At the NewPages Blog readers and writers can catch up with their favorite literary and alternative magazines, independent and university presses, creative writing programs, and writing and literary events. Find new books, new issue announcements, contest winners, and so much more!
Livingston Press, from the University of West Alabama, is celebrating Women’s History Month with works by Christy Alexander Hallberg and Laura Secord. View our flyer to learn more about these two titles and visit our website to grab your copies.
Reach the next level of your career with a concentration in creative writing. The Master of Fine Arts at Wilson College is a two-year terminal degree designed for working professionals or experienced practitioners in their field. This program offers a low-residency schedule tailored to meet the needs of artists. Visit website.
Check out our interactive flyer to see the current submission opportunities for our quarterly literary magazine and book publishing arm. Feel free to browse our Online Bookstore to see who/what we have published in our 26 years and counting.
$2,000 in prizes. From March 1 to May 31, Flying South 2022 will be accepting entries for prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Best in Category winners will be published and receive $500 each. The WSW President’s award winner will win an additional $500. All entries will be considered for publication. For full details, please visit our website.
Horse Not Zebra
Poetry by Eric Nelson
Terrapin Books, April 2022
ISBN: 978-1-947896-54-3
Paperback, 94pp; $17
This newest collection of poems from writer and Georgia Southern University emeritus Eric Nelson captures the essence of everyday life through the lens of having been there, done that, and paid close attention. The title poem begins, “When med students are learning / how to diagnose symptoms, they’re told / think horse, not zebra – the common, no the exotic.” And though the subject matter may seem common by their titles, “My Alarm,” “Mulch,” “By Campfire,” and “Parade,” Nelson is able to lift these subjects up to the scrutiny of our own experiences, shared through his own, in ways that, while perhaps not exotic, resonate a sense of wholeness and completion. And there must be a story behind why bears appear repeatedly throughout.
Join us in the beautiful Taos, New Mexico, for an award-winning writers conference July 29 through July 31, 2022 for over twenty workshops in every genre and keynote speaker/author: Ana Castillo. Confirmed faculty include Leeanna Torres, Beth Piatote, EJ Levy, T.J. English, Juan Morales, Connie Josefs, Amy Beeder, and many more. For further information visit website, call 575-758-0081, or email.
Take 10% off Carve’s peer group online classes! Learn on your own schedule how to improve your short stories through all original content. The Fundamentals class introduces how to use Character & Plot, Point of View, Dialogue, Inner Monologue, Description. The Techniques class introduces Use of Senses, Imagery, Metaphors & Similes, Rhythm & Pacing, and Threading. Visit website.
You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids
Creative Nonfiction by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Wayne State University Press, March 2022
ISBN: 9780814349410
Paperback, 118pp; $18.99
From their Made in Michigan Writers Series, award-winning poet, essayist, journalist, activist, scholar focused on issues of Asian America, race, justice, and the arts Frances Kai-Hwa writes about building a new life with four children after a messy divorce. These twenty-seven lyrical essays move between personal and cultural topics from bossy aunties, unreliable suitors, and an uncertain political landscape and reflect on lessons learned from both Asian American elders and young multiracial children. Black and white photographs accompany some of the essays.
Deadline: June 1, 2022
Midway Journal‘s -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest is open! $500 first prize and publication in Midway, $250 second prize and publication in Midway; $50 third prize and publication in Midway. $10 entry. Unlimited entries. Judge: Kim Chinquee. For complete guidelines visit website.
Our workshop embodies the idea that deep, communal experiences with the wild open the door to creativity. Students who are serious about fostering a connection with place will work with some of the most celebrated nature writers in the U.S. For our 2022 workshop, we welcome faculty members Camille Dungy, Sean Hill, J. Drew Lanham, Beth Piatote, and Laura Pritchett. Visit website.
