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Nelligan Prize for Fiction Winner :: Thomas Grattan

Colorado Review, Volume 34 Number 3, Fall/Winter 2007 is out and features the winner of the 2007 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction: Thomas Grattan’s story “I Am a Souvenir.” Final Judge Charles Baster said of the work: “This story is both elliptical and straightforward, beautifully detailed and psychologically intricate. The events are crisply narrated, surprising, and slightly shocking, though completely plausible.” Grattan is a graduate of the Brooklyn College M.F.A. program. His work has been chosen as a finalist for the Iowa Review Fiction Award, and he is also the recipient of the Lainoff Prize for fiction.

Deadline for the Fifth Annual Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction is postmark January 15, 2008 – March 15, 2008.

Lit Mag Mailbag :: December 1

For information about these and many other quality literary magazines, click the links or visit The NewPages Guide to Literary Journals. Also visit the NewPages Literary Magazine Reviews for new reviews as well as an archive of past reviews.

The American Poetry Review
Volume 36 Number 6
Nov/Dec 2007
Bimonthly

Antioch Review
“Falkland (Malvinas) Islands: Sounth Atlantic’s Forgotten War”
Volume 65 Number 4
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Callaloo
The Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora: 30th Anniversary Issue 3/4
Volume 30 Number 2
Spring 2007
Quarterly

Cimarron Review
Issue 161
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Fifth Wednesday Journal
Issue 1
Fall 2007
Biannual

Gargoyle
Audio CD only
Number 52
2007
Annual

The Gettysburg Review
Volume 20 Number 4
Winter 2007
Quarterly

Hollins Critic
William Steinkraus
Volume 44 Number 4
October 2007
Five Times

Hunger Mountain
Issue 11
Fall 2007
Biannual

The Journal of Ordinary Thought
Lessons Outside: JOT Writers on Formal and Informal Education
Summer 2007
Quarterly

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
Number 21
November 2007
Biannual

The Land-Grant College Review
Issue Number 4
2007

The Missouri Review
“Exposed”
Volume 30 Number 3
Fall 2007
Quarterly

NANO Fiction
“A Journal of Short Fiction” from UoHouston Undergrad
Volume 1 Number 2
2007
Biannual

One Story
“Bar Joke, Arizona” bySam Allingham
Issue 97
2007
Monthly

Opium
Number 5
Winter 2007
Biannual

Pembroke Magazine
African American Literature (U of N.C.)
Number 39
2007
Annual

Poetry
Volume 191 Number 2
November 2007
Monthly

[sic]
2
2007
Annual(?)

Watershed
CSU, Chico’s Literary Magazine
Volume 30 Number 2
Spring 2007
Biannual

Glimmer Train Goes Simultaneous


“Effective immediately” says Editor Susan Burmeister-Brown, “Linda and I have decided to allow simultaneous submissions. We’ve had a policy for 17 years against simultaneous submissions, but now that we’ve tightened up our submission response times, we feel we can manage it better, and it’s been harder and harder to support our position when it is so darned difficult to get one’s work published. We do ask to be emailed immediately should a submitted piece be accepted elsewhere.”

Agni Goes Tenor

The latest issue of Agni includes a unique bonus feature: A CD to accompany Harrison Solow’s essay “Bendithion.” This CD, AGNI‘s first, marks the American recording debut of Welsh tenor Timothy Evans. The essay is as much about Wales as it is about Timothy, as it is about song and emotion and performance and solitude. I’ll say no more – you need to read the essay and listen to the CD yourself. (And, yes, I cried.)

From Solow’s essay:

“My name is Harrison Solow. I come from Los Angeles and I’ve never seen, met, known, or heard anyone in the world like Timothy Evans. And unless you live here, in this remote and somewhat implausible Welsh village where Timothy and I live, then neither have you.

“Timothy is our postmaster. He sells stamps, issues various baffling permits, collects payments for bizarre things like television licences and road tax and many nanny-like little punishments which the British government delights in inflicting upon its citizens. (By the way, never mistake ‘Welsh’ for ‘English.’ It’s far worse than mistaking a Canadian for an American, and in my opinion – having lived for some years in Canada – with good cause.) Timothy makes tea for his employees in the back room every morning, wears what appears to be the same sweater every day, and goes home to an empty house every night.

“He goes home, as well, to acres of soft emerald fields full of the Shetland ponies, Torwen sheep, and Bantam hens that he breeds and cares for single-handedly every morning, some noons (during lambing), and every night of his spectacularly mysterious life.

“He also has a voice that comes pretty close to what ‘Let there be Light’ would have sounded like had it burst forth from the lungs of an anthropomorphic god in the act of creation. And pretty close to Light itself.

