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Disguising Payments Hurts Writers

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 3, 2015
Literary journals don’t always pay contributors. But unpaid contributions are less of a problem for writers than literary journals that conceal their pay rates. Allison Williams, over at The Review…
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Neither Seen Nor Heard

  • Roxie Pell
  • May 19, 2015
When it comes to the slush pile, nobody wins: writers lose money submitting into a void while editors lose time skimming work that barely resembles their publication’s criteria. Lincoln Michael…
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Try, Try Again

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 4, 2015
Missouri Review editor Michael Nye explains the importance of persistence when it comes to submitting to literary journals, saying that editors do begin to recognize the names and writing of…
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You Are Doing It All Wrong

  • Lyz Lenz
  • January 8, 2015
The Review Review lists all the ways your submission strategy for your writing is just terrible (and how to make it better).
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Small Presses, Big Problems

  • Ian MacAllen
  • December 24, 2014
Have you ever considered what it would be like to run a small press? J. David Osborne, who runs Broken River Books, explains just what happens in a typical day:…
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Submission Strategy

  • Ian MacAllen
  • August 15, 2014
Writers don’t always use their time efficiently when it comes to submitting to literary journals. Luanne Castle, writing at The Review Review, explores strategies for improving the submission process: I…
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Giving Editors What They Want

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 5, 2013
For emerging writers, submitting pieces to literary magazines can be like hacking through a jungle of confusion with a guess-machete. This piece from The Review Review, titled “What Editors Want,” will…
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Get Loud with Quiet Lightning

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • June 18, 2013
The Rumpus is teaming up with San Francisco nonprofit Quiet Lightning to present a live literary mix tape, and we want you to join us! Submit a piece less than…
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How to Submit

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 30, 2013
For whatever reason, this austere paper system works better for me than others, which says more about how my mind works than it does about Excel spreadsheets. Maybe I’m projecting,…
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22 Suggestions

  • Sam Riley
  • July 21, 2011
HTMLGiant has 22 bits of submission-based knowledge that you can learn from/identify with, etc. No matter what your relation to submitting and publishing is, this list needs to be forwarded…
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For the love of God, we are not Generation Y

  • Seth Fischer
  • May 24, 2009
A little while ago, I got sick of hearing that my generation—which for some God awful reason is called Generation Y—was spoiled, lazy and stupid, all while we were fighting…
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