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Brilliant Flash Fiction Offers Flash Fiction Workshop

Brilliant Flash Fiction is currently offering a rare 5-session Zoom flash fiction workshop with Assistant Editor Ed Higgins. Don’t miss this opportunity to improve your flash writing with a master teacher, open to international students at all levels. The workshop is limited to 20 students.

The workshop will take place January 23, January 30, February 6, February 13, and February 20 at noon PST.

About the : Professor Emeritus and Lifetime Writer in Residence Ed Higgins has been teaching at George Fox University, Oregon, for over four decades. His classes have covered poetry, the modern novel, world literature, science fiction, and much more. Officially retired now, he submits and publishes flash fiction and poetry in numerous literary journals.

Learn how to enroll at Brilliant Flash Fiction‘s website.

News from Poor Yorick

skull on black and pink backgroundPoor Yorick is continuing the journal’s monthly reading series. Join them at the end of the month (Thursday, January 28 at 7PM) for a virtual open mic and fireside chat. Cozy up on Microsoft Teams and share your poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction and join in on an open discussion between readers and writers after the reading. This month’s theme: a fresh start and a blank page. Contact Brianna Paris for an invitation.

The journal is also accepting submissions until January 31. Submissions should relate to the concept of masks and masking. Submissions are free. Find full author guidelines at Poor Yorick‘s website.

January 2021 eLitPak :: CARVE Magazine: Get 30% off a One-year Subscription

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Exclusive for NewPages fans: Get 30% off a one-year print or digital subscription to CARVE. That’s four issues featuring new HONEST FICTION, poetry, essays, interviews, illustrations, and more. Discover a new borderless and diverse community within the pages of CARVE. Use code NEWPAGES21 at checkout—hurry, our next issue ships soon! Discount expires 2/28/2021. Visit our website.

View the full January 2021 eLitPak Newsletter. Don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss out on our weekly newsletter and monthly eLitPaks.

New Lit on the Block: The Start Literary Journal

cover photoWhat better way to start the new year than to introduce The Start? The Start Literary Journal is an online thematic quarterly publication of young adult poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and photograph welcoming all subgenres.

Founding Editor Amanda Cino is secondary English teacher who earned her MA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and is currently pursuing her MFA. Formerly the managing editor for River and South Review, Amanda is “an avid reader and loves all things YA, especially speculative fiction.” She explains, “I started this journal for my MFA publishing project. I thought about what my dream journal would be. As an educator, I love inspiring my students to write, but so many feel it is impossible to find a place to be published. This is the same way many new writers feel. Because of that, I wanted to start a journal that was for new and young writers in hopes that we can give them their start in their writing careers!”

Continue reading “New Lit on the Block: The Start Literary Journal”

Winter Workshops with Cleaver

Looking to attend writing workshops this winter? Cleaver Magazine has you covered. With courses on Zoom and Canvas held throughout the coming weeks, they have plenty of options for your workshop needs.

Upcoming workshops include “Weekend Writing” with Andrea Caswell; “The Art of the Scene” for creative and nonfiction, taught by Lisa Borders; “TRANS (Is Not An Abbreviation),” taught by Claire Rudy Foster; and more.

You can find additional information on how to register and what to expect from your workshop at Cleaver‘s website.

Clarity and Experimentations with Creative Nonfiction

Readers, Creative Nonfiction has a new issue heading out to their subscribers! Issue 74’s theme is “Moments of Clarity,” and you can get a sneak peek at what Editor Lee Gutkind has to say to introduce it. Single issue copies can be purchased from their website.

Writers, the nonfiction journal is currently accepting submissions for a few more days. The current reading period is focusing on “Experiments in Nonfiction,” and you can see more of what they’re looking for here. The deadline is January 11, and there is a $3 reading fee to writers who aren’t currently subscribed to the journal.

Bookstore & Library Mailing Lists Still Discounted

Did you miss out on our mailing list sale this year? Not to worry: you have until January 15 to take advantage of our current discounts.

Purchase the U.S. Bookstore digital mailing lists and receive our Public Libraries and Academic Libraries lists for free. This option saves you a total of $190 and helps you reach even more bookshelves around the country.

You can find out all about what each list offers at our website. While you’re there, don’t forget to check out our new Canadian Bookstore List option as well.

Canadian Bookstore Mailing Lists Now Available

You may already be familiar with our mailing lists to bookstores, libraries, and newspapers in the United States, and now we have another option to help you get the word out about your book.

