#AmWriting How (and Why) to Submit to Literary Mags and Small Presses
Let me start with this: if you have any interest at all in literary magazines or small presses, you want this book: How to Submit: Getting Your Writing Published with Literary Magazines and Small Presses. It’s a wonderful book and a great guide, and will lead you into this world and help you feel good about your journey without your getting lost in the universe of scattered information that’s available online. We’ve included a ton of links to that scattered universe below, but I encourage you to buy the book, which will ground you in your own journey.
I loved doing this interview, which felt like a return to my own roots in magazine work. As Dennis puts it in the book, there is something about doing the work of shorter pieces and pushing your own boundaries that can be remarkably helpful whether or not you’re also engaged in long form book, and there’s nothing I love more than a roadmap and a checklist. Start, please, by reading and exploring in this world, and then we hope to hear about you contributing. Send links, always!
You know, that’s a thing we should do. I’m creating a chat for links and success stories. By the time you see this, it will have been rolling for a while, but go check it out and add yours HERE.
And follow Dennis!
Links from the pod
Heavy Feather Review’s Where to Submit list
Making a Literary Life, Carolyn See
Clifford Garstang’s Literary Magazine Rankings
Margot Atwell’s piece in LitHub about the big five thinking of small press as farm Team
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Dennis: God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas
Material Witness, Aditi Machado
Runaways: A Writer's Dilemma, Michael J. Seidlinger
KJ: Margo's Got Money Troubles, Rufi Thorpe
Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor
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