The 16th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books available for sale, including small presses, mid-size independent publishers, university presses, and self-published authors. NIEA is proud to be a champion of self-publishing and small independent presses going the extra mile to produce books of excellence in every aspect. Visit website.
Deadline: April 30, 2022
30th year. Submit stories and essays to Winning Writers’ 2022 contest to win $3,000 and online publication. Accepts published and unpublished work. Co-sponsored by Duotrope. Recommended by Reedsy. Judged by Mina Manchester. Winners announced on October 15. View flyer and visit their website.
Deadline: Rolling
Atmosphere Press is currently seeking book manuscripts from diverse voices. There’s no submission fee, and if your manuscript is selected, we’ll be the publisher you’ve always wanted: attentive, organized, on schedule, and professional. We use a model in which the author funds the publication of the book, but retains 100% rights, royalties, and artistic autonomy. This year Atmosphere authors have received featured reviews with Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist, and have even appeared on a giant billboard in Times Square. Submit your book manuscript at atmospherepress.com.
Guest Post by Cindy Fazzi
A canoe is no speedboat, but Wayne Johnson’s The Red Canoe is a thrill of a ride. At the center of the novel are Buck, a carpenter, and fifteen-year-old Lucy. They are both Ojibwe living on the border of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community reservation in Minnesota.
One afternoon, while Buck is building a boat in his garage, a girl in a dirty pink hoodie appears. Her name is Lucy, and she says: “I’d like to learn how to make boats.”
Continue reading “The Red Canoe: A Thrilling Ride”
From the publication: “AGNI was founded fifty years ago, in 1972, by a Ukrainian-American writer and a group of his fellow writers at Antioch College. During Askold Melnyczuk’s thirty years at the helm, he infused the magazine with an abiding commitment to the work of Ukrainian writers and translators. Now, in response to the Russian invasion—and with Askold’s coordinating help—we will publish Ukrainian dispatches as we receive them.” In conjunction with this, AGNI has created an index of every publication written by Ukrainians and Ukrainian Americans. The list extends from AGNI 3 in 1974 to the upcoming AGNI 95. All linked titles are available to read online, and they will gradually be digitizing more of these.
The Prose Train is a unique online publication that is more than just a place to find great reading, it is also a place for young writers to engage in the writing process with other writers. The concept is in the name, according to Founder and Executive Director Irene Tsen, “’Prose’ refers to the short stories we create, and ‘Train’ refers to the collaborative aspect of how writers add sentences sequentially. Our slogan, ‘train your prose,’ is a rearrangement of our name, encapsulating how writers who join The Prose Train improve their skills with a different type of writing.”
Continue reading “New Lit On the Block :: The Prose Train”
Deadline: June 15, 2022
Swan Scythe Press announces its 2022 poetry chapbook contest. Entry fee: $18. We are accepting submissions from March 1 to June 15 (postmark deadline). Winner receives $200 and 25 perfect-bound chapbooks. The 2021 winner is Rae Gouirand for Little Hour. For full submission guidelines, visit www.swanscythepress.com.
“What is it like to live in your body? We want work that answers this question,” say the editors of Rogue Agent, an online publication of poetry and artwork with an interest “in amplifying voices that are traditionally marginalized, including queer, POC, and dis/abled voices.” The March 2022 issue features works by Michelle Seaman, Yanita Georgieva, Lorrie Ness, Barbara Daniels, Sherine Gilmour, H. Lee Coakley, Wendy Drexler, Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, Camille Lebel, and Jennifer Schomburg Kanke in an easy to navigate and read format.
Publishing international literary and visual arts online, The RavensPerch looks for “writing that makes us react – all the way from calmly to boisterously.” Fulfilling that promise are poems by R. Olaf Erich, Anshu Yedavelli, J.T. Whitehead; non-fiction by Wendy Jones, Patty Somlo, Aida Bode, Cyndi Cresswell Cook; fiction by Oso Jones, Bill Richter, Beate Sigriddaughter, Philip Goldberg; and artwork by Carmen Germain and Jamie Bullock.
