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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Celebrating fifty years of publication this year, the newest issue of CutBank Literary Magazine (99) is their “First Ever Indigenous Writers’ Issue,” and features Red-Winged Blackbird Council by John Pepion on the cover.

Dawn Zinz’s work on the cover of Mid-American Review (42.1) is just so danged adorable with its mixture of digital collage using dried and pressed flowers – with more characters on the back that can’t help but make readers smile.

It’s wonderful to see another literary magazine reach its 50th year of publication, and to celebrate, the colorful work of artist Claire Desjardins greets readers on the cover of this special 2023 issue of Grain Magazine.

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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

This long-running Canadian publication of ideas and culture, Geist #123 holds an array of content that readers will be drawn to thanks to the cover digital collage, It’s a Different Kind of Cold, 2021, by Nicole Holloway.

Virginia Quarterly Review is a force to be reckoned with every issue, and this Spring/Summer 2023 is no exception, featuring “The Queens of Queen City,” a longform photo documentary by Michael Snyder accompanied by an essay by Rae Garringer.

This photograph by Jessamyn Violet made me look more than twice and is just a sample of the full portfolio of her work, Venice Beach Double Exposures, which readers can enjoy in the 2023 issue of Breakwater Literary Magazine.

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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Artist Fran De Anda’s work is front and back on the 2023 annual issue of Pembroke Magazine. The Magician of Roots (2022) seen here is oil and gold leaf on canvas and is utterly mesmerizing.

Continuing with the ‘gold’ theme, the image on the front cover of Brick 111 is a detail of Zhang Xiaogang’s Light No. 5, 2022, oil on canvas.

PULP Literature covers are always a unique blend of classy, classic, and surreal. Their summer 2023 issue features the painting Dreaming Underwater by Claire Lawrence.

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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

“Grave New World” is the theme of Notre Dame Review‘s Winter/Spring 2023 issue with cover art, Invasion, ink on paper (2021) by Isabella Castellane.

Mask by photographer Martins Deep draws readers into the Spring 2023 issue of Freefall: Canada’s Magazine of Exquisite Writing.

Cynthia Farnell’s vibrantly rich photography adorns the cover of Five Points 22.1 and is featured in full color inside the journal as well.

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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Image Summer 2023 cover features work by British artist Jake Lever, who installs his gilded “soul boats” in ancient churches. More of his work can be seen inside the publication as well as on Image‘s website.

The front and back cover of the Summer 2023 issue of The Georgia Review features detail from plumb and fathom (2022) by Las Hermana Iglesias, whose work is also featured in this issue.

The cover image of the Summer 2023 issue of The Massachusetts Review features this untitled detail photograph of James Baldwin “in and around Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1968, part of the exhibit God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin curated by Hilton Als at the Mead Art Museum – selections of which are featured inside this issue as well.

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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Cover artist Aris Moore won my imagination with this Spring/Summer 2023 cover image for Black Warrior Review: “Her work explores contradictions of strength and vulnerability, and attraction and repulsion, to create beings that are simultaneously awkward and unbelievable, yet familiar.”

From the SFSU Dept. of Creative Writing, Fourteen Hills Issue 29 (2023) features “Lost in the Grandeur” by Jewel Rodriguez.

Room issue 46.2 features their 2022 contest winners for short forms, fiction, poetry, CNF, and cover art. This seemingly whimsical work by semillites hernández velasco, Ghost No More, is from a poignant series of self-portraits exploring the artist’s demand for visibility while not being “ready to be fully seen.”

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