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Carve Magazine Winter 2022 features new fiction, interviews, poetry, nonfiction, Decline/Accept, One-to-Watch, and more. Contributors include Emily Lu Wang, Na Zhong, Bailey Cunningham, and Nicole Hebdon.
You can read some of the Winter 2022 stories online and subscribe at the Carve Magazine website.
A Public Space No. 30. “The past will reveal to us the nature of the present.”—Joan Perucho. Contributors include Matt Miller, Sara Majka, Mi Jin Kim, Matthew Zapruder, Rosemarie Ho.
Read some work from the issue at the A Public Space website.
Special Issue: Feminism and Capitalism. “Why is feminism so good at understanding capitalism? Because gender, like capital, is never separate or pure in its expressions. Feminism has theorized gender as an intersecting system that configures and distributes power not just between female-identified and male-identified persons and within households, but also between classes and between producers and reproducers. It does so within and across these boundaries, and it questions the boundaries themselves.”
Read more about this issue at the Feminist Studies website.
Jewish Fiction .net features contemporary Jewish fiction, in English, from across the globe. On February 18 they celebrated reaching 18 languages in which a story published in their journal was originally written in. The 18th language is Portuguese.
In honor of this happy occasion and milestone, they have released a preview of three novel excerpts that will be featured in their next issue, including the translation from Portuguese. Enjoy these tidbits while you await the release of the full issue.
EVENT Vol. 50 No. 3 is the Notes on Writing Issue. “Event publishes fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and literary reviews. In every issue we aim to present a compelling selection of work by established and newer writers, both from Canada and abroad.”
You’ll find subscription information at the EVENT website.
subTerrain No. 90, from East Vancouver, BC, features new work from TJ Beitelman, Clint Burnham, Louise Dumayne, Erika Dyck, Yosef Wosk, and more. Commentary, opinion, fiction, poetry, art, and book reviews.
You will find more information at the subTerrain website.
Hamilton Arts & Letters celebrates its 13th anniversary with the release of The Science Issue guest edited by Sima Rabinowitz. Contributors for Issue 14.2 include Remi Recchia, Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Mark McKain, Anne Baldo, Grace Sanchez MacCall, Brittany Friesen, Paul Elia, Rachael Carnes, Jill K. Gregory, Mark Cembrowski, J.S. Porter, William F. Pinar, George Grant, Kim Morgan, Susan Gibson Garvey, Richard van Holst, Anna van Valkenburg, JB Stone, Charlie C. Petch, Jenn Carson, David Huebert, Gary Fordham, Alexis Moline, Brooke Pratt, Nicholas Bradley, Al Purdy, Bernadette Rule, Jeffery Donaldson, Leo Dragtoe, Michael Mitchell, Charles James, Camille Nivera, Tor Lukasik-Foss, and Treasa Levasseur.
Read the full issue 14.2 at Hamilton Arts & Letters website.
Online literary magazine has officially released the results of its 13th annual Flash Fiction Contest. First place is “Thirteen Tips for Photographing Your Nephew’s Bar Mitzvah When You Still Can’t Forgive Your Brother-in-Law” by Nancy Ludmerer.
You will be able to read Nancy’s story and five additional finalists in Gemini‘s next issue due out later this month, including second place “The Tea Taster” by William Torphy.
Honorable Mentions:
Oxford American is celebrating 30 years in 2022. They are kicking off this milestone and year-long celebration with the release of Issue 116 (Spring 2022). Across a range of genres and subjects, their writers meditate on memory, identity, and artmaking via illuminating insights on Southern music, literature, politics, and more.
Issue 116 is now available for pre-order on the Oxford American website and will hit mailboxes in March 2022.
Literary magazine Ambit has announced its latest issue 246 will be hitting their printer soon, so don’t forget to subscribe today to enjoy 96 pages of poems, stories, and art. This is also the final issue where Kate Pemberton serves as fiction editor.
Enjoy poetry by Florence Ladd, Jehane Markham, Jay Barnett, Regi Claire, Michael Pedersen, Anthony Anaxagorou, and more; stories by Liz McSkeane, Emily Devane, Fannah Palmer, Meara Sharma, Ruth Rosengarten, Moz, and Regi Claire; and art by Jason McGlade, Laura Copsey, Sean McLusky, Chenyue Yuan, and Bert Gilbert.
