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Magazine Stand :: The Malahat Review – 228

November 21, 2024
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The Malahat Review 228 features the 2024 Far Horizons Award for Poetry: Craig Francis Power, “Walking My Three-Year-Old to Nanny’s Place, Easter Sunday 2017,” as well as an interview with Power on his poem. Also included in this issue is poetry by Marilyn Bowering, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Klara du Plessis, Guy Elston, Eva Haas, Glenn Hayes, Jim Johnstone, Meghan Kemp-Gee, H. R. Link, D. A. Lockhart, Annie MacKillican (interview with MacKillican on magazine’s website), Jessica Lee McMillan, Mezi, A. F. Moritz, Jesse Norman; fiction by Rob Benvie, Alison Braid-Fernandez, Marlene Cookshaw, Sophie Crocker (interview with Crocker on magazine’s website), Marc Labriola, Sanchari Sur; creative nonfiction by Cassandra Caverhill, Joyce Li, Colleen Sutton (interview with Sutton on magazine’s website), and numerous reviews of newly published books of poetry and nonfiction with cover art by Eli Bornowsky (Penrose_5 Complete Aphex Twin 1 [detail], 2024; egg tempera, gesso on wood, aluminum).

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Magazine Stand – Colorado Review – Fall/Winter 2024

November 19, 2024
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Editor Stephanie G’Schwind opens the Fall/Winter 2024 Colorado Review noting that, by the time readers have this issue in hand, the elections will have passed, acknowledging that “many of us are particularly on edge about what lies ahead for our country, for our world. . . So perhaps it’s not surprising that the stories and essays here are freighted with anxiety.”

Those stories include fiction by Margot Livesey, Anne-E. Wood, Sammy Stevens, Nathan Blum, nonfiction by Emily Wortman-Wunder, Sara Heise Graybeal, Nina King Sannes, as well as poetry by Victoria Chang, Katie Berta, No’u Revilla, Thea Matthews, Miguel Martin Perez, Tommy Archuleta, L M Brimmer, Antonio Lopez, Catherine Esposito Prescott, Monica Rico, Sara Lupita Olivares, E. Huges, Kim Hyesoon, Nyds L. Rivera, Ayesha Raees, and J C Talamantez.

G’Schwind closes, “These are not stories and essays in which fear and anxiety are nearly conquered. But they are works that show us how we survive our fears. As Graybeal writes, ‘I have come to make my home beside that fear.’ And perhaps that is enough.”

Colorado Review

Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag – Fall 2024

November 18, 2024
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The Main Street Rag Fall 2024 opens with Associate Editor Jessica Hylton’s interview with singer/songwriter Keely Faile and moves on to “stories & such” by Kathy McMullen, J. Allen Nelson, Jeremy Schnee, and Mark Wolters. There is also plenty of fresh poetry by Craig Beaven, Ujjvala Bagal Rahn, Paula C. Brancato, Chris Butters, Kevin Carey, Chris Bullard, Ricks Carson, Richard Cole, Patrick Dungan, Ken Fifer, Jan Ball, Matthew Friday, Patricia L. Hamilton, Leslie Hodge, Ken Holland, Terry Huff, Brad Johnson, Jeanne Julian, Tyler Lemley, Michael Mintrom, Cecil Morris, R.H. Nicholson, Angela Patten, John Perrault, Timothy Robbins, Russell Rowland, Bradley Samore, Claire Scott, Meganne Smith, Deig Sullivan, Kevin Sweeney, Eric Torgersen, Gabriel Welsch, Richard Widerkehr, and John Zedolik. Readers will enjoy book reviews of Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss, Daybreak by Mark Smith-Soto, Caravaggio’s Kimono by Ken Fifer, Dark Souvenirs by John Amen, and Dropping Sunrises in a Jar by Melinda Thomsen by reviewers Jeanne Julian and Richard Allen Taylor.

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Magazine Stand :: Booth – 19

November 15, 2024
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The 19th print issue of Booth includes interviews with Jo Ann Beard and Viet Thanh Nguyen; a comic by Jesse Lee Kercheval; nonfiction by Jerilynn Aquino, and K.S. Dyal; fiction by Mialise Carney, Courtney Craggett, Sam Fouts, Rachel Salguero Kowalsky, Justin Noga, Adrian Perez, Tim Raymond, Dan Reiter, Claire Stanford; and poetry by nicole v basta, Michael Beard , Willow James Claire, Hannah Cohen, Fee Griffin, Naomi Leimsider, Hannah Marshall, Calgary Martin, Erin Pinkham, Maggie Yang, and Mimi Yang.

Included with this issue is Table Talk &. Second Thoughts a new memoir in prose poems by Michael Martone, serving up toothsome anecdotes of brief encounters with other writers. Each impromptu sketch, spanning 1976 to 2016, traces a memory menu of quotidian details, slightly seasoned, glimpses of the daily downtime between all the bon mots.