Publishing two open issues and one prize issue online each year, Radar Poetry is a sensory delight. Each poem is accompanied by visual artwork, and several of the works include high-quality audio of the author reading their works in a clean, easy-to-navigate format. Issue 32 includes poetry by Glen Armstrong, Luke Johnson, Kizzíah Burton, Jenny Grassl, L.J. Sysko, Laurel Anderson, Rachel Nelson, Ellen Kombiyil, Debbie Benson, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Michael Mark, Megan Pinto, Leigh Sugar, Krystal Anali Vazquez, Janine Certo, D.S. Waldman, and Kelly Houle, and artwork by Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier, Cyril Caine, Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier, Sarah Walko, and Katie Wolff.
Deadline: April 30, 2022
We all have them! Those eccentric, goofy, wacky, lovable, and oh-so-fun family members—the ones we tell all the stories about. They could be a parent or grandparent, an in-law, a brother or sister, an aunt, uncle or cousin. Share your true stories and poems about those family members. With love and appreciation, please. No mean-spirited stories wanted. If we publish your piece, you will be paid $200 plus 10 free copies of the book. Writing guidelines and more info at www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/possible-book-topics.
There’s still time to read the newest issue of Posit online journal of poetry, prose and visual art, and Editors Susan Lewis, Carol Ciavonne, and Bernd Sauermann begin with a welcome that provides an insightful overview of the published works, which they consider “a salutary and substantive alternative to doom-scrolling and despair.” Content includes poetry and prose by Glen Armstrong, Dennis Barone, Barbara Henning, Elise Houcek, Jill Khoury, Burt Kimmelman, Richard Peabody, Maureen Seaton, Patty Seyburn, Jared Stanley, Rodrigo Toscano; text + image by Adrian Lürssen; and visual art by Al Wong, Holly Wong, and Tamar Zinn.
Months to Years is an online literary journal for nonfiction, poetry, photography, and art that explores grief, death, and dying. “The arc of grief is long,” writes Editor and Co-Founder Renata Louwers, “but it does bend toward healing.” The newest issue features works by Nicole M. Wolverton, Kara Knickerbocker, Janina Karpinska, Betty Naegele Gundred, Lise Kunkel, Tiffany Amoakohene, Lawrence Bridges, Meg Freer, Aaron Sandberg, Tracey Dean Widelitz, and more. Months to Years can be read online, via visual magazine mode, and can also be purchased in print.
Okay Donkey, with an eye for “emerging authors with a unique, fresh perspective that conveys strange and compelling narratives through short, compact flash fiction and poetry collections,” publishes one new poem every Monday and one new flash fiction every Friday. Recent contributions include “How to Take a Vacation: A Guide for Medieval Women” by Maria Poulatha, “Our Place” by Yanita Georgieva, “Azaleas” by Rachel Hoiles Farrell, “blue jeans | blue beard” by Danielle Roberts, “A Girl Builds a Snowman” by Ruth Joffre, and “The Parched Queen” by Corinna Schulenburg. With fresh content weekly, stopping by often is a must!
Mayday Magazine has selected the top 16 entries for their March Madness Flash Fiction Contest, and starting March 14, popular vote will whittle the list down to the Final Four prize winners whose works will be published. Visit the Mayday Magazine website for more information about this as well as to read some of the newest submissions to their online magazine from contributors Will Russo, Abigail Chang, C. Kubasta, Lucian Mattison, and works by Cho Ji Hoon translated from Korean by Sekyo Nam Haines.
Committed to publishing work that “explores dark spaces,” Marrow Magazine accepts submissions on a rolling basis and adds works online weekly to complete quarterly issues. Issue 1 is being “fed” weekly, but currently features poetry by Eran Eads, C.L. Liedekev, Alicia Hoffman, Jen Frantz, Kristina McDonald, fiction by Martyn Sullivan, Julie A. Hersh, Katie Jordan, Hattie Jean Hayes, BJ Hollars, Jacquelyn White, Michael Brockley, Venus Fultz, and a hybrid image/word piece by Maggie Rosen.
