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Magazine Stand :: The Shore – Spring 2022

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The Shore online poetry journal “lucky thirteenth” is stocked full of writing that “pierces the easy observations of the everyday and gets at the ghostly underside.” It features poems by Lisa Compo, Stephen Lackaye, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Jen Jayda Gupta, Jess Smith, Jane Zwart, Simon Montgomery, Lee Potts, Calgary Martin, Daniel Ruiz, Shannon Ryan, Wendy BooydeGraaff, Lori Lamothe, Adam J Gellings, Mikko Harvey, Sy Brand, Sam Rye, DS Maolalai, Carolyn Oliver, Victoria Mbabazi, Samuel Prince, Christien Gholson, Michael Battisto, Sara Fitzpatrick, Ja’net Danielo, Stephanie Kaylor, Afton Montgomery, Jenny Della Santa, José Angel Araguz, Sihle Ntuli, Jeanine Walker, Julia Hands, Matthew Herskovitz, Katherine Huang, Malorie Varnell, Meredith Arena, Laurie Sewall, Ariel Clark-Semyck, Kevin McIlvoy and Rachel Marie Patterson. This issue also features some intriguing photo art by Nadine Rodriguez.

Contest :: Flying South 2022 Writing Contest

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Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction Contest: $2,000 Prizes
$2,000 in prizes. From March 1 to May 31, Flying South 2022, a publication of Winston Salem Writers, will be accepting entries for prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Best in Category winners will be published and receive $500 each. One of the three winners will receive The WSW President’s Favorite award and win an additional $500. All entries will be considered for publication. For full details, please visit our website: www.wswriters.org/flying-south.

Book Review :: All Morning the Crows by Meg Kearney

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Guest Post by James Scruton

Every poem in Meg Kearney’s All Morning the Crows has a bird for its title, from the exotic (“Parrot,” “Ibis,” “Ostrich”) to the local (“Oriole,” “Wren,” “Juncos”). Inspired, as Kearney notes in a preface, by Diana Wells’ 2002 book 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names, the collection is equally animated by the tension between the OED definitions of “bird” she offers at the start: not only the general term for any feathered species but also slang for “maiden, girl, a woman.”

The poems take their own flights, harrowing or defiant or tender. In “Albatross,” the speaker recalls the sailor “who approached you / on the beach, spoke to you as if you were / a woman, you in the new bikini / none of the boys back home had noticed.” She is “too flattered to flee, though / the constant surf said Leave, Leave.” “Duckling, Swan” tells the fable in the voice of the once-mocked hatchling, who later returned “aglow with my gleaming” and “blinded them all.” Part elegy, part inquiry into art’s power amidst the flux of living, “Pheasant” gives the collection its title, the bird here etched in cemetery granite, wings stretched and awaiting “a flight that never begins.” By contrast, “All morning the crows / have behaved badly,” the speaker observes, as if a parallel to the poet’s meager words in the face of loss.

By the end of the volume, a kind of narrative emerges that we may take as autobiographical. But the collection has a larger scope as well, testifying to the range of human feeling and to the resilience of the poetic voice itself.

All Morning the Crows by Meg Kearney. The Word Works, April 2021.

Reviewer bio: James Scruton’s most recent chapbook is The Rules (Green Linden Press, 2019).

Magazine Stand :: The Writing Disorder – Spring 2022

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The newest issue of The Writing Disorder online literary magazine (Spring 2022) features fiction by N.J. Banerjee, Tetman Callis, Robert Collings, Lou Gaglia, Margaret E. Helms, Crystal McQueen, Adam Matson, Nancy Machlis Rechtman; poetry by Vandana Kumar, John Maurer, Stephen Mead, Paul Rabinowitz, Juanita Rey, Hoyt Rogers, Jason Visconti; nonfiction by Catherine Filloux, Jean McDonough, William T. Vandegrift, Jr., and the photography of Paul Rabinowitz [cover photo image]. All content is free to access online.