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Magazine Stand :: The Midwest Quarterly – Fall 2024

November 14, 2024
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Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought is published by Pittsburg State University with the expressed purpose “to discover and publish scholarly articles dealing with a broad range of subjects of current interest” to encourage “discussions of an analytical and speculative nature.” The Fall 2024 issue includes articles by Stephanie Alexander (“The Spectacular Feminine Body: (Re)Writing Maternity in Rich, Walker, and Cisneros”), Christopher Au (“‘I think of old friends’: Reflective Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Speculative Fiction Narrators”), Pingfan Zhang (“The Cinematic Past and Literary Present of Yan Geling’s Novel The Flowers of War [2012]), David McCracken (“Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ as Recovery Story”), Ian Hall (“Shirkers and Sophisticates: Contrasting Notions of Class, Caste, and Status in Absalom, Absalom!“) Phillip Frank & Donald Baack (“Connection? Conspiracy Theories and Influencer Marketing: An Analysis Using Core Marketing Spokesperson Characteristics”). The issue also includes a folio of thirty-seven poems by Ted Kooser.

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Magazine Stand :: Bennington Review – Issue 13

November 13, 2024
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Bennington Review Issue 13 is themed “Family Gathering,” about which Editor Michael Dumanis writes in the “Note From the Editor, “While two-thirds of Americans have attended a family reunion and over a quarter say they attend them annually, high numbers report approaching them with dread. So why do we still gather?” Contributors to this issue exploring possible answers to this question include Rachel Lyon, Douglas W. Milliken, Angela Ball, Joanna Luloff, Rick Barot, Cole Swensen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Iain Haley Pollock, Adrienne Raphel, Stella Wong, Ish Klein, and Anne Waldman, who is also interviewed by Sandra Simonds. Cover art by the Thai-Australian ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa.

Bennington Review

New Lit on the Block :: Midwest Weird

November 13, 2024
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The editors of Midwest Weird hope their audience will be drawn by a certain level of morbid curiosity that will make them say, “Oooh, that show is so weird…and I can’t stop listening!”

A new audio literary magazine, Midwest Weird publishes fiction and nonfiction in podcast form with new episodes released every other week during their season, and transcripts posted on their website.

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Magazine Stand :: New Letters – Summer/Fall 2024

November 12, 2024
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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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Magazine Stand :: The Baltimore Review – 2024

November 11, 2024
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For readers who enjoy holding print copy in their hands, The Baltimore Review 2024 annual print edition features poems, stories, and creative nonfiction from the Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, and Spring 2024 online issues. Readers are invited to visit the publication’s website to read contributors’ comments and listen to recordings of their work. Founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996 as a publication of the Baltimore Writers’ Alliance, the journal became an independent nonprofit organization in 2004. Their mission has always been “to showcase the best writing from the Baltimore area and beyond,” as they continue to explore new ways to share the world of writing, writers, and the writing life with their audience.

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Magazine Stand :: The Lake – November 2024

November 10, 2024
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The November 2024 issue of the online journal of poetry and poetics The Lake has new works by Ruth Aylett, Belinda Cooke, Seth Crook, Deborah Diemont, Judy Dinnen, Julian Dobson, Michael Durack, Jeff Gallagher, Rosie Jackson, Sheila Jacob, Charles Rammelkamp, and Hannah Stone. Readers can also discover new poets with a review of John Amen’s collection Dark Souvenirs and the unique feature “One Poem Reviews” in which poets share a single poem from recently published collection. This month, readers can explore new works by Marianne Brems, Mary Gilliland, Tom Kelly, Michael Salcman, and Kirby Michael Wright. Poet Hannah Stone offers a tribute to “grande dame of literature” Fleur Adcock (1934 – 2024).

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Magazine Stand :: THEMA – Autumn 2024

November 8, 2024
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Designed to stimulate creative thinking, THEMA challenges writers with a unique premise for each issue. The editors ask contributors to make the premise “an integral part of the plot, not necessarily the central theme but not merely incidental.” The premise for the Autumn 2024 issue is “The Missing Piece of the Puzzle” and features stories, short-shorts, poems, and photographs by Allan Lake, Erica Hoffman, James Scruton, John Savoie, Judith Overmier, Kathleen Gunton, Larry Lefkowitz, Linda Berry, Lora Berg, Lynda Fox, Morgan Carlock Clark, Paul A. Freeman, R.G. Halstead, Robinne Weiss, Sandra Schnakenburg, and Sarah Gay Edwards. THEMA invites contributors to submit theme-related works on the following upcoming premise “The lost sock” with a March 1, 2025 deadline.

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Magazine Stand :: The Missouri Review – Fall 2024

November 7, 2024
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The Fall 2024 issue of The Missouri Review is themed “Hard Truths.” As Editor Speer Morgan writes in the Foreword, “Most literature goes beyond period and type and deals with something hard, elusive, or even contradictory. Its power lies in the odd beauty and coherence of this particular engagement with a subject.” Inside, readers will discover powerful works ready to engage: new fiction from Parul Kaushik, Andrew De Silva, and Joe Wilkins; new poetry from Amy Miller, Austen Leah Rose, and Talin Tahajian; and new essays from Shannon Cain, Nancy L. Glass, and Joshua Ritter. Plus an Art Feature on Otto Dix, a Curio Cabinet about Peggy Guggenheim, and a brand-new interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. Cover art: The Death of Icarus, Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889).

