literary magazines
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Three Cheers for Lit Mags!
And three cheers for LaTanya McQueen’s paean to them on The Missouri Review‘s blog. Her description of losing hours in bookstores among copies of Tin House and Conjunction will no doubt ring true to many of you: We’d come to a story we…
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Postcard Lit Mag
“‘Brevity is the soul of wit.’ And of other things, too.” HOOT is a “brief, displayable, shareable” literary magazine on a postcard. Original submissions of fewer than 150 words are accepted, and one piece is published in print each month.…
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New YA Literary Magazine
A new young adult literary magazine will be introduced in 2012. Each issue of One Teen Story “will feature one amazing short story about the teen experience.” A contest will determine the story for the final issue of the year.…
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Magazines Everywhere
The economics of publishing a literary magazine reveal some inauspicious stats. Magazine editors have to stay crafty and constantly reinvent what it means to be innovative, just to survive. Even offering digital options as an alternative to print doesn’t guarantee…
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Leafing Through Old Lit Magazines
Sometimes you read a story published almost a hundred years ago in a magazine and you ask yourself, “Would this stand a chance of getting published today?” These sentences are long, tangential and laden with disruptive conjunctions. This narrator is…