We’ve recently added a Canadian Independent Bookstore mailing list to our options! Just like our other lists, these are available both digitally and as printed, physical mailing labels. Postal addresses are included for all stores in this list, with email addresses included when available.

You can find out more about our mailing lists at our website.

Memoir Magazine Announces Winners for Inaugural Memoir Prize for Books

Memoir Prize for BooksMemoir Magazine annually holds the Memoir Prize which awards Memoir and Creative Nonfiction book-length works of exceptional merit in three categories: traditionally published, self-published, and unpublished. The awards include a cash prize, a feature in Memoir Magazine, and a year’s worth of free advertising. This is the only prize of its kind solely focusing on memoir. The 2021 prize deadline will be announced in January.

The grand prize winner of the inaugural Memoir Prize for Books is Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen by Gint Aras.

The finalists and category winners were:

  • Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg
  • Wild Blueberries: Nuns, Rabbits & Discovery in Rural Michigan by Peter Damm
  • Dreams and Nightmares: I Fled Alone to the United States When I Was Fourteen by Liliana Velasquez

You can view the full list of honorable mentions at Memoir Magazine‘s website.

Brevity Blog: Blurb Your Enthusiasm

Brevity Blog: "Blurb Your Enthusiasm" by Lisa KuselAre you a follower of literary blogs? Do you love nonfiction? Did you know online literary magazine Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has a (nearly) daily blog? It should definitely be on your blogroll! You can find reviews, articles, and so much more.

I highly recommend checking out Lisa Kusel’s “Blurb Your Enthusiasm” posted on December 18. The piece is an interesting take on the value of blurbs on the back of your book and the luck of a lesser known writer getting a big name to step in and contribute a blurb. It was particularly interesting to me because I actually do not heed blurbs on the back of books. When trying to select a new book to read, I always felt annoyed when I saw blurbs from others when I what I wanted was a brief book summary to actually let me know what the book was about.

Have you ever selected a book based on the back cover blurbs alone?

While you are checking that out, don’t forget to scroll through more posts. They are definitely an interesting read.

2021 Raleigh Review Flash Fiction Prize Winners

Raleigh Review has announced the winners of their 2021 Flash Fiction Prize. Congrats to the winner, honorable mention, and finalists.

Winner 
“Monument” by Amina Gautier

Honorable Mention 
“1985” by Katherine Hubbard

Finalists
“Hansel and Gretel on Trial” by Amina Gautier
“You Two” by Alana Reynolds

You can look forward to reading these pieces in the forthcoming Spring 2021 issue of Raleigh Review. Enter your own work to the 2022 prize opening in July 2021.

Glass Mountain Goes Digital

Literary magazine Glass Mountain has launched a new website as they transition from a print journal into an online-only journal. They are also working on digitizing their past volumes. You can keep up on the status of this project on their archives page.

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Glass Mountain was conceived of in 2006 by the undergraduate students of the University of Houston and was designed as a counterpart to their literary magazine Gulf Coast, which is edited by graduate students in the creative writing program. It’s name hails from Donald Barthelme’s short story “Glass Mountain.”

This journal is ran and edited by undergraduate writers and is dedicated to showcasing the writing of fellow undergraduate writers from across the country. They accept submissions year-round from emerging and undergraduate writers. They do not charge a submission fee.

You can read their current Fall 2020 issue in its entirety online. It features the winners of the Robertson Prize, Sarah Han Kuo (fiction), Yasmin Boakye (nonfiction), and Stephanie Lane Sutton (poetry).

They also hold an annual conference dedicated to emerging writers. The 2021 Boldface conference will be conducted virtually May 24-28.

Don’t forget to stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more, too.

The Write Place at the Write Time 2020 Holiday Bizarre

The Write Place at the Write Time 2020 Holiday Bizarre

Online literary magazine The Write Place at the Write Time has created a virtual holiday bizarre to help bring people together and offer support during these troubling times. They are featuring vendors who are WPWT authors, artisans, artists, and staff as well as friends and family connected to WPWT.

From their Facebook page:

The Facebook page will feature, in addition to the individual vendors, holiday facts from around the world and across time as well as uplifting posts (links to heart-warming stories, quotes, holiday communications from WPWT to let you know you are thought of and cared about in this season and always) and of course an awesome raffle… We already have one of our NYT best-selling authors helping to spread holiday cheer by donating books to our raffle and other great authors, sites are joining.

