Published by The University of Missouri-Kansas City since 1934, New Letters Winter/Spring 2026 celebrates the New Letters Literary Award winners and Editor’s Choice Award recipients as well as incredible fiction from Andrew Bertaina, Billy O’Callaghan, and Dimitra Rizou — including her graphic story “Let’s Finish Early and Give Everyone 7 Minutes Back” (“Trust us,” the editors say, “you’ll want to spend more than 7 minutes with this one”).⁠ This issue also features poetry from David Thoreen, Kelly Gray, and Doug Ramspeck, plus thoughtful essays by Courtney Santo and Elissa E. Minor. A full-color portfolio of artwork by Dean Kube is included inside in addition to the cover image.

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The Summer/Fall 2025 New Letters upholds their mission to celebrate exceptional literary writing worldwide, continually honoring emerging and established writers and providing readers with exceptional content in print.

Filling out this 200+ page issue is fiction by Julia Hou, Heather Bell Adams, Anthony Varallo, Michael Rogner, John Haggerty, Brian Ma, Elsa Court; essays by B.A. Howard, Allison Weissman, Aleina Grace Edwards, Krista Eastman, Gwyneth Henke, Hector Domingue; poetry by Albert Goldbarth, Heidi Seaborn, Simone Muench & Jackie K. White, J.A. Holm, Gabriel Costello, Dustin King, Lance Larsen, Stacy Gnall; plus a chapbook by Morgan Cross and featured artist Hubbard Savage.

New Letters also hosts the award-winning New Letters on the Air, sharing writers’ voices and preserving decades of recorded literary history available open-access on their website.

The Winter/Spring issue of New Letters features winners of their 2024 Award Series. Congratulations to Sébastien Luc Butler, winner of the Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry; Tanya Pengelly, winner of the Robert Day Award for Fiction; Elisabetta La Cava, winner of the Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction; and Laura Newbern, winner of the Editor’s Choice Award, Essay.

Readers will also find plenty of new fiction by Amy Day Wilkinson, Andrew Bertaina, Joe De Quattro; essays by Fox Rinne, Jacob Aiello, Courtney Kersten, Adam O. Davis, Amy Rowland, Heather Sellers; poetry by Leonore Hildebrandt, Lance Larsen, Lisa Lewis, Kara Lewis, Mary B. Moore, Katie Erbs, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, and Daniel Donaghy.

The hauntingly compelling artwork of Nicholas Erker is featured on the cover as well as with a full-color portfolio and introduction inside the issue. Grab your copy today!

Publishing since 1934 from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the mission of New Letters magazine is to discover, publish and promote the best and most exciting literary writing, wherever it might be found, and to publish and serve readers and writers worldwide. This Summer/Fall 2024 issue continues this tradition with fiction by Hema Padhu, Bryan D. Price, Scott Ditzler, Christopher Coake, Richard Bausch, essays byt Ted Kooser, Rachel Weaver, Patrick Hunt, poetry by Abbie Kiefer, Lance Larsen, Bethany Schultz Hurst, Joshua Garcia, John Gallaher, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Jacob Sunderlin, Liane Strauss, and artwork by Melanie Johnson.

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The Winter/Spring 2024 issue of New Letters features poetry by Albert Goldbarth, Carrie Shipers, Bruce Bond, Rebecca Foust, and others; fiction by Richard Bausch, David McGlynn, Andrew Peters and Ravi Jain; essays by Krista Eastman, Brandon Lewis, Traci Brimhall, Olivia Fantini, and Lori White; plus the winners of the New Letters Literary Awards and Editor’s Choice Award. The cover artist is Anne Austin Pearce whose work is also featured in a full-color portfolio inside this issue.

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The latest issue of New Letters opens with Editor Christie Hodgen exploring Nikolai Gogol’s “The Overcoat” as well as Frank O’Connor’s analysis of it in relation to what the staff at New Letters looks for in their submissions selection – those nuances of what “transforms the short story into a true art form.” Including essays and poetry in that mix are the contributors to this issue: Daniel Chacón, Drew Calvert, Mary Rechner, Anna Schaeffer, Doug Ramspeck, Shane Stricker, Corie Rosen, Amanda Schmidt, Danielle Harms, Matthew Raymond, Lorraine Hanlon Comanor, Maria Zoccola, Kwame Dawes, Fleda Brown, Campbell McGrath, Lisa Lewis, Ted Kooser, Albert Goldbarth, Edith Lidia Clare. And, a new feature – chapbook publication, debuting with Homewrecker by Kate Northrop. Paintings and collages by Kathy Liao complete the volume.

In the Editor’s Note to this double issue (VOL. 88 NOs. 1&2) of New Letters, Christie Hodgen explores a passage from Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog” and concludes, “As writers, we are able to put words to what is hidden; as readers, we experience the often humbling privilege of gaining access to others’ hidden lives – a privilege we almost never experience in the real world.” In this issue, readers have the privilege to enjoy the New Letters Award Series of winning works by R.J. Lambert, Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry; Rachel Coonce, Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction; Richard Hermes, Robert Day Award for Fiction; Erin McReynolds, Editor’s Choice Award; and Jesse Lee Kercheval, Editor’s Choice Award. In addition, the issue features fiction by Nicole Hazan, Bradley Bazzle, Andrew Peters, Essay, Jillian Barnet, Chelsea B. DesAutels, P.L. Watts; poetry by Christopher Howell, Gaskin, Alicia Ostriker, Wyatt Townley, Maurya Simon, Jeremy Pulmano, John Blair, Vanesha Pravin; reviews and commentaries by Daniel A Rabuzzi, David Newkirk, Natalie Johansen, Robert Stewart; and a full-color portfolio of painting and collages by Harold Smith, whose work is featured on the cover.

New writing by Tamas Dobozy, Marcie Alexander, B.H. Fairchild, Jennifer Perrine, Heather Sellers, and Eliza Tudor. Fiction by Shubha Sunder, Andrew Porter, David Ryan, Marcie Alexander, and Maureen Aitken. Essays by Amy Day Wilkinson and Emily Ruehs-Navarro. See poetry contributors at the New Letters website.