2022 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest

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Deadline: April 30, 2022
30th year, sponsored by Winning Writers, co-sponsored by Duotrope, and recommended by Reedsy. Submit published or unpublished work online to win $3,000 for the best story and $3,000 for the best essay. Ten Honorable Mentions will receive $200 each. Length limit: 6,000 words. Entry fee: $20. Top 12 entries published online. Judge: Mina Manchester. Learn more at winningwriters.com/tomstorynp22.

Leaping Clear to Cease Publication

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The Editorial Team at Leaping Clear online journal featuring work of worldwide artists and writers with dedicated meditation and contemplation practices has announced that they will cease publication. They sent the following announcement:

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Magazine Stand :: Topical Poetry – No. 27

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Such a cool concept – Topical Poetry “aims to create a safe and encouraging space for global poets to show their reactions to recent events and news.” Poems from the most recent issue include “The Direction of Home” by Laurel Benjamin, “While I imagine his demise, I wonder what Putin’s mother might be thinking” by Rebecca Surmont, “Shackleton’s ship is discovered, March 2022” by Mark Blayney, “What We Need Beyond the Pale” by Jay Yair Brodbar, “Ukrainian Woman Offers Seeds” by Julene Waffle, “The Stratigraphy of War” by Sheila DC Robertson, “J’accuse” by Howard Richard Debs, “Last Normal Outing” by Sharon Mast and many more. Subscribe to get a weblink to the latest issue. This is definitely one to follow.

Call :: LIGHT Calls for Submissions: Art, Letters, Stories, Poetry, & More

Deadline: May 1, 2022
Leaders Igniting Generational Healing and Transformation (LIGHT) is calling for submissions of art, letters, stories, poetry, and other creative works for the first issue of our biannual literary journal in public health. We invite everyone to share their lived experiences of healing and health as a way to connect with each other using the dialogue, expressions, and language that you resonate with best. The deadline to submit is by May 1, 2022. Prize money (1st: $500, 2nd: $375, 3rd: $125) will be given to the top three contestants of each category. To learn more, please visit light4ph.org.

Book Review :: Through a Grainy Landscape by Millicent Borges Accardi

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Guest Post by Jami Macarty

Through a Grainy Landscape by Millicent Borges Accardi is a poetry collection that writes with and is an homage to Portuguese and Portuguese American writers. This poet creates the company and community she seeks, celebrating her Portuguese familial and artistic heritage. Company, community, and celebration are necessary antidotes within the world of the poems which express the unrelenting anxieties of immigrants and that contribute to the immigrant experience as it relates to family, belonging, identity, and home. If in the “old country” life is “joined to water,” in the new country, America, “secrets,” “disguise,” and “anonymity” join a life to being “trapped / inside an identity you did not imagine / you would be” and “[e]xisting in a variety / of lost stages of fitting in and awkward / strength.” These poems of lacunae, of saudade, of “being Memory alone” make every effort to belong to the present while they long for the past, “because that is what grief is, a primary feeling / that must be exposed.” Accardi’s poems, belonging to two worlds, are “a dark mixture of all [she] has lost” and gained through landscape and language.

Through a Grainy Landscape by Millicent Borges Accardi. New Meridian, October 2021.

Jami Macarty is the author of The Minuses (Center for Literary Publishing, 2020), winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award – Poetry Arizona, and three chapbooks, including Mind of Spring (Vallum, 2017), winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. Jami’s writing has been honored by financial support from Arizona Commission on the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, and by editors at magazines such as The Capilano Review, Concision Poetry Journal, Interim, Redivider, Vallum, and Volt, where Jami’s poems are forthcoming.