“Let me say at the outset that this is not an objective account. I am absolutely committed to celebrating this man’s voice. It is flawless, haunting, and irrefutably magical. You won’t be the same after you’ve heard it. No one else is. And you will have probably wept through every unblemished note. Everyone else does. Of course, right now, ‘everyone’ doesn’t constitute a lot of people. This voice is one of the best (and deliberately) kept secrets in the world, as is so much about Wales. But that’s about to change. I’m about to do a little ‘let there be light’ in America, myself.”

The five-track CD and the rest of this essay are available in Agni 66.

Listen Up :: Gargoyle 52 Has Arrived


I was a bit surprised to receive the latest issue of Gargoyle – usually a three-pounder publication – in a small, square envelope weighing about an ounce. You guessed it – Gargoyle 52 is a CD version. Personally, I’m psyched about it. I’m a big fan of audio these days, since time to read anything other than the stacks of student papers piling up is out of the question. However, there are inherent risks with listening to literature – poor recording quality, writers who are good writers but bad readers (painfully bad sometimes), bad/annoying/distracting background music (usually played by the ________ [fill in relationship] of a friend who just couldn’t be denied), and works that are recorded but really would be better read silently in the privacy of one’s own gray matter.

Alas, fear not. With Peabody at the helm, Gargoyle 52 succeeds in taking on these risks. The CD includes groovy music w/lyrics, readings with “poet’s voice” (aka no inflections), readings with inflections, some with playful vocal characterizations, readings with sound effects, some true spoken word and music (nearly a lost art these days), and readings with tempos and rhythms that never – never – would have surfaced in this gray matter, but that have made all the difference.

Still, I’m a bit of a hog – it would have been nice to have the liner notes include the words. I’m still a strongly visual learner – I want to see it just as much as I want to hear it. Need to see it in some cases. But then, I guess we’d be back to a three-pounder with a CD accompaniment, and that may well defeat the effort here.

Gargoyle 52 features Cravin’ Dogs, Silvana Straw, Brigitte Diane Knudson, William Levy, Reginald Harris, Mesmer and Passiflora, Miranda Saak, George Kalamaras, Franetta McMillian, KD Rouse and the Sams, Jennifer Cutting, Henry Warwick, Jeffrey Little, Neelam Patel, Jonathan Vaile, Julianna Spallholz, Jillian Ann, Kate Braverman, Thylias Moss, Venus Thrash, David Hernandez.

Lit Mag Mailbag :: Oct 27

For information about these and many other quality literary magazines, click the links or visit The NewPages Guide to Literary Journals. Also visit the NewPages Literary Magazine Reviews for new reviews as well as an archive of past reviews.

The Bitter Oleander
Includes Rob Cook interview and selections
Volume 13 Number 2
2007
Biannual

Five Points
Volume 11 Number 3
2007
Triannual

The Georgia Review
Volume 61 Number 3
Fall 2007
Quarterly

The Hudson Review
Volume 60 Number 3
Autumn 2007
Quarterly

Inkwell
Number 22
Fall 2007
Biannual

Mandorla
New Writing from the Americas
Issue 10, 2007
Annual

New Letters
Volume 73 Number 4
2007
Quarterly

Oleander Review
U of Mich – Open submission publication
Issue 1
Fall 2007

One Story
The Strings Attached by James Scott
Issue Number 96
2007
Monthly

Roger
Volume 2
Spring 2007
Annual

Santa Monica Review
Volume 19 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Southern Review
Volume 43 Number 4
Autumn 2007
Quarterly

Thema
Volume 19 Number 3
Autumn 2007
Biannual

World Literature Today
Volume 81 Number 6
Nov-Dec 2007
Quarterly

Zahir
A Journal of Speculative Fiction
Issue 14
Winter 2007
Triannual

Postal Rate Hike from Hell – Last Call

From Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses

Dear CLMP Publishers,

We are making a last ditch appeal for horror stories created by the most recent postal rate case. If you would take just a few minutes and outline the problems created by this massive increase, they can be very helpful to our effort. Note that we are looking for stories about how both the PERIODICALS RATE and/or the BULK RATE changes affecting you. There will be parties using your letters representing various aspects of the postal rate hikes, so we want to hear about both.

As I reported previously to you, we are helping the consortium of folks pursuing a Senate Hearing after the Congressional Hearing. The hope is to get the rates revised in a future Rate case.

Please send your letters ASAP to [email protected]. Even a single paragraph letter is helpful. If you have any questions, please contact John Bell ([email protected]), who is coordinating this effort (thanks, John!).

