasner, and Jennifer Eden Rogers; and an interview with featured visual artist Amber Zora.

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 are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

November 2023 eLitPak :: Amsterdam Review Fall 2023 Issue Now Live!

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Discover the latest issue of Amsterdam Review with poetry, translations, interviews, and visual arts by local and international artists. Featuring an exclusive interview of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and works by Rae Armantrout, Laynie Browne, Marin Sorescu, Jocelyn Ulevicus, Paul Cunningham, Ruth Lasters, and many more. View our flyer and visit our website for more information.

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November 2023 eLitPak :: Poets & Writers Special Subscription Offer

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Poets & Writers Magazine is happy to offer NewPages readers an exclusive offer. You’re invited to subscribe to Poets & Writers Magazine at our guaranteed lowest rate. For only $9.95 (a 79% discount off our cover price), you’ll gain access to the magazine that informs, connects, and inspires the literary community. Every issue is for the serious writer, and reader, like you. Subscribe now.

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Magazine Stand :: The Louisville Review – Summer 2023

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The Louisville Review’s Summer 2023 issue Number 93 features Alfred Conteh’s painting Aaron on the cover image and an essay about the work contributed by Alice Gray Stites. Poems by Rosa Nevadovska (1890-1971) open this issue, both in the original Yiddish text—a first for TLR—and in English translation by Merle L. Bachman. This issue offers a wide range of voices and subjects engaged: from an exploration of the too-often-hidden contributions of Black distillers of Kentucky bourbon, in Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker’s poem, “Masta d’ Steala” to a speculative view of a not-so-distant future deeply impacted by climate catastrophe in J. D. Strunk’s short story “Tokyo, 2031,” to an assertion of reliance and vibrance in advanced age in Alice Bingham Gorman’s poem, “The House of Eighty”—plus 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 are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: South Dakota Review – 57.4

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South Dakota Review is delighted to wrap up Volume 57 with a marvelous roster of authors! Volume 57, Number 4 includes poetry by Craig Blais, Maggie Bowyer, Lawdenmarc Decamora, Deidra Suwanee Dees, Aidan Dolbashian, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Joanna Doxey, Kristin Entler, Kennedy Amenya Gisege, Korey Hurni, Evan J. Massey, King Tina, Sara Moore Wagner, Terin Weinberg, Kenton K. Yee, and Hafsa Zulfiqar; fiction by Ryan Burruss and Noah Pohl; creative nonfiction by Alyse Bensel, Anna Oberg, Emily Stedge, Caroline Sutton, and Natasha Williams; and a scholarly essay by Joanna Acevedo. Issues can be ordered here.

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 are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Broadsided – Fall 2023

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For nearly two decades, Broadsided Press has released monthly collaborations of poetry and artwork for readers to enjoy and share by posting far and wide. This Fall 2023 marks the launch of their biannual folio, bringing together multiple collaborations, lesson plans for teachers to use in their classrooms, and book reviews. Each collaborative work is published alongside a conversation between the artist and the writer – perfect for teachers and students of the craft. The Fall 2023 issue features eight collaborations: Poet Darren Demaree/Artist David Bernardy; Poet Alica Mteuzi/Artist Donna R. Charging; Poet Michelle Whitstone/Artist Regin Igloria; Poet Rose Strode/Artist JoAnne McFarland; Poet Nicelle Davis/Artist Michele L’Heureux; Poet Rajiv Mohibir/Artist Janice Redman; Poet Geffrey Davis/Artist Daniel Esquivia Zapata; and Poet Tomas Nieto/Artist Kevin Morrow. Visit Broadsided today, and download these gorgeous broadsides to enjoy and post around your community.

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 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 Lake – November 2023

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The November 2023 issue of The Lake online journal of poetry and poetics is now online featuring Fizza Abbas, Ken Anderson, Maria Berardi, Jennifer Blackledge, Clive Donovan, Matt Gilbert, Elizabeth Goodall, Maren O. Mitchell, Ronald Moran, Jason Ryberg, and Fiona Sinclair. Reviewers offer their take on Rachael Carney’s Octopus Mind, Frances Sackett’s, House with the Mansard Roof, and Charles Rammelkamp’s Transcendence. “One Poem Reviews” offers readers one poem from a newly minted collection, with works this month from Lorrain Caputo, Diane Elayne Dees, Kris Falcon, and Sarah Leavesley.