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Magazine Stand :: Agni – 100

November 6, 2024
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The marks the world leaves. The 100th issue of AGNI exemplifies the engagement, nuance, and spirit that are AGNI’s trademark. As Editor William Pierce writes in the introductory essay, “This last year at the magazine has raised more questions about publishing and literature than any other since I started editing. About purpose and scope, meaning and place – about caring for community and actively recognizing how one’s own ideals can clash.” Pierce goes on to examine the role of literary magazines, belles lettres, “the tailings of New Criticism,” the question of merit, and “the radical act.”

This issue’s cover artist, Chitra Ganesh, welcomes readers with a playful visual rendering of “Sultana’s Dream,” a 1905 feminist utopian fiction by Rokeya Hossain. Inside, stories by Colin Winnette, Xueyi Zhou, and Monique Schwitter (translated by Susan Bernofsky) follow women’s subversion of the gaze, into places of throttled emotion. A bounty of poets, including Paisley Rekdal, J. P. Grasser, and janan alexandra, join the formal ingenuities of DeeSoul Carson, Danielle Pierrati, and others to reach a new intimacy with the past. And essayists Wiam El-Tamami, Elvis Bego, and Anna Badkhen bring a rigorous, compassionate seeing to their meditations on loss and conflict. All this and much more, including loads of online content not included in the print issue.

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Magazine Stand :: Apple Valley Review – Fall 2024

November 5, 2024
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The Fall 2024 issue of the Apple Valley Review features flash fiction by Mary Grimm; short stories by Franz Jørgen Neumann and Anna Gáspár-Singer (translated from the Hungarian by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess); a piece of creative nonfiction by Annabel Jankovic; and poetry by Judith Harris, Michael Diebert, Lulu Liu, Susan Johnson, Svetlana Litvinchuk, Zhang Zhihao (translated from the Mandarin by Yuemin He), Triin Paja, Susana H. Case, and Jeff Mock. The cover artwork is by Catalan painter and poet Santiago Rusiñol.

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Magazine Stand :: The Common – Issue 28

November 4, 2024
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Ahead of their 15th anniversary next year, the Amherst College-based, Whiting Award-winning literary magazine The Common presents Issue 28, featuring a portfolio of contemporary writing by Catalan women in translation. Editor in Chief Jennifer Acker says, “So few books published in the US are translations, only about 3%, with works from German, French, and Spanish making up a full 45% of that. We wanted to showcase vibrant stories and poems from a tradition that our readers might be wholly unfamiliar with. These Catalan authors are award-winning, established women, but some have never before been published in English.” This issue marks a continuation of the magazine’s commitment to publishing translated works for English-language readers.

Each spring for the past eight years, The Common has published an Arabic fiction portfolio in translation. The spring 2025 issue will feature work from Amman, Jordan. Beyond the portfolio, Issue 28 contains writing from Disquiet Prize-winning poet Iqra Khan, MacArthur Fellow Brad Leithauser, environmental economist James K. Boyce, and fiction and essay writer Douglas Koziol, among others.

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New Magazines October 2024

November 1, 2024
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Writers need to be voracious readers, and there’s no better place to find the freshest works out there than the New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine titles received here at NewPages.com!

Each month, NewPages.com offers readers a round-up of new issues with content blurbs for our featured publications. The newest in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, artwork, photography, media, contest winners, and so much more!

Find out more about many of these titles with our Guide to Literary Magazines and our Big List of Literary Magazines and Big List of Alternative Magazines. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to stay the most up-to-date on all things literary!

Want your publication listed here or featured on our blog and social media? Please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Sky Island Journal – Fall 2024

October 28, 2024
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Sky Island Journal’s stunning 29th issue features poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction from contributors around the globe. Accomplished, well-established authors are published—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. Readers are provided with a powerful, focused literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. Always free to access, and always free from advertising, discover what over 150,000 readers in 150 countries, and over 1,000 contributors from 52 countries, already know; the finest new writing can be found where the desert meets the mountains.

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New Lit on the Block :: DisLit Youth Literary Magazine

October 23, 2024
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“Writing is important because of the voices represented through its art,” says DisLit Youth Literary Magazine Founder and Editor-in-Chief Miley Weiner. “Writing is a way that people, for centuries, have been able to communicate with one another and express themselves. Even in times long ago when people were separated from their loved ones, writing brought them closer together again. Writing can act as a bridge in people’s lives in whatever form that may be, and because of that, the power of words cannot be denied.”

Providing a new open access online platform to share that power, DisLit is a magazine with a mission to empower youth with disabilities or mental/physical illness. “We believe that teens with these conditions should not be stigmatized,” Weiner asserts. “We have created our magazine to be a safe space for them to express themselves through their writing.”

DisLit currently accepts all genres of writing with new content published daily with plans to accept art/visual submissions soon.

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Magazine Stand :: About Place Journal – October 2024

October 14, 2024
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About Place Journal October 2024 issue is titled, Shaping Destiny: Election Season, Before, During and After, with contents that respond to the realities of the most important election of our times. Democracy or dictatorship: these are the stakes. Through poetry, prose, and graphics, Shaping Destiny explores the current national and international situation, focusing on ways in which social and environmental justice are created or destroyed, and relating these—as is the focus of the Black Earth Institute—to matters of the spirit. Many rights have been lost or are threatened, as is the integrity of the election. It is our hope that Shaping Destiny will inspire you to do the work that is in front of all of us.

