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New Book :: October Journey

October Journey: Poems by Margaret Walker book cover image

October Journey: Poems by Margaret Walker
50th Anniversary Edition
Aquarius Press, July 2023

Celebrating a beloved collection’s return after 50 years, October Journey, first published in 1973, is being reissued with the addition of works not seen in decades. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel Jubilee (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War.

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Magazine Stand :: trampset – June 2023

trampset literary journal june 2023

trampset online literary journal publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on a rolling basis, welcoming “all tramps” and their diverse voices to participate. Some recent contributors include Brett Biebel, Sean Ennis, Sumitra Singam, Erik Kennedy, Dan Alter, Fred Johnson, Claire Scott, Frances Gapper, S A Greene, Beth Hahn, Jeffrey Hermann, Mandira Pattnaik, and Michael Scott Neuffer.

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New Book :: Read My Lips

Read My Lips: Poems by Charles K. Carter book cover image

Read My Lips: Poems by Charles K. Carter
David Roberts Books, November 2022

Charles K. Carter’s Read My Lips is a collection of poetry that follows the metamorphosis of romance; journeying from adolescent crushes to casual intimate encounters to marriage and heartbreak. Carter utilizes a variety of poetic forms including blank verse, free verse, ghazal, haiku, nirat, and prose poem as well as more unconventional forms.

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New Book :: The Act of Contrition

The Act of Contrition & Other Poems by Joseph Bathanti book cover image

The Act of Contrition & Other Poems by Joseph Bathanti
EastOver Press, July 2023

The Act of Contrition by Joseph Bathanti is a series of linked stories and one novella that continues the adventures of Fritz Sweeney and his outrageously memorable parents, Travis and Rita, that began in Bathanti’s earlier award-winning volume of stories, The High Heart. Spanning the mid-fifties to the mid-seventies, in an Italian American working-class neighborhood in Pittsburgh, these fourteen unforgettable stories—a mélange of incantatory magical realism and clear-eyed documentary precision (in the vein of Raymond Carver)—are narrated by Fritz in a prophetic voice that issues at once from the very aggregate of steel town Pittsburgh and his deep yearning to escape it.

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New Book :: True for the Moment

True for the Moment: Poems by Ian Ganassi book cover image

True for the Moment: Poems by Ian Ganassi
David Roberts Books, April 2023

The poems in True for the Moment by Ian Ganassi address the transient and impermanent nature of internal life as it intersects with life in the world. This impermanence is part and parcel of the deceptive and shifting performance of language. From “Your Last Chance”: “Nope, no number of dictionaries can save you now.” Nothing, not even love, is free from the conditional nature of experience: “All she remembers after all these years/Is how good I was in bed.” (“Marking the Blues”). One of the last poems offers a ray of hope: “There’s a kind of salvation in the practice of the mundane,” “And practice makes perfect, or at least it can contribute / Some sort of equanimity to the dementia reality is known for…” Art and artistic technique alone are reliable, as well as the comedy that is enacted in the poems.

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New Book :: Gordita

Gordita by Daisy "Draizys" Ruiz book cover image

Gordita: Built Like This by Daisy “Draizys” Ruiz
Black Josei Press, January 2023

Gordita: Built Like This is an autobiographical comic by Daisy “Draizys” Ruiz. The 28-page color comic follows Gordita, a young Mexican-American teenager who lives in The Bronx. She’s judged for having no ass by classmates, strangers, and even family. Gordita struggles with low self-esteem and body dysmorphia. But, through her friendships with other girls who are also getting bullied and mentorship with her guidance counselor, Gordita, begins to speak up for herself and see that she is more than just her body. Ruiz started this comic as a 6-page black and white comic called “Built Like Spongebob,” which was created for and displayed at NYU’s exhibition, ¡Oye! Cuéntame un Cuento. Daisy’s first solo exhibit in Casita Maria in The Bronx featured pages from Gordita as well.

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Magazine Stand :: Aji – Issue 18

Aji Magazine Issue 18 cover image

Issue 18 of Aji Magazine is themed “The Moon.” As Editor-in-Chief Erin O’Neill Armendarez writes, “The tide goes in; the tide goes out. And the mysterious moon has her influence, only part of which we actually understand…” Attempting and understanding are the contributors to this issue, which has over 100 pages of content that can be read online, downloaded, or ordered in a print copy. This issue includes an interview with Oisín Breen by Erin O’Neill Armendarez and an interview with Jamie Nakagawa Boley by Erin Schalk, and works by Joe Bisicchia, Robert Boucheron, John Brantingham, Stephen Campiglio, William Crawford, Elizabeth Crowell, James Fowler, D. Dina Friedman, Trina Gaynon, Sergey Gerasimov, Carmen Germain, Elise Glassman, Joel Glickman, Cynthia Good, Robin Greene, Michael Hettich, Natalie Jill, Susan Johnson, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Katharyn Howd Machan, Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz, Michael Moreth, William Nesbitt, Irina Novikova, Toti O’Brien, Robert L. Penick, Jocelyn Quevedo, D.M. Richardson, Richard Robbins, Sandip Saha, David Anthony Sam, Lauren Scharhag, Jacquelyn Shah, Steven M. Smith, Wally Swist, J. Tarwood, Sharon Tracey, Reed Venrick, James Von Hendy, Bill Wolak, and Ellen June Wright.

