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23/07/2025

Fiction the Web's editors are experienced in the lit mag scene & know what makes a story stand out. Consider utilizing their new critique services for detailed, personalized feedback of your story.
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22/07/2025

Esteemed author James Cherry is the final judge of The Headlight Review's Anthony Grooms Prize in Fiction. Enter novels, novellas, story collections, or flash collections of no more than 12,500 words by August 31. $18 fee. Winner receives $750, publication, & copies.

Enter the 2025 Anthony Grooms Prize in Fiction by August 31. Win $750 & chapbook publication from The Headlight Review Press.

22/07/2025

✍️ New Writing Prompt: It’s Not a Malady, Milady!

For centuries, women’s voices were dismissed as “too much.” This week, we reclaim those words and rewrite the narrative.

Create a poem, essay, or artwork that celebrates your strength and legacy.

Reclaim your voice with this Jane Austen-inspired writing prompt. Explore creativity, womanhood, and personal power through poetry, essays, or art.

22/07/2025

Read the Spring 2025 issue of Kings River Review & consider sending them your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and artwork for their Fall 2025 issue by October 15. They are open to work from current 2-year college students only.

Calling all community college students! Submit your artwork, nonfiction, fiction, and poetry to Kings River Review.

22/07/2025

Eleanor J. Bader reviews 'An Education,' in which a former conservative education advocate chronicles her shift to critiquing reforms.

https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/an-education-by-diane-ravitch/

21/07/2025

Offcourse Literary Journal publishes essays, poems, translations, short fiction, reviews of books, concerts, art exhibits, magazines, monuments, or "any attempts against oblivion." Read Issue #101 now!

Offcourse in an online quarterly, featuring diverse global authors, original languages, English translations, and varied literary forms.

21/07/2025

📬 Hot Pages & Cool Reads
From rabbit holes to writing goals — we’ve got your summer lit fix.

✨ New reviews, indie bookstore gems, submission calls, and a powerful prompt to reclaim your voice.

🗞️ Read the latest issue: newpages.substack.com
📅 Issue #190 | Available now

NewPages Newsletter #190: From rabbit holes to writing goals—we’ve got your summer lit fix.

20/07/2025

Jami Macarty reviews 'The Book Eaters' by Carolina Hotchandani, poems that examine selfhood, family, and cultural inheritance, using powerful metaphors of consumption to explore loss.

Carolina Hotchandani's 'The Book Eaters' explores identity, motherhood, and loss through self-portraits, confronting familial illness and cultural heritage.

19/07/2025

Kevin Brown reviews Florence Knapp's 'The Names' by Florence Knapp, in which three distinct storylines explore how a mother's choice of her son's name alters their lives.

Knapp's 'The Names' is a debut novel exploring three alternate lives for a family, each shaped by a mother's choice of her son's name.

19/07/2025

Get away to Tuscany this fall with Bret Lott to work on your fiction! Limited space available. Register by August 31 to enjoy finding your way as a writer in both mindful and practical ways October 5-11.

Join Bret Lott’s Tuscany Writing Retreat, October 5–11, 2025—an all-inclusive fiction week in Italy. Register by August 31.

19/07/2025

Inverted Syntax is accepting unpublished poetry collections for its two annual book prizes. The Sublingua Prize is open to women publishing their debut collection & the Aggrey & Tabbikha Prize for a 1st or 2nd book by Black and/or S.W.A.NA. writers.

Submit to Inverted Syntax’s poetry contests—open to debut and emerging poets. Winners receive publication, retreat, and $500.

19/07/2025

Wanting to hone your craft? Consequence Forum is offering workshops to help! These include Writing Sci-Fi War Stories & Writing through Conflict (nonfiction). A little something for everyone.

Enjoy new workshops from Consequence Forum including Writing Sci-Fi War Stories and The Grammar of History, the Syntax of War (poetry).