Currently the bizarre is up and running now and will extend through mid-January, although they may choose to extend the bizarre past that. You can find stories, traditions, and great items for yourself and others in your life. They also have resource pages if you would like to reach out and help to support others during this time. They also plan on offering up writing prompts to help inspire.

See What People Are Saying about Jewish Fiction.net

Have you had a chance to check out the 10th Anniversary issue of Jewish Fiction.net?

People are talking about it! The issue has been covered by The Jerusalem Post, Detroit Jewish News, Open Book, and the Canadian Jewish Record, among other publications.

Since the journal’s first issue in 2010, they have published over 400 works of fiction never before published in English. These were originally written in sixteen languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Danish, English, Hungarian, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Turkish, Polish, German, Croatian, Hebrew, Ladino, and Yiddish). This current issue contains 18 works of fiction, so don’t miss out on your chance to read exceptional Jewish fiction from a unique online journal.

News from The Louisville Review

The Louisville Review has some announcements! In addition to the release of Issue 88 featuring poetry, short fiction and (K-12) poetry, the editors have also announced their Pushcart nominees:

Poetry
from The Louisville Review, No. 87, Spring 2020
“If a Fox” by Luke Wallin
“Institutional Lies” by Frank X Walker

Fiction
from The Louisville Review, No. 88, Fall 2020
“Mama, I Need Some Money” by Jim Bellar
“Let No One Fear Me” by Lori Ann Stephens

Poetry
from The Louisville Review, No. 88, Fall 2020
“Rebuilding the Temple: Higashi Honganji, Kyoto” by Greg Pape
“Human Head, Dream” by Milica Mijatović
Congrats and good luck to the nominees!

Sponsor Spotlight :: River Styx

River Styx Issue 103/104 coverRiver Styx is a print literary magazine that was founded in 1975. Since their founding, they have remained a non-profit literary organization free of institutional ties. They feature thoughtful yet accessible literature and art.

Along with their biannual issues, they also host two reading series and offer online individual critiques and online workshop critiques in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. They are open to submissions year-round, but will take a few breaks during the year to catch up.

Their annual Microfiction Contest is currently accepting submissions of stories under 500 words through December 31. The winner receives $1,000 and publication. Plus, if you aren’t already a subscriber, don’t forget to sign-up for a subscription. They will be releasing issue 103/104 soon.

Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more.

Rain Taxi 2020 Benefit Auction

Rain Taxi Review of Books 100th issueRain Taxi Review of Books is an award-winning quarterly connecting readers to books of merits that might go otherwise overlooked. They cover fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, graphic novels, translations and more. Rain Taxi exists not just for readers and writers, but also for literary publishers of all shapes and sizes, booksellers, educators, and kindred spirits. They do their best to help keep books flourishing in a distracted society.

Besides their magazine, they also have a publishing arm which produces chapbooks and broadsides and they host a reading series and annual Twin Cities Book Festival. Each year, Rain Taxi also hosts a benefit auction. Their current auction runs through December 16th (only one more day left!). It officially ends at 5 PM CST.

This year’s auction includes first editions by Raymond Carver, Isabel Allende, and Paul Auster; counter-culture tomes; quirky titles from Bette Midler, John Updike, and Sharyn McCrumb; collectible treasures; and much, much more. Swing by their auction page to learn more and don’t forget to drop by their listing at NewPages.

Rain Taxi is also celebrating milestones, i.e. 25 years of publication and 100 issues published!

Navigate the Lit Mag Landscape with Creative Nonfiction

You still have time to register to attend Creative Nonfiction‘s December 16 webinar. The webinar will run from 2pm – 3:15pm EST on Wednesday. It is $25 to register, and registration closes 24 hours before the event.

The event aims to help writers:

  • GAIN an understanding of the contemporary literary/literary magazine landscape and why you would want (or not want) to publish in lit mags.
  • LEARN how and where to send your work.
  • CONSIDER the writer-editor relationship and what happens once your work is accepted

Hattie Fletcher, managing editor of Creative Nonfiction, will lead the webinar. Find out more at the lit mag’s website.

Creative Nonfiction Holiday Sale Ends Tonight!

Don’t forget that Creative Nonfiction‘s holiday sale officially ends tonight at 11:59 PM EST. They have some amazing deals going on perfect for the creative nonfiction lover in your life.