Thanks for your support — it’s not too late for things to change for the better, but we need as much participation as possible for it to happen!

Best,

Jeffrey
_______________________________
Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses / CLMP – 40th Anniversary Year!
Small Press Distribution / SPD
Literary Ventures Fund / LVF
154 Christopher Street
Suite 3C
New York, NY 10014
[email protected]
tel: (212) 741-9110 X14
fax: (212) 741-9112

Cue News

“CUE is expanding. In the coming year we’ll be moving away from print and towards an on-line format. Away from publishing prose poetry exclusively and towards a more inclusive format that embraces both prose poetry and lineated work. We’re also starting a chapbook press, CUE Editions, that will publish limited-edition, hand-made chapbooks.” Mark Horosky’s Let It Be Nearby will be the first book in Cue’s new chapbook series.

Lit Mag Mailbag :: Oct 22

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580 Split
Issue 9
2007
Annual

Alaska Quarterly Review
Volume 24 Numbers 3&4
Fall&Winter 2007
Quarterly

Backwards City Review
Volume 3 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

College Literature
Volume 34 Number 4
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Green Mountains Review
Volume 20 Numbers 1&2
2007
Biannual
20th Anniversary Double Issue: American Apocalypse

Image
Number 55
Fall 2007
Quarterly

The Literary Review
Volume 50 Number 4
Summer 2007
Quarterly

Main Street Rag
Volume 12 Number 3
Fall 2007
Quarterly

The Malahat Review
Number 160
Fall 2007
Quarterly

The New Centennial Review
Volume 7 Number 1
Spring 2007
Triannual

One Story
Issue Number 95
2007
Monthly Balloon Night by Tom Barbash

Oxford American
Issue 58
Fall 2007
Quarterly
The Music Issue (with CD)

Slice Magazine
Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2007
Biannual

TriQuarterly
Issue 128
2007
Triannual
Guest Edited by Barbara Hamby and David Kirby

Verbatim
Volume 31 Number 2, Summer 2006
“Classical Music Terms Unravelled (or UnRavel-ed)”
Volume 31 Number 1, Spring 2006
“Qat in Yemen”
Quarterly

White Chimney
Issue 2
Summer 2007
“The Creative Arts Journal” – London, UK

Willow Springs
Issue 60
Fall 2007
Biannual

The Yale Review
Volume 95 Number 4
October 2007
Quarterly

Our Own Attitudes and The Fate of Small Literary Journals

Of course, we sometimes pay attention to other blogs that metion NewPages, but there is a great deal more being said here that I wish librarians, English dept. folk who can bend a librarian’s ear and just readers in general would make note of and act on. Schneider, author of the blog Free Range Librarian, tackles reasons librarians cite for not subscribing to lit mags, including cost and “they’re online.” Below are excerpts – got to the site, read it, send it to the people you know who make these decisions – or print it, hand it to them in person, and say, “Let’s talk about this.”

The statue on the green: the fate of small literary journals
October 7, 2007 at 5:28 pm by K.G. Schneider

“Most literary journals run about $20 – $50 a pop per year–enough to give casual readers pause, as Stephen King recently observed, but far less than the titles that librarians are talking about when they say serials are expensive. A fairly comprehensive subscription to the Canon could be had for a couple thou a year, which is chump change against the scale of most academic serial budgets. I haven’t run the numbers, but I’m confident you could go hog wild and subscribe to everything on the newpages.com list of print literary mags and still spend less than you would for one of the top ten high-priced journals at Williams College.”

New Lit on the Block :: Canteen

Canteen: The literary magazine that comes with instructions.

“Interest in reading literature has been eclipsed by interest in how and why literature is made. At least that’s how we explain why it’s easier to earn money teaching creative writing than practicing it. Add the ascendance of the memoir over the novel, scandal over plot, biography over oeuvre, and you realize something: It’s no longer enough just to experience the arts—we want to be part of their creation.

“Canteen aims to engage readers with both the arts and the creative process. In this inaugural issue, Andrew Sean Greer confesses to his early novels, the first written at age 10; Po Bronson examines a suicide attempt by a reader; Julie Orringer and Ryan Harty make couple’s poetry from a kit; and Dennis Leary pulls off his chef’s jacket to design restaurants of the future.”

Canteen accepts poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, commentary, and individual or portfolio artwork.

New Lit on the Block :: Plankton

From Jeoslyn Roebuck: “Plankton was born out of the Virginia Tech tragedy and seeks to showcase new and emerging artists, poets and writers. Each issue will reflect a different angle of creativity. The first issue is designed more or less as a concept album that crafts of story of its own out of eachi individually accepted submission.” Plankton is published quarterly and is available as a full-color, full-text PDF (takes several minutes to download). Plankton accepts poetry and art submisisons.