New Book :: Petrochemical Nocturne

Petrochemical Nocturne: A Novel by Amos Jasper Wright IV book cover image

Petrochemical Nocturne: A Novel by Amos Jasper Wright IV
Livingston Press, August 2023

The Mississippi River. HAZMAT. Boxing. Suicide by cop. New Orleans Saints football. Chemical explosions. The Angola Prison rodeo. Chlorine gas ghost ships. Through these symbols and themes, readers learn about Toussaint and his formative experiences in the Standard Heights neighborhood of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “Petrochemical Nocturne” results in an indictment of what Toussasint describes as “that dystopian haunted carnival cruise line called America.” A discursive and often surreal exploration of environmental racism, southern history, the prison-industrial complex, police brutality, inter-generational trauma, and climate change, Petrochemical Nocturne is both paean and eulogy for the formerly enslaved communities of Cancer Alley, the erasure of an entire people from a poisoned landscape.

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New Book :: Romance Language

Romance Language: Poems by Amy Glynn book cover image

Romance Language: Poems by Amy Glynn
Able Muse Press, January 2024

Winner of the 2022 Able Muse Book Award for Poetry, Amy Glynn’s Romance Language is a wellspring of culture, nature, natural phenomena, myths, esoterica. A kaleidoscope of sciences and disciplines—spanning archeology, acoustics, botany, zoology, psychology, cosmology, meteorology, mythology—are freely juxtaposed with the bliss of romance gained to longing for the one lost, the celebration of nature and the teeming creatures therein to hope for their enduring sustenance. A logophilic showcase, Romance Language transports the reader into a sensory and cerebral world of the real and imagined, ever reaching for stimulus, wisdom, understanding, and enlightenment.

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Magazine Stand :: Waxing & Waning – Issue 11

Waxing and Waning Issue 11 cover image

Issue 11 of the online annual Waxing and Waning is themed “As Water We Rise” with a foreword by C.I. Aki, and contributions of poetry, fiction, and art from David Bradley, Tomislav Silipeter, R. Nikolas Macioci, Nathan Shipley, Catherine DiMercurio, Monica “Mono” Campbell, Joseph Byrd, Mikayla Meyers, George Yatchisin, Jim Gish, Ronald Walker, Amy Murre, Emma Bolden, j niko, Roberta Clipper, Jonathan Yungkans, Andrey Gritsman, Kirsten Meehan, Donald Patten, Erin Rohan, Ray Zimmerman, Janelle Cordero, Walter Weinschenk, Cynthia Good, allison anne, Ery Caswell, Nichole Davies, Emily MacGriff, Jeff Rivers, Joanna Acevedo, and Maya Bernstein-Schalet.

Waxing & Waning is currently taking submissions for The Subversive Edition (in support of The Tennessee Three): “As a Tennessee publisher, we are ashamed and embarrassed by the actions of our state government in the expulsion of the two Black members of The Tennessee Three. [. . . ] It is time for a new era. The ways of the old are no longer relevant or working for the people. [. . . ] We are calling for submissions with the theme(s) of gun control/violence, abortion rights, and LGBTQIA+ rights. We are calling for these three themes in support of The Tennessee Three, whose actions were fueled by recent legislature against legal abortions, drag shows, transgender surgeries, book bans, etc., all of which came to a breaking point once the people’s voices were taken from them.” See the publication website for full details.

Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – June 26, 2023

We are reviving an old favorite blog feature that originally ran from 2013-2019. This post 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 116 cover image

Native Northwest sculptor Preston Singletary has created an entire exhibit of glasswork featuring the trickster-hero in Raven and the Box of Daylight, and this issue of Image (116) spotlights Singletary’s work on the cover as well as with Mischa Willett’s article, “Shape-Shifter: The Native American Iconography of Preston Singletary.”

Jabberwork Review Winter Spring 2023 cover image

Hailing from Mississippi State University, this cover image of the Winter/Spring 2023 Jabberwock Review makes the seventh for artist Katie Starplier and her graphic designer accomplice Sam LeVan.

Hanging Loose 113 cover image

Harley Elliott is the cover artist for the most recent issue as well as having a full-color art portfolio inside the newest issue of Hanging Loose (113).