You can get 50% off a subscription to Creative Nonfiction and single issues for only $2.50. Like their long essay magazine True Story? You can get single issues for just a $1. They also have their books available for $8 and have even created special bundles of their favorite issues. These bundles include Animals, Exploration, Food & Drink, History, Home, Pushcart Nominees, Starting Over, Teaching & Learning, Technology, and Women Write.

Love T-Shirts? They have those available for $5, too.

Want to gift a writer or your self with an online course in nonfiction? Creative Nonfiction is currently offering 11 online classes. You can save $50 off the cost if you enroll by December 21.

Ruminate :: Subscription Drive

If you’ve wanted to check out issues of Ruminate, now is the perfect time to do it. Right now, they’re running their Holiday Drive with the goal of reaching 125 new and renewed subscribers going into the new year. Renew your subscription, gift one to a family member or friend this holiday season, or write a donation in someone’s name as a gift.

You can grab a gift subscription here, where you can also check out their progress. At the time of writing this blog post, they’ve reached about 40% of their goal.

Enjoy high quality, quarterly issues with your own subscription.

Shanti Arts :: Spring Leaves Chapbook Series

I love a good chapbook—something slim and short and perfect for my pandemic-shortened attention span. With this in mind, I was excited to find out Shanti Arts, publisher of literary and art journal Still Point Arts Quarterly, has begun to publish the Spring Leaves Chapbook Series.

The first chapbook in this series was released back in August. The Vermeer Tales by Gail Tyson is “[i]nspired by A. S. Byatt’s The Matisse Stories and Johannes Vermeer’s exquisite paintings of women,” and was written “during a transition from a demanding career to full-time writing in 2017, and finished the last after [Tyson’s] beloved’s brief, terrifying illness and death.”

The chapbook is available now at the Shanti Arts website. There, readers can also have a sneak peek at the contents before purchasing.

Driftwood Press :: New Poetry Title & Launch Party

Do you need something good to look forward to? Driftwood Press has you covered.

Their first full-length poetry collection is forthcoming on December 15: Magnolia Canopy Otherworld by Erin Carlyle. The collection has received advance praise: Rebecca Morgan Frank, author of Little Murders Everywhere calls it a “riveting, smart, and unforgettable debut,” and F. Daniel Rzicznek, author of Settlers warns readers: “Be ready for her to interrupt your life with poem after stunning poem in this haunting and arresting debut.” You can preorder your copy now.

To celebrate the release of Magnolia Canopy Otherworld, tune in on December 18 for a free digital launch party held on Zoom. In addition to Erin Carlyle, Wren Hanks, Ben Kline, Helli Fang, Kimberly Povloski, Charles Malone, and Annie Christain will also be reading. Find more information about the launch party at Driftwood Press‘s Facebook.

The Writing Disorder Celebrates 10 Years

Congrats to The Writing Disorder for celebrating their 10-year anniversary!

Celebrate along with the quarterly online journal by checking out the Fall 2020 issue which features work by Lourdes Dolores Follins, Adam Anders, Ashley Inguanta, and more. Or become a part of their legacy: the editors are currently accepting work for the Winter & Spring 2020/2021 issues.

We look forward to see what else The Writing Disorder has to offer as it continues into the future.

New Issue & Website for High Desert Journal

High Desert Journal is a voice for the landscape and the people of the interior West. Through literature and visual arts, High Desert Journal has created an evolving conversation that deepens an understanding of the people, places, and issues of the interior West, a region rich in creativity, history and flux, yet often overlooked for its cultural resources.

On November 1, High Desert Journal debuted their 31st issue, along with a completely revised website. Issue 31 features new work from Melissa Kwasny, John Daniel, Chris La Tray, Michael Bishop, Keene Short, Stacey Boe Miller, Aaron A, Abeyta as well as many many more, and includes a photo essay by Brooke Williams.

With this issue High Desert Journal is now a paying market, offering $25/ poem, $50/essay or story, and $150/featured artist. In 2021 they will also be offering two $500 scholarships to low-income and minority writers to assist in attending workshops and writing/artist retreats. More details will be posted on the journal’s website in the new year.

Issue 31 also sees the addition of Corey Oglesby, their new web designer. Oglesby completely revised, revamped, improved, and updated the website. Click here to see the new site. Oglesby is a poet and musician originally from the Washington, D.C., area, currently living in North Idaho. A 2018 graduate of University of Idaho’s MFA program in Creative Writing, his work has most recently appeared in DIAGRAM, Barrow Street, jubilat, Hobart, The Meadow, Puerto del Sol, Blood Orange Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal, where his poem “Ballistics” was named a 2020 semi-finalist for the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Fugue Literary Journal from 2017 to 2018.

