Wolff Translator's Prize Winner 2012

Dalkey Archive Press has announced that translator Burton Pike has been awarded the Goethe-Institut's prestigious Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Gerhard Meier's Isle of the Dead, the first title in Dalkey Archive's ongoing Swiss Literature Series. Video of Dr. Pike reading from his translation at New York's Center for Fiction is available online at the Dalkey

Brevity Facelift - Same Great Content

Brevity has a slick new web design and solid content to back it up! This month features sixteen new flash essays, including work from Ander Monson, Patrick Rosal, Sean Prentiss, Jennifer Sinor, Gary Percesepe, with artwork by Marc Snyder. Brevity also features a writer's best friend: craft essays. This month's column explores the difference between an MFA thesis and a book (by Tabitha

Buy Lit Mags via Facebook!

Visit the new NewPages Webstore on Facebook! Buy single copies of your favorite lit mags and discover some new ones. Great for teachers and students for classroom use, for writers researching publications for submissions, and for readers whose bookstore and library shelves are thin on good literary magazines in print (if they have them at all!). Stop by now, shop, "Like" the page and share it

Documentary :: Waterwalk

Waterwalk: A Journey of 1,000 Miles Might Bring Them Together

After Blue Lake, Michigan, newspaper editor Steve Faulkner is laid off, his 17 year-old son Justin could have easily stepped aside and watched his dad frantically search for another job. Instead he persuades his workaholic dad to join him on the trip of a lifetime, a 1,000 mile canoe journey retracing the Marquette/Joliet discovery

New Lit on the Block :: Cactus Heart

Cactus Heart is a new PDF quarterly of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and art edited by Sara Rauch.

Rauch comments on starting Cactus Heart: “After being in publishing for six years, and a writer for at least double that time, I was inspired to create Cactus Heart as a new forum for engaging work. There are lots of great publications out there, and always more great writers looking

Joyce Collection Now Available Online

The National Library of Ireland has put its collection of James Joyce manuscripts online, free of charge. It’s an excellent resource, but appears daunting at first – so where should the reader start? Terence Killeen of IrishTimes.com gives an overview of the collection.

New Lit on the Block :: The Manila Envelope

Published quarterly in PDF format, The Manila Envelope features poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and art. While the full version is available only by subscription, selected works can be viewed online.

Literary Editor Cristina Querrer and Art Editor Tiana Madison started The Manila Envelope out of a desire “to present another avenue, another platform for writers and artists to publish

New Lit on the Block :: phren-Z

phren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine published by Santa Cruz Writes. phren-Z promotes the work of writers with a connection to Santa Cruz County, California, publishing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, monologues, essays, and interviews.

Editors Karen Ackland (fiction), Julia Chiapella (poetry), and Jory Post (non-fiction, plays, and monologues) started phren-Z “ to develop and

Mad Hatter Tribute to Carol Novack

Mad Hatters' Review 13 is a tribute issue to founder and editor Carol Novack (1948-2011). The issue includes a number of her works as well as works by others in tribute to Carol. Editor Marc Vincenz (Reykjavik, Iceland) in his editor's stateme writes of working with Carol, those final months which came too quickly, and the continuation of Mad Hatter ventures:

"I have heard whispers that a few of

Big Bridge Celebrates 15

For 15 years Big Bridge has published a wide and varied selection of poetry, fiction, art, essays, and more. "And through this work," comment the editors, "we hope we have conveyed our respect and love for all the great creative efforts of poets and artists we have known." The 15th Anniversary Edition is a fine continuation of this work, including the Feature Chapbook "bridge work" by Andrei

The New Flare

The Flagler Review, the journal of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, screenplays/plays, and artwork published by the students of Flagler University has undergone a slight name change, and will now be known as FLARE: The Flagler Review. "FLARE," the editors write, will be "a new light in the literary world. We want our journal to engage the mind and be visited over and over. This is our journal's

YES! Magazine Student Essay Contest Winners

The YES! National Student Writing Competition gives students the chance to write for a real audience and be published by an award-winning magazine. Each quarter, students have the opportunity to read and respond to a selected YES! Magazine article.

For Winter 2012, participants read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, "What's the Harm in Hunting?" by Alyssa Johnson. All of the winning

Conclave News

Conclave: A Journal of Character has announced several recent changes, including publishing the magazine on a bi-annual cycle as well making it available in e-format and including interviews. Conclave also wants to place literary journals in inner-city schools and libraries with help from supporters. Visit their website for more information on how you can help in their effort.

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their March Fiction Open competition; the Fiction Open competition is held quarterly. Stories generally range from 2000-6000 words, though up to 20,000 is fine. The next Fiction Open will take place in June. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.



First place: Silas Dent Zobal [pictured], of Freeburg, PA, wins $2500

Sentence New Editor

Sentence: A Jounral of Prose Poetics (published by Firewheel Editions) welcomes Brian Johnson as its new editor with this year's annual issue (#9). "I am naturally curious," Johnson writes, "how the issue before you, Sentence 9, will relate to the eight that came before it. It will be different, of course, but whether that difference is subtle or radical I will leave to the judgment of those of

Poetry: Comfort in Form

In the editor's introduction to issue 17 of Spillway, themed "Crossing Boarders," Susan Terris comments on the number of poetry submissions received "in exacting poetic forms." She explains, "In these pages, you'll find five sonnets. A sonnet, historically, is a little song; and you'll see this volume is threaded with them, many more small songs of 10-16 lines. We also have a villanelle, a

Alligator Juniper Contest Winners

The newest issue of Alligator Juniper from Prescott College (AZ) features the winners from the publication's annual writing and photography contest, as well as the winners of the Suzanne Tito Prize (a full list of finalists can be found on the website):



National Poetry Contest Winner

Elton Glaser, “Coupling on the Edge of Entropy”

Finalists: Christopher Buckley, Iris Marble Cushing, Marta

Audio Interview with YA Author J.L. Powers

I had the opportunity to interview J.L. (Jessica) Powers about her latest young adult novel, This Thing Called the Future (Cinco Puntos, 2011) set in a South African Zulu community. We discussed issues of appropriate content for YA novels, the responsibility of the writer in representing cultures other than her own, and the importance of literature as a voice for controversial issues. Listen to

New Lit on the Block :: Treehouse

Treehouse is a new online literary hub with weekly updates of creative nonfiction, fiction, short genre-benders and short screenplays or scenes.