Cave Wall Open Submissions FAQs

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Although March is coming to a close, there’s still time to make the Cave Wall: A Literary Journal of Poetry and Art March-April 2022 submission deadline. To help guide writers through the process, Cave Wall shared this FAQ with us:

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Magazine Stand :: Sheila-Na-Gig – 6.3

The Spring 2022 issue of Sheila-Na-Gig online poetry journal is chock-full of great writing, starting with Editor’s Choice Award: Rebecca Brock [pictured], followed by Natalli Amato, Cynthia Anderson, Gary Beaumier, Rose Mary Boehm, Alan Cohen, Joe Cottonwood, Steven Deutsch, Michael Estabrook, Laura Foley, George Franklin, Robbie Gamble, John Grey, Mark Hammerschick, Candice Kelsey, James Kimbrell, Gary Leising, Tamara Madison, Robert L. Penick, Greg Rappleye, Seth Rosenbloom, Stan Sanvel Rubin, Michael Salcman, Lynne Schmidt, Haylee Schwenk, Marc Swan, Gordon Taylor, Eileen Trauth, and Carter Vance. The journal also includes the section “Under Age 30” curated by Jessica Higgins, and features Megha Anne, Andy Chapolini, Leonardo Chung, Anastasia Helena Fenald, Larissa Larson, Sara Long, Ernest Ògúnyẹmí, Jeddie Sophronius, Natalie Welber, and Anna Young.

Book Review :: What is Left by Carla Rachel Sameth

Guest Post by Ginger Pinholster

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Deeply personal Pandemic Moments become vivid in What is Left, Carla Rachel Sameth’s engaging poetry collection. The work marries dark humor with pathos. Beginning with the first poem, which admonishes us to “Cover mouth and nose with dirty pictures and think of Santa Claus, but younger,” Sameth captures our magical thinking in the early days of COVID-19. Her poems are rich with longing, too. She aches for mask-free closeness with her child. Because he is a young black man, she reels in horror at the brutal police killing of George Floyd, knowing that, for her son and all people of color, the “body = target.” Her descriptions of kindness also overflow with love; she writes of a friend delivering flowers as “fragrances of hope.” Richly diverse, What is Left is uniquely American: Sameth remembers her Grandma Pearl’s Yiddish songs, and she writes with feeling about her son and her wife. After months of quarantine – when, as Sameth notes, we were like housecats, “confined to our corners, dependent” – What is Left feels like a warm hug.

What is Left by Carla Rachel Sameth. dancing girl press, December 2021.

Reviewer bio: Ginger Pinholster’s debut novel, City in a Forest, received a Gold Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association in 2020. Her second novel, Snakes of St. Augustine, will be distributed by Regal House Publishing in September 2023. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the Eckerd Review, Northern Virginia Review, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. Follow her on Twitter @gingerpin or at https://www.GingerPinholster.com.

Book Review :: Resurrecting a Genre by O’Neill and Meyer

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Guest Post by Shelby Kearns

The candor and vulnerability in The Way Forward: Master Life’s Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy by Robert O’Neill and Dakota Meyer just might resurrect the military memoir/self-help genre.

This new book by O’Neill and Meyer certainly has its predictable moments, emulating American Sniper and other made-for-Hollywood books. Part one has life lessons from O’Neill’s upbringing in Butte, Montana, and Meyer’s in Columbia, Kentucky. Part two is stories of boot camp, combat, and their post-military careers. Their Hollywood-worthy stories include O’Neill firing the shot that killed Osama bin Laden and Meyer receiving the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Ganjgal in 2009.

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Magazine Stand :: Plume – #127

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There’s still time to catch the Plume: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry March 2022 online issue featuring works by Jules Jacob and Sonja Johnson, Ron Smith, Martha Rhodes, Carol Moldow, Shao Wei, Elena Shvarts, Adélia Prado (with audio), David Wojahn, Radu Vancu, Sandy Solomon, Betsy Sholl, Alan Shapiro, and Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva. The issue also includes an interview with Dana Levin about her new book, Do You Know Where You Are, along with an audio recording of her discussing and reading the title poem and another, “For the Poets.” So sweet to hear her voice and laughter.