Help Brilliant Flash Fiction Fund 2021 Anthology

Brilliant Flash FictionBrilliant Flash Fiction wants writing to thrive, and they want to showcase flash fiction at its best. To do that, they need your help.

Visit Kickstarter to pledge even a small amount of money—and earn rewards including stickers, pens, editors’ flash fiction tips, T-shirts, and reviews of your work.

All money goes toward funding the printing process for a 2021 anthology featuring original work solicited from writers around the world. Pledges close December 11.

In 2019, Brilliant Flash Fiction, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, published a high-quality print anthology of flash fiction stories entitled Hunger: The Best of Brilliant Flash Fiction, 2014-2019.

(Note: no one on the editorial board or board of directors receives payment for their services. BFF’s funding comes strictly from donations.)

Sponsor Spotlight :: Stickman Review

Stickman Review V19 N1 coverStickman Review is an online literary magazine celebrating 19 years of publication. Founded in 2001, the journal is dedicated to providing a platform for great fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork for artists all over the world.

Stickman Review publishes two issues a year and especially encourages submissions that employ diverse forms and points of view. Their latest issue, V19 N1, features poetry by Jo Ann Baldinger, Marc Darnell, Vern Fein, John Grey, Paul Ilechko, DS Maolalai, Dan Overgaard, and Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb. Plus, read fiction by Tim Poland.

If you’re a writer, browse through their issue archives to familiarize yourself with what they publish and maybe consider submitting your own work when they re-open on February 1. Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more about them.

NewPages Browser Display Issues

It appears that the NewPages website isn’t displaying correctly on all pages if you are using Microsoft Edge. We have reported this as a bug to Edge to see if they can perhaps fix this issue since it does appear to be normal if you are using saying Google Chrome. If you notice display issues in any other browsers, please don’t hesitate to let us know which browser you are using and which pages are working incorrectly for you by contacting us at [email protected].

The Fourth River: A Journal of Nature & Place

Screenshot of Fourth River WebsitePublished by the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University, Fourth River is an online and print journal focusing on nature and place-based writing. They publish “works that are richly situated at the confluence of place, space, and identity.”

Fourth River takes its name from a subterranean river beneath Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a city at the confluence of three rivers. The unseen fourth river is indispensable to the city’s ecosystem. “The journal grew up from the “idea that between and beneath the visible framework of the human world and built environment, there exist deeper currents of force and meaning supporting the very structure of that world”

They publish one print issue and one online issue a year. Check out the Fall 2020 online issue, “Futures,” and don’t forget to stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more about them.

I-70 Review: Writing from the Middle & Beyond

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Now in its 19th year, the I-70 Review is an annual literary magazine whose title comes from the interstate that runs through thirteen states. They publish short fiction, poetry, and art from new, emerging, and established writers and artists from all over the Americas and overseas.

They seek to offer readers a wide variety of styles, voices, and diversity. They like narrative, but also celebrate the quirky and startling different and hold constant to work that is surprising and fresh. They are currently open to submissions through the end of December 2020.

Every four to five months, they feature the work of a single poet on their website. This includes a brief bio, a picture, and up to five poems (previously published or unpublished). Their current featured poets is Hadara Bar-Nadav.

Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more and consider subscribing to their journal.

Variety Pack Seeks to Offer Diverse Writing by & for a Diverse Community

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Founded in 2020, Variety Pack is an online journal seeking to offer a “variety” of work in all genres, including literary fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, humor, micro-fiction, flash fiction, form, poetry, prose poetry, haikus, and more.

They publish quarterly issues along with special issues, called mini-packs, editor choice features published in-between their regular issues. Their first Mini-Pack featured short fiction by Timothy Day. Variety Pack also have special issues dedicated to standing in solidarity with marginalized voices in the literary community. The most recent special was Black Voices of Pride guest edited by Dior J. Stephens.

Their last issue of 2020 was just published this month. Give it a read & swing by their listing on NewPages to learn more about them.

Persephone’s Daughters – A Literary & Arts Journal for Abuse Survivors

hand holding a persimmonPersephone’s Daughters is a print and online literary journal for abuse survivors of all gender identities. Founded in 2015 by author, domestic violence worker, and artist Maggie Royer, they take their name from Persephone, Greek goddess of vegetation and queen of the Underworld.

