New Letters

No other university writing program has this three-part, national publishing and broadcasting power. New Letters has won a National Magazine Award.

New Letters, a magazine of writing and art, and its companions, New Letters on the Air and BkMk Press, continue to publish the best new short stories, essays, memoirs, poetry and article, and to broadcast interviews with writers. BkMk Press has won a PEN/Faulkner. New Letters on the Air has won the Clarion. Those are just a few honors. For over 80 years, New Letters have published writers such as Edgar Lee Masters, J.D. Salinger, e.e. cummings, May Swenson, Robert Bly, Joyce Carol Oates, William Gass, Charles Simic, John Updike, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Walker Percy, Janet Burroway, Sherman Alexie, Marilyn Hacker, Maxine Kumin alongside many writers waiting to be discovered. In 2008, New Letters won the National Magazine Award for editorial excellence in the essay category, surpassing such competitors as The New Yorker, Elle and The Georgia Review. Three works published in New Letters magazine have been chosen to appear in “The Pushcart Prize # # , Best of the Small Presses (2010).”

10/02/2026

The bluelines are here—which means the new issue is officially on its way! Just a few more weeks until Vol. 92 nos. 3 & 4 (Summer/Fall 2026) lands in your mailbox.

Inside, you’ll find new fiction by Blair Hurley, Sean Ironman, Joanna Pearson, Stefano Cagnato, Bradley Bazzle, Kari Shemwell, Harriet Bradley, and Michael Keenan Gutierrez, alongside poetry by Christopher Howell, Selena Spier, Katie Berta, Kelle Groom, and many more. Plus essays by Naz Riahi, Nicholas Cooke, Ann Rae Jonas, Mallory Donoghue, Gretchen Ernster Henderson, and Samantha Edmonds.

Preorder your copy now and be among the first to receive this issue as soon as it’s published. https://bit.ly/4jyI3rB

New writing. New voices. A new issue of New Letters.

09/21/2026

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2026 New Letters Literary Awards!

Please join us in congratulating these three exceptional writers. Their work stood out among an extraordinary field of submissions, and we’re delighted to celebrate their talent.

Congratulations, Lindsey, Robert, and Melina! We can’t wait to share their work with with you!

https://www.newletters.org/awards-2026/

09/16/2026

Calling all cartoonists: We want to see your graphic short stories! We'll consider spreads of up to ten pages, black and white or color. Submit here: https://newlettersmagazine.submittable.com/submit.

09/14/2026

We’re excited to read your chapbooks! Submit up to 30 pages of poetry here: https://newlettersmagazine.submittable.com/submit.
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09/11/2026

We want to see your novellas or your long stories or your short novels or whatever you’d like to call them! 60 pages max or roughly 30,000 words. Submit here: https://bit.ly/3T77lSW

09/09/2026

We’ve just put down the red pens—the October issue is officially off to press! ⁠
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Want first dibs on the stories, poems & art we’ve been obsessing over? Subscribe now, and it’ll be on your doorstep the moment it drops.

https://bit.ly/4gtGMAl
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09/07/2026

Did you know if you subscribe to New Letters, we’ll waive the admin/reading fee on Submittable for the length of your subscription? Sound good? Come read with us. Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/4gtGMAl.

09/04/2026

Don't miss out! Order your copy here: https://bit.ly/46nTtXp

09/02/2026

We’re thrilled to announce that Curran Hatleberg will be the featured artist in our next issue!

Known for photographs that find beauty, strangeness, and quiet drama in the American landscape, Hatleberg’s work asks us to look a little longer and, perhaps, see a familiar world differently.

Coming this October. We can’t wait for you to see it!

08/31/2026

Did you know that New Letters hosts hundreds of audio interview with writers on our website? Head over to the NL website to browse our catalogue and listen to the likes of Charles Baxter, Russel Banks, Patricia Smith, and many other greats.

https://www.newletters.org/on_the_air_shows/

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