A Literary Journal is Reborn

Quarterly ‘Hopkins Review’ will launch this month

From Greg Rienzi’s contribution to The JHU Gazette:

“Dormant for more than five decades, The Hopkins Review makes a triumphant return to the literary landscape this fall.

“The original Hopkins Review was launched in 1947 by the Writing Seminars, then called the Department of Writing, Speech and Drama. The literary magazine back then was a thin paperback volume that sold for 25 cents a copy. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer John Barth, a Writing Seminars alumnus and later a JHU faculty member, published his first story in its pages, which also included the works of such celebrated poets as Richard Wilbur and E.E. Cummings.

“The magazine eventually languished due to a lack of funds and a dwindling number of full-time faculty in the department. It folded in 1953.

“The 190-page quarterly literary magazine will publish fiction; poetry; memoirs; essays on literature, drama, film, the visual arts, music and dance; and reviews of books in all these areas, as well as reviews of performances and exhibits.”

Read more about JHR Reborn.

Lit Mag Mailbag :: October 2

For information about these and many other quality literary magazines, click the links or visit The NewPages Guide to Literary Journals. Also visit the NewPages Literary Magazine Reviews for new reviews as well as an archive of past reviews.

The American Scholar
“Brooklyn Books of Wonder”
Volume 76 Number 4
Autumn 2007
Quarterly

American Short Fiction
Volume 10 Issue 38
Summer 2007
Quarterly

Bellevue Literary Review
Volume 7 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Event
Volume 36 Number 2
2007
Triannual

Fourth Genre
Volume 9 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

Harpur Palate
Volume 7 Issue 1
Summer 2006
Biannual

Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse
Numbers 56-57
Spring-Summer 2007
Quarterly
Featured Poet: Melissa Balmain

Michigan Quarterly Review
Volume 46 Number 4
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Nimrod
Volume 51 Number 1
Fall/Winter 2007
Biannual
29th Annual Awards Issue

Poetry
Volume 191 Number 1
October 2007
Monthly

Porcupine
Volume 10 Number 2
2007
Biannual

Prairie Schooner
Volume 81 Number
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Santa Monica Review
Volume 19 Number 2
Fall 2007
Biannual

South Dakota Review
Volume 45 Number 2
Summer 2007
Quarterly

Virginia Quarterly Review
Volume 83 Number 4
Fall 2007
Quarterly
South America in the 21st Century

Yellow Medicine Review
A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought
Volume 2
2007
Biannual

Lit Mag Mailbag :: Sep 21

The Antigonish Review
Number 150
Summer 2007
Quarterly

Burnside Review
Volume 3 Number 2
2007
9-month

Cue
Volume 4 Issue 1
Winter 2007
Biannual

Grain Magazine
Volume 35 Number 1
Summer 2007
Quarterly

GreenPrints
Number 71
Autumn 2007
Quarterly

Iodine Poetry Journal
Volume 8 Number 2
Fall/Winter 2007/2008
Biannual

Make
Issue 5
Summer/Fall 2007
Quarterly

The Massachusetts Review
Volume 48 Number 3
Fall 2007
Quarterly

New Madrid
Volume 2 Number 2
Summer 2007
Biannual

Notre Dame Review
Number 24
Summer/Fall 2007
Biannual

One Story
Issue Number 94
Monthly

Porcupine
Volume 10 Number 2
2007
Biannual

Quay: A Journal of the Arts
Volume 1 Issue 2
September-December 2007
Triannual

Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics
Number 5
2007
Annual

Shenandoah
Volume 57 Number 2
Fall 2007
Quarterly

Some Light Verse

JARRING NEWS
The price of pots in Athens!
It really made me burn
when the potter told me just how much
I owed on a Grecian urn.
-JACK LITTLE

From Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse, whose goals are “to restore clarity, wit, readability, and enjoyment to the reading of poems through the use of cadence, rhythm, and rhyme, and to promote the learning of such poems by heart.”