Stop by Ambit‘s website to pre-order Issue 246 today or subscribe.
The first issue of year went live last month, but don’t forget Hippocampus Magazine refreshes each bimonthly issue with new columns, reviews, and interviews. This month, find Laura Sturza sharing how a writing community rocked her writing world in the WRITING LIFE column, plus find two Q&As with Suzanne Roberts and Galit Atlas. New to the reviews section: Emily Maloney reviewed by Sandra Hager Eliason, Victoria Chang reviewed by Ashley Supinski, Odyssey of Ashes: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Letting Go reviewed by Rachael J. Hughes, and Alexis Paige reviewed by Daphnee McMaster. Don’t forget in January Hippocampus featured nonfiction by Sara Tatyana Bernstein, Michelle DeLiso, Katharine M. Emlen, Melanie Figg, Farah Habib, Mark O. Hodgson, Ali Kojak, Veena K. Siddarth, Shell St. James, Tatyana M. Sussex, and Karen Winn.
Stop by the Hippocampus Magazine website to read the refreshed January-February 2022 issue.
In this issue of Cutleaf, the inimitable Rolli tells us of the time he wrote lewd fruit puns for pay in “Dirty Work.” Cynthia Young celebrates her powers as a young, Black girl in two poems beginning with “But My Sister Said All Poets Are Liars…” And Lucy Zhang takes us on a comic and cosmic ride with the Grim Reaper in “Bonchon Chats.” The images in this issue show Jupiter in three different types of light—infrared, visible, and ultraviolet.
Stop by Cutleaf‘s listing on NewPages to learn more about them and don’t forget to head on over to their website to read Issue 2.4.
In 2022 The Capilano Review is celebrating its 50th anniversary. To celebrate, they asked over a hundred past contributors to a submit a term, resonant with their practice, to their experimental glossary.
They are kicking this special event off with the release of the Spring 2022 issue (3.46: A-H), the first in their three-part glossary series where you can see the contributors’ creative practice in their literary and arts community.
These feature new work alongside notable selections from their archive, from many long-time contributors: Sonny Assu, Marian Penner Bancroft, Robin Blaser, Rebecca Brewer, Clint Burnham, listen chen, Wayde Compton, CAConrad, Jen Currin, Christos Dikeakos, Maxine Gadd, David Geary, Liz Howard, Carole Itter & Al Neil, Aisha Sasha John, Bhanu Kapil, Robert Keziere, Jónína Kirton, Sonnet L’Abbé, Danielle LaFrance, Laiwan, Nicole Markotić, Daphne Marlatt, Gailan Ngan, bpNichol, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Lisa Robertson, Rhoda Rosenfeld, annie ross & Catriona Strang, Jordan Scott, Michelle Sylliboy, Fred Wah, Rita Wong, and Jin-me Yoon.
The Spring 2022 issue is available for pre-order or you can subscribe today and receive all three anniversary issues for $25 plus shipping.
Issue Number 60 of online literary magazine Mud Season Review features poetry by Tara Mesalik MacMahon, fiction by Amy Cipolla Barnes, nonfiction by Kayann Short, art by Paul Rabinowitz, with additional imagery by Deborah Ajilore, Kristin Fouquet, and Karen Boissonnealut-Gauthier.
Head on over to Mud Season Review‘s website to read the issue.
Poet Lore Volume 16 is guest edited by Tarfia Faizullah and features her Folio: Surrealism and Strangeness. “In what I am calling a ‘surreal’ or ‘strange’ poem, it’s not that the moon might be the eye of God, or could be, for example—it is that it is.”
Find more info at the Poet Lore website.
Harvard Review No. 58 includes new fiction from Laura van den Berg and Mark Chiusano, plus new poetry from Andrea Cohen, Kelli Russell Agodon, Kwame Dawes, and more.
Find more info at the Harvard Review website.
Pulp Literature No. 32 features new work from David Perlmutter, Leslie Wibberley, Zandra Renwick, Mel Anastasiou, Kelsey Hutton, Sarina Bosco, and more.