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Magazine Stand :: AGNI – 98

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Consequences. AGNI 98 fronts the world as we find it, parsing enigmas and celebrating the drive to engage necessary truths. This newest issue includes essays by Mara Naselli and Peter Balakian that take on misogyny and cultural suppression while poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Rochelle Hurt, jason b. crawford, and Sharon Olds probe the surprising energies of duress. Stories by Lucy Sweeney Byrne and Mylene Fernández Pintado (in Dick Cluster’s translation) test commitments to decisions made. Cover artist Eva Lundsager sets the tone, finding motion in landscapes at the edge.

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Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag – Fall 2023

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The Main Street Rag Fall 2023 issue, in keeping with the long-standing tradition of hosting interviews to open the magazine, invites readers to enjoy Editor M. Scott Douglass (& friends) in conversation with Minion TRUNION – who is also featured on the cover and whose origin story is provided in the “Welcome Readers” intro. After that good laugh (or maybe cry), readers can go on to enjoy “Stories & Such” bySydney Lea, Kevin Brown, Maria Hardin, Burt Rashbaum, Michael Pikna, Michael Sadoff, Bill Spencer, Richard Widerkehr, Kevin Winchester, Marie Gray Wise, and Poetry by M. J. Arcangelini, Joe Barca, Jane Blanchard, Ace Boggess, Alan Catlin, Deborah H. Doolittle, Mirana Comstock, Paula Brancato, Casey Killingsworth, Carol Levin, Kevin McDaniel, Richard Merelman, Yvonne Morris, Richard Thomas Murray, R. Nikolas Macioci, Charles Rammelkamp, Kevin Ridgeway, Russell Rowland, Maeve Stemp, Jane M. Wiseman, Richard Weaver, Liza Wolff-Francis, and many 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 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 Common – Issue 26

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Two-time Lambda Literary fellow and co-editor of The Common‘s Issue 26 Miguel M. Morales offers these words to consider as we head into a season of feasting and celebration: “our farmworking hands helped harvest the feast.” The Common is a Whiting Award-winning literary magazine based out of Amherst College, and their latest issue features a portfolio of work from Latinx farmworkers, exploring issues of labor, immigration, identity, and “the farming culture that once coursed through the valley where Amherst is now located,” as David Applefield fellow Sam Spratford writes in the magazine’s opening essay. Issue 26 also features a new translated story from O. Henry Prize-winner Amar Mitra, a haunting essay about coming of age in 1990s Yugoslavia, and a poem from Whiting Award-winner Rickey Laurentiis, “Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking).”

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 are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – November 6, 2023

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!

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deLuge online literary arts journal is devoted to the creativity that arises from dreams and the deeply felt/experienced life. The Summer 2023 issue cover art is by Eric Lunde (Old Early Script), whose work is also featured inside along with other asemic and vispo contributors.

The Elevation Review Fall 2023 cover image

Fall 2023 The Elevation Review, “Black as the Ocean,” celebrates poets of color, exploring contemporary verse “that resonates like waves, powerful and unrelenting.”

The Twin Bill Issue 13 cover image

The Twin Bill quarterly online literary journal dedicated to baseball features the work of Sam Williams on the cover of their newest issue, (lucky) Issue 13.


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Magazine Stand :: The Keeping Room – November 2023

Minerva Rising Press, parent company of The Keeping Room, new logo

The Keeping Room is an online magazine from Minerva Rising Press that publishes short stories, essays, free writing, and photo essays that touch on topics related to Women’s Wisdom, Lessons Learned, Self-care, Bodies, Relationships, and Community. Writers selected for publication will be paid $25 via PayPal. Recent works include “The Unfurling Frond” a review by Colleen Lutz Clemen, “Her Longing & His Loneliness” creative nonfiction by L Grace G, “A TALL GLASS OF LEMONADE ON A HOT DAY” fiction by Cindy Knoebel.

