New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine Issues Received in October 2023
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October 2023 Featured Publications
About Place Journal, October 2023
Co-edited by Nikole Brown and Erin Coughlin Hollowell “bringing awareness to life beyond our human realm.” See sponsor blog post here.
The Apple Valley Review, Fall 2023
Readers can enjoy online open access to new beautifully crafted poetry, short fiction, and essays with some works in translation. See sponsor blog post here.
Baltimore Review, 2023 Print Annual
All the great content published online since fall 2022 can be in your hands in one beautiful volume. See sponsor post here.
Bellevue Literary Review, Issue 45
This issue features writing that explores “the many facets of caregiving and how we care for one another, for ourselves, and for the world.” See sponsor blog post here.
Brilliant Flash Fiction, September 2023
New, original flash fiction for readers to enjoy online, as well as a pop-up writing contest. See sponsor blog post here.
Carve Magazine, Summer 2023
Short stories, poetry, and nonfiction fill the pages of Carve Magazine’s Summer 2023 issue along with Decline/Accept and One to Watch features. See sponsor blog post here.
Club Plum, 4.4
This issue is themed “Literary Horror” and offers readers plenty of obsessions and ghosts and vulnerable memories. See sponsor post here.
The Lake, October 2023
The Lake online poetry journal offers fresh poetry, reviews of new titles, and One Poem Reviews to let you sample new collections. See sponsor blog post here.
The Missouri Review, Fall 2023
Themed “The Curious Past,” this newest issue invites readers to enjoy historical fiction, new stories and poems, art features, and reviews. See sponsor post here.
New England Review, 44.3
Readers can become very intimate with a bee in a prison, with flies in a priory garden, with a snake that slides beneath the siding of a house, and much more. See sponsor blog post here.
Sky Island Journal, Fall 2023
This stunning 26th issue features poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction from contributors around the globe. See sponsor blog post here.
Southern Humanities Review, 56.3
This issue features the 2023 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize winner, runners-up and finalists as well as other new writing. See sponsor blog post here.
Spoon River Poetry Review, Summer 2023
Enjoy new poetry, an interview with Jose-luis Moctezuma, an essay about 21st-century visual poetry, and book reviews. See sponsor blog post here.
Still Point Arts Quarterly, Fall 2023
“It’s the Journey, Not the Destination” is the theme of the Fall 2023 issue, featuring art and photography, fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. See sponsor blog post here.
Superpresent, Fall 2023
Superpresent offers readers artwork, poetry, prose, asemic writing, and videos from around the globe. See sponsor blog post here.
World Literature Today, November 2023
This issue features a cover story devoted to four artists of Iraqi descent who are achieving global recognition in addition to lively culture essays, book reviews, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews and fiction. See sponsor blog post here.
The Writing Disorder, Fall 2023
Highlighting the classic art of storytelling, The Writing Disorder Fall 2023 offers readers new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and artwork by Delia Ciccarelli. See sponsor blog post here.
More Publications Received
Chestnut Review, 5.2
Cleaver, 43
Copper Nickel, Fall 2023
Cutleaf, 3.19, 3.20
Geist, Fall 2023
The Healing Muse, Fall 2023
Jabberwock Review, Summer/Fall 2023
The Keeping Room, October 2023
Months to Years, Fall 2023
Neologism Poetry Journal, 76
New Ohio Review, 33
One Story, 305
Plume 144
Poetry, October 2023
Posit, 34
Prairie Schooner, Winter 2022
Pulp Literature, Summer 2023
Santa Monica Review, 2023
Second Factory, 5
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, 19
Southern Poetry Review, 61.1
Tangled Web, Autumn 2023
Topical Poetry, 68, 69
Under A Warm Green Linden, 16
Willawaw Journal, 17
Woven Tale Press, 11.4
See September 2023’s New & Noted Lit & Alt Mags here.
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