Find more info at the Pulp Literature website.
Southern Indiana Review’s Fall 2021 issue features artwork by Ann R. Fischer. Poetry from Dan Albergotti, Michael Bazzett, Carina Finn, Idris Goodwin, and more. Fiction from Tyler Barton, Tom Franklin, Tessa Yang, and more. Also, Nonfiction from Philip Metres, Kathryn Nuernberger, and more.
Find more info on this issue at the Southern Indiana Review website.
With “Puppy Bin” cover artwork by Emma Gerigscott, the new issue of Poetry Northwest includes poetry by Eric Wang, Michael Waters, and Nita Jade, and many more; essays by Erika Meitner and Nkosi Nkululeko; and features by Rajiv Mohabir, Karla Maravilla, Jane Wong, and Jaidyanna Podsobinski. You can find the new issue on the Poetry Northwest website.
The Main Street Rag Winter 2022 issue features editor M. Scott Douglas’s interview with Craig Johnson, author and creator of Longmire. New poetry from Margaret Benbow, Paul Colby, Pablo Patiño, and Rachel Mauro. New fiction from Burt Beckman, Valerie Gilbraeth, George Looney, Shoshauna Shy, and more. Includes a new batch of book reviews.
Find and buy the Winter 2002 issue at The Main Street Rag website.
Poetry magazine’s February 2022 issue includes new work from Suzi F. Garcia, Muna Abdulahi, Ada Limon, Keith Donnell Jr., Jeremy Michael Clark and more. “Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation” is Khaty Xiong’s “intimate discussion that formed in the early months of COVID-19 lockdown, when I talked with poets and writers Victoria Chang and Prageeta Sharma about our personal experiences living with profound grief.“
Read more about the current issue at the Poetry website.
EVENT celebrates 50 years of publication with a Notes on Writing anthology, featuring more than 70 personal essays with insights into the joys and struggles of the writer’s life and process, written by notable Canadian writers, including Jane Urquhart, David Bergen, André Alexis, Madeleine Thien, Eden Robinson, Jen Sookfong Lee, Zoe Whittall, Joy Kogawa, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Joshua Whitehead, and many others.
Find more info and order your copy at the EVENT website.
Gargoyle 74 features nonfiction by Linda Blaskey, Ruth Boggs, Dylan Emmons, Darlene Fife, Jesse Lee Kercheval, CD Nickols, Randon Billings Noble, Darius Stewart, and M. Kaat Toy; poetry by Fran Abrams, John Kinsella, Elisabeth Murawski, Todd Swift, Paul Jaskunas, Rosemary Winslow, Beth Baruch Joselow, RC deWinter, Lyudmyla Diadchenko, to name a few; and fiction by Kelli Allen, Jeff Bagato, Christina Kapp, Jordan Redd, Esther Iverem, Che Parker, Meg Pokrass, Tom Whalen, Kathy Wiilson, and more.
View the full list of contributors and grab a copy of Gargoyle 74 here.
Syncopation Literary Journal amalgamates the realms of literature and music. Volume 1, Issue 1 is now available to read on the website for FREE! The first issue contains book excerpts, poetry, creative nonfiction, short stories and flash fiction penned by writers and musicians from around the world. Titles of pieces in issue include: “The First Time I Heard Leonard Cohen”, “Memphis, Tennessee”, and “I’ve Got the Blues.”
Visit the Syncopation Literary Journal website for more information.
What’s in this issue? Writing by Kim Marie Lewis, Amber Wong, Rachel Paris Wimer, Rachele Salvini, Candice May, Liz Charlotte Grant, and Steve Wing. Art by Summer Ventis and Ak Hardeman.
More information at Under the Gum Tree website.
Issue 7 is one of our more spiritual issues. Work by Tim Moder, Preeth Ganapathy, Bryan Joel Mariano, Christine Oberas Aurelio, Izzy Martens, Kali Norris, Claire Champommier, Natalie Foo Mei-Yi, Chrystal Ho, Brittany Nohra, Vanessa Hewson, Justin Groppuso-Cook, Zarina Muhammad & Zachary Chan, DH Jenkins, Andrew Vogel, Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal, Art Ó Súilleabháin, and more.