The Lascaux Review publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction as well as essays on the craft and business of writing, on a rolling basis, so it’s best to visit regularly. Recent contributions include poetry by Roy Bentley, creative nonfiction by Anna Hundert, Christiana Louisa Langenberg, April Ford, and Wilson MacConnachie, and fiction by Laurel Miram. Stephen Parrish offers readers a craft essay, which begins, “The day my heart broke was the day I decided to become a writer.” Read more by visiting The Lascaux Review website – regularly!
Number 39 of Kissing Dynamite: A Journal of Poetry is themed “Collage,” in which the editors note “our contributing poets examine the layers of our existence.” This issue includes work by Jessica Dionne (the featured poet for March), Madeline Docherty, Makenna Dykstra, Kimberly Glanzman, Fiona Lu, Alix Perry, Zoe Reay-Ellers, Nicole Sellew, and Mikhaela Woodward. Jared Beloff is featured in the “Baker’s Dozen” spot with “The World is a Burning Haibun We Sing to Ourselves,” utilizing erasure with accompanying commentary. Kissing Dynamite is free to read online and also as an accessible PDF via Natural Reader.
When I first visited Hole In The Head Review, I have to admit, it was the fifty-second “video cover” on this newest issue that captivated me and made me want to dig in deeper, and I’m glad I did. I was rightly rewarded with Lisa Zimmerman’s beautiful video reading of several “winter poems,” just as we are finishing out our season here. The free, online publication goes on to present works by nearly three dozen contributors, poetry and artwork, often provided several works by a single author. Love that. Among those featured in this issue: Jo Richardson, Hope Jordan, Kevin Ridgeway, S Stephanie, Mary Carroll-Hackett, Kevin McIlvoy, Richard Baldasty, Marc Frazier, E. D. Watson, Matthew Flamm, Jennifer Sheridan, Kevin Adam Flores, Katrinka Moore, Yvonne Amey, Christine Penney, C.W. Bigelow, Chris Bullard, Robin Young, Hilary Sideris, and lots more.
Hippocampus Magazine, with a three-fold mission to “entertain, educate, and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction,” strikes again with its newest issue, featuring works by Charlotte Adamis, Diane Simmons, Charlotte Maya, Christian Harrington, Mikaela Osler, Laura Stanfill, Sophie Ezzell, Deborah Sherman, Danielle Joffe, and Celeste Hawkins. Also included are interviews with Mary Laura Philpott, Andrea Thatcher, “Imagine You Are Ophelia in Hamlet’s Castle, and Other Craft Ideas Borrowed From Acting” by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman, and a Writing Life feature with Brian Watson. All free and open access – check them out today!
Fiction Southeast is an online literary publication dedicated to publishing flash fiction from promising writers in a format that allows readers to quickly and easily access quality writing using their personal e-devices. Currently featured fiction includes “Bone on Bone” by Sean Hammer, “Deck a Bitch” by Tierney Harris, “That Day I Traveled ‘Round the World and Found Myself at Home” by Art Bell, “Tornado Weather” by Kara Oakleaf, “The Massacre of Greenwood” by Jerome Newsome, and “Moving Day” by Shelby Wardlaw,” as well as an interview with Tim Dorsey. The site also includes a Flash Audio series, “The Story Behind the Story” articles, Ask an Agent series, and Fiction Craft. Lots for readers to enjoy even amid their busy lives.