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New Book :: A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War

A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War: 20 Short Works by Ukrainian Playwrights book cover image

A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War: 20 Short Works by Ukrainian Playwrights
Laertes Press, September 2023

These texts in the wake of invasion, written by the members of the Theater of Playwrights, Kyiv, in spring, summer, and fall of 2022, have a documentary thrust. Reporting from diverse places in Ukraine, from Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, from occupied Kherson, from the front itself, and locations farther afield in countries of refuge; employing diverse modes of expression: poetry, screenplay, dialogue, diary, diatribe, comedy, short story, recollection, each is a singular response to a seismic and agonizing shift. Each is an act of defiance as well, an assertion of the full human weight, of the integrity of a people.

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Magazine Stand :: Foglifter Journal – 2023

Foglifter Journal 2023

Foglifter Journal continues the San Francisco Bay Area’s tradition of groundbreaking queer and trans writing and emphasizes publishing multi-marginalized voices. The 2023 annual issue features work by Ash Alpert, Sarah Aziz, Lorelei Bacht, Acie Clark, Summer Farah, Laurel Ophelia Faye, Dina Folgia, Aerik Francis, Katie Gene Friedman, Stefania Gomez, Claire Heinzerling, Alannah Hensley, S.K. Hisega, Erik(a) Jonah, Noam Keim, Nicole Kershner, Jerry Lieblich, Alison Lubar, Griffin Jing Martin, Sahil Mehta, Jennifer V. Nguyen, Clara Otto, Tasha Raella, Tyler Raso, Nadine Rodriguez, Sarah Roth, Lauren Russell, Katie Jean Shinkle, Ashish Kumar Singh, and A.A. Vincent.

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New Book :: Whoever Drowned Here

Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems by Max Sessner book cover image

Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems by Max Sessner
Translated by Francesca Bell
Red Hen Press, August 2023

Beloved by contemporary German readers, the poetry of Max Sessner is gathered for the first time in English in Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems, translated by Francesca Bell. Painstakingly chosen from Sessner’s celebrated three collections and from new work, these poems employ a matter-of-fact magical realism to engage the profound, philosophical mysteries of the everyday. Sessner makes nimble use of the material world as he choreographs poignant reenactments of human yearning. Smocks in the window of a dry cleaner “trade stolen / caresses” at night. Death tries on your clothes while you sleep and eats your chocolate. A poem tires of being a poem, “a small mortal / thing that no one notices,” and sets off into the world to make a new life.

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Magazine Stand :: Fleas on the Dog – #13

Fleas on the Dog online literary magazine logo

Issue 13 (February 2023) of the online journal Fleas on the Dog, the editors write, “is dedicated to the Ukrainian saviours and the radical activist freedom loving spirits who have been so unjustly silenced by the monstrous machinery of petty, malevolent governments.” Featuring fiction, interviews, poetry, plays and screenplays, all content is available for free download from the publication’s main website. The editors also provide genre labels for the work to help readers looking for specific types or to entice us into trying something new and different. Styles include satire, postmodernist, emerging writer, urban realism, microfixion, monologue, flash, dirty realism, surrealist, farce, literary, metafiction, mainstream, future epitaphs, novel excerpt, experimental, absurdist, ESL fiction, and existentialist – and this is just one issue!

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New & Noted Lit & Alt Mags – June 2023

NewPages receives many wonderful literary magazine and alternative magazine titles each month to share with our readers. You can read more about some of these titles by clicking on the “New Mag Issues” under NewPages Blog or Mags. 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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Aji Magazine, 18
Arkana, 14
Arkansas Review, April 2023
Atlanta Review, Spring/Summer 2023
Bear Review, June 2023
bioStories, June 2023
Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer 2023
Blink-Ink, 52
Bomb, Summer 2023
Brick, 111
Broadsided Press, June 2023
Catamaran, Summer 2023
Cholla Needles, 78
Cutleaf, 3.11
The Common, 25
Concho River Review, Spring/Summer 2023
Consequence, Spring 2023
The Courtship of Winds, Winter 2023

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Magazine Stand :: Southern Humanities Review – 56.2

Southern Humanities Review Summer 2023 cover image

The Summer 2023 issue (56.2) of Southern Humanities Review features poetry from Malawi, Africa, by Robert Chiwamba, Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga, Tikumbuke H. Harare, Martin Chrispine Juwa, William Khalipwina Mpina, Raymundo Chifundo Magangani, Ndongolera C. Mwangupili, Nyirongo Patricia Anuwality, and Grace Athauye Sharra. This issue also includes poetry by Mary Leauna Christensen, Melissa Crowe, Stephanie Yue Duhem, Athena Kildegaard, Jefferson Navicky, and Jennifer Polson Peterson. Nonfiction contributors include Amanda Gaines and L.I. Henley, and fiction by Kim Samek, Caroline Schmidt, Cameron Vanderwerf, and Tara Isabel Zambrano. The lush cover, Lemons and Prickly Pears, 2013, is from photographer Paulette Tavormina, sourced from the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Some content can be read online, and individual copies, as well as subscriptions, are available on the Southern Humanities Review website.