More info at the Tiger Moth Review website.
In the latest issue: nonfiction by Philip Arnold and Sarah Gorham; fiction by Jerome Blanco, Michael Colbert, Evan Grillon, Eliamani Ismail, and Pardeep Toor; and poetry by Rebecca Cross, Chiyuma Elliott, Grego Emilio, Claire Hero, Sarah Nance, Carolina Harper New, Steven Pan, Jenny Qi, Roger Sedarat, Benjamin Voigt, and D.S. Waldman.
More info at the Southern Humanities Review website.
The latest issue of The Ocotillo Review is a spiritual experience to release you from the doldrums of social isolation. 43 poets and writers, previews of upcoming releases, winning entries from the “J. Darling” and “CB Himes” contests. Something for everyone in 170 pages of moving literary art for your enjoyment.
More info at The Ocotillo Review website.
Featuring: Sandra Dal Poggetto, Rick Newby, Frances Stilwell, Scott Hartman, Zachary Ostraff, Suzanne Strazza, Emily Withnall, Brooke Williams, L. Barthule, Hillary Behrman, Camille Meder, Leath Tonino, Zoe Boyer, Lorri Frisbee, Talley Kayser, & John Yohe. More info on this issue at the High Desert Journal website.
Short stories by Bobby Mathews, Kevin Joseph Reigle, Sidney Wollmuth, and L.M. Wright; flash fiction by Cameron Bocanegra, flash nonfiction by Siavash Saadlou; poetry by Dale Cottingham, Candice Kelsey, Eric v.d. Luft, Gary Reddin, and Nancy White, and one prose poem by Stephanie Michele.
More info at The Dillydoun Review website.
The Winter issue is out! With fresh and exciting prose, poetry, and visual art by Jules Chung, Emily Anderson Ula, Elizabeth Lee, Richard Vyse, Dabin Jeong, darius simpson, Anuja Ghimire, Leah Fairbank, Christy O’Callaghan, Robert S. Hillery, Emily Wick, Joy Guo, Luke Wortley, Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí, Maxine Stoker, Yanita Georgieva, Susanne Swanson Bernard, Tommy Dean, Kolbe Riney, Hikari Miya, Chiwenite Onyekwelu, Cressida Blake Roe, Diana Donovan, Melissa Lomax, Joshua Beggs, Huan He, Mackenzie McGee, and Joshua Effiong.
More info at the Chestnut Review website.
The Winter 2022 issue of Baltimore Review features creative nonfiction by Lucinda Cummings, Patricia Dwyer, Dan Hodgson, and contest winner Daniel Rousseau; fiction by Ross McCleary, Evan Brooke, Nicholas Otte, Mariah Rigg, and contest winner Robin Tung; and poetry by Francine Witte, Sara Henning, Rose Auslander, Stephanie McCarley Dugger, Lisa Suhair Majaj, and contest winner Aekta Khubchandani.
Head on over to Baltimore Review‘s website to read the Winter 2022 issue.
In this issue of The Adroit Journal, find poetry by Chen Chen, Eugenia Leigh, David Ehmcke, Sarah Fatimah Mohammed, Melissa Cundieff, Rose Alcalá, Monica Gomery, Gustav Parker Hibbett, Arielle Kaplan, Patrick Donnelly, Mark Kyungsoo Bias, Rick Barot, and more; prose by Kim Fu, Erin Sherry, Alyssa Asquith, Marcus Ong Kah Ho, Daniel Riddle Rodriguez, and Ann-Marie Blanchard; and art by Kathy Morris, Jack Jacques, Claire Hahn, Scarlett Cai, and others.
Plus five interviews that you can learn more about at The Adroit Journal website.
Congratulations to the winner of Frontier Poetry‘s 2021 Award for New Poets. This year’s judges were Rosebud Ben-One, Andrés Cerpa, and Mai Der Vang.
Winner
“a sonnet: a slaughter field” by Chibuihe Obi Achimba
Second Place
“Herma” by Samuel Piccone
Third Place
“Ashes Arts and Crafts” by Emily Hyland
You can read the poems at Frontier Poetry‘s website.