Published by Green Mountains Review, the first of five editions devoted to American Poet Laureates is now available. This gorgeous folio-sized publication is a celebration of “the beauty of the diverse voices that make up our country,” and features the first ten Laureates: Rhode Island’s Tina Cane; Virginia’s Luisa A. Igloria; Oregon’s Anis MojganiNew Hampshire’s Alexandria Peary; North Carolina’s Jaki Shelton Green; Maryland’s Grace Cavalieri; Louisiana’s Julie Kane; Kansas’s Huascar Medina; Wisconsin’s Dasha Kelly Hamilton; New York’s Alicia Ostriker. Solidarity of Unbridled Labour provided the layout and design, and with the addition of artwork throughout, this is going to be a collectible. Don’t miss getting your copy today!
New Ohio Review generously publishes multiple works by individual poets as well as many quality single pieces in the Winter 2022 issue, including fiction by Max Bell, Anne Coopestone, A.J. Rodriguez, Tanya Bomsta, Sarah Cypher; nonfiction by Faith Shearin, Lisa K. Buchanan; “When We Talk About Mountains, We Talk About Memories,” a conversation with Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour; and gobs of poetry, including works by Marcia LeBeau, Lisa Alletson, Benjamin Grimes, Katie Condon, Michael Derrick Hudson, Peter O’Donovan, Peter Maeck, Linda K. Sienkiewicz, Shelly Stewart Cato, Ted Kooser, Allison Funk, Nancy Miller Gomez, Emily Wheeler, and so so many more, you just have to read it to believe it!
The Winter 2020/2021 issue, Number 29 of Able Muse includes the winning and finalist stories and poems from the 2021 Able Muse contest (Able Muse Write Prize). This issue’s featured poet is Rhina P. Espaillat and includes an interview by Deborah Warren. There is also fiction by Amina Lolita Gautier, Randy Nelson, Jonathan Starke; essays by Michelle Cacho-Negrete, Chidiebube onye Okohia, Mark Pearce, Joachim Stanley, N.S. Thompson; and poetry by Liz Ahl, Leo Aylen, Lee Harlin Bahan, Bruce Bennett, Hilary Biehl, John J. Brugaletta, Dan Campion, Sarah Carleton, Ted Charnley, Gregory Emilio, Nicole Caruso Garcia, Stephen Gibson, D. R. Goodman, Susan McLean, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Francesco Petrarca, Estill Pollock, Erica Reid, Mary Romero, Kelly Rowe, Leona Sevick, Michael Spence, Ann M. Thompson, Will Toedtman, Toni Treadway, E. D. Watson, Gail White, Steven Withrow, as well as art on “A Distance Theme.”
After focusing a previous issue on the “long poem,” Southern Poetry Review Editor James Smith tells readers he was prompted to “review our archive of the last decade or so for short poems.” Thus, this issue is a companion publication, “celebrating an opposite impulse in making poems that serve their subject, brevity.” Included in this anthology are poets Abby Rosenthal, Sarah Rolph, Marsh Muirhead, Majorie power, Patricia Hooper, Jason Tandon, Robert West, Eric Pankey, James Scrutton, John Harris, Michael Chitwood, David Tagnani, Joe Wilkens, and many more.
This Winter 2022 Mississippi Review issue celebrates fifty years of publication with poetry from Rae Armantrout, Mary Jo Bang, Kwame Dawes, Bob Hicok, Bin Ramke, Tomaž Šalamun, Natalie Shapero, and Bronwen Tate; non-fiction by Kazim Ali, Emily Pittinos, Moly Rideout, and Brandon Shimoda; and fiction by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Nicole Callihan, Suzanne Greenberg, Mary Miller, Rick Moody, and Ernie Wang, all wrapped in a luxurious royal blue with gold imprint. So lovely!
The newest bi-annual online issue of Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine is available to read online via Issuu and features works by Sandeep Kumar Mishra, Babk Movahed, Pam Munter, Shari Brand Ray, Bill Bernon, Dmitry Blizniuk, Leslie Hodge, Al Maginnes, Ron Riekki, Noah Harrell, Marietta Modl, and many more. Originally founded to encourage submissions from seniors, SBLAAM judges all works on the criteria of quality that “enrich our experience.”
