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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.
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Deadline: March 31, 2022
$5,000 New American Voices Award: a post-publication book prize for immigrant writers, from Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research. Submissions open for fiction and creative nonfiction. Two finalists receive $1,000 each. Previous winners include Patricia Engel, Lysley Tenorio, Melissa Rivero, and Hernán Díaz. Submission Deadline: March 31. View the full guidelines: fallforthebook.org/newamericanvoices/.
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.
The Longleaf Writers Conference takes place May 14-21, 2022. Register today for full conference with or without housing and with or without workshops! We fill up fast so secure your spot today! 20% Early Bird Discount available until February 20th. Visit website.
Deadline: March 31, 2022
American Writers Review announces its 2022 Writing Contest. We welcome fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography $250 prize. Please see our submission site for details.
Benefit from 10 rounds of intensive editing by an experienced editor on several of your short stories or essays and two one-on-one meetings. You may choose up to five stories or essays to work on through the course of the workshop. Deadlines are flexible and accommodate your schedule. Registration deadline: March 28, 2022. Visit website.
Voices. Elevated.
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.
Deadline: March 31, 2022
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
Deadline: March 10, 2022
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. Until March 10, we’ll be accepting submissions for our Spring 2022 issue Navigations: A Place for Peace. Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world. We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme. Visit website.
Deadline: April 1, 2022
21st year. Submit one humor poem to Winning Writers’ 2022 contest to win $2,000 and online publication. Accepts published and unpublished work. Co-sponsored by Duotrope. Recommended by Reedsy. Judged by Jendi Reiter and Lauren Singer. Winners announced on August 15. There is no entry fee. View website.
Livingston Press, located within The University of West Alabama, seeks to promote literature, serve the community, and provide hands-on experience to University students. Coming soon: new titles from George H. Wolfe, Laura Secord, Judy Juanita (Tartt Award co-winner), Schuyler Dickson (Tartt Award co-winner), and Patricia Taylor. View website.
With February half over, how are your submissions goals going? Don’t let them wane. Check out the submission opportunities featured on NewPages this past week. Plus, stay tuned for the February eLitPak fliers being posted to the blog today! Don’t forget newsletter subscribers get early access to ads and eLitPaks, so subscribe today!
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Deadline: March 18, 2022
Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine is a student-run publication of the University of Michigan-Flint. Founded over 50 years ago, we are currently in the process of returning to a biannual publishing schedule. We invite submissions of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Arts, Photography, et cetera, from anyone currently living in the state of Michigan. No submission fees. For the all-digital Winter issue, all submissions must be made by March 18th, 2022 here: go.umflint.edu/quamagazinesubmission.
Deadline: April 15, 2022
Chicken Soup for the Soul is looking for true personal, heartwarming and powerfully moving stories about extraordinary events and happenings that will make our readers say “Wow!” This book is for everyone who loves to hear about miracles, amazing coincidences, and mysterious and unexplainable things that have happened for no apparent reason. We do not intend for this book to be specifically religious—it is for everyone. If we publish your piece, you will be paid $200 plus 10 free copies of the book. Writing guidelines and more info at www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/possible-book-topics
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.
TGIF! Take a weekend to relax and recharge so you can jump right back into your submission goals with a fury. Take a gander at the submission opportunities featured on NewPages this past week. Don’t forget if you subscribe to our weekly newsletter, you’ll get a first look before they are even posted to the site. Plus, you’ll get our monthly eLitPak. Our next eLitPak will be hitting inboxes next Wednesday, so subscribe today!
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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.
Deadline: Rolling
If a reader signs up to 50 Give or Take, they will receive micro fiction of fifty words or less delivered daily straight into their inbox. Despite popular opinion, the name 50 Give or Take doesn’t refer to the number of words in the story. It is a metaphor for what we, as readers and writers, give and take emotionally from the written word. Do you write flash fiction? Then submit! We publish all accepted stories in a print collection every November 6. All you have to do is submit your story, one-line bio, and vertical photo of yourself. Info here: vineleavespress.com/50-give-or-take.html.
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.
Able Muse is pleased to announce a special reading taking place February 19, 2022 from 3 to 4:30 PM EDT. It will feature poets and translators Lee Harlin Bahan, Jan D. Hodge, and John Ridland with Len Krisak acting as host.
The reading will take place via Zoom and it’s open to the general public and free to register. Find full details and the registration information here.
Happy February. Blizzards and freezing temperatures are great reasons to stay inside with a hot drink and work on writing and editing. Let’s keep your submissions goals for 2022 going strong! Time to look back at the submission opportunities featured on NewPages this past week. Don’t forget newsletter subscribers get a first look first. Subscribe today!
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Guest Post by Kevin Brown.
Cyclopedia Exotica, the latest graphic novel by Aminder Dhaliwal, begins as a series of encyclopedia entries explaining how cyclops (or cyclopes, spelled both ways throughout the work) and Two-Eyes have interacted over time. Dhaliwal imagines a world where cyclops not only exist, but their history has combined with those of the Two-Eyes, referencing mythological works, but planting this relationship directly in the contemporary world.
Guest Post by Laura Bridge.
“High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee (1941) is a special poem that I discovered at just the right moment. It was March 2020. In the UK, schools were preparing to close due to Covid-19. I was supposed to be teaching my class of eleven-year-olds about the Second World War, but the children were anxious and restless; I did not want to add to their worries. In a frantic panic to find something uplifting but still on topic, I came across Magee’s sonnet. It was the perfect combination of energy and hope.
Guest Post by Alexandra Grabbe.
Olga Dies Dreaming is a tour de force. Xochitl (pronounced So-Cheel) Gonzalez has ticked off all the boxes—Literary, Commercial, Family Saga, LBGTQ, BIPOC. The tight prose moves as efficiently as Spielberg’s West Side Story dancers.
Guest Post by David Ruekberg.
In Paddock images circulate like wavelets confronting an embankment, reshaping constructions we thought of as solid. There are two girls, or two sides of one girl. An omniscient but distant chorus. A mother, both dead and alive: a ghost but not a zombie.
Deadline: April 10 (April 24 Extended)
Open to un-agented writers worldwide, the FIRST PAGES PRIZE invites you to enter your First Five Pages (1,250 words) of a longer work of fiction or creative nonfiction. Five winners receive cash awards, a tailored edit and an agent consultation. Our 2022 prize judge is author Justin Torres. Entry fee is $20 ($35 Extended). Visit our website for more information: www.firstpagesprize.com.
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.