Persephone’s Daughters seeks to uplift the voices of those pursuing peace after trauma and provide community and calm through healing art and storytelling. They use the proceeds from their film division Girls Don’t Cry and print copies of their journal to donate money to organizations around the world focused on issues of domestic and sexual violence, the health and well-being of women of color, and LGBTQ+ survivor advocacy.

The journal publishes poetry, prose, and art of all forms. Their 2020 issue is slated for publication on December 15. Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more.

 

Sponsor Spotlight :: SWWIM Every Day

Online literary magazine SWWIM Every Day publishes a single poem every weekday from women-identifying/femme-resenting poets. They feature both emerging and established writers and strive to present a diverse range of voices, ages, cultures, styles, and experiences.

The journal was founded in 2017 in order to raise women’s voices on a daily basis. Poems are featured on their website and delivered to subscribers’ email inboxes every weekday.

SWWIM also hosts various writing contests, produces a reading series, and offers writing residencies in conjunction with The Betsy Hotel-South Beach. Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more.

Sponsor Spotlight :: Wordrunner eChapbooks

Have you caught up with Wordrunner eChapbooks lately? Each triannual issue features work by one author in a mini, digital chapbook. The journal also produces annual themed anthologies, and many issues are new dimensions to the online reading experience with the use of hyperlinks to photos, videos, background articles, maps, poetry, and artwork. A great companion for the chapbook fan on the go.

Hippocampus 2020 Contest Winner Announced

Hippocampus, the online literary magazine devoted to memorable creative nonfiction, has announced the winner of its 2020 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction.

photographs of 2020 Remember in November contest winners

Claire O’Brien’s essay “Dead Weight” was selected by guest judge Janna Marlies Maron as the grand prize winner.

The runner-up an finalists are:

  • “The New Pretty” by Nicole Graev Lipson (runner-up)
  • “Exodus” by Darby Shea Williams
  • “The Honey Bucket” by Laura Joyce-Hubbard
  • “I’ll Be Seeing You: A Black Women Travels in 2017” by DW McKinney
  • Say You Want to Live and Be Beautiful” by Lori Jakiela

You can read the winning piece, runner-up, and finalists in the November 2020 issue online now.

2020 Frontier Industry Prize Winners

The 2020 Frontier Industry Prize winners have been announced.

Winner
“The Long Afterlife” by Michelle Phương Ting
To be published on December 2, 2020

2nd Place
“while i walk, my brother assures my nephew there are wildflowers growing in minneapolis” by Chaun Ballard
To be published on November 25, 2020

3rd Place
“Bad Dream With My Grandmother’s Stroke” by Adedayo Agarau
To be published on November 18, 2020

Michelle Phương Ting’s piece was selected by Daniel Slager, Peter LaBerge, and Carmen Giménez Smith, and she took home a $3000 prize.

Visit Frontier Poetry‘s website for author bios, as well as a list of finalists and poets on the longlist.

2020 Coniston Prize Winner & Finalists Announced

Laura Villareal is the winner of Radar Poetry‘s 2020 Coniston Prize. Her suite of poems will appear in Issue 28. Judge Ada Limón said of Villareal’s poems, “With language that is alive and piercing with rich sound work and haunting images, these poems are both confident and aching.”

Finalists of this year’s prize were Hillary Berg, Mary Craig, Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, Jessica Hincapie, Amy Miller, Meredith Stricker, and Sarah Wolfson. You can read their poems in Issue 28 as well.

CRAFT 2nd Annual All-Flash November

For the second year in a row, literary magazine CRAFT will be focusing on flash pieces in November. This was kicked off with new flash fiction from Kim Magowan on November 6.

Follow their site for the latest flash pieces from Despy Boutris, Lori Sambol Brody, Lindsey Harding, and Paul Crenshaw. Plus, you’ll also find Amy Barnes tackling Nancy Stohlman’s Going Short and Kristin Tenor’s hybrid interview with Tara Isabel Zambrano on Death, Desire, and Other Destinations.

Into The Void Releases We Are Antifa Anthology

Into the Void Antifa Anthology flierAt the beginning of the month, literary magazine Into the Void released it’s We Are Antifa: Expressions Against Fascism, Racism and Police Violence in the United States and Beyond. The anthology features creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry from diverse writers all over the world, i.e. the US, Canada, Ireland, the UK, Greece, Nigeria, and more.