Where to Submit Roundup: June 23, 2023

48 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Where to Submit Roundup 2023

Happy Friday. Next Friday is already the last day of June, so don’t forget to check out the June 30 and July 1 deadlines before it is too late! If you’re suffering from the massive heat waves, stay indoors with some popsicles and work on your submission goals. NewPages is here to help with our weekly roundup of submission opportunities.

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New Book :: Generation Exile

Generation Exile: The Lives I Leave Behind by Rodrigo Dorfman book cover image

Generation Exile: The Lives I Leave Behind by Rodrigo Dorfman
Arte Público Press, March 2023

Rodrigo Dorfman, the son of prominent dissidents, was six years old when his family fled Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship a month after the CIA-backed coup in 1973. They fled to Argentina, and then to Havana, Paris, Amsterdam and finally Bethesda, Maryland. Mapping the memory of exile, he remembers the contradiction of living with his seething anger at losing his home and his resistance to settling down. Rebellion was an ancestral badge of honor he wore proudly. At 18, he returned to Chile and fought against the fascist dictatorship, running for his life with bullets and tear gas flying by. Dorfman’s involvement in the resistance movement there planted the seeds for his future life as a community-centered documentary filmmaker. His restless search for a place to call his own led to his wandering—around the United States, to Morocco and Turkey and the Path of Sufism. He finally made a home in the American South, where he became a “Latino” and found kinship with other immigrants who settled there. This compelling narrative recounts a displaced man’s life-long quest to establish family, roots and a sense of belonging by bearing witness to what he calls the “Nuevo South.”

Magazine Stand :: Exposition Review – 2023

Exposition Review 2023

The 2023 annual issue of Exposition Review online is themed “Lines” and explores connection from a variety of interpretations: between parents and children, artists and fans, friends and lovers, robots and humans; to one’s city and across borders; via humor and through grief. Lines that writers interpreted as both physical and metaphorical, and illustrate the moments when art intersects reality, scrawling over the way the world appears and redesigning what is into what could be. Readers can enjoy fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, experimental narratives, visual art and comics, and film. Cover design by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin along with an interview with the artist.

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New Book :: No God Like the Mother

No God Like the Mother: Stories by Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher book cover image

No God Like the Mother: Stories by Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher
Forest Avenue Press, April 2023

Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher’s debut collection of nine short stories, No God Like the Mother, follows characters in transition, through tribulation and hope. Set around the world–the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in Paris, and the rain-washed suburbs of the Pacific Northwest–this collection of nine stories is a masterful exploration of life’s uncertainty. Ajọsẹ-Fisher was born in Chicago, raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and returned to the United States with her family in the early nineties. She won the Oregon Book Awards’ 2020 Ken Kesey Prize for this collection.

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New Book :: The Death of Weinberg

The Death of Weinberg by Walter Weinschenk book cover image

The Death of Weinberg: Poems and Stories by Walter Weinschenk
Kelsay Books, February 2023

The Death of Weinberg: Poems and Stories includes a wide sampling of Walter Weinschenk’s writing, much of which has appeared in print over the course of the last few years. Though the stories and poems vary in terms of length and style, there is a singular focus. The book is, essentially, a rumination upon life, death, and the search for meaning. Most of these pieces are speculative in the sense that there is absent any reference to a particular location, time frame, or historical context. However, these poems and stories, dreamlike in nature, focus upon essential issues with which we grapple throughout our lives: loss, loneliness, meaning, and mortality. The common thread is the narrator’s voice which is, essentially, an inner voice, a voice of consciousness, that engages us in a consideration of what it means to be human.

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Magazine Stand :: Decolonial Passage – Issue 2

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The call for Issue 2 of the online publication Decolonial Passage was themed “Food, Power, and Powerlessness,” with submissions on a wide range of topics: food and cultural heritage, food preparation and gender, the industrialization of food production, food production and imperialism, food sovereignty, food insecurity, and food deserts. The issue includes nonfiction by Kathy Watson, Bret Anne Serbin, Tracy Youngblom; fiction by Mungai Mwangi, Favour Iruoma Chukwuemeka, Davina Kawuma, Rosanna Rios-Spicer, Fatima Abdullahi; poetry by Matthew Johnson, Nancy L. Meyer, Paul Smith, Robyn Perros, Patrice Wilson, Toti O’Brien, Jane Ward, Catherine Harnett, Leslie B. Neustadt, Steven Ray Smith, Lola Labinjo, Juley Harvey, David Agyei-Yeboah, Sean Murphy, Salimah Valiani, Oliver Sopulu Odo. Decolonial Passage also publishes online content on a rolling basis, with recent contributions from Cheryl Atim Alexander (“The Butterfly Harvesters”) and Gemini Wahhaj (“Netherland: A Prequel to Joseph O’Neill’s Tale”). All content is free and accessible to read online.