Magazine Stand :: Cutleaf – 2.5

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The newest issue of Cutleaf online literary journal features poetry by Zeina Azzam, revealing an emigrant’s special vocabulary in two poems beginning with “A Grammar for Fleeing.” April Darcy writes of spending her twenties in slow motion, and all the ways she learned to move again, in “The Anatomy of Desire.” And, in “Finding Funerals,” Erica Williams shares the story of a bored, though not boring, human resources specialist who completes all of her work in the morning so she can tirelessly search for strangers’ funerals to observe online in the afternoon. This issue also features W. W. Denslow’s illustrations for L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the first book in what became a fourteen-volume series.

Magazine Stand :: The Woven Tale Press – X #2

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The Woven Tale Press publishes “an eclectic mix of literary and visual arts” in an online magazine format, and the newest issue features works by Jeff Corwin, Richard Hoffman, Joseph Hurka, Greg St. John, Joshua Jones, Joe Klaus, Sydney Lea, Mike Maggio, Irmari Nacht, Nina Tichava, Vinci Weng, and Pam Wolfson. The artwork is reproduced in a high-quality, full-color format, with paintings, book art, digital composite photographs, mixed media, and photography. Pages and pages of reading and imagery to get lost in. Or, perhaps, found.

Colorado Review Podcast: In Conversation with Cynthia Parker-Ohene

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This month Editorial Assistant Sara Hughes sits down with Cynthia Parker-Ohene to discuss her debut collection Daughters of Harriet, part of the Mountain/West Poetry Series published by the Center for Literary Publishing.

In a wide-ranging discussion, Cynthia and Sara talk about the legacy of black women, namely Harriet Tubman, how the labor of black women is perceived and performed in the US, the meaning of working for others during the pandemic, food’s role in poverty across gender and race and class, as well as how our ancestors call on us today to speak in poetry.

Where to Submit Round-up: March 2022 Week 4

How is it officially the last full week of March already? I am ready for spring, warmer weather, flowers, and the inevitable return of allergy season. While here in Michigan the weather is still having a winter-spring identity crisis, it makes perfect weather to stay in your comfiest sweater or pjs and just chill and write.

To help you meet your submission goals, NewPages is here with our weekly round-up of calls for submissions and writing contests featured on our site…for the past two weeks this week as I missed last week.

Don’t forget that you can get early access to these opportunities by subscribing to our newsletter!

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#ObsidianVoices “—ing While Black”

The final event in #ObsidianVoices Spring 2022 events has officially been announced! “—ing While Black” will take place April 29 at 6PM CT.

This will be a reading and conversation about Black embodied consciousness with Tyehimba Jess, Michael Warr, Breauna L. Roach, and Naudia Williams. Editor Duriel E. Harris will act as moderator.

You will also hear more about an ongoing online poetry project featured around Michael Warr’s “What Not to Do…[an unfinished poem]” which can also be found in Obsidan issue 46.2 as well.

Stay tuned to their website for more information and to RSVP. RSVP here for their final Spring event.

New Book :: The High Price of Freeways

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The High Price of Freeways
Stories by Judy Juanita
Livingston Press, July 2022

Co-Winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award, this collection looks at the Black experience in Oakland, California, from the founding of the Black Panthers to present day. Judy Juanita is a teacher, poet, novelist, and playwright who served as editor-in-chief of the newspaper of the Black Panther Party in 1968 while attending San Francisco State and joined the nation’s first Black Student Union.

Open Skies, Desert Voices Poetry Reading 

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In celebration of Women’s History Month enjoy a special virtual reading with three Arizona poets: Lois Roma-Deeley, Rosemarie Dombrowski, and Patricia Murphy.

The event will take place Thursday, March 31 at 7PM. Tickets are Pay-What-You-Wish. RSVPs are required. You will receive information on how to participate after you reserve your spot.