Lit Mag Mailbag :: September 5

The American Poetry Review
Volume 36 Number 5, Sept/Oct 2007
Bimonthly

Arkansas Review
Volume 38 Number 2, August 2007
Triannual

Canteen Magazine
Issue 1, 2007
Quarterly

Cut Bank
67, Spring 2007
Biannual

Feminist Studies
Volume 33 Number 1, Spring 2007
Triannual

Glimmer TrainIssue 64, Fall 2007
Quarterly

Greensboro Review
Number 82, Fall 2007
Biannual

Hiram Poetry Review
Issue 68, Spring 2007
Annual

Inkwell
Number 21, Spring 2007
Biannual

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
Number 16
Biannual

New England Review
Volume 28 Number 3, 2007
Quarterly

North Central Review
Spring 2007
Biannual

One Story
Issue Number 93, 2007
Monthly

The Rambler
Volume 4 Number 5, Sep-Oct 2007
Bi-monthly

Ruminate
Issue 5, Fall 2007
Quarterly

Southern Humanities Review
Volume 41 Number 3, Summer 2007
Quarterly

Wasafiri
Issue Number 49, Winter 2006
Triannual

World Literature Today
Volume 81 Number 5, Sep-Oct 2007
Quarterly

New Lit on the Block :: St. Petersburg Review

St. Petersburg Review, Issue #1 (216 pages) contains 48 pieces (poetry, fiction, and nonfiction) by 34 writers; 28, or 58 percent of the pieces are in translation, and 16 of the authors(47 percent) are non-American, many, in this issue, Russian writers who teach or lecture at St. Petersburg Summer Literary Seminars (SLS). The first issue is enhanced by its symbiotic relationship with SLS. Besides providing an all-star list of Russian and American writers for SPR editors to solicit, SLS served as the venue for the journal’s launch, and provided a copy to each workshop participant. In the first two weeks of SPR’s launch, over 200 copies were sold and/or distributed. Unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, and plays will be accepted September 1 through January 15 of each year.

Lit Mag Mailbag :: August 26

Alligator Juniper
Issue 12, 2007
Annual

Beloit Poetry Journal
Volume 58 Number 1, Fall 2007
Quarterly

Calyx
Volume 24 Number 1, Summer 2007
Triannual

Cavaet Lector
Volume 19 Number 2, Summer 2007
Quarterly

Cave Wall
Number 2, Summer 2007
Biannual

Cimarron Review
Issue 160, Summer 2007
Quarterly

Conveyer
Issue Number 2, Summer 2007
Annual?

Fiddlehead
Number 232, Summer 2007
Quarterly

Glimmer Train
Issue 64, Fall 2007
Quarterly

Matter
Issue 10, 2007
Biannual

New Genre
Issue 5, Spring 2007
Annual

New Letters
Volume 73 Number 3, 2007
Quarterly

New York Quarterly
Number 63, 2007
Quarterly

North Dakota Quarterly
Volume 74 Number 1, Winter 2007
Quarterly

Open Minds Quarterly
Volume 9 Number 2, Summer 2007
Quarterly

Poetry
Volume 190 Number 5, September 2007
Monthly

A Public Space (APS)
Issue 4, 2007
Quarterly

River Teeth
Volume 8 Number 2, Spring 2007
Biannual

Salmagundi
Numbers 155-156, Summer-Fall 2007
Quarterly

The Sewanee Review
Volume 115 Number 3, Summer 2007
Quarterly

South Loop Review
Volume 9, 2006
Annual

Tampa Review
Issue 33/34, 2007
Biannual

It’s Not Dead Yet…Parnassus Lives

Parnassus Lives
August 12th, 2007 by Jeremy Axelrod for the Kenyon Review
Parnassus: Poetry in Review will not be closing shop with Volume 30, after all. Until recently, financial woes made that round, impressive number seem like a sensible finale for the journal’s magnificent run. As Meg Galipault noted on KR Blog [Kenyon Review Blog], Willard Spiegelman wrote in the Wall Street Journal about its “commitment to intelligence and beautiful writing” — an achievement that’s sadly not enough to fill the till. But sometimes poetry does make things happen, or at least poetry critics do. A very generous reader of the Wall Street Journal saw Spiegelman’s article and offered to fully fund Parnassus for two more years. In the last few months, many magazines and newspapers have lamented the end of Parnassus and praised its decades of excellence. Nobody spoke too soon. When the donation materialized, it was an utter surprise for everyone. [Read the rest on KR Blog]

Lit Mag Mailbag :: August 7, 2007

Ascent
Volume 30 Number 3, Spring 2007
Triannual

Bellingham Review
Volume 30 Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Fall 2007
Biannual