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New Book :: An Influencer’s World

An Influencer's World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Social Media Influencers and Creators by Caroline Baker and Don Baker book cover image

An Influencer’s World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Social Media Influencers and Creators by Caroline Baker and Don Baker
University of Iowa Press, June 2023

An Influencer’s World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Social Media Influencers and Creators by Caroline Baker and Don Baker explores the business of influencing built around likes and hate, which can take a huge psychological toll on those who choose to play the game. Their work pulls back the curtain and shines a light on the often-misunderstood realities of this dynamic industry. Featuring dozens of interviews with trending influencers, CEOs, leading industry insiders, brands, mental health professionals, and celebrities, this book provides an unconventional look at both the business side of influencing and the personal lives of influencers and creators.

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Magazine Stand :: The Courtship of Winds – Winter 2023

The Courtship of Winds Winter 2023 cover image

The Courtship of Winds offers readers many new voices with “thoughtful perspectives on our shared experience.” Fully accessible to read online, the only thing this issue is ‘missing’ is drama – and the drama editors say they’d love to receive some well-crafted plays for upcoming issues. What readers will find in this issue is poetry, Paul Rabinowitz, Caroline Maun, Gale Acuff, Brenda Yates, Rebecca Ressl, Danley Romero, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Yvonne Pearson, Michael Ansara, Richard Matta, Richard Dinges, Jr., David Reuter, Gordon Kippola, Nathan Thomas, Bobby Parrott, Murray Silverstein, Alison Hicks, Sandra Newton, Anne Marie Wells, Bob Meszaros, Erren Kelly, Rhys Lee, Leila Farjami, Gordon Kippola, Frederick Pollack, and Will Walker; art & photography by Paul Rabinowitz and Jim Zola; essays by Yvonne Pearson, and Neil Mathison; and fiction by Gavin Kayner, Gregory T. Janetka, Regina Thomas, Teresa Burns Gunther, and Marco Etheridge.

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New Book :: Under a Future Sky

Under a Future Sky by Brynn Saito book cover image

Under a Future Sky by Brynn Saito
Red Hen Press, August 2023

Under a Future Sky is Brynn Saito’s poetic gathering of generations, a performance with ghosts anchored in a journey with her father to the desert prison where, over eighty years ago, her grandparents met and made a life. Born of a personal ache, an unquenchable desire to animate the shadow archive, Saito’s journey unfolds in lyric correspondences and epistolary poems that sing with rage, confusion, and, ultimately, love. In these works, descendants of wartime incarceration exchange dreams, mothers become water goddesses, and a modern daughter haunts future ruins. To enter this book is to enter the slipstream of nonlinear time, where mystical inclinations, yellow cedars, and sisterhood make a balm for trauma’s scars. Altogether, the work enacts a dialogue between the past and the present; the radical ancestor and the future child; and the desert prison and the family garden, where Saito’s father diligently gathers stones.

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Comics Review :: Trans and Non-Binary Menstruation by Jac Dellaria

The Bathroom by Jac Dellaria comic panel image

I came across Jac Dellaria’s work thanks to the Chicago Zine Fest where he was tabling. He has an Instagram where he posts his most recent work, and I zine reviewed several of his indie publications. Dellaria also has an incredible series he created in collaboration with University of Wisconsin – Madison Sociology Professor Sarah E. Frank (“Frankie”) based on interview research conducted in 2018-19 with trans and nonbinary emerging adults (18-29). Frank writes that Dellaria “translated the findings and quotes into stunning comic panels, presenting . . . a visual narrative of menstruation for trans and genderqueer people.” The comics include “The Bathroom,” “Product Problems,” “At the Doctor’s,” and “On Identity.” These four comics are worth visiting and sharing, especially in light of continued basic bathroom rights for all and to understand what it is like for others whose experiences are real and valid yet not justly recognized. As one character in “On Identity” comments, “I feel kinda stuck because periods are such ‘a woman’s thing’ that if I speak up, then I’ll be seen as invalidating my identity. But If I don’t, then no one will ever learn.” Here’s hoping more people will care enough to learn.


Trans and Non-Binary Menstruation by Jac Dellaria. Teaching Frankly, 2020.

Queering Menstruation: Trans and Non-Binary Identity and Body Politics” by Sarah E. Frank. Sociological Inquiry, 2020.

Reviewer bio: Denise Hill is Editor of NewPages.com and reviews books she chooses based on her own personal interests.

Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – June 19, 2023

We are reviving an old favorite blog feature that originally ran from 2013-2019. This post recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Booth 18 cover image

Publishing new material online on the first Friday of every month, Booth also releases two print issues a year. Issue 18 cover art is “Bald Eagle” by Kelcey Parker Ervick.