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Magazine Stand :: The Midwest Quarterly – Fall 2023

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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought Fall 2023 issue features a wide range of essays to pique reader’s interests: “Outbreak Communication: Exploring the Relationships between Health Information Seeking Behaviors, Vested Interests, and COVID-19 Knowledge in U.S. Midwest Populations,” “Emblematics Related to Émilie du Châtelet: Voltaire’s Mistress, Muse, and More,” “A Contemporary Overview of Dyslexia,” “‘Façades for Emptiness’: Jim Thompson’s The Nothing Man,” “The Therapeutic Role of Animals in Health Care: From Before Florence Nightingale to Current Practice,” and “Homo Athletica to Homo Digitalis: Esports as Sport.” This along with poems by Allison Blevins, Paul Dickey, Rob Hardy, Marianne Kunkel, David Lee, and Chad Weeden fill the pages to challenge and entertain. Cover photo by Saketh Garuda.

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Magazine Stand :: Sky Island Journal – Fall 2023

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Sky Island Journal’s stunning 26th issue 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 125,000 readers in 145 countries and over 800 contributors already know; the finest new writing can be found where the desert meets the mountains.

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Magazine Stand :: World Literature Today – November 2023

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World Literature Today November 2023 is bursting at the seams with lively culture essays, book reviews, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, and fiction. This issue features a cover story devoted to four artists of Iraqi descent who are achieving global recognition. Other highlights include Karlos K. Hill interviewing Cornel West about his embrace of prophetic witness; Adnan Mahmutović recalling an unforgettable Hajj; and Veronica Esposito pondering the characters of the schlemiel and schlimazel in her latest “Untranslatable” column. With 80 pages of vibrant content, WLT’s latest issue remains your indispensable guide to the best in international literature and culture.

“Little magazines, which still operate in the interstices of a mostly commercialized, capitalized, and urban-centered literary marketplace, invite readers to unthink what they know and to broaden their ideas of what an international Republic of Letters might look like.” ~ Daniel Simon, WLT Assistant Director & Editor in Chief

Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – October 30, 2023

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!

Prairie Schooner Winter 2022

Cycles and Cyclones (2017) mixed media (burlap, dye, wire) by Nnenna Okore is the colorful cover of Prairie Schooner‘s Winter 2022 issue.

Slightly Foxed Journal Autumn 2023 cover image

There’s so much to appreciate about Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Journal from Britain, the Autumn 2023 cover artist Maxwell Doig’s, “Southwold Rooftops II,” acrylic on canvas on panel, is the perfect invitation.

The Deadlands October 2023 cover image

Of course, at least one Halloween-themed cover would be nice, and that honor goes to The Deadlands, a monthly online zine about death. Cover image by inkshark.


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Magazine Stand :: Southern Humanities Review – 56.3

Southern Humanities Review Issue 56.3 cover image

Southern Humanities Review issue 56.3 features the 2023 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize winner, Samyak Shertok, and his poem “Mother Tongue: A Haunting.” Judge Joy Harjo also selected Hussain Ahmed and Shannan Mann as runners-up. Other finalists include Jessica Cohn, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, David Moolten, Jed Myers, Wesley Rothman, Melanie Tafejian, and Felicia Zamora. The rest of the issue is filled with nonfiction by Esinam Bediako and Amy Benson; fiction by Judith Dancoff, Emmett Knowlton, Nicole Simonsen, and Heather Swain; with cover art by André Masson. On October 19, 2023, Southern Humanities Review celebrated the tenth year of the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize at an event presented by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art with the judge and winner in conversation.

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Magazine Stand :: Club Plum – 4.4

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Volume 4, Issue 4 of Club Plum opens the door to October for you to tiptoe inside and enjoy this “Literary Horror Issue.” Maybe the door is entry to a vulnerable memory or gives way to the horrors of a childhood home. Perhaps we will enter a shed and witness our father’s obsession, or come face-to-face with our obsession in the neighborhood bar. Half-dead birds flap around our grandmother, and hogs haunt us in the road. Sometimes, though, the haunting is soft and necessary, and we strain to listen lest we miss it as we desperately conjure our beloved ghosts. Other times, we need to let our ghosts float away like ships that we don’t recognize simply so we can go on. Dare to enter and enjoy Creative Nonfiction by Faune Albert and Ainsley Davis; Flash Nonfiction by Amy DeBellis; Flash Fiction by Mileva Anastasiadou, Daniel David Froid, Enrico Gilberti, Emily Ives-Keeler, John Kucera, and George Nevgodovskyy; Prose Poetry by Helen Stevens Chinitz, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, Jonny Shae Ransbottom, and Royal Rhodes; and Art by David Boyle, Thomas Riesner and Claudia Tong.