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New Lit on the Block :: Jelly Squid Magazine

October 11, 2024
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If you’re looking for writing that’s playful and unconventional (maybe even a little mysterious), truly new works that stay with you long after you’ve read the final line, and a publication that makes you excited for each next issue, then click on over to Jelly Squid. Publishing three online issues per year, Jelly Squid Magazine accepts all types of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and artwork, as well as all hybrid forms in between. “We really like to see – and would like to see more of – work that’s unique and experimental,” says Editor Mo Buckley Brown.

Even the name is reflective of this mission. “‘Jelly’ and ‘squid’ are both words that aren’t terribly uncommon,” Brown says, “but they have unique sounds individually, and together, they form a playful combination that felt a little unconventional. We thought this name captured our hopes for what the magazine would be – playful and unconventional, and maybe even a little mysterious.”

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Magazine Stand :: The Lake – October 2024

October 10, 2024
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The October 2024 issue of The Lake, an online journal of poetry and poetics, is now available and features works by Carol Casey, Judy Brackett Crowe, J. H. Hill, Mary Makofske, Lauren K. Nixon, Kenneth Pobo, Lex Runciman, Fiona Sinclair, Susan Stiles, Tuyet Van Do. This issue also includes reviews of Eileen Carney Hulme’s Somewhere a Tree Waits for an Angel or a Butterfly, Dennis Hinrichsen’s, Dominion and Selected Poems, and Harry Man’s Popular Song. “One Poem Reviews” is a special treat for readers, offering a one-poem sample from a recently published collections. This month highlights poems from Judy Brackett Crowe, Clive Donovan, Helen Finney, Mahua Sen, and Ram Krishna Singh.

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Magazine Stand :: Jewish Fiction – Issue 37

October 9, 2024
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Hot off the press, a beautiful new Issue of Jewish Fiction! Issue 37 contains 18 stories, originally written in German, Yiddish, Hebrew, and English and, for the first time, Ukrainian. In honor of the upcoming holidays, there is a story set in between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. And since, in between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur this year, Jewish Fiction will commemorate the first anniversary of October 7th, Issue 37 includes 4 stories about that. We hope the stories in our new issue fascinate and delight you.

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Magazine Stand :: Southern Humanities Review – 57.3

October 8, 2024
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Southern Humanities Review issue 57.3 features the 2024 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize winner, Erika Jing, and her poem “Follow.” Judge Victoria Chang also selected Andrew Hemmert, Wesley Rothman, and Felicia Zamora as runners-up. Honorable mentions include Gregory Emilio, Jenny Qi, Geneva Toland, and Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani.

The rest of the issue is filled with nonfiction by Christine Hale and Nell Smith; fiction by Olivia Clare Friedman, Samantha Kathryn O’Brien, Lisa Clay Shanahan, and Lauren D. Woods; with cover art by William Gropper.

On October 3, 2024, Southern Humanities Review celebrated the eleventh year of the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize at an event presented by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art with the judge and winner in conversation.

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Magazine Stand :: Still Point Arts Quarterly – Fall 2024

October 7, 2024
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A publication of Santi Arts, the Still Point Arts Quarterly Fall 2024 issue is themed “Walking,” as Editor Christine Brooks Cote writes, “I’ve walked to be in the moment, to let go of whatever difficulties and confusions occupied my mind, to feel the physicality of the experience, to absorb the natural world, to seek and find pure pleasure.”

Sharing in this joy of walking are writers and artists Kevin Browne, J. R. Solonche, Nancy Buonaccorsi, Kit Carlson, Daniel Thomas, Andrea Lani, Suzanne Doerge, Barbara Sapienza, Rebecca Ring, Katherine January, Paul Hilding, Brian T. Duncan, Jane Salisbury, Erin Jamieson, David Macauley, Amy Boyd, AD West, Molly Murfee, and Susan Currie.

Still Point Arts Quarterly

Magazine Stand :: tiny wren lit – Issue 7

October 6, 2024
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Since 2021, tiny wren lit has been publishing short-form poetry online and in a downloadable, single-page zine format. Nominating for both The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, tiny wren lit seeks poems that are fifteen lines or shorter (including stanza breaks) and will accept up to six poems per submission. The editors favor “poems with deep imagery + original, striking figurative language.” General submissions vary, with Issue 8 calling for “tiny golden shovels.” Recent contributors include Chris Bullard, Caleb Weinhardt, Natalie Nee, Paul Allatson, Vic Nogay, Lee Potts, Jennifer Browne, Ophelia Monet, Emma Gawlinski, Myriam Klatt, Devon Neal, Will Harris, Bart Edleman, L. Bellee Jones-Pierce, Melissa Wen, Paul Hostovsky, Maria Duran, and many more.

The tiny wren lit publishing arm features tiny chapbooks in zine format. Writers are invited to submit manuscripts of 6-15 tiny poems once per submission period. They also have a print anthology call currently open. Themed “Earth” with special guest editor Dana Graef, writers can submit up to six tiny poems for consideration.