Indiana Review Winter 2023 cover art

Kudos to Indiana Review for their redesign – both inside and out – the Winter 2023 issue featuring cover art by Corey Pemberton entitled “TT, I’m so done with you.”

New Ohio Review issue 32 cover image

Issue 32 of New Ohio Review features Jesse Lee Kercheval’s playful, colorful, and highly textured “The Kiss” watercolor on paper.


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Magazine Stand :: bioStories – June 2023

bioStories literary magazine logo

Publishing nonfiction prose only, bioStories offers readers writing that focuses on the skilled craft of storytelling, with biographies that express the understanding that “real life is messy,” yet acknowledge: “human nature is idiosyncratic and frequently contradictory, and, quite often, when you look close enough, it is downright graceful.” The publication features a weekly essay on its homepage. Recent contributors include Julie Lockhart, Yoon Chung, Cathy Fiorello, Joshua David Laine, Pamela Kaye, Michelle Cacho-Negrete, Sally Carton, and Sydney Lea.

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New Book :: Do I Belong Here?

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Do I Belong Here? / ¿Es este mi lugar? by René Colato Laínez
Illustrations by Fabricio Vanden Broeck
Piñata Books, May 2023

An immigrant boy stands “in the middle of a whirlwind of children,” and wonders where he is supposed to go. Finally, a woman speaks to him in a language he doesn’t understand and takes him to his classroom. A boy named Carlos helps orient him, but later when he reads aloud, everyone laughs at him. And when he gets an “F” on an assignment, he is sure “I do not belong here.” Award-winning children’s book author René Colato Laínez teams up again with illustrator Fabricio Vanden Broeck to explore the experiences of newcomers in schools and affirm that yes! They do belong. With beautiful acrylic-on-wood illustrations depicting children at school, this bilingual kids’ book by a Salvadoran immigrant tells an important story that will resonate with all kids who want nothing more than to belong.

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Magazine Stand :: Consequence – Spring 2023

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The Spring 2023 issue of Consequence (15.1) spotlights not only the consequences of war and geopolitical violence but also the diversity of such experiences—both external and internal. In this volume, for example, there are eighteen different countries represented, all of which portray any number of place-specific repercussions. In the art feature, the photos of Alfred Yaghobzadeh, relay the varied physical and cultural effects on Afghanistan and its people after decades of war. Likewise, Sandra Kolankiewicz’s poem, “Dear Famous Poet,” is a potent example of internal consequences as we witness the personal experiences of both a wounded vet as he’s teaching a class while being belittled and that of the young narrator, who is angered by this ridicule. There are fifty-six beautiful and highly-crafted pieces in this issue, and each is an example of just how far-reaching and singular the consequences of war and geopolitical violence can be.

Magazine Stand :: Bear Review – Spring 2023

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The Spring 2023 issue of Bear Review (9.2) is live – and this is one bear you’ll want to run toward! This online issue offers readers poetry by Lisa Allen, Claressinka Anderson, Rebecca Baggett, Alyse Bensel, Sarah Carey, Robin Rosen Chang, Genevieve DeGuzman, Lawrence Di Stefano, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Loisa Fenichell, Jason Gray, Justin Groppuso-Cook, Brian Henry, Whitney Hudak, Skye Jackson, Padraig O’ Tuama, Jenny Maaketo, Martha McCullough, Peter Mason, Julia Anna Morrison, Mitchell Nobis, Meghan Sterling, and Liane Tyrrel.

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Magazine Stand :: Arkana – 14

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Arkana, the graduate-run online literary journal of the University of Central Arkansas is staffed and edited by students in the Arkansas Writers’ MFA Program and accepts submissions from artists worldwide. The editors write, “As part of an overlooked and often misunderstood region of the US, we’re drawn to an inclusive literary tradition that extends beyond our rich southern landscape. We strive to create a space that brings together diverse voices and champions stories that embody our mission.” Issue 14 features interviews with Michael X. Wang and Matthew Salesses, as well as works by Sherri-Anne Forde, Nikki Ummel, Lucy Zhang, Sean Madden, Josephine Whittock, C. H. Weihmann, Sekhar Banerjee, Donna Steiner, Mario Duarte, Gregg Williard, and Debasish, Mishra.

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New Book :: Plums for Months

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Plums for Months: A Memoir of Nature and Neurodivergence by Zaji Cox
Forest Avenue Press, May 2023

As a neurodivergent child in a hundred-year-old house, Zaji Cox collects grammar books, second-hand toys, and sightings of feral cats. She dances and cartwheels through self-discovery and doubt, guided by her big sister and their devoted single mother. Through short essays that evoke the abundant imagination of childhood, Plums for Months explores the challenges of growing up mixed race and low-income on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon.