Tint Journal, an online journal for those who write in English as their second/non-native language (ESL writers), publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by ESL writers. They also publish book reviews, interviews, and author profiles from ALL writers year-round and pay 25€ per piece. The Spring 2022 issue features works by Brianna Colmenares, Wil-Lian Guzmanos, Maliha Khan, Laetitia Lesieure Desbrière Batista, Margit Marenich, Angela Regius, Ines Rodrigues, Yulia Tseytlin, and Lorna Ye.
The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos
Poetry by Sylvie Kandé
Translation by Alexander Dickow
Wesleyan University Press, February 2022
ISBN: 9780819580733
Hardcover, 176pp; $35
Sylvie Kandé’s neo-epic in three cantos is a double narrative combining today’s tales of African migration to Europe on the one hand, with the legend of Abubakar II on the other: Abubakar, emperor of 14th-Century Mali, sailed West toward the new world, never to return. Kandé’s language deftly weaves a dialogue between these two narratives and between the epic traditions of the globe. Dazzling in its scope, the poem swings between epic stylization, griot storytelling, and colloquial banter, capturing an astonishing range of human experience. Kandé makes of the migrant a new hero, a future hero whose destiny has not yet taken shape, whose stories are still waiting to be told in their fullness and grandeur: the neverending quest has only just begun. Presented in side by side translation into English from French.
The March 2022 (#14) issues of The Dillydoun Review is chock full of good reading, available free online. With short stories by Phil Cummins, Bill Garwin, David Santiago; flash fiction by Andrew Calderone, Anthony M. DeGennaro, E.S. Oliver; poetry by Roy Bentley, Ace Boggess, Kyle Heger, J.B. Hill, Stephen Jackson, Kimilee Norman-Goins, Ankit Raj; prose poetry by David Capps, Jack B. Bedell, Nidhi Agrawal, Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, Elaine Zimmerman; nonfiction by Rick Brown, Danielle Hayden, Manol Roussev. and flash nonfiction by Maria DeGuzman, Carisa Showden, Matthew Kerr, Ashley McCurry, Hemali Shah. Publishing monthly, there is a lot to keep readers coming back for more!
Girl as Birch
Poetry by Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
Bauhan Publishing, April 2022
ISBN: 9780872333338
Paperback, 92pp; $17
In Girl as Birch, Gibson mimics the flexible (adaptable? too pliant? healthily, if secretly, resilient, then, finally, aligned) motion of a birch in strong wind, as it relates to the options seemingly available to her, growing up as a girl. The poems imitate in form the experiences they evoke. The leitmotifs of red, birches, mirrors, walls enclosing gardens, labyrinths as metaphors for constraint, recur throughout the book. Without being a manifesto, Girl as Birch explores female gender roles with both pliant and uprising imagery and action. Restriction and rebellion, silence and speech, appearance and artifice, passion and repression, the past and being present, buffet and embolden the speaker of these poems. The elastic and varied syntax, pace, music, and the use of rhetoric and wit express deft self-examination. The book moves from serial impressionistic poems of early childhood to discrete lyric poems of memory and experience and on to a sense of emotional, social, spiritual evolution, not resolution.
The March 2022 (#16) issue of Waterwheel Review is available to view and read on their homepage. Using a unique online presentation, Waterwheel Review publishes three pieces of writing each month, September through May, with accompanying companion pieces selected or solicited by the editors. Subtitled “Literature Without Labels,” the editors “hope authors will take advantage of our refusal to define what we publish, and send us un-name-able bits and pieces.” See for yourself by visiting the Waterwheel Review website.
