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If you’ve been published in Eleventh Hour Literary, we’d love to promote your upcoming projects, publications or events — and share them with our literary community!
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Our friend, Douglas W. Milliken, author of “Longing V. Worth“ (published in our most recent issue), has news to share! He was recently featured on a Maine-based radio show called “Random Rules”, which aired an interview regarding his newest book, Any Less You. Some topics covered include: growing up in Aroostook County, memory, grief and, naturally,…
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Congratulations to Robert Miner — whose piece “Self-Portrait In A Lacemaker’s Hands” was published in our second issue — and who has just had a recent publication in Burningwood Literary Journal titled “The general’s family selects an earth spirit for his mausoleum”. To read the piece, click the link below! In other big news for…
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Our next contributor spotlight highlights the excellent academic work of Heather Ostman, who published “Water Wheel” with us back in our very first issue! Just last week, Routledge published her new book, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Religion, and the Search for Grace, exploring selected texts by four major American authors: Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sojourner Truth…
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We are excited to help announce that one of our contributors, Bill Garvey, author of “The Secret”, published in Issue 2.1, will have a full collection of poetry published this April with DarkWinter Press. Titled Leaning in the same direction, the collection is a poetic portrait of the people and places that make Canada a…
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Jake La Botz, who wrote “V-NECKS” for our Winter 2026 issue, has his debut short-story collection “Your Place in This World” coming this April from Cornerstone Press. Congratulations, Jake, and we encourage you all to check out another lovely literary magazine/publisher at the link below! If you’ve been published in Eleventh Hour Literary, we’d love to hear…
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JoAnneh Nagler, who wrote our prize-winning piece in issue 1.2, “Sonja Clay”, published in more than 10 NEW LITERARY MAGAZINES in 2025! Some of these publications include and are available to read at: Her book, Stay with Me, Wisconsin, was also a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2022, and has won several awards. Congratulations, JoAnneh, and we encourage…
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Jay Neugeboren, who contributed “The Morning Line” as a guest essay for our first issue, recently announced the upcoming release of his next book, Dickens in Brooklyn: Essays on Family, Writing, and Madness, due out April 28, 2026! Neugeboren explores experiences that have been central to his life: caring long-term for a brother with mental illness;…
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Robert Miner, who wrote “SELF-PORTRAIT IN A LACEMAKER’S HANDS” for our Summer 2025 issue, was recently awarded an honorable mention and publication in the 2025 Passager Poetry Contest, for his piece, “The servant of the poet Po Chü-I expresses her exasperation”. Congratulations, Robert, and we encourage you all to check out another lovely literary magazine/publisher at…
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Hello, readers! Today, we want to share the hard work of another contributor. Fendy S. Tulodo, author of “THE 00:03 MACHINE” (published in our Summer 2025 issue), had four new works released this past June. Good work, Fendy! Check them out today! If you’ve been published in Eleventh Hour Literary, we’d love to hear what…
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Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith, author of The Go Button, which won our Summer 2025 Poetry Prize, and Punk Music, has some great news to share this month: The Timberline Review has announced his piece “The Borderline Jaguar” as the winner of the 2025 Kay Snow Award! To learn more about the award or the journal, click the…
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Over in Southern California, one of our community members — Tom Misuraca, author of Stage Kiss — will proudly be presenting not one, but TWO shows for the stage later this year! IFs (Imaginary Friends) is a whimsical and touching comedy about childhood companions, growing up and finding connection in unexpected places. It will be presented…
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Eleventh Hour Literary wishes to extend a heartfelt congratulations to one of our contributors, Matthew James Babcock, author of The Golden Age of Distraction and Then The Summer. It was recently announced that Avalon Park Press has named him the winner of their inaugural 2025 Forsberg Prize for Fiction for his collection, Future Perfect. These short…
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Our friend — and contributor — Joe Ponepinto, author of “What We Choose to Remember” in Issue 1.1, has some news to share! As a long-time editor of Orca Literary, Ponepinto recently made the decision to shut down the journal. We are so sad to see it go, but its last two issues are available…
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Cynthia Miller Coffel, the author of the piece “SELF-HELP” featured in our Winter 2025 issue, has more great news to share with the EHL community! The Missouri Review has published a review of four novels about motherhood written by Coffel, titled “Hoodwinked: Four Novels About Becoming a Mother” in their Volume 48, Number 1, Spring…
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Jay Neugeboren, who contributed the Winter 2025 guest essay of EHL, “Morning Line + CODA”, has news to share with the community! The CUNY Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016, will host a FREE presentation, panel and question-and-answer session with Jay and his son, Eli Neugeboren, exploring the process and method…
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Cynthia Miller Coffel, the author of the piece “SELF-HELP” featured in our Winter 2025 issue, is up to great things! In September 2024, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes published her essay, “Stranger in a Strange Land“, in their “Husbands” issue. It is a list essay about her year of teaching in a school for pregnant teenagers. Keep…
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We’re trying something new in the coming months! If you’ve been published in Eleventh Hour Literary, we’d love to promote your upcoming projects, publications or events — and share them with our literary community. Here’s a few things we’d love to hear about: Readers, These submissions will be vetted by our Editorial Team based on…
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