The Hudson Review
Volume 60 Number 2, Summer 2007
Quarterly

The Journal of Ordinary Thought
Spring 2007
Quarterly

Kaleidoscope
Number 55, Summer/Fall 2007
Biannual

The MacGuffin
Volume 23 Number 3, Spring/Summer 2007
Triannual

The Massachusetts Review
Volume 48 Number 2, Summer 2007
Quarterly

Michigan Quarterly Review
Volume 46 Number 3, Summer 2007
Quarterly

The Midwest Quarterly
Volume 48 Number 4, Summer 2007
Quarterly

The New Centennial Review
Volume 6 Number 2, Winter 2006
Triannual

One Story
Issue Number 91, 2007
Monthly

Parthenon West Review
Issue 5, 2007
Biannual

Rock and Sling
Volume 4 Issue 1, Summer 2007
Biannual

Skidrow Penthouse
Issue Number 8, 2007
Annual

Sou’wester
Volume 35 Number 2, Spring 2007
Biannual

Lit Mag Update :: StoryQuartely

StoryQuarterly announces that our new system for receiving submissions year-round is now online. Also, the SQ Fiction Contest is accepting entries until September 30 and offers a First Prize of $2,500, a Second Prize of $1,500, and a Third Prize of $750. Additionally, ten Finalists will each receive $100. The new issue of SQ is also online, featuring:
Charles Johnson’s short story “Night Watch, 500 BCE”
Steve Kistulentz’s short story “Reykjavík the Beautiful”
Gary Buslik’s short story “Don’t Open That Door”
Elea Carey’s short story “First Love, Last Love”
Darrach Dolan’s short story “Riot”
Golda Goldbloom’s “Wyalkatchem Stories”
Skip Horack’s short story “Bluebonnet Swamp”
Hannah Pittard’s short story “Pretty Parts”
Emily Rapp’s short story “November”

Submissions :: North Central Review, IL

The staff of the North Central Review invites you to submit to the national, undergraduate literary journal published by North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. The North Central Review considers all literary genres, including short fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction, and mixed-genre pieces, for two issues annually. The submission deadlines for the Fall and Spring issues are October 15 and February 15, respectively.

Lit Mag Mailbag :: July 18

Absinthe
Number 6, 2006
Number 7, 2007

The American Poetry Review
Volume 36 Number 4, July/August 2007

Borderlands Texas Poetry Review
Number 28, Spring/Summer 2007

College Literature
Volume 34 Issue 3, Summer 2007
Special Focus: Popular Textualities

The Distillery
A Literary/Creative Arts Journal published by Motlow State CC
Volume 14 Number 1, July 2007

Event
Volume 36 Number 1, 2007

Frogpond
The Journal of the Haiku Society of America
Volume 30 Number 2, Spring/Summer 2007

Habitus
Number 2, Spring/Summer 2007
Focus: Sarajevo

Main Street Rag
Volume 12 Number 2, Summer 2007

The Malahat Review
Number 159, Summer 2007

New England Review
Volume 28 Number 2, 2007

Paterson Literary Review
Issue 35, 2006

Salt Hill
19, Winter 2007
Biannual

South Dakota Review
Volume 45 Number 1, Spring 2007

Upstreet
Number 3, 2007

Yale Review, The
Volume 95 Number 3, July 2007

New Issue: Carve Magazine

The Carve Volume 8 Issue 2, Summer 2007

Hybrid
by Stephanie Dickinson
I’m looking at myself in the taxi’s side mirror. You will never get a kiss because you’re invisible, the mirror says, a glare of sun where my face should be…[Read more]

Samurai Bluegrass
by Craig Terlson
Their harmonies teeter on the edge of sweetness and mournful whine. It’s that high lonesome sound. The bluegrass band enraptures the pierced patrons, their ghost-white faces tilt toward the stage…[Read more]

Turning the Bones
by Marcy Campbell
Jillian and I are sitting on the hard-packed earth in front of a large fire, the flames illuminating the faces of the others in the circle. The air is saturated with the smell of spice, strong coffee and sweat…[Read more]

If You Don’t
by Rob Bass
When Ryan is four and Colleen is two, another toddler comes up to her in the sandbox and kicks over the upside down bucket mold she’s just finished patting down to perfection. She throws her hands up in the air and lets loose with a great wail and Ryan stomps over to push the offending party down into the sand…[Read more]

New Issue: Contrary Magazine

The summer 2007 issue of Contrary Magazine features the prose poetry of wildlife biologist Patrick Loafman, whose eye for the natural captures the magical. Poetic prose is Contrary’s specialty, and you’ll find more examples in stories by Thomas King (of McSweeney’s and The Believer), Sarah Layden, and Amy Reed. We also have new poetry by C.E. Chaffin, Derek Pollard, Taylor Graham, and Patrick Reichard.

In other news from Contrary:
A poem by Contrary Poetry Editor Shaindel Beers won first place in the Dylan Days Festival, honoring Bob Dylan, in Hibbing Minnesota. Her poem “Rewind” surpassed about 400 poems from 250-300 poets from almost every state and most continents.

