AROHO's Orlando Prize Winners

The Spring 2012 issue of The Los Angeles Review (volume 11) includes A Room of Her Own's Orlando Prize winners: Orlando Creative Nonfiction PrizeDoris Ferleger, “Five Full Moons"Orlando Short Fiction PrizeBranden Boyer-White, “Crossing”Orlando Flash Fiction PrizeAmy Silverberg, “Write This Down” Orlando Poetry PrizeKathleen Savino, “History of Glass”A full list of winners and runners-up can be

Southern Poetry Review Celebrate Ten+

Southern Poetry Review celebrates "ten years at home in Savannah." Having traveled from Florida to North Carolina and then finally to Georgia where it has been the past ten years, the publication has 'traveled the world by staying local.' Issue 49.2 offers a retrospective of those ten years (though not including poems already selected for their fifty-year anthology).

New Lit on the Block :: Flycatcher

Flycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination of literature and art published online twice a year (winter and summer).Editors Christopher Martin, Kathleen Brewin Lewis, Karen Pickell, Precious Williams, Jennifer Martin, Laurence Stacey, Jordan Thrasher, and Megan Gehring created Flycatcher to help bring together a place-based literary conversation in suburban Atlanta. Flycatcher does not

New Lit on the Block :: The Barefoot Review

The Barefoot Review is an online/PDF publication of poetry and short prose (non-fiction) meant to "provide a venue for people who have dealt with hardship to express themselves and read other about others who have faced hardship."Specifically, this biannual edited by Amy King, Nicholas Gordon, Mel Glenn, and Jason Teeple "welcomes submissions of poetry or short prose from people who have or have

Glimmer Train January Very Short Fiction Winners

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their January Very Short Fiction competition. This competition is held twice a year and is open to all writers for stories with a word count not exceeding 3000. No theme restrictions. The next Very Short Fiction competition will take place in July. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here. First place: Brad Beauregard, of

March Literary Magazine Reviews

Check out the latest great post of NewPages Literary Magazine Reviews, including both new and established publications:Armchair/ShotgunBasaltThe Bitter OleanderCimarron ReviewThe Dirty GoatGargoyleInkwellInscapeMemoir (and)New MadridNotre Dame ReviewPermafrostPoetry InternationalToad Suck ReviewWorld Literature Today

Amazon's Assault on Intellectual Freedom

"To do business with Amazon would mean reducing the profit margin to the point of often losing money on every book or ebook sold. . . Amazon is the Walmart of online bookselling. The dispute between Amazon and IPG [Independent Publishers Group] will affect every literate person in America. It is a matter that goes to the heart of what librarians have termed 'intellectual freedom.' In other words,

New Lit on the Block :: Crossed Out Magazine

Crossed Out Magazine is an online bi-annual (summer/winter) edited by John Joseph Hill and Ana Zurawski, with the first issue is focused on fiction.Motivating their efforts to start up a new publication, Hill and Zurawski were driven by a desire "to publish short fiction that is fast paced and socially aware to some degree. We also believe that independent, free, online magazines allow writers a

New Lit on the Block :: drafthorse

drafthorse is a biannual (Feb/July) online publication of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual narrative, and other media art.Editor Denton Loving, an emerging writer from East Tennessee, co-edits drafthorse along with Darnell Arnoult, prize-winning author of What Travels With Us: Poems (LSU Press) and the novel Sufficient Grace (Free Press). Liz Murphy Thomas is an artist, photographer

New Lit on the Block :: Northwind

Northwind is a literary quarterly published by Chain Bridge Press available online and via Kindle and edited by Tom Howard (Managing Editor) and Abbe Steel (Editor).Tom Howard commented on the motivation to start a new literary magazine: "I guess because a world full of stories is a richer kind of world. And there's something exhilarating about not only finding stories and poems that deserve an

New Lit on the Block :: Monarch Review

Hailing from the west coast, The Monarch Review is available online (publish 3 times a week, or so) and in print (publish every six months, available to purchase online and in Seattle bookstores). The editorial staff includes an eclectic mix of background and expertise with Jacob Uitti (Managing Editor, Poetry and Fiction Editor), Caleb Thompson (Nonfiction, Music and Poetry Editor), Andrew

Help Save Charles Olson’s Neighborhood

Peter Anastas, author of the Charles Olson memoir, From Gloucester Out is asking supporters to sign a petition and forward it to friends, poets, Olson and Gloucester lovers, who live outside of the city: "We are fighting hard to save Olson's neighborhood from the development of a luxury resort hotel at the Birdseye site, proposed by billionaire Jim Davis, owner of New Balance shoes. If the Fort

Slate Launches Book Reviews

Slate has just launched a new, monthly feature called the Slate Book Review. The first Saturday of every month, the Slate Book Review will take over the Slate homepage with reviews of new fiction and nonfiction; essays on reading, writing, and books of years gone by; author interviews; videos and podcasts, and much more.

subTerrian Lush Triumphant Literary Award Winners

Winners of the subTerrian 2011 Lush Triumphant Literary Awards can be found in the newest issue (Winter 2011/#60):Fiction:Michael Kissinger (Vancouver, BC) for "The Phantom"Creative Non-fiction:Mark Anthony Jarman (Fredericton, NB) for "The Troubled English Bride"Poetry:Kevin Spenst (Vancouver, BC) for "Five Poems from Ignite"Runners-up will be featured in the Spring 2012 (#61) issue. A full list

The Dreams of William Golding

Airing March 17 on BBC's Arena, The Dreams of William Golding reveals the extraordinary life of one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century. With unprecedented access to the unpublished diaries in which Golding recorded his dreams, the film penetrates deep into his private obsessions and insecurities. See preview clips and read commentary on New Statesman.