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Magazine Stand :: CutBank Celebrates 50 Years

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Happy 50th Anniversary to CutBank Literary Magazine, founded in 1973 by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Montana, and publishing new and emerging writers in its biannual print publication as well as unique online content: “We’re global in scope, but with a regional bias.” Issue 98 features poetry by Tyler Kline, James Henry Knippen, Melissa Kwasny, David Moolten, Pádraig Ó Tuama, and Mary Sesso; fiction by Michael Caleb Tasker; nonfiction by Rachel Attias, Charisse Baldoria, Rose McLarney, and Kathleen Walker; an author Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama by Kalani Padilla & Erin O’Regan White; interior landscape photography by David Murphy, and cover art by Tino Rodríguez.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: Contest and Writing Class Opportunities from Black Fox Literary Magazine!

Deadline: June 18, 2023
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Secrets Unraveled Writing Contest! Deadline: June 18, 2023! And be sure to check out our upcoming writing class with Catherine Adel West on June 25, 2023! View flyer and visit Submittable for more information!

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June 2023 eLitPak :: 2023 Charles Simic Poetry Prize

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Deadline: July 31, 2023
Hole In The Head Review has established the Charles Simic Poetry Prize to honor our late friend and mentor. First prize will receive $1,000 and publication in our November 1 issue. Winner will be announced at our October 26 poetry reading, on social media, and in our November 1 issue. Poet David Rivard, who taught with Charlie in The University of New Hampshire MFA program, will judge. View flyer for more information. Submissions accepted through July 31, 2023 through our submission portal.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: Gival Press 2023 Oscar Wilde Award

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for Best LGBTQ+ Original Poem

Deadline: June 27, 2023
22nd Annual Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award for the best LGBTQ+ original poem in English, with a prize of $500.00. View flyer for more information and then submit here.

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Magazine Stand :: Broadsided Press – June 2023

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Founded in 2005, the mission of Broadsided Press was “putting literature and art on the streets” by publishing monthly visual-literary collaborations as free posters for anyone to download, print, and post. This grassroots distribution was thus managed by “Vectors” who share the broadsides in their neighborhoods. June 2023 will be their final monthly installment as they moved instead to biannual portfolios of work. In addition, Broadsided Press offers free lesson plans for using broadsides to teach visual arts, reviews, and summer workshops at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. We’ve always been great fans here of the work of Broadsided Press and hope you’ll take a moment to check out their site.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: Women at Woodstock 2024

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Write in a Community of Fellow Creatives in the Catskills

Registration Deadline: October 1, 2023
Our intimate retreat fosters creativity in a safe environment. We write and workshop by day and share readings in a wine & cheese literary salon every evening. Our guest this year is Elizabeth Brundage, author of several novels including The Vanishing PointA Stranger Like You, and All Things Cease to Appear, which was the basis for the Netflix film “Things Heard and Seen.” View flyer for more information.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: The Bridge on Beer River: Available for Pre-Order

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A rust belt city in decline retains the solace of romance, which often proves to be an empty promise or even a curse. In The Bridge on Beer River, a novel-in-stories set in Reagan-era Binghamton, New York, characters scramble for subsistence while hoping for love and a better life. View flyer and visit website for more information.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize is Open for Manuscript Submissions!

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Deadline: August 21, 2023
Howling Bird Press awards $2,500 and book publication in fall 2024 to one single-author original (previously unpublished in book form) poetry manuscript. Using the online submission system, submit a manuscript of between 48 and 72 pages with a $25 entry fee by August 21, 2023. Howling Bird is part of Augsburg University’s MFA program. James Cihlar, publisher: [email protected]. Visit submissions manager.

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New Book :: Player’s Vendetta

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Player’s Vendetta A Willie Cuesta Mystery by John Lantigua
Arte Público Press, March 2023

Willie Cuesta, former Miami Police Department detective-turned-private investigator, is swinging in his hammock, estimating the number of mango daquiris he can squeeze from a ripe piece of fruit about to fall from his tree. He’s also waiting for a prospective client who refused to discuss her case over the phone. Ellie Hernandez hasn’t seen her fiancé, Roberto “Bobby” Player, in ten days, and she wants Willie to find him. Bobby has been obsessed with the suspicious death of his parents more than thirty-five years ago in Cuba, and he recently went to the island to find their killers. Only six years old when they were murdered, he was living in the United States, where they were supposed to join him. He was one of the “Peter Pan” kids smuggled out when Fidel Castro took over. Willie learns the Players controlled one of the most successful casinos on the island and a large sum of money—half a million dollars—disappeared with their deaths. His investigation reveals an assortment of suspicious characters who were in Havana when the Players were killed, including a former Cuban spy now living in Little Havana, Mafia gangsters involved in gambling institutions and even an undercover US intelligence agent.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: 7th Annual Taos Writers Conference

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Come to beautiful Taos, New Mexico to attend the 7th Annual Taos Writers Conference 7/7/23-7/9/23. Our keynote speaker Ramona Emerson will be joined by twenty other faculty members offering workshops in every genre including poetry, fiction, memoir, and creative nonfiction. Noted faculty include Ariel Gore, Jamie Figueroa, and Valerie Martinez. FMI: visit website or call 575-758-0081.

