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Mixing Mediums is the theme of the spring 2022 issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly, featuring art and photography, fiction and nonfiction, and poetry. Widely praised for its rich and valuable content and splendid presentation. Intended for artists, writers, nature lovers, seekers, and enthusiasts of all types. Find more info at our website.
Issue #26 of online literary magazine Topical Poetry features work by Dan Dana, Zebulon Huset, Wendy Dodek, Lois Perch Villemaire, and Howard Richard Debs. Stop by their website to read these pieces and more in Topical Poetry‘s archives.
Welcome to the February 2022 issue of Split Lip Magazine, featuring art from Marie Nova, writing from Andrea Harper, Jihoon Park, Anna Chotlos, and Sara Elkamel, plus a review from Connor Harrison and an interview from Courtney Lund O’Neil with David Nelson.
Stop by Split Lip Magazine‘s website to read the full issue.
The Spring 2022 issue of Story features new stories by Caroline Kim, Barbara Sutton, Tamara Dean, Mack Marsden, Vida James, Anu Kandikuppa, Susie Nadler, Matthew Meduri, Youn Rourke, and Rebecca Orchard. Stop by Story‘s website to order the issue or subscribe.
The Spring 2022 issue of Rattle featured a Tribute to Librarians. Librarians work on the front lines of literature and are often the last bulwark against censorship, as we discuss with former librarian Janice N. Harrington in the conversation section. The theme includes 16 poems by librarians and their always-interesting contributor notes. The open section features 22 poets exploring the mysteries of life, both large and small. You can purchase the new issue at the Rattle website.
Online literary magazine Grand Little Things is dedicated to “returning versification to verse.” They publish work on a rolling basis throughout the month. During February, they featured poems by J.P. Sexton, Gillian Thomas, Mark Burgh, Fabrice Poussin, Seth Wieck, Diane Lee Moomey, Louise Machen, J. Napolitano, Lisa Creech Bledsoe, and Paul Jones. Stop by Grand Little Things to read these and more.
Literary magazine The Society of Classical Poets Journal features work online on a rolling basis gathered into a stunning print issue. During the month of February 2022, find poems by Cara Valle, Russel Winick, James A. Tweedie, Jack DesBois, Julian Woodruff, Brian Yapko, Phil S. Rogers, Paul Freeman, Gail Kaye Naegele, Jeff Eardley, and many more. Stop by The Society of Classical Poets Journal website to read these pieces and so much more.
February was Flash Fiction month for online literary magazine Fictive Dream. Every day they featured one piece of flash fiction. You’ll find stories by Fiona J. Mackintosh, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Sandra Arnold, Cath Holland, Jude Higgins, and more. Stop by Fictive Dream‘s website to catch up and to start reading their March pieces.
Issue 71 of online literary magazine The Penn Review features poetry by Anne Kwok, Grace Gilbert, Tom Hunley, Grug Muse, Sheree La Puma, and more; fiction by Merridawn Duckler, Scott Karambis, Christina Irmen, Thea Goodman, and K.C. Mead-Brewer; nonfiction by Siamak Vossoughi, Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, and Denise Tolan; plus art by Sijia Ma, Jay Mitra, Michael Hower, Susan Slocum Dyer, and Nicole Fang.
Stop by The Penn Review website to read the current issue.
In online literary magazine Persimmon Tree‘s Winter 2022 issue find seemingly simple things that are so much more than what they seem. Enjoy work by Mary Beth O’Connor, Leslie Clark, Opal Palmer Adisas, and more.
Stop by the Persimmon Tree website to read the issue.
This month online literary magazine Terrain.org published the winners of their 12th Annual Contests. Find “The Frontier” by Sean Sam, “The Snake and the Sanctuary” by Melina Walling,” and two poems by Jennifer K. Sweeney. Plus, find work by John Washington, Rob Carney, Molly Lanzarotta, Laurel Anderson, Sharon Hashimoto, Cassandra Cleghorn, Cheryl Merrill, Ian Capelli, Amy Dryansky, D.S. Walsman, and more.
The March 2022 issue of World Literature Today foregrounds New African Voices in a cover feature guest-edited and introduced by Mahtem Shiferraw; poetry, fiction, and essays from Australia, Denmark, Greece, and Mexico; reviews of 30 outstanding new books from all over the world; recommended reading; and much more.
Shot Glass Journal Issue #36 has been posted to the Muse-Pie Press site. This issue represents talented poets from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Wales, the UK and the US. Stop by the Muse-Pie Press website to read this issue of Shot Glass Journal.
The Missouri Review Winter 2021 (“Take Heart”) issue features the winners of our 2021 Perkoff Prize for writing that engages evocatively with health/medicine. A stunning art feature on contemporary photography, debut fiction by Mason Kiser, translated work of Tomaž Šalamun, and a probing essay on the poetry of mourning round out the issue. More info at The Missouri Review website.
In this special double issue of Western American Literature, the contributors write about the literature of California, cli-fi, and climate crisis. Contributors include: Jennifer K. Ladino, Daniel D. Clausen, Ryan Hediger, Cory Willard, Ashley E. Reis, Matt Burkhart, and Kevin Maier. You can find more information at the WAL website.
The newest issue of online literary magazine River Heron Review includes poems written by 17 new and returning contributors. Their words are sure to inspire and perhaps broaden your take on the world. We hope that you are as moved by the images, themes, and topics so thoughtfully covered in these poems as we are.
Stop by the River Heron Review website to read the full issue.
The Hollins Critic features a central essay on a contemporary writer, reviews, and poetry. In this issue, Cathryn Hankla examines Jeanette Winterson’s early novels; poetry by Angela Ball, Max Roland Ekstrom, Will Cordeiro, and a translation of Louis Miguel Nava by Alexis Levitin and Ricardo Vasconcelos. More info at The Hollins Critic website.
The Winter 2021-22 issue of Barrow Street features Denise Duhamel, Vievee Francis, Dorianne Laux, Pablo Medina, Mihaela Moscaliuc, D. Nurkse, Matthew Olzmann, Simon Perchik, JJ Peña, Simone Savannah, Judith Vollmer, Michael Waters, and many others.
View a full list of contributors and purchase a copy at Barrow Street‘s website.
The Louisville Review, Number 90, features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s poetry. This is the special 45th Anniversary Issue. Contributors include Patricia Foster, Sarah Gorham, Sarah McCartt-Jackson, Greg Pape, Jonathan Weinert, Jason Tandon, and Nadeem Zaman. Available at www.louisvillereview.org/issues/ as well as Amazon and Carmichael’s Bookstores in Louisville, KY.
The Malahat Review Issue 217 features Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize winner Justina Elias, fiction by Carousel Calvo and Ayaz Pirani, poetry by Kai Conradi and Patrick Grace, creative nonfiction by Jaime Sugiyama and Laura Vukson, and more.
Read the full table of contents, interviews, and excerpts on The Malahat Review website.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Short stories by Bobby Mathews, Kevin Joseph Reigle, Sidney Wollmuth, and L.M. Wright; flash fiction by Cameron Bocanegra, flash nonfiction by Siavash Saadlou; poetry by Dale Cottingham, Candice Kelsey, Eric v.d. Luft, Gary Reddin, and Nancy White, and one prose poem by Stephanie Michele.
More info at The Dillydoun Review website.