Into the Void will be donating 100% of proceeds from the anthology’s sales to Black Lives Matter Canada. In order to maximize profits, the book will only be available via Amazon in ebook and paperback formats.

We Are Antifa was edited by Heath Brougher, Jay C. Mims, Amanda Gaines, Andrew Rihn, and Philip Elliot. It features “breathtaking writing condemning fascism, racism and state-sanctioned brutality through powerful expressions of grief, rage, hope and love.”

The title is a response to Donald Trump’s declaration that the US will be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization. The editors encourage readers to check out “A Brief History of Anti-Fascism” in Smithsonian Magazine to better understand why they published this anthology and “how anti-fascism and anti-racism are inextricably linked in the fight against oppression and supremacy.”

Good-byes for the Aurorean

The final issue of the Aurorean made it to NewPages last week, and we’re sad to see it go. Encircle Publications will continue operation, however, publishing full-length poetry and fiction titles, and curating their annual chapbook contest.

Editor Cynthia Brackett-Vincent opens the issue:
Here we are: the final issue of the Aurorean. It has been my honor to steward this journal for twenty-five years. I have said from day one that without the poets who submitted (entrusted) their work to me, the Aurorean would be nothing but a dream of mine and a bunch of blank pages. It has been a labor of love, and it has become a community of poets worldwide.

Stop by the Aurorean’s website for the full editor’s note, and grab a copy of the final issue at their shop.

Cave Wall Offering Fall Subscription Deal with Feedback

cover of Cave Wall's Winter 2019/Spring 2020 issueFall Subscription Deal: The first 20 people who purchase a 2 year (4 issue) subscription OR a set of back issues may receive feedback on one poem from one of the following Cave Wall editors/poets: Rhett Iseman Trull (Editor), Sandra Beasley (Editorial Advisory Board), Sally Rosen Kindred (Contributing Editor), Renee Soto (Contributing Editor),  Lisa Ampleman, Cathy Smith Bowers, Lauren Camp, Julie Funderburk, Jennifer Grotz, Terry Kennedy, Sandy Longhorn, Amelia Martens, Dayna Patterson, Joel Peckham, Jim Peterson, Molly Spencer, Matthew Thorburn, or Lesley Wheeler.

Visit our subscription page here, if you are interested: www.cavewallpress.com/subscribe.html.

Once you make your purchase, we will email you to set up the details of your poem feedback. Some subscribers have taken us up on this offer but we have 12 spots remaining.

River Teeth Launches Weekly Online Magazine of Micro-Essays

Screenshot of River Teeth's online column Beautiful Things

In April 2020, biannual print literary magazine River Teeth launched the online weekly journal Beautiful Things. This publication is devoted to very brief nonfiction that finds beauty in the everyday. Readers can subscribe to receive the latest micro-essay in their inbox every Monday morning. Today’s essay is “Before the First Frost” by Stacy Murison.

Beautiful Things was inspired by Michelle Webster-Hein’s essay “Beautiful Things” which was originally published in Volume 15, Number 1 of River Teeth. This column is co-edited by Michelle Webster-Hein and Jill Christman.

River Teeth is devoted to publishing the best creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoir. Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more about them and their new online publication.

Hippocampus: Devoted to Memorable Creative Nonfiction

Hippocampus website screenshotLaunched in 2011, online literary magazine Hippocampus was first dreamed about by founder and editor Donna Talarico when she was working on her MFA in creative writing at Wilkes University. Talarico wanted to create not just a literary magazine, but also develop a venue to education and inform those interested in reading and writing creative nonfiction.

Their sea horse logo was created since the hippocampus, the part of the brain dealing with memories, is sea-horse-shaped.

Over the years, they have launched a nonfiction writing contest, an annual nonfiction writing conference, and now a book publishing division. They are open to submissions annually from March through December.

Their September 2020 issue features work by Katie Parry, Kirsten Reneau, Rachel Fleishman, Brad Wetherell, Daniel K. Miller, Gwen Niekamp, and more.

Learn more about this magazine by stopping by their listing on NewPages.

Find Nature with Humana Obscura

Online and print literary magazine Humana Obscura publishes the best new, emerging, and established writers and artists in the “nature space.” As their name applies (obscured human), they focus on works where the human elements is concealed, but not entirely absent, aiming to revive the genre of nature-centric poetry and art.