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Magazine Stand :: Bellevue Literary Review – Issue 45

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Bellevue Literary Review‘s latest issue (45) is on the theme of “Taking Care.” In the foreword, Poetry Editor Sarah M. Sala writes: “Three years since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, we continue to redefine what ‘taking care’ means for us as individuals but also as an interdependent collective. In this issue of BLR, readers will find a variety of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that explore the many facets of caregiving and how we care for one another, for ourselves, and for the world.” The issue features poetry by Richard Blanco, Jen Karetnick, and Jehanne Dubrow, fiction by Abby Seiff and Joy Guo, nonfiction by Sheree L. Greer and Eric Raymond, and many more talented writers. The evocative cover art is by Tatana Kellner.

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Magazine Stand :: Carve Magazine – Summer 2023

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The Summer 2023 issue of Carve Magazine features short stories and interviews with Mary Grimm, Zeeva Bukai, Tobenna Nwosu, Ambata Kazi; new poetry from Barbara Tomash, James Davis, Isabel De Aguiar, and Paulette Guerin; and new nonfiction by Jeffrey Utzinger and Lauren Osborn. Additional features include Carve’s delightful “Decline/Accept,” in which an author previously declined by Carve but accepted elsewhere comments on the process along with Carve‘s reading committee and the publisher that accepted the work. “Harbor” by Kimberly Y. Liu is highlighted here. And, finally, “One to Watch” offers readers an excerpt from Take Creek, For Example by Chris Rugeley.

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Magazine Stand :: The Missouri Review – Fall 2023

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The Fall 2023 issue of The Missouri Review is themed “The Curious Past.” Inside, readers will find historical fiction by Aaron Gwyn, a consideration of Norman Mailer in his centennial year by Bill Barich, stories by Genevieve Abravanel, Richard Bausch, and Joana Pearson, essays from Gregory Martin and Peter LaSalle, and poems by Tin Fogdall, Catherine Pond, and Mike Schneider. Art features include “Maud Allan and the Price of Fame” and “Edward Hopper and the Art of Voyeurism” by Kristine Somerville. Reviews in this issue by Andrew Mulvania focus on poets in “Whose Life Is It, Anyway? Lives of the Poets and the Evolving Art of Biography.” Cover art by Jolene Lai, Sarah’s Secret, 2011, oil on canvas.

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Magazine Stand :: Spoon River Poetry Review – Summer 2023

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The Spoon River Poetry Review Summer 2023 issue is the perfect way to transition from one season to the next. In this issue, readers can enjoy the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with poetry by Jose-Luis Moctezuma and an interview of the poet by Edgar Garcia; new poetry by Joanne Diaz and Jason Reblando, Romana Iorga, Brandon Krieg, Olivia Cronk, Oriette D’Angelo translated by Lupita Eyde-Tucker, and more; and the SRPR Review Essay “Exposure, Confinement, Haunting: Visual Poetry in the Twenty-First Century” by Joanne Diaz, who reviews books by Katy Didden (Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland), Sarah J. Sloat (Hotel Almighty), and Mai Der Vang (Yellow Rain). Cover art by Jade Nguyen.

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Magazine Stand :: The Apple Valley Review – Fall 2023

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The Apple Valley Review Fall 2023 features flash fiction by Jackie Sabbagh and Scott F. Gandert; a short story by J. Malcolm Garcia; a novel excerpt by Philippe Forest (translated from the French by Armine Kotin Mortimer); a memoir excerpt by Dato Turashvili (translated from the Georgian by Mary Childs with Lia Shartava and Elizabeth Scott Tervo); and poetry by Mickie Kennedy, Eric Roy, Nadja Küchenmeister (translated from the German by Aimee Chor), Vernon Mukumbi, Marty Krasney, Megan Willburn, Theodora Ziolkowski, and Lynne Knight. Cover artwork by German painter Karl Friedrich Lessing. The Apple Valley Review is an online literary journal established in 2005 and published in the spring and fall.