The editors of Treehouse  hope their site “provides a place for new and established writers alike to exhibit writing that is brief in length, but interesting and unique in content” with a mission “to publish pleasingly unusual literature. Readers can

Drunken Boat Special Features

Drunken Boat, the international online journal of the arts, Spring 2012, features two special folios, including one on Native American women poets curated by Layli Long Soldier and another curated by Deborah Poe (Postcard Project) on Handmade/Homemade, a collection in video and photos of homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions, broadsides and books made from unorthodox

NewPages Updates

Check out the latest additions to NewPages:

NewPages Big List of Literary Magazines
Big Fiction [P] - novellas
Birdfeast [O] - poetry
Gambling the Aisle [O] - poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews, art
Literary Juice [O] - "Produced from 100% pure originality. . .works of fiction and poetry that are clever, bold, and even weird!"
The Manila Envelope [O] - poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art
Mizna

Hanging Loose 100

Begun in 1966, Hanging Loose magazine quietly celebrates 100 issues with its most recent publication.

First published as mimeographed loose pages in a cover envelope, inaugural contributors included Denise Levertov, John Gill, Jack Anderson, and Victor Contoski. As the publication continued, "the editors were in agreement that they were not interested in begging poems from famous writers but

The Poetry Station

The Poetry Station is a freely accessible web-based video channel and portal for poetry created by the English & Media Centre from a small grant from Arts Council of England.

Poets currently reading or being read on the site include: Menna Elfyn, John Agard, Moniza Alvi, Gillian Clarke, John Donne, Philip Gross, Hafez, Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, John Hegley, Nathan Jones, Jenny Joseph,

Andrew Suknaski Memorial

Via Chaudiere Books:

A memorial/wake reading for the late prairie poet Andrew Suknaski (July 30, 1942 - May 3, 2012), the poet of Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, will be held upstairs at The Carleton Tavern, 233 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale), Ottawa on Friday, June 1, 2012 at 7:30pm.

Hosted by rob mclennan, this informal gathering of friends, admirers, fans and otherwise well-wishers will feature

Audio Video Podcasts - Oh my!

Be sure to check out the NewPages Literary Multimedia Guide - podcasts, videos, and audio programs of interest from literary magazines, book publishers, alternative magazines, universities and bloggers. Includes poetry readings, lectures, author interviews, academic forums and news casts. Great for downloading and listening during the summer months - while traveling, hanging out on the beach,

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2012 Tusculum Review Winners

The newest issue of Tusculum Review includes the finalists and winners of their 2012 contest:

Fiction Prize, Final Judge Jaimy Gordon
Winner: Elizabeth Gonzalez
Finalists: Jacob M. Appel, Sean Lanigan, Shena McAuliffe

Poetry Prize, Final Judge Amy Gerstler
Winner: Jacqueline Berger
Finalists: Katie Cappello, Anna Marie Craighead-Kintis, Luisa A. Igloria, Leslie Williams

AQR Celebrates 30 with Photo Narratives

Alaska Quarterly Review celebrates 30 years of publishing with its Spring & Summer 2012 issue (v29 n1&2). Not to be missed in this issue is a stunning special feature: "Liberty and Justice (for all): A Global Photo Mosaic." This special feature includes 68 photographers from 22 nations with both narratives and photo captions. Though some photos are black and white, the entire section is given

Grain Contest Winners

The Winter 2012 (v39 n2) issue of Grain features the winners of the 23rd Annual Short Grain Writing Contest.

Fiction - Judged by Zsuzsi Gartner
1st Prize - Pete Duval
2nd Prize - Zack Haslam
3rd Prize - Zoey Peterson

Poetry - Judged by Jeramy Dodds
1st Prize - Tim Bowling
2nd Prize - Phoebe Wang
3rd Prize - Vincent Colistro

Neil Gaiman Interviews Stephen King

From Neil Gaiman's online journal: "I interviewed Stephen King for the UK Sunday Times Magazine. The interview appeared a few weeks ago. The Times keeps its site paywalled, so I thought I'd post the original version of the interview here. (This is the raw copy, and it's somewhat longer than the interview as published.)" [via Gerry Canavan]

The Mom Egg Celebrates 10 Years

The Mom Egg is an annual print literary journal of poetry, fiction, creative prose and art by mothers about everything, and by everyone about mothers and motherhood. The Mom Egg was founded in 2003 by Joy Rose, as the official literary magazine of Mamapalooza, an annual festival for mother-artists. Alana Ruben Free, a poet and playwright, took the helm as editor, a post she held through 2008;

2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose Winners

The winner and runners-up for the 2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, as judged by Sarah Manguso, appear in the Summer/Fall 2012 issue of Gulf Coast:

Winner
"Grand Canyon II" by Erica Olsen of Dolores, CO

Runners-up
"Why I Became a Fireman" by Paul Zaic of Dumfries, VA
"Master Bedroom" by Sonja Vitow of Brighton, MA

Anderbo Creative Nonfiction Prize Finalists

The works of four Anderbo Creative Nonfiction Prize Finalists can be read online: Erin Wood, Rob Lavendar, Lisa Shannon, and Suzanne Roberts.