Naugatuck River Review Contest Winners

Winners of the Naugatuck River Review 3rd Annual Narrative Poetry Contest are included in the Winter 2012 issue (#7) of the journal:First Prize of $1000 plus publication: John Victor Anderson of Lafayette, LA for his poem, “Alligator Kisses”Second Prize of $250 plus publication: Lisa Drnec Kerr of Ashfield, MA for her poem, “Walking Horses”Third Prize of $100 plus publication: Monica Barron

Buy Literary Magazines Online - One Stop Shopping

NOW OPEN: NewPages Magazine WebstoreNow you can purchase single copies of a variety of current literary magazines from just one site!• Find titles you recognize and discover new magazines.• Browse issue content to find favorite authors as well as new voices.• Research magazines before submitting your writing.• Teachers & Students: FINALLY! One site to get classroom reading.• Support writers and

Poetry Hunt Contest Winners

The newest issue of Schoolcraft College's national literary magazine The MacGuffin (Winter 2012) features the winners of the issue of the 16th National Poet Hunt Contest, judged by Terry Blackhawk:First place:Barbara Saunier, "My Body, This Aging Cheese"Honorable mention:Sharron Singleton, "Hunger Moon"Liza Young, "The Color of Pleasure"

NewPages Book Reviews

Check out the NewPages Book Reviews for March and read the thoughtful commentary and analysis of the following titles:The HermitFiction by Ali SmithWindeyeFiction by Brian EvensonKilling the Murnion DogsPoetry by Joe WilkinsDarling EndangeredFiction by Carol GuessGoing to SeedPoetry by Charles GoodrichOn Subjects of Which we Know NothingPoetry by Karen CarciaThe Last of the EgyptiansCross-Genre

NewPages Updates

Added to the NewPages Big List of Literary Magazines:Box of Jars [O]Burntdistrict [P]Featherlit [O]Flashquake [P/O]Flycatcher [O]The Golden Triangle [O/APP]Hoot [O]Marco Polo Arts Mag [O]Mascara Review [O]Red Booth Review [O]Sprung Formal [P/O]Tiny Lights [P]Writer's Ink [O][P] = mainly a print publication[O] = mainly an online publication[P/O] = publication identifies as both print and online[

Southeast Review Contest Winners Issue

You can read the winners and finalists from The Southeast Review 2011 contests, listed below, in the newest issue (winter/spring, Volume 30.1):World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest judged by Robert Olen ButlerWinner: Kim Henderson, “A Burnside Park Sunburn”Finalists: Jen Fawkes, “Chrysalis” and “Hobbled”Thomas Israel Hopkins, “The Coat My Mother Gave Me”Elizabeth Long, “Trip Talk”Nancy Ludmerer,

Mississippi Review: A Barthleme Retrospective

The Mississippi Review celebrates 30 years with its newest issue (volume 39, numbers 1-3). "Thirty-three and a half, to be exact," Editor Julie Johnson begins her introduction. She's not speaking so much of the magazine itself as she is of Frederick Barthleme's long and distinguished history with the magazine before his 'impolite jettison' - "as part of a putsch at the university." Johnson took

Weave Poetry & FF Winners

Winners of the Weave 2011 contests are featured in the newest issue (7). The winner of the poetry contest, selected by Lisa Marie Basile, is "Dream" by Caleb Curtiss. Honorable mentions are "Peach Pull" by Jada Ach, "Fig Eaters" by Megan Cowen, and "Caroline Fox Considers Jeremy Bentham's Proposal (1805)" by Noel Sloboda. The winner of the flash fiction contest, selected by Bridgette Shade, is "

Anniversary :: Barrelhouse 10th

Barrelhouse, the independent non-profit literary organization, has successfully published their biannual print journal of fiction, poetry, interviews and essays about music, art and the "detritus of popular culture" now for ten years. Barrelhouse continues to host a monthly reading series in DC, showcasing the work of other lit mags and small presses, and offer online workshops for writers to "

Books :: Modern Haiku Anthology

New from Modern Haiku Press: Haiku 21: An Anthology of Contemporary English-Language Haiku edited by Lee Gurga and Scott Metz with an introduction by the editors. Over 600 haiku by more than 200 poets, perfect bound, 205 pages.

Midwest Short Fiction Contest Winners

The newest issues of Laurel Review (Fall 2011) features the winners of the first annual Midwest Short Fiction Contest for 2011. The winning story is "The Lost Episodes" by Bryan Furuness, and the runner-up is "Our Time in Norrmalmstorgh" by Christopher Merkner.