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Magazine Stand :: Blue Collar Review – Summer 2024

October 4, 2024
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The Summer 2024 Blue Collar Review opens with commentary regarding the upcoming election, the state of politics as they impact our daily lives, and the need for individuals to take an active role: “[. . . ] we must work to best effect the system we have in our own defense while building the next system beneath it.

“This requires breaking with official narratives, building militant working class consciousness, cooperative businesses and communities, understanding that, as with our symbiotic biosphere, every thing is connected. We are connected to and interdependent on each other and on all Earth’s myriad life forms. An understanding of this truth is vital in the shaping of a free and livable future. [. . . ] This journal serves not only to connect us but as needed outreach to our class brothers and sisters.”

Contributors to this issue include Mitch Valente, Cathy Porter, Emma Weiss, Roy N. Mason, Jen Dunford-Roskos, Tom Gengler, Marc Jannsen, Matthew J. Spireng, normal, Shirley Adelman, Cathal Whelan, Jonathan Andersen, Mary Franke, Katherine L. Gordon, Chris Butters, and many more. Sample works from the newest issue can be read on the publication’s website.

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Magazine Stand :: Bellevue Literary Review – 47

October 3, 2024
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Bellevue Literary Review – Issue 47 is themed Body Politic. Fiction Editor Suzanne McConnell writes in the foreword, “For this issue of BLR, we asked for writing addressing the interface of any body politic—societal, ideological, or national—with the personal. [. . . ] What about our collective body politic, then? We are fractious, split. But are we more than that? Our history tells us that we have been there before and something in our essence is bent on surviving.”

Answering the call for this issue, readers can enjoy fiction by Mehr-Afarin Kohan, Janice Furlong, Daniel Seifert, Alison Luk, Lori Huth, Eugene Stein, Randy DeVita, Jake Lancaster; nonfiction by Laura LeMoon, Claire A. Berman, Justine Payton, Anne Rudig, Stefani Echeverría-Fenn, Kristi Ferguson, Diane Oliver, Maureen Brady, Miciah Hussey; poetry by A. Jenson, Melanie H. Manuel, Hazel Kight Witham, Emily Kedar, Alene Terzian-Zeitounian, Kathleen Weed, Wes Matthews, Lisa Mullenneaux, by Katherine Lo, Fiona Miller, Vincent Basso, Vera Kroms, Winshen Liu, Sean Sam, Eunice Cho, Paul Howe, Jasper Kennedy; and cover art by Mary Lacy.

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Magazine Stand :: Baltimore Review – Summer 2024

October 2, 2024
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While fall is creeping in, the Summer 2024 Baltimore Review is still fresh for reading poems, short stories and creative non-fiction by Genevieve Abravanel, Caroline Barnes, Melissa Darcey Hall, Bari Lynn Hein, Sarah Sugiyama Issever, Nick Manning, Kaecey McCormick, Noreen Ocampo, Maurine Ogonnaya Ogbaa, Genevieve Payne, Nina Colette Peláez, Anne Rudig, Annie Trinh, and Ernie Wang.

Readers can also enjoy works by the winners of the Baltimore Review Summer Contest, judged by Kathy Flann: Amanda Auchter (prose poem), Taylor Ebersole (flash fiction), and Al Dixon (flash creative nonfiction).

Baltimore Review

Magazine News :: Jewish Fiction Makeover

October 1, 2024
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Jewish Fiction Editor-in-Chief Dr. Nora Gold has announced, “We launched a new website for our journal, renamed the journal Jewish Fiction (not Jewish Fiction .net), now housed www.jewishfiction.com – no longer .net [a redirect is in place], and we have a new logo. Our new website is now interactive and now allows readers to search our 600 stories by theme, author, and original language.”

Jewish Fiction continues to be “the only English-language journal, either print or online, devoted exclusively to publishing Jewish fiction,” sharing Jewish-themed fiction – stories and novel excerpts – from around the world.

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New Magazines September 2024

September 29, 2024
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Looking for great new literary and alternative magazines to read the freshest in literary writing and current issues? Check out the New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine titles received here at NewPages.com!

Each month, we offer readers a round-up of new issues with content blurbs for our featured publications. The newest in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, artwork, photography, media, contest winners, and so much more!

Find out more about many of these titles with our Guide to Literary Magazines and our Big List of Literary Magazines and Big List of Alternative Magazines.

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Magazine Stand :: The Shore – Issue 23

September 25, 2024
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The Shore Issue 23 welcomes in the coming shadows of autumn with an array of poems shifting and redefining darkness, forgetting and the unseen. Enjoy haunting new work by Abigail Cloud, Emma Bolden, Melissa Holm Shoemake, Kashawn Taylor, Dylan Harbison, Annabel Li, Cheryl Chen, Amy DeBellis, Matthew Wood, I Echo, Michael Boccardo, Brian Chan, Chris Brunk, Margaret Malochleb, Ash Bowen, Leia K Bradley, Taylor Hamann Los, Charles Hensler, Gus Peterson, Veronica Kornberg, Brooks Lampe, Marko Capoferri, Cam McGlynn, Guo Feifei, Sofia Bagdade, Jane Feinsod, Talia Pinzari, Mary McSharry, Christy Ku, Catherine Redford, Wren Donovan, Alix Perry, Stephanie Karas, Jeffrey Kingman, Vanessa Y Niu, Sara J Grossman, Yoda Olinyk, Robert L Penick and Cecelia Hagen with world-shifting art, including this issue’s cover image, by Emma Rockenbeck.

