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Sponsor Spotlight: Fjords Review

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Fjords Review 2020 issueFjords Review is an annual print literary magazine featuring a wide range of diverse voices on a variety of topics. They also offer exclusive online content including reviews and interviews. Recent interviewees include Italo-Brazilian artist Laura Pretto Vargas and artist Jerry Anderson.

They celebrated 10 years of publication in 2020 and received a 2021 Pushcart Prize. They are open to submissions year-round and offer a free download of their Women’s Edition for a taste of what they like. They participate in Choice Magazine Listening which provides free audio recordings to the visually impaired.

While waiting for the release of their 2021 Edition, grab a copy of the 2020 issue, peruse their website content, and subscribe today. Don’t forget to stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more about them.

Kallisto Gaia Press Extends Book Contest Deadlines

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Kallisto Gaia Press logoKallisto Gaia Press, publisher of literary magazine The Ocotillo Review and The Texas Poetry Calendar, has decided to extend the deadline for its Acacia Fiction Prize and Saguaro Poetry from December 31 to Midnight, January 14. You still have time to perfect and submit your manuscripts! Both contests charge a $25 entry fee.

The Acacia Fiction Prize awards $1,200, publication, and 20 author copies to a collection of short fiction, flash fiction, or novellas totaling 40K to 75K words.

The Saguaro Poetry Prize awards $1,200, chapbook publication, and 20 author copies.

Glass Mountain Goes Digital

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

Glass Mountain Volume 25 feature

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

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

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

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

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

The Write Place at the Write Time Holiday Bizarre

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The Write Place at the Write Time 2020 Holiday BizarreOnline literary magazine The Write Place at the Write Time has created a virtual holiday bizarre to help bring people together and offer support during these troubling times. They are featuring vendors who are WPWT authors, artisans, artists, and staff as well as friends and family connected to WPWT.

From their Facebook page:

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

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

Sponsor Spotlight :: River Styx

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

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

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

Stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more.

Free Live Master Class: Finish Your Nonfiction Book in 2021

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Janna Marlies Maron, editor and publisher of digital literary magazine Under the Gum Tree, is hosting a FREE live master class on December 17 at 3:00 PM. The class is titled Finish Your Nonfiction Book in 2021: 3 Shifts You Need to Make. This class is designed to help you have the right foundation to accomplish this goal.

During the live class you will learn the importance of identifying your WHY, how to set manageable and realistic goals, why you may not need as much time to write as you think, Janna’s hack for overcoming writer’s block, and her philosophy for establishing a holistic approach to getting a book done.

You can save a spot for this free class at Crowdcast.

Also, don’t forget to grab a copy of the latest digital issue of Under the Gum Tree (Fall 2020) featuring stories from Caroline Goodwin, Arielle Schussler, Carol Ann Wilson, Lisa Witz, Angela C. Kramer, Andrée Rose Catalfamo, and Nicole R. Zimmerman. Plus a photo essay by Fernando Socorro and artwork by Skip Lee.

Rain Taxi 2020 Benefit Auction

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

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

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

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

Creative Nonfiction Holiday Sale Ends Tonight!

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

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

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

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

Creative Writing in the Heart of Brooklyn

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Long Island University, Brooklyn MFAThe MFA in Creative Writing at Long Island University is an innovative program centering on world literature, multi-genre education, and publishing. They prepare their students to be “professional writers in the world and visionary literary citizens.”

The LIU Brooklyn MFA is a two-year residency program that also helps prepare its students for careers in creative writing, academia, translation, and publishing. Students have the option of studying poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting, and translation to receive a robust multi-genre education.

Students are able to learn about commercial, independent, and academic publishing during the course of their study while studying directly with professionals at the heart of the publishing industry. Current faculty include Zaina Arafat, Rita Banerjee, and Robin Hemley.

The priority deadline to apply to the program is February 15. Learn more by stopping by their listing on NewPages.

Sponsor Spotlight :: Eastern Michigan University Interdisciplinary MA in Creative Writing

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The MA in Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University is distinguished as one of the only interdisciplinary programs for creative writing in the country. They accept applications year-round with January 10 being the priority deadline for the fall term.

“Locating the writer’s work along the frontiers of social imaginaries and civic possibilities, our program nourishes opportunities to develop a conceptually rigorous and imaginatively engaged writing.” The program also emphasizes the importance of aesthetic risk and social application while also offering writers opportunities to explore multiple arts and mixed genres.

Core faculty for the program are Rob Halpern, Carla Harryman, Christine Hume, and Matt Kirkpatrick. Recent visiting writers include Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Nathaniel Mackey, Ted Pearson, Joanna Rocco, Daniel Borzutzky, Wayne Kostenbaum, Kevin Killian, Sarah Schulman.

They also have a literary magazine, BathHouse Journal, and a reading series, BathHouse Reading Series.

Stop by their listing at NewPages to learn more about the program.

Sponsor Spotlight :: Stickman Review

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

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

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