Two Contrary contributors have new books out: Mary E. Mitchell’s novel Starting Out Sideways (St. Martin’s Press), and Corey Mesler’s winner of the Southern Hum Chapbook Competition,The Lita Conversation.

Interesting Times for Lit Mags

Interesting indeed, given the number of lit mags currently in editorial and financial flux, as noted in the Virginia Times Quarterly Blog. Magazines mentioned include Ploughshares, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Granta, Paris Review, The Antioch Review, and most notably (for their unique response) McSweeny’s, facing $130,000 debt has turned to an online auction to raise money (a guided tour of the Daily Show with John Hodgman is still availaible – but hurry).

New Issue: Raving Dove


Raving Dove is an online literary journal dedicated to sharing thought-provoking writing, photography, and art that opposes the use of violence as conflict resolution, and embraces the intrinsic themes of peace and human rights.

Summer 2007 Contributors: Martha Braniff, Howard Camner, Sharon Carter, DB Cox, Arlene Distler, Michael Estabrook, Joachim Frank, David V. Gibson, Cory Hutcheson, John Kay, Laurel Lundstrom, Caroline Maun, Beverly Mills, Russell Reece, Anthony Santella, Dorit Sasson, Sarah Shaw, Roger Singer, Townsend Walker, Harry Youtt, Changming Yuan

Published in February, June, and October, Raving Dove welcomes original poetry, nonfiction essays, fiction, photography, and art. See submissions guidelines for complete details. Now reviewing work for the winter 2007 edition, which will be online on October 21st.

Contest Winners: McSweeny’s Convergences

A Convergence of Convergences
“To celebrate the release of Lawrence Weschler’s Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, we are launching an extravagant new contest: A Convergence of Convergences. Submit your own convergence—an unlikely, striking pair of images, along with a paragraph or three exploring the deeper resonances. The best contributions will be posted on the site, along with responding commentary from Weschler.”

See the list winners at McSweeny’s.

Submissions: Fault Magazine

“FAULT Magazine (www.faultmag.com) is seeking short stories, nonfiction essays, photographs and animated works that deal with human flaws. Each issue of the magazine will focus on a single undesirable characteristic, exploring who is affected by it, the impact it has on individuals, when it can be especially bad (or actually good), and any other aspect of the flaw that is interesting to consider.”

More info here: www.faultmag.com

Submissions: Dive Bar Stories Wanted

Tell Us Your Dive Bar Stories
“Barrelhouse is searching for non-fiction about your favorite dive bar, your best or worst dive bar story, the ‘I never thought these letters were true until I wound up shirtless drinking shots of Black House with three old men on a Sunday afternoon’ kind of dive bar story. It’s not really a contest, but the ones we like best will be published in a special section of our next print issue.”

Uh…pseudonyms allowed?

For more info, stagger on over to Barrelhouse.

Submissions: Ballyhoo

Ballyhoo Stories: 50 States Project
Ballyhoo is currently “accepting submissions for all states except California, New York, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Ohio, and Indiana. Stories should show a strong representation of the people and culture of the particular state. Stories should be no more than 5,000 words and have the state as either the subject or the setting. Please be sure to read one or two of our current stories for an idea of what we are looking for.”

Stop by Ballyhoo for more info: http://www.ballyhoostories.com/

Submissions: New Magazine Feature

War and the Environment: Cause and Effect

The literary anthology, North Atlantic Review, is open to submissions on war and its effect on the environment or the environment and its effects on war. We invite you to write an essay, short story, poem, song, or journal based on personal experience or philosophy. Please keep submissions under 5,000 words. This is a new section of the journal and will be included in future issues.

For more information: North Atlantic Review Submissions

New Lit on the Block

Greatcoat – A biannual publishing poetry, creative non-fiction, interviews, and photography, the editors of Greatcoat, “being of relatively sound mind and possessed of radically different literary tastes, do hereby relinquish any claim to rational thought, free time, and dreams of profit; in short, we have no illusions about what makes a literary journal successful.”

Nano Fiction: A Journal of Short Fiction from the University of Houston, “NANO Fiction is a non-profit literary journal run entirely by undergraduate students at the University of Houston. We plan to publish twice a year, with issues appearing each spring and fall. Our purpose is to share undergraduate work with others in a form that can be easily digested in a short amount of time.”

Peabody Props

Check out Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant blog – Richard Peabody: Mondo Literature – where Ed gives a well-deserved tip of the keyboard to Richard and his life-long dedication “to printing work by unknown poets and fiction writers, as well as seeking out the overlooked or neglected…” publishing “‘name’ writers — sometimes before they were ‘names’.” And recognizing that: “As if being an unparalleled literary impresario and entrepreneur isn’t enough, Rick is also a superb poet and fiction writer.” If you don’t know Gargoyle or Richard or Ed – you can get it all – and then some – in this one read.