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Magazine Stand :: New England Review – 45.3

September 24, 2024
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Readers can get the newest copy of New England Review (45.3) to enjoy eclectic prose by Lindsay Hill, Jehanne Dubrow, Robert Stothart, and Mary Clark; provoking poetry by Temperance Aghamohammadi, Craig Morgan Teicher, Victoria Chang, and Michael Robins; a Celtic fairy tale about dreaming; translations from the Hindi and Spanish; cover art by Julia Soboleva, and much more. Visit the publication’s website for an online preview to access several works from the issue.

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Magazine Stand :: Alaska Quarterly Review – Summer/Fall 2024

September 20, 2024
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Alaska Quarterly Review‘s annual summer and fall 2024 double issue marks a milestone as AQR’s 80th book-length edition! Its five stories, a collection of poems by forty-four poets, and eleven narrative essays on the themes of human-animal interactions and welfare provide exceptional content for readers to enjoy as they transition from one season into the next.

Featured writers include Josh Bell, Richard Chiappone, Lindsey Drager, Marc Bekoff, Ann Linder, Peter Balaam, Emily Raboteau , Nina McConigley, Kai Carlson-Wee, Derrick Austin, Daniel B. Summerhill, Jane Hirshfield, Maggie Smith, Todd Turnidge, Frank X. Gaspar, Kim Addonizio, Jenni Qi, Matt Donovan, Rebecca Foust, Dion O’Reilly, George Bilgere, Dean Rader, Dorianne Laux, Lisa Allen Ortiz, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Ama Codjoe, Veronica Kornberg, Kelli Russell Agodon, Jamaica Baldwin, and so many more, with cover art photo by Marion Owen. See a full list of contributors on the publication’s website.

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Magazine Stand :: Blink-Ink – #57

September 18, 2024
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“Summer Nights” is the them of Blink-Ink #57, apropos for this seasonal quarterly installment of the tiny, independent journal that always packs a big punch for readers. Submitting stories of “approximately 50 words,” writers in this issue help readers capture those beautiful and mysterious moments of summer: the stars, fireflies, sparks from campfires, a thousand points of light against the velvet dark, air as soft and warm as breath – both from long ago memories, recent encounters, or just creations from a writer’s mindscape of impossible dreams, or maybe yet to come to fruition.

Writers featured in this issue include Jennifer Mack, Angela James, Kendra Cardin, Katheryn Kulpa, Eileen M. Hector, Daryl Scroggins, Sarah Shum, Kathryn Silver-Harjo, Susan Israel, Cameron Vanderwerf, E.C. Traganas, Carolyn R. Russel, Emery Caroline Little, and many more, with cover art by Gemma Mathewson.

Note: Blink-Ink has announced that subscriptions rates will be increasing as of December 1, “so now is the time to save a few dollars and sign up or renew.” Who doesn’t love a bargain? And subscriptions are great for holiday gift giving!

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New Lit on the Block :: Pictura Journal

September 10, 2024
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Pictura Journal is a new online journal publishing poetry, prose, and visual artwork three times a year (April, August, December), with the editors favoring “concrete images and work grounded in a strong sense of place.” The journal’s name itself, says Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief Alicia Wright, comes from this same desire for story.

“I’ve always been obsessed with the idea of ‘image as narrative,’ and I wanted a name that made the same statement. I couldn’t tell you the first time I read the Latin phrase ut pictura poesis (and it would take some work for me to recall any more of the specifics of Ars Poetica), but when I was formulating the idea for the journal, ‘as is poetry, so is painting’ pointed directly at what I was aiming for. So: Pictura. I want to publish work that values the concrete image as a storytelling device, and artwork that fits well alongside it.”

New Lit on the Block, Pictura Journal

Magazine Stand :: The Lake – September 2024

September 9, 2024
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The Lake September 2024 issue is now available online if you are looking for the best in contemporary poetry from new and established poets. This newest monthly installment features works by Ian Badcoe, Mark Belair, David Capps, Charlotte Cosgrove, Clive Donovan, Arvilla Fee, Lesley Caroline Friedman, Ann Heath, Chris Kinsey, Claire Scott, J. R. Solonche, and Jeffery Allen Tobin. Readers will also enjoy book reviews of Sarah Wimbush’s Strike and Ian Clarke’s Staying On. One Poem Reviews, which share a poem from a recently published collection, include works by Smitha Sehgal, Leslie Tate, and Angela Topping.