Guest Post by Emma Foster.
Literary journal The Birdseed knows where the best of flash comes from: the sky and sea, the beginning and end of things. In its third issue of volume one, The Birdseed’s flash pieces appear from those mysterious depths in succinct one hundred and fifty words or less each time.
The issue’s five themes, Space, Sea, Myth, Magic, and Death, all examine the unknown, the enigmatic corners of ourselves. Whether ominous with dark exploration like Katie Holloway’s “Reaching for Nana,” or composed of poignant emotion like Lou Faber’s “On the Shelf,” each flash piece leaves the reader with a little something afterwards. The emotional resonance of each either packs a punch or leaves reader’s hearts full, creating beauty and calm among the issue’s heavy, potentially heartbreaking themes.
As someone who loves and writes flash and microfiction, being dropped into a descriptive setting or a complex mind for a few moments never fails to surprise and challenge. The Birdseed’s journey into the places we dare to tread turns up satisfying results.
The Birdseed, December 2021.
Emma Foster’s fiction and poetry has appeared in The Aurora Journal, The Drabble, Sledgehammer Lit, and others. Links: https://fosteryourwriting.com/
The January 2022 issue features work by Kay Ulanday Barrett, Saleem Hue Penny, Petra Kuppers, C. E. Janecek, Kareem Tayyar, Christine Imperial, Josh Tvrdy, Nathalie Koble & Cole Swensen, Lukas Bacho, and Clarisse Baleja Saïdi.
Nancy Buffum’s “Girl at Piano” on the cover of vol. 37.3 is a prelude to the trio of musical poetry in the exposition to this issue, composed by poets Frank Jamison, Tobey Hiller, and Vince Gotera. As with any other sonata, the recapitulation comes later—András Schiff through Murray Silverstein’s eyes; guitarists, off-stage (Berlioz anyone?) in Gabriella Graceffo’s “Relics”; extended vocal technique in Eric Rasmussen’s “The Irresistible Gobble”—but not before Lucy Zhang’s multi-part “Trigger” and Lynn Domina’s multi-peninsula “Yooper Love” develop the form a bit. Finally, we reach the coda, this time a scherzo: “The Slapathon,” from J.A. Bernstein.
Read more at The MacGuffin website.
The BIPOC Solidarities Special Issue is meant as an opening, extending the invitation to BIPOC writers to transform the content and spirit of The Fiddlehead far beyond a single issue; this issue is a commitment to transformation and accountability. Visit The FIddlehead website to see some of the contributors you can expect to find in this issue.
In this issue of Cutleaf, Yasmina Din Madden shows us the ABCs of relational ups and downs in “Zero Sum Game.” Tiffany Melanson reflects on color theory in and out of prison in four poems beginning with “Visitation: Tomoka Correctional Institution.” And Mary Zheng navigates the necessary pain of empathy in the emergency room in “Jane.”
Learn about this issue’s images at the Cutleaf website.
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This special issue is dedicated to the climate crisis and those being destroyed and changed by it. Work by Shailja Patel, Vanessa Place, Omar El Akkad, Rick Bass, Alex Kuo, CAConrad, Barry Lopez, Laura Dassow Walls, Craig Santos Perez, Salar Abdoh, Brian Turner, Lisa Olstein, Joseph Earl Thomas, Khairani Barokka, Amitav Ghosh, Marta Buchaca, Mercedes Dorame, Rob Nixon, Gina Apostol, and more. See a full list of contributors at The Massachusetts Review website.
The Jan/Feb 2022 issue of the Kenyon Review features the winners of our 2021 Short Fiction Contest: Ted Mathys, Sam Zafris, Rachel L. Robbins, and Malavika Shetty; stories by Vanessa Chan, Lan Samantha Chang, Drew Johnson, and Joanna Pearson; essays by Melissa Chadburn, Beth Ann Fennelly, and Alice Jones; and poems by Ruth Awad, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Traci Brimhall, Katie Hartsock, Cate Marvin, Maggie Millner, Michael Prior, Natasha Sajé, and Joan Wickersham. Now at the Kenyon Review website.