The March 2022 additions to The Wrath-Bearing Tree are online and ready to be enjoyed! Nonfiction: @RobBokkon with “Last of the Gonzo Boys: P.J. O’Rourke, War, and the Evolution of a Political Mind” and Mark Hummel on American paranoia in “Underground.” Poetry: Ricardo Moran, Kevin Norwood, Michael Carson. Fiction: Steven Kiernan’s narrator carries Dick Cheney’s shotgun in “War Ensemble” and Jillian Danback-McGhan’s narrator dances with a war criminal in “Allied.” The Wrath-Bearing Tree also features contributors on their YouTube channel. Check them out today!
The Spring 2022 issue of The 2River View is now available, with new poems by Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena, Devon Brock, T. Clear, Lenny DellaRocca, Sara Eddy, Michael Estabrook, Tim Gavin, William A. Greenfield, Gail Lukasik, Rachel Mallalieu, and Amy Speace. And 2River is now reading for the 26.4 (Summer 2022) issue of 2RV. Published online quarterly, The 2River View is available to read free online and can also be downloaded as a PDF or in a “Make the Mag” format that can be reproduced for traditional print reading – great for classroom use, teachers!
In September 2021, Kenyon Review invited writers to contemplate the subject of work, leaving the invitation open wide to interpretation. The texts represented in this issue, culled from the 1,408 submissions they received, ask readers to interrogate definitions of work and the value we ascribe to different kinds of work. These poems and narratives also require that readers be attentive to labor often uncredited as work. In their way of bearing witness, in their generosity and urgency, the pieces in this issue consider the ways work engages both public and private selves, and the ways it holds us, if only temporarily, to particular circumstances, geography, and each other. Read more on the Kenyon Review website.
The Summer/Fall 2021 issue of Notre Dame Review is subtitled “New Life” and offers stellar prose and poetry from Adam Byko, Natalie Storey, and John Vanderslice, as well as poetry from Mary Gilliland, David Moolten, and Honora Ankong, among many others. As a companion to the print issue, the website includes additional content such as author commentary on their published work, weblinks, expanded bios, links to other works, and related interviews. The publication also provides a “web extra” from the print edition to read in full. For this issue, William O’Rourke’s A Covid-19 Journal: Intermittent is available. Stop by the Notre Dame Review website for all this and more.
Hailing from the University of Colorado Denver, the Spring 2022 issue of Copper Nickel is host to dozens of outstanding writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and “Translation Folios,” each with multiple works introduced by the translator.
In addition to its quarterly thematic e-publication, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing also offers quarterly, donation-based online events featuring a different artist and artistic practice. Sunday, March 20, 2022, from 2:00-3:30 (EST) Toni Becker will host “The Art of Losing.” An intuitive, mixed media artist, healing art facilitator, and Reiki II practitioner, Becker will share her “experience with grief, the act and art of letting go through ritual, ceremony, and art that brings forth healing and a level of self-discovery.” She adds, “Grief is heavy but there is another side to it — one that will grace you with light and ease.” Visit the Snapdragon website for registration information.
The newest issue of The American Poetry Review (51.2) is one many fans will want to get their hand on. Featuring new poems by numerous poets, including Sharon Olds, Kazim Ali, Sharon Olds, Edgar Kunz, Emily Lee Luan, KB Brookins, and a conversation, “Jennifers of the 1970s” between Jen Karetnick, Jennifer L. Knox, and Jennifer K. Sweeney. Visit The American Poetry Review website to read some of the publication’s content online.
In the Winter 2021-2022 issue of Kestral: A Journal of Art and Literature, the editors comment that “A theme emerged organically” around food, hunger, and thirst: “We not only spend time thinking about food; we have deep feelings about it, hard thumbs up for our favorites or thumbs down for disgusting foods we’d rather start than eat. Food can provide solace and sustain us with its memory. It’s mythic and essential, political and also a point of conflict.” Visit the Kestral website to read select content by Patricia Caspers, Mark Crimmins, Hayley Harvey. Lily Lauver, Jory Mickelson, Jane C. Miller, and Rose Strode.