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Magazine Stand :: Baltimore Review – 2023 Print Annual

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Baltimore Review 2023 print annual features the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction published in the summer and fall 2022 and winter and spring 2023 online issues. The writers included in this annual print compilation are Deborah Allbritain, Matt Barrett, Heather Bartos, Michael Beard, Jared Beloff, Garrett Candrea, Allisa Cherry, Elizabeth J. Coleman, Brecht De Poortere, Sara Eddy, Sarah Elkins, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Adam Forrester, Kimberly Glanzman, Grace, James Gyure, Jared Hanson, Aiden Heung, Marcia L. Hurlow, Hilal Isler, Garret Keizer, Kael Knight, Lance Larsen, Karis Lee, Winshen Liu, Joshua Jones Lofflin, Charlene Logan, Rachael Lyon, Pete Mackey, Meg Robson Mahoney, Leah Mell, Michael Minassian, Abby E. Murray, Reuben Gelley Newman, Christopher Notarnicola, Donna Obeid, Jonathan Odell, Mikal Oness, Abigail Oswald, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, Frank Reilly, Emmy Ritchey, Cressida Blake Roe, Adrie Rose, Jennifer Saunders, ZG Tomaszewski, Devin S. Turk, Kirk Vanderbeek, Donna Vorreyer, Lydia Waites, Claire Walla, Kelly Weber, Jill Witty, Andy Young, Lucy Zhang, Alison Zheng, Huina Zheng, Katie M. Zeigler, and Jane Zwart. Copies of Baltimore Review print compilations can be ordered here.

New Lit on the Block :: Wyngraf

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If you’re the kind of reader who enjoys snuggling up with fantastical stories, Wyngraf is just the ticket! Wanting something “warm and welcoming and a little fantastical,” the editors took the name from wyngrāf, the Anglo-Saxon word meaning “wondrous grove.” True to its name, Wyngraf: A Magazine of Cozy Fantasy provides “a growing genre that focuses on community, personal relationships, and worlds that readers can get lost in.” Publishing twice per year with special editions, Wyngraf is available via paid digital download in wide distribution (Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Smashwords, etc.), and in print on Amazon.

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Magazine Stand :: Brilliant Flash Fiction – September 2023

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Brilliant Flash Fiction online quarterly for September 2023 opens with original flash fiction by Pamela Painter, “You Are Like Me,” followed by Sharon A. Pruchnik’s Kafkaesque and delightful “Extinct.” A fabulous Halloween story by Charles Rammelkamp, “Houdini Seance,” is must-read material, as well as Oumaima H’s long-titled story about learning to ride a bike. The September issue is all good, solid flash fiction by talented authors, and visitors to the website can find information about BFF‘s Pop-Up Writing Contest.

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Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – October 16, 2023

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The Healing Muse Fall 2023 cover image

Raoul P. Brosseau’s work, Le Protecteur, blends summer and fall on the newest cover of The Healing Muse: A Journal of Literary & Visual Art (Fall 2023) published by SUNY Upstate Medical University’s Center for Bioethics & Humanities.

Copper Nickel Fall 2023 cover image

Hailing from the University of Colorado, Denver, the fall 2023 issue of Copper Nickel features a collage of woven inkjet prints on Hahnemuhle bamboo paper, Hahnemuhle rice paper, beeswax, and artist tape entitled Charles, 2022 by Sarah Sense.

petrichor issue 23 cover image

Issue 23 of the online poetry journal petrichor is dedicated to the memory of Catherine Vidler and features the work of experimental writer and visual poet Andrew Brenza on the cover.


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Magazine Stand :: Superpresent – Fall 2023

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The latest issue of Superpresent (Vol 3 No 4 Fall 2023) is now available. The theme for this, our eleventh issue, was Naturally. The issue features artwork, poetry, prose, asemic writing, and even videos from across the globe.

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