In this issue, we see a common thread of resilience. Humor and an appreciation for the little things are along for the ride. Featured essay by Kavitha Yaga Buggana. Featured art by Sandy Palmer. Fiction by Kelly A. Harmon, Lind McMullen, and Courtney B. Cook; a personal essay by Jackie D. Rust; creative nonfiction by Judy Kronenfeld, Laura Kiesel, Kristin LaFollette, and Tereza Crvenkovic; and a book review by Nanaz Khosrowshahi. Poetry by Alan Balter, Lucia Haase, John Dycus, Linda Fuchs, Diane S. Morelli, Alana Visser, Wren Tuatha, and T.L. Murphy.
Download the new issue PDF at the Kaleidoscope website.
The Georgia Review’s Winter 2021 issue with new writing from Morgan Talty, Victoria Chang, Cheryl Clarke, Ira Sukrungruang, Garrett Hongo, Edward Hirsch, and many more, as well a story by Maya Alexandrovna Kucherskaya translated from the Russian, two iconic speeches from the early years of the OutWrite literary conference, and the winner of this year’s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize.
More info at The Georgia Review website.
Congratulations to Ben Lof, winner of The Malahat Review‘s 2021 Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction. Lof won with his piece “Naked States.”
The story begins:
In January, Frank said to April, No more alcohol. This was not a New Year’s resolution. The vermouth pancakes tasted only of vermouth.
April said, Who the heck is named “Frank” anymore? I mean, what is this, the 1960s?
Frank said, That’s the booze talking, that kind of meanness. You used to be witty.
Oh? said April. I’m still witty, pal. Got buckets and buckets of wit.
So they dropped alcohol.
Lof was also interviewed for this issue, and you can check out the interview on The Malahat Review‘s website.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize in Issue 60 of Ruminate.
First Place
“The Florist” by Alex Cothren
Second Place
“A Guide to Removal” by Amber Blaeser-Wardzala
Honorable Mention
“Katingo Carried 15,980 Tons and a Gentleman” by George Choundas
Finalists include Nina Gaby, Elizabeth Paley, Lauren Loftis, Skye Anicca, Catherine Miller, Alberto Daniels, and Suphil Lee Park.
Read comments on the winners from Judge Kelli Jo Ford inside the issue as an introduction to the pieces.
The last issue of Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing of the year, featuring the last two stages of the grief cycle. Filled with poetry, creative nonfiction and photography by featured photographer Guilherme Bergamin.
Find more info at the Snapdragon website.
The writers and artists whose work makes up Ruminate Issue 60 probe the imagery and metaphor of being at sea. Included are Devon Miller-Duggan’s poem, “Perhaps a Prayer for Surviving the Night” and Peggy Shumaker’s “Gifts We Cannot Keep.” George Choundas’s engrossing story, “Katingo Carried 15,980 Tons and Gentleman,” transports us to the world of those who live and work on cargo ships. And O-Jeremiah Agbaakin’s poem, “landscape with broken ekphrasis,” muses on the image of the last ship that brought enslaved people to the United States. This issue features the winning story from our 2021 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize.
More info at the Ruminate website.
This month’s featured selection: “On Long Poems, Lyric Sequences, and ‘Cop’”; An interview with Connie Voisine by Amanda Newell. Mark Wagenaar reviews Carmine Starnino’s Dirty Words. In nonfiction: “Reading the Qur’an with Rumi” by Amer Latif. This month’s poetry contributors include Ira Sadoff, John Hodgen, Katja Gorečan, Pablo Piñero Stillmann, Bhisham Bherwani, Kelli Russell Agodon, Brendan Constantine, and more. Find this issue at the Plume website.
In this issue: a shrinking house, winter ticks, COVID, Burning Man, Alexander Pope, crisis, spies, a plane crash, wars, Sandy Koufax, and more. Poetry by Stella Wong, Gilad Jaffe, Camille Guthrie, Maxine Scates, Steffi Drewes, and more; and nonfiction by Carol Guess & Rochelle Hurt, Ellis Scott, Greg Wrenn, Amy V. Blakemore, and Andrea Truppin. Find fiction contributors at The Iowa Review website.