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June 2023 eLitPak :: Last Call! North Street Book Prize for Self-Published & Hybrid-Published Books

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Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $10,000 cash in its ninth annual North Street competition and $20,400 in all. See our flyer to learn why our contest is one of the very best for self-published and hybrid-published authors. Submit books published in any year and on any platform. $75 entry fee. Enter online or by mail by June 30. Learn more at our website.

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Magazine Stand :: The Fiddlehead – Spring 2023

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The Fiddlehead No. 295 (Spring 2023) features poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews written by some of the best new and established writers. Contributors include Moni Brar—winner of The Fiddlehead 32nd annual Ralph Gustafson Prize For Best Poem, Adrienne Gruber, Chelsea Peters, Lis Sanchez, Kwai Shen, Kathleen Winter, and many more. Visit The Fiddlehead website to see a full list of contributors, read excerpts from selected works, listen to Moni Brar read her award-winning poem, and order a copy of No. 295 or subscribe for home delivery. Cover art, Peonies, by Stephen May.

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Where to Submit Roundup: June 16, 2023

51 Submission Opportunities including calls for submissions, writing contests, and book prizes.

Where to Submit Roundup 2023

It seems that June has just started and here we are and it is half over with. That means that our eLitPak Newsletter was emailed to our current newsletter subscribers. If you missed out, you can access it online here. There are some submission opportunities you don’t want to miss out on there, too. Plus, of course, enjoy our weekly roundup of submission opportunities below as well.

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Magazine Stand :: MockingHeart Review – Spring/Summer 2023

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The online triannual MockingHeart Review publishes twenty poems per issue as well as a featured poet. The editors look for works “that express the complexities of the human heart in clear, precise, lyrical language.” The publication also features up to ten pieces of art per issue, as well as an occasional featured artist, for all kinds of artwork. “Our taste is diverse and ever-expanding,” the editors say. Jo Taylor is the featured poet in this newest issue and is joined by contributions by Al Maginnes, Arvilla Fee, Barbara Brooks, Cecil Morris, Christian Ward, Christine Perry, Dianna MacKinnon Henning, Emily Eads, Jean Podralski, John Tustin, Ken Hines, Laurel Benjamin, Mark J. Mitchell, Mike Lewis-Beck, Rachel Dacus, Richard Dinges, Jr., Robert L. Dean, Jr., Steve Brisendine, and Suzanne E. Wiltz.

New Book :: The Hungers of the World

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The Hungers of the World: New & Collected Later Poems by John Morgan
Salmon Poetry, April 2023

The Hungers of the World: New & Collected Later Poems by John Morgan joins its companion volume, The Moving Out: Collected Early Poems, published in 2019, to provide a comprehensive gathering of this Alaskan poet’s work. Originally from New York, Morgan moved with his family to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1976 to direct the creative writing program at the University of Alaska. In 1982, he and his wife Nancy built a house overlooking the Tanana River with a long view south to the Alaska Range. Morgan has written a series of poems which feature that view as it changes month by month through the seasons. Morgan’s family features prominently in his work as well as larger topics that deal with history and the arts. The final section of The Hungers of the World contains two long poems: The Wedge and River of Light: A Conversation with Kabir. The latter takes the reader on an adventurous raft trip down the Copper River in Southcentral Alaska with the Indian mystic poet Kabir as Morgan’s imaginary companion and spiritual guide.

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Books Received June 2023

NewPages receives many wonderful book titles each month to share with our readers. You can read more about some of these by clicking on “New Books” under the NewPages Blog or Books tab on the menu. If you are a publisher or author looking to be listed here or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us!

Poetry

Alone, J.R. Solonche, David Robert Books
Bar of Rest, Sara Epstein, Kelsay Books
Bridge at the End of the World, Scott T. Starbuck, Blue Light Press
Broken Metronome, Connie Post, Glass Lyre Press
The Death of Weinberg: Poems and Stories, Walter Weinschenk, Kelsay Books
Dreaming in Cantera, Bonnie Wolkenstein, WordTech Editions
The Dreams of Gods, J.R. Solonche, Kelsay Books
EtC, Laura Mullen, Solid Objects
excisions, Hilary Plum, Black Lawrence Press
Expert Terrain, Diane Schenker, Word Poetry
Fig Season, Joan E. Bauer, Turning Point
Glass to Sand, John Van Dreal, Cherry Grove Collections
gulp/gasp, Serena Piccoli, Moira Books
Hearts, Joanne Corey, Kelsay Books

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