They publish two issues a year featuring poetry, short prose under 1,000 words, and artwork in various mediums. Their inaugural issue features poetry by James King, Emily Hermann, Danielle Zipkin, David Baker, Mary Buchinger, and more; prose by Kathleen Deep, Nick O’Brien, Maggie Maize; and Angela Shen; with art by Margaret Dries, Kyra Schmidt, J. T. Bruce, and more.

They are currently open to submissions for their second issue. Learn more here. Don’t forget to stop by NewPages to discover more about this fledgling literary magazine.

Diversity of Little Libraries Lies in their Non-curated Nature

Guest Post by S. B. Julian

Is making the shelves of Little Free Libraries more diverse an appropriate role for their stewards? Emblems of diversity already, these little book nooks give pleasure by not being “stewarded” at all. Ideally, you never know what you might find in one. You don’t have the feeling that someone has pre-engineered your discovery. Continue reading “Diversity of Little Libraries Lies in their Non-curated Nature”

Sponsor Spotlight :: EVENT: The Douglas College Review

cover of EVENT Issue 49-1Founded in 1971, EVENT is a literary magazine dedicated to nurturing writers and presenting readers with the best contemporary writing from Canada and abroad. They strive to publish a diversity of voices and literary styles and have published many distinguished writers before and after they gained national or international recognition, i.e. André Alexis, George Bowering, Charles Bukowski, Esi Edugyan, Jack Hodgins, Annabel Lyon, Pablo Neruda, Alden Nowlan, Nino Ricci, Diane Schoemperlen, Carol Shields, Timothy Taylor, and Madeline Thien.

Each year they host a Non-Fiction Contest. The contest awards $3,000 in prizes ($1,500 First Place, $1,000 Second Place, $500 Third Place) plus publication in the Spring/Summer issue. This is the longest-running contest of its kind in Canada. The deadline to enter is October 15 annually. Check out Issue 49/1 to view the winning pieces of their 2019 contest: “Judge’s Essay” by Anthony Oliveira, “The Dead Green Man” by Jane Eaton Hamilton, “Things You Think When Your Husband Has a Heart Attack” by Mary Steer, and “My Beautiful Madness” by Rose Cullis.

Besides publishing issues three times a year, EVENT also offers a reading service for writers. Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more.

The LaHave Review Spotlighting Poems & Poets

The LaHave Review Summer 2020 screenshotFounded in 2019, online quarterly literary magazine The LaHave Review highlights a single poem in each issue with an interview and notes about the poem. The Fall 2020 issue features “As For the Glossy Green Tractor Your Were” by Allison Adair. Past issues include “Flood” by Tara Borin (Summer 2020), “Buttercup” by Emily Tristan Jones (Spring 2020), and “What I Can’t Tell Her” by Ashley Anna McHugh (Winter 2020).

They read poetry submissions year-round and pay $100 CAD per poem for first publication rights.

The journal is named after the LaHave River in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia where the magazine is based and is edited by Michael Goodfellow. Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more.

PoArtMo Anthology: 2020 Artists

We could all use a little positivity and Auroras & Blossoms agrees. This is why the literary magazine has established PoArtMo which stands for “Positive Art Month and Positive Art Moves.”

In the month of June, the PoArtMo creators urged writers and artists to “celebrate positive art for 30 days.” A collection of this positivity is to be memorialized in the PoArtMo Anthology. The anthology will feature drawings, paintings, photography, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and six-word stories by the writers and artists who participated in the challenge. The magazine has announced the featured artists readers can expect to see in the anthology.

Congrats to the selected writers, and thank you for spreading your positive outlook!

Congrats on 10 Years to Jewish Fiction .net

Congratulations to Jewish Fiction .net for ten years of publication!

From their website: “Since our first issue came out on Rosh Hashana 2010, we have published over 430 works of fiction never before published in English, which were originally written in sixteen languages.”

You can see this writing at their website, starting with their newly released tenth anniversary issue. The new issue offers 18 pieces of fiction originally written in Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, and English, including “The Old Days” by David Regenspan in honor of Rosh Hashana.

September 2020 eLitPak :: LitNuts: Crazy About Books

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Coming September 21, the LitNuts eNewsletter promotes books from independent presses. A special offer is now available for authors! Subscribe to the newsletter (it’s free!) and indicate that you are an author. We’ll send you discount codes for free and discounted advertising that can be used during our launch, now through January 2021.

View full September eLitPak here.