RSVP here.

4th Annual Adrift Chapbook Contest Winners Available for Pre-order

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Driftwood Press has announced last year’s Adrift Chapbook Contest Winners are available for pre-order on their website.

Jennifer Silverman’s Bath is set to be released in May of this year. 2021 contest judge Traci Brimhall had to say this about Silverman’s collection

Jen Silverman’s poems are baptisms of desire. They’ve traveled the world and come back to tell you the pleasure to be found there, the holes of each leaving, the way it is all “drenched in light and wine.” Economical in syntax and generous in image, Bath astonishes at every turn with its heart, its wisdom, its waters.

Melody S. Gee’s The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat is set to be released in June. Brimhall said of Gee’s collection

Melody Gee’s gorgeous poems offer both divine wounds and delicious consolations. At the intersections of the familial and the sacred, The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat reminds us that what is created is also consumed. Beautiful, sensory, and aching, this collection reminds us that not all hungers are mortal ones.

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New Book :: Finalists

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Finalists
Poetry by Rae Armantrout
Wesleyan University Press, February 2022

A double book (176pp) by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout. I mean, really, do we need to say more? How about some samples? From “Shush”: “A smart pop song / can convince a desperate person / to see herself / as a thrill seeker. // This is considered a job skill.” From “Flocks”: “As thoughts take pleasure / in forming, then break and / retreat.” From “Plague Year”: “What we share is distance: telephone poles / leaning this way and that, a wayward / crowd that staggers drunkenly / toward an empty, mauve horizon. // We can’t wait to see / who dies next.” This is not a book of poetry. It’s a collection of daily meditations to see us through. To what? Exactly.

Magazine Stand :: Catamaran – 10.2

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Catamaran Literary Reader remains one of the most gorgeous (and weighty), large-format, full-color literary-art magazines on the market. Editors welcome readers to this new issue featuring a variety of work from both established authors, poets and artists and those on the rise. It includes five creative nonfiction pieces, five literary short stories, fifteen poems, a short story by renowned author João Melo, the first time this story has been translated into English from Portuguese, and an interview with author Jonathan Franzen discussing life in Santa Cruz and his latest novel, Crossroads. This issue also features poetry from Andrew Schwartz, a short story by Debra M. Fox, and a piece of nonfiction by Teresa H. Jansen. Visit the Catamaran website to read more.

New Book :: Subtexts

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Subtexts
Poetry by Dan Brady
Publishing Genius Press, February 2022

In an innovative form, Barrelhouse poetry editor Dan Brady plays with the methods of erasure poetry to create something entirely new. This collection of ten poems (in 88 pages) uncovers the networks of language and meaning through shifting layers of text. The poems focus on some of the greatest threats humans face in 2022—climate change, the surveillance state, America’s mental health crisis—and how our future hinges on our ability or failure to communicate.

Magazine Stand :: Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review – 47

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Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review Editor Nathaniel Perry invites readers to “imagine pouring yourself a cup of bad coffee out of that carafe on the cover and start reading. The coffee’s probably not very hot, but it will do.” Indeed, the contents of this issue will more than make you forget any bad cup of joe, with works from Ellen Kaufman, John Koethe, Dylan Carpenter, Will Brewbaker, Tao Qian, Jonathan Cannon, Tiffany Hsieh, Michael Dechane, Hilary Sio, Paul Nemser, Brandon Thurman, Valencia Robin, and many more. There is also a yearly feature I love called “4X4” – four contributors answering the same four questions. The questions are long-framed and take up a page, then are followed by responses from Shane McCrae, Lauren Hilger, Michael O’Leary, and Amaranth Borsuk & Terri Witek (who contributed a co-authored piece). Visit the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review website to learn more.