The Lake

Magazine Stand :: 805 – August 2024

September 5, 2024
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The online literary and art magazine 805 August 2024 offers readers one final glimpse of summer, on the cusp of fall, just as Margaret Lynch writes about cancer, “teetering between the joy of life and fear of death,” and debut poet Anna Han “pens the boundless possibilities that bloom in a child’s heart.” Readers can enjoy more poetry by Logan Foster, Lisa Loop, Alicia Rebecca Myers, Charlene Pierce, Ivy Raff, Ahrend Torrey; fiction by A.C. Langlois , Sherri Moshman-Paganos, Zach Keali’i Murphy; creative nonfiction by Angela Abbott, Paul Grussendorf, Kira Rosemarie, Olivia Wieland; and art by Jake Huang (cover art), Janina Karpinska, Lauren McGovern, Marsha Solomon, and Sabahat Ali Wani.

Magazine Stand :: Chestnut Review – Summer 2024

September 4, 2024
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Chestnut Review’s Summer 2024 Issue ushers in a new season at the magazine, Volume Six, Year Six (6:1). Editor-in-Chief James Rawlings’ interview with Chestnut Review Chapbooks author, Javeria Hasnain (SIN), opens this issue with cover art by Jules Ostara whose wild and unpredictable, “Ink Flowers,” sets the scene for stubborn artists and writers.

Contributors also include writers Esther Ra, Beth Anstandig, Em Townsend, Elane Kim, Chiwenite Onyekwelu, Alvin Kathembe, Nikki Ummel, Iyanuoluwa Adenle, Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi, Audrey Gamache, Andrew Nickerson, Caroline Beuley, Chidera Solomon Anikpe, J. L. Bermúdez, and art by David Sheskin, Roger Camp, Anselmo Alliegro, and Charles Byrne.

Readers are immersed in work that examines tensions with family, forgiveness, queerness, religion, astronomy, grief, childhood, animals, gothic, natural spaces, city streets, girlhood, and—as always—humanity. Like the chestnut trees that persist, this summer issue values the stubborn belief in each individual’s own worth, in the art of their hands, eyes, and mind.

Chestnut Review

New Magazines August 2024

September 2, 2024
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Literary magazines offer readers the newest in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, artwork, and hybrid forms both in print and online. Keep your reading fresh by checking out the New & Noted Literary & Alternative Magazine titles received here at NewPages.com!

Each month, we offer readers a round-up of new issues with content information for our featured publications. The newest in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, artwork, photography, media, contest winners, and so much more!

Find out more about many of these titles with our Guide to Literary Magazines and our Big List of Literary Magazines and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed here or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us. You can also subscribe to our weekly newsletter to stay the most up-to-date on all things literary!

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Magazine Stand :: Salamander – 58

August 30, 2024
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The Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Salamander (58) features fiction by Laton Carter, Jules Fitz Gerald, Amber Silverman, Casey Wiley, Lindsey Godfrey Eccles; creative nonfiction by Marin Sardy, Jannie Edwards, Kristin Ginger; an art portfolio by Stephanie Juanillo; and poetry by CD Eskilson, Amy Smith, Andrew Hemmert, Sonja Vitow, Michael Quattrone, Michael Beard, D. Dina Friedman, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Bernadette Geyer, Cathlin Noonan, Sean Cho A., Caroline Kanner, Stephanie Yue Duhem, José A. Alcántara, Maria Surricchio, Nancy Lynée Woo, Aliyah Cotton, Sara Backer, Jennifer Stewart Miller, Veronica Kornberg, Sheree La Puma, Caylee Gardner, Ella Flores, Kathleen Winter, Ruth Hoberman, Lizzy Beck, Ann Keniston, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Christa Fairbrother, and Vera Kroms.

Salamander

New Lit on the Block :: The Zinnia Anthology

August 28, 2024
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In the symbolic language of flowers, the zinnia represents friendship, remembrance, and lasting affection, which is what inspired the name of a new online annual, The Zinnia Anthology. Here, readers can find short stories, poems, memoirs, and art focusing on human connections and relationships with each other outside of the romantic lens. “Specifically,” the editors note, “friendships and familial relationships that we often take for granted or easily overlook.” Indeed, the first issue, themed “Platonic Relationships” sets the tone of bringing marginalized issues to light and offers inspiration for readers to see their platonic relationships in a different light.

New Lit on the Block, The Zinnia Anthology

Magazine Stand :: World Literature Today – Sept/Oct 2024

August 27, 2024
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World Literature Today September/October 2024 features Japanese Women Writers in the 21st Century. Such writers as Mieko Kawakami, Hitomi Kanehara, Hiroko Oyamada, and Coreco Hibino are profiled in the cover feature guest-edited by Rea Amit. Additional highlights include numerous interviews, including a Q&A with Turkish writer Elif Shafak; poetry from China, Ukraine, and the US; fiction from Kenya; and Alejandro Puyana on six “classic” and “upstart” literary debuts. Be sure to check out the latest must-read titles in WLT’s book review section—including new releases by Conceição Lima, Yoko Ogawa, and Salman Rushdie—and much more!