Crazyhorse Winners Announced

Crazyhorse prize judges (Fiction judge: Antonya Nelson, Poetry judge: Marvin Bell) are pleased to announce:

Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner: Karen Brown for the story “Galatea”

Fiction finalists: Jacob M. Appel, Kathy Conner, Rick Craig, Diane Greco, and Ann Joslin Williams

Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize Winner: Jude Nutter for the poem “Frank O’Hara in Paradise”

Poetry finalists: Kurt Brown, Colin Cheney, Melody S. Gee, Luisa A. Igloria, John Isles, Joshua Kryah, Gabriella Klein Lindsey, M.B. McLatchey, Xu Smith, and Jared White

The 2007 Crazyhorse Prize Winners receive $2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse Number 72, due out Nov. 1, 2007.

2River View: New Issue Online

2River has just released the 11.4 (Summer 2007) issue of The 2River View,with new poems by Philp Brady, Therese Broderick, Ryan Collins, LydiaCooper, Michael Flanagan, Nancy Henry, Laura McCullough, Karen Pape, PetreStoica, and Sally Van Doren; and art from the Underground Series by MeganKarlen.

Take a few moments to stop by 2River and read or print the issue, available as PDF.

New Lit on the Block

Memoir (and)
Autobiography, Peotry, Essay, Graphics, Lies and More…
“Memoir (and) is a nonprofit literary journal born with these ideas in mind. Our mission is to publish traditional as well as non-traditional forms of nonfiction allied with memoir. This includes, but is not limited to, autobiography, diary, personal and critical essay, memoir, reportage, autobiographical fiction, alternative histories, journalistic accounts, ‘flash memoir,’ narrative poetry or ‘poemoir’ (it’s okay to groan, we did) and graphic memoir. No submission is too unusual—postmodern, modern or hypermodern—for us to consider. We look forward to the ways you will surprise, delight and perhaps shock us.”

Quay
A Journal of the Arts from Six Bad Apples Press
“Symmetry with error. A pattern you would think is incomplete but is not.”
Publishing literature and art three times a year online and in print.
CALL FOR SUBMISSION – open May 1 – June 30.

Bill Moyers: Call to Action

Stamp Out the Rate Hike: Stop the Post OfficeThe May 18, 2007 blog entry from Bill Moyers is a call to action to help small press publications. Large publishing firms (Time Warner at the forefront) have lobbied for substantial media mail postal rate increases with built-in discounts for those who send large amounts of mail. Small press publications would not receive these discounts.

In our work with NewPages, we are already hearing from literary magazines who fear they will need to cease publication if the rates go into effect because they simply cannot afford a 25-30% postal increase on their already tight budgets.

There is the link on Bill Moyers’s blog to the Free Press, where you can read more about this issue and how to take action – a sample letter to send to those making this decision is included.

New Lit Mag: Yellow Medicine Review

Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought

“The title Yellow Medicine Review is significant in that it incorporates the name of a river in Southwest Minnesota. The Dakota dug the yellow root of the moonseed plant for medicinal purposes, for healing. Such is the spirit of Yellow Medicine Review.

“At this time, we encourage submissions from indigenous perspectives in the area of fiction, poetry, scholarly essays, and art. We define indigenous universally as representative of all pre-colonial peoples.”

Lummox Journal Now Online

After eleven years in print and a hiatus of a few months, the Lummox Journal is now online!

This inaugural issue features two interviews that present ‘a sort of Ying and Yang view of modern poetry’: Billy Jones (Caboolture, AUS) and Hugh Fox (Madison, WI). Also of interest: an essay by Todd Moore on the poetics of American poetry, an article by Charles Ries on a poetry reading in Santa Cruz, CA, several reviews and some great poetry.

Read the inaugural issue here: Lummox Journal

Spring 2007 Noneuclidean Caf

Volume 2, Issue 3 – Spring 2007
All Free – All Online

Including:
A Word from the Editor, James Swingle
Articles by Femke Stuut and Kerry Hughes
Interviews with Judith DeLozier and Dr. Michael Shermer
Poetry Kristine Ong Muslim, Zachary C. Bush, Ken Head, Noel Slobada
Fiction by Ralph Greco, Jr., Daniel Ausema, Tesssa Johnstone, Tom Leveen, Mark Fewell, and Craig Pirrall
And book reviews

Noneuclidean Caf