New Book :: More or Less

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More or Less: Essays from a Year of No Buying
Creative Nonfiction by Susannah Q. Pratt
EastOver Press, February 2022

In 2018, Pratt and her family decided to buy nothing for a year: “We undertook a 365-day moratorium on the purchase of new clothes, toys, games, books, electronics, gear, furniture, housewares, and other things that fall in the general category of ‘stuff.’ For twelve months we purchased only essentials – food, toiletries, light bulbs, and a few pairs of shoes for my growing boys. We stayed out of stores and off of online shopping sites. We fixed things. We made things. We went without.” Winner of the 2021 EastOver Prize for Nonfiction, the essays in More or Less explore the degree to which we are defined, and confined, by what we own.

Raleigh Review Writers Studio

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There are only fifteen seats for the Raleigh Review’s two-day Writers Studio Poetry Workshop with Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar. The event takes place via Zoom from 1:00-5:00 PM (EST) Saturday, May 21, and Sunday, May 22, 2022. Visit the Raleigh Review website for more details.

New Book :: Behind the Big House

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Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South
African American Studies by Jodi Skipper
University of Iowa Press, March 2022

When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, all too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the lives of enslaved people. Behind the Big House is a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the U.S. South. The book explores Jodi Skipper’s eight-year collaboration with the Behind the Big House program, a community-based model used at local historic sites to address slavery in the collective narrative of U.S. history and culture.

Magazine Stand :: Black Warrior Review – Fall/Winter 2021

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Notably “severely delayed,” the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of Black Warrior Review begins with a farewell from the 2021 editorial team, looking back over the past year: “Despite all the hardship, it’s because of you all that we were able to keep going and be reminded of the importance of literature and storytelling.” The issue features works by Neon Mashurov, KT Herr, Jim Whiteside, Sarah Lao, Emily Holland, Timi Sanni, Jo Hahn-Socolofsky, Bernardo Wade, Georgie Fehringer, Megan Kakimoto, Ellie Black, Ariana Benson, Sanam Sheriff, Olivia Muenz, Jacqui Zeng, Yasmine Ameli, Theresa Sylvester, Kien Lam, Justin Wymer, Lyn Gao Cox, and many more. Included is also a chapbook by JinJin Xu and a section on Queer Ekphrasis with an introduction by Guest Editors Anaïs Duplan and Nikki Gamboa.

Magazine Stand :: Raleigh Review – 12.1

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The Spring 2022 Issue of Raleigh Review includes 2022 Raleigh Review Flas Fiction Prize Winner “Blood” by Keith S. Wilson and Honorable Mentions “Good on Paper” by Vandana Khanna and “All Rise” by Rita Ciresi, as well as three works by Allison Blevins who earned Honorable Mention in the 2022 Geri Digiorno Prize. The cover art is “Snapshot” by Christine Kouwenhoven, Winner of the 2022 Geri Digiorno Prize. Co-editor Landon Houle offers a note that encourages catching a glimpse of hope around us, perhaps “in the stories, the poems, the art we love and have collected to share with you,” and Publisher Rob Greene shares his harrowing experience when he “went down with a heart attack last December” and expresses his gratitude to “poets, writers, artists, friends, family, and members of our community of neighbors around the world who do care enough to support this small, though mighty magazine.”

New Book :: Crow Funeral

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Crow Funeral
Poetry by Kate Hanson Foster
EastOver Press, March 2022

Crow Funeral is the end result of intention and design gone off-script. What began as a fascination with a phenomenon of crows congregating in overwhelming numbers around one of their fallen, eventually became a collection that merges an interest in the neurological wiring of birds with a mother’s battle with postpartum depression and anxiety.

New Book :: Khabaar

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Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
Memoir by Madhushree Ghosh
University of Iowa Press, April 2022

Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what belonging looks like in a new place with foods carried over from the old country. These questions are integral to the Ghosh’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food. Includes eleven color and three b&w photos in addition to the gorgeous cover photo.