World Literature Today

Magazine Stand :: Allium – Summer 2024

August 25, 2024
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The Summer 2024 issue of Allium is available for readers to enjoy online, opening with works by Featured Artist Jeanne Marie Beaumont, who works ‘principally in collage and assembly. Readers can take these final days of summer to savor fiction by De’Andre Holmes, Lily Swanson, Hayden Casey, Daniel Steinmetz, Tom Roth, Elise Swanson Ochoa, Odin Weller, Lori Cidylo, Alex Rawitz, Brad Dress, Louise Wilford, Steve Ives, J. D. Strunk, George Tyler, Maura Stanton, Eve Rayve, Amelia Dellos; nonfiction by Scott Hurd, Gail Tyson, Deja A. Smith, Chelsey Clammer, David Tippetts; and poetry by Grant Chemidlin, Amy Miller, William Orem, Arden Stockdell Geisler, Riane Bayne, Eric Ellis, Yana Kane, Aurora Bones, Banah Ghadbian, Alexandra Riseman, Justine Mercado, Sarah Brockhaus, Alex Schmidt, Jeremy Radin, Caroline Patterson, Monet Lewis, Kelly DuMar, Rosanne Singer, Frances Klein, Brendan Bense, Vanessa Ogle, Nathan Santiago, Jane Costain, and Alanna Shaikh.

Allium

Magazine Stand :: The Meadow – 2024

August 20, 2024
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The Meadow is the annual literary journal of Truckee Meadows Community College. In this 2024 issue, readers will discover fiction, nonfiction, and poetry selected from the best student work alongside national contributors such as Meghan Sterling, Mark Sanders, Katheryn Levy, George Perrault, Kathy Nelson, Richard Robbins, Janelle Cordero, Daniel Edward Moore, Max Stone, January Santoso, Lenny DellaRocca, Natalie Solmer, Deidre Sullivan, as well as many others wrapped in the mesmerizing, mythical cover art, Icarus, by Kateryna Bortsova.

The Meadow

Magazine Stand :: The Lake – August 2024

August 15, 2024
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The Lake poetry journal August 2024 issue is now online featuring works byJude Brigley, Douglas Cole, Bhaswati Ghosh, Jenny Hockey, Norton Hodges, Rustin Larson, Al Maginnes, Beth McDonough, Estill Pollock, Joshua St. Claire. This issue also includes reviews of Niki Herd’s The Stuff of Hollywood, Fleur Adcock’s Collected Poems, Kathleen Strafford’s Girl in the Woods, and Martin Figura’s The Remaining Men. “One Poem Reviews” is a unique feature that invites writers to share a poem from a recently published collection. This month spotlights Mike Dillon and Scott Elder.

The Lake

Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag – Summer 2024

August 14, 2024
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The Main Street Rag Summer 2024 issue opens with an interview with Dave Essinger, whose novel, This World and the Next, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag in October 2024 (discounted pre-order available here). Readers can also enjoy “Stories & Such” by Steve Putnam, Carlos Ramet, E. G. Silverman, Jessi Waugh, and Michael Woodruff, as well as lots of great new poetry from Joan Barasovska, Jacqueline Berger, Robert Cooperman, Mary Alice Dixon, R. E. Ericson, Greg Friedman, Bill Griffin, Alan Harawitz, PMF Johnson, Dianne Mason, John Minczeski, G.H. Mosson, Cal Nordt, Robert Perchan, Laura Ann Reed, John J. Ronan, Richard Allen Taylor, Miles Waggener, and Ronald Zack among many more.

The Main Street Rag

Magazine Stand :: The Missouri Review – Summer 2024

August 12, 2024
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The Missouri Review Summer 2024 is themed, “In the Altogether” and features debut fiction by Sara Beth Greene and Ina Lipkowitz, as well as new fiction from Mark Barlex and Hana Choi, new poems from Chaun Ballard, Amorak Huey, and Tina Schumann, and new essays from Jennifer Anderson, Nancy Jainchill, and Allen M. Price. Also included is an art feature on contemporary dada and an interview with classics scholar and acclaimed translator of The Odyssey and The Iliad, Emily Wilson. Cover art by Thomas Lerooy, Disclosure (2019).

Missouri Review

Magazine Stand :: The MacGuffin – Spring 2024

August 8, 2024
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The MacGuffin Spring 2024 (volume 39) features Barbara Crooker’s selections from POET HUNT 28, including Dawn Dupler’s grand prize–winning “Scars” and honorable mention selections by Johnny Cate and MacGuffin regular Rebecca Foust. There is also a four-poem spread by POET HUNT 29 guest judge Michael Meyerhofer. New prose selected for this issue invites readers to enjoy the unfolding postmodernism of Max Blue’s “Preservation”; the satirical “Taylor Kills a Unicorn” by Laton Carter; and the madcap reporter’s narrative of Nicholas Litchfield’s “Superstars of Today.” This issue features artwork by Metro Detroit painter and designer Linda Pelowski.

The MacGuffin

Magazine Stand :: The Tiger Moth Review – Issue 12

August 7, 2024
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The Tiger Moth Review is an eco-conscious journal based in Singapore that publishes art and literature engaging with the themes of nature, culture, the environment, and ecology. The cover image of Issue 12 by Ethan Leong pays homage to interspecies kinships and relational ways of being on earth, themes that contributors continue to discover and explore in each new publication. Some contributors to this issue include Ilika Montani, Lizzie Ferguson, Adam Anders, Anna Molenaar, Devon Neal, Meenakshi Palaniappan, Alka Balain, Jennifer S. Lange, Johnny Kovatch, and others.

The Tiger Moth Review