Magazine Stand :: Colorado Review – 49.1

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I love Colorado Review Editor Stephanie G’Schwind’s commentary to introduce this issue: “These are disorienting times: we are learning to adjust to a new normal, to observe ever-shifting boundaries between what is safe and not safe, to live in the now but have hope for the then. In the meantime, we can ground ourselves in story, in poetry, in these pages. Welcome to the spring issue.” Reader’s can get a sampling of content on the Colorado Review website with works by Jen Stewart Fueston, Bern Mulvey, Catherine Kyle, Maggie Pahos, and Helena de Bres.

Magazine Stand :: The Wallace Stevens Journal – 46.1

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The Wallace Stevens Journal is devoted to all aspects of the poetry and life of American modernist poet Wallace Stevens and has been publishing scholarly articles, poems, book reviews, news, and bibliographies since 1977. The Spring 2022 issue features essays by Justin Quinn, Stephanie Burt, K. Narayana Chandran, Lisa Goldfarb, Tony Sharpe, Hannah Simpson, Sidney Feshbach, and poetry by Peggy Aylsworth, David M. Eberly, R. S. Stewart, Millicent Borges Accardi, Robert Hammond Dorsett, John Surowiecki, and James Tropp.

March 2022 eLitPak :: december Magazine seeks Submissions for our 2022 Curt Johnson Prose Awards

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december seeks submissions for our 2022 Curt Johnson Prose Awards in fiction and creative nonfiction. Prizes each genre — $1,500 & publication (winner); $500 & publication (honorable mention). All finalists will be listed in the 2022 Fall/Winter awards issue. $20 entry fee includes a copy of the awards issue. Submit 1 story or essay up to 8,000 words deadline May 1. Complete guidelines at our website.

View the full March 2022 eLitPak Newsletter here.

New Book :: This World is Not Your Home

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This World is Not Your Home
Essays by Matthew Vollmer
EastOver Press, March 2022

Winner of the 2021 Eastover Prize for Nonfiction, This World Is Not Your Home includes essays ranging from third-person accounts to notes, instructions, and extended meditations, representing many of the possibilities available to the writer of creative nonfiction. The title essay, written in the second person, tells of Vollmer’s growing up in rural North Carolina and catalogs the psychological pressures exerted by a little-known religion. Written using a variety of forms and points of view, these essays show Vollmer’s dexterity of the form.

March 2022 eLitPak :: New Books from Temple University Press

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Check out our flyer to discover new and recently published titles from Erin Suzuki, Joo Ok Kim, Jeffrey R. Wilson, Christopher Krentz, and more. View more books from Temple University Press at our website.

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New Book :: The Writing of an Hour

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The Writing of an Hour
Poetry and Prose by Brenda Coultas
Wesleyan University Press, March 2022
ISBN: 9780819580702
Hardcover, 88pp; $35

In The Writing of an Hour, New York poet and teacher Brenda Coultas considers the effort and the deliberateness that brings her to her desk each day. Despite domestic and day job demands and widespread lockdown, Coultas takes the reader on a journey in four sections; from a bedroom to an improvised desk over the North Sea, where she attempts to create an artwork inside an airplane cabin flying over Greenland’s rivers of ice.

March 2022 eLitPak :: Celebrate National Women’s History Month with Livingston Press

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Livingston Press, from the University of West Alabama, is celebrating Women’s History Month with works by Christy Alexander Hallberg and Laura Secord. View our flyer to learn more about these two titles and visit our website to grab your copies.

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March 2022 eLitPak :: Get your MFA in Creative Writing at Wilson College

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Reach the next level of your career with a concentration in creative writing. The Master of Fine Arts at Wilson College is a two-year terminal degree designed for working professionals or experienced practitioners in their field. This program offers a low-residency schedule tailored to meet the needs of artists. Visit website.

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March 2022 eLitPak :: The Main Street Rag Submission Opportunities

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Check out our interactive flyer to see the current submission opportunities for our quarterly literary magazine and book publishing arm. Feel free to browse our Online Bookstore to see who/what we have published in our 26 years and counting.

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March 2022 eLitPak :: Flying South 2022 Annual Competition/Publication

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$2,000 in prizes. From March 1 to May 31, Flying South 2022 will be accepting entries for prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Best in Category winners will be published and receive $500 each. The WSW President’s award winner will win an additional $500. All entries will be considered for publication. For full details, please visit our website.

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New Book :: Horse Not Zebra

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Horse Not Zebra
Poetry by Eric Nelson
Terrapin Books, April 2022
ISBN: 978-1-947896-54-3
Paperback, 94pp; $17

This newest collection of poems from writer and Georgia Southern University emeritus Eric Nelson captures the essence of everyday life through the lens of having been there, done that, and paid close attention. The title poem begins, “When med students are learning / how to diagnose symptoms, they’re told / think horse, not zebra – the common, no the exotic.” And though the subject matter may seem common by their titles, “My Alarm,” “Mulch,” “By Campfire,” and “Parade,” Nelson is able to lift these subjects up to the scrutiny of our own experiences, shared through his own, in ways that, while perhaps not exotic, resonate a sense of wholeness and completion. And there must be a story behind why bears appear repeatedly throughout.

March 2022 eLitPak :: 6th Annual Taos Writers Conference

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Join us in the beautiful Taos, New Mexico, for an award-winning writers conference July 29 through July 31, 2022 for over twenty workshops in every genre and keynote speaker/author: Ana Castillo. Confirmed faculty include Leeanna Torres, Beth Piatote, EJ Levy, T.J. English, Juan Morales, Connie Josefs, Amy Beeder, and many more. For further information visit website, call 575-758-0081, or email.

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March 2022 eLitPak :: Take 10% off CARVE Online Writing Classes

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Take 10% off Carve’s peer group online classes! Learn on your own schedule how to improve your short stories through all original content. The Fundamentals class introduces how to use Character & Plot, Point of View, Dialogue, Inner Monologue, Description. The Techniques class introduces Use of Senses, Imagery, Metaphors & Similes, Rhythm & Pacing, and Threading. Visit website.

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New Book :: You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids

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You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids
Creative Nonfiction by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Wayne State University Press, March 2022
ISBN: 9780814349410
Paperback, 118pp; $18.99

From their Made in Michigan Writers Series, award-winning poet, essayist, journalist, activist, scholar focused on issues of Asian America, race, justice, and the arts Frances Kai-Hwa writes about building a new life with four children after a messy divorce. These twenty-seven lyrical essays move between personal and cultural topics from bossy aunties, unreliable suitors, and an uncertain political landscape and reflect on lessons learned from both Asian American elders and young multiracial children. Black and white photographs accompany some of the essays.

March 2022 eLitPak :: Midway Journal’s -1000 Below: Flash Prose & Poetry Contest

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Deadline: June 1, 2022
Midway Journal‘s -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest is open! $500 first prize and publication in Midway, $250 second prize and publication in Midway; $50 third prize and publication in Midway. $10 entry. Unlimited entries. Judge: Kim Chinquee. For complete guidelines visit website.

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March 2022 eLitPak :: 2022 Elk River Writers Workshop

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Our workshop embodies the idea that deep, communal experiences with the wild open the door to creativity. Students who are serious about fostering a connection with place will work with some of the most celebrated nature writers in the U.S. For our 2022 workshop, we welcome faculty members Camille Dungy, Sean Hill, J. Drew Lanham, Beth Piatote, and Laura Pritchett. Visit website.

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March 2022 eLitPak :: 16th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards Close Entries on March 31

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The 16th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books available for sale, including small presses, mid-size independent publishers, university presses, and self-published authors. NIEA is proud to be a champion of self-publishing and small independent presses going the extra mile to produce books of excellence in every aspect. Visit website.

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