Thank you for this! As an added note to your mention of Submittable's No Fee filter on Discover, the ones where organizations have chosen to add their fees within the form as different answerable options are the ones not filtered out.
An excellent article, and thanks for the Comps and Calls mention! I subscribe to a different litmag every year, so that at least I'm doing something to support them. Though the ones that don't charge submission fees sometimes thank me for listing them in C&C, so that's a way of helping them too. Some very helpful tips here, and I've learned a thing or two. Many thanks.
For every five dollars that I am able to save, I can buy a copy of one of my books at cost to give to a friend, industry person, or future friend. I enjoyed this article and all the great suggestions.
Thank you for this resource. As a new author looking to get some of my writing published, I don't have a strong preference either way (actually I'm used to paying fees from Academic Writing), but this guide helped me to understand some of the resources available to begin to get published.
Thanks so much for all your work. To help me find free submission opportunities, I downloaded Brecht's Top 1000 Literature Magazines, and then filtered out any of the paying markets, leaving me with a ton of free markets to research.
Am I the only one who thinks Split Lip waiving its submission fee for black writers is absurd? What about hispanic writers? Or Chinese? Or Korean? Or Catholic? Or Jewish? All those groups have been stigmatized, oppressed, or treated unfairly in some way in our history. What about female writers? What about senior writers? Politically conservative writers (who can’t get a thing published even today)? And what about the black writer who was born into an influential and powerful American family? They get to submit for free, too, just because they are black?
When a lit mag has a no-fee policy but tells you on their Submissions page that subscribing for a year moves your work to "the top of the pile," how is that not a submission fee for anyone willing to buy the subscription?
As always (and as a long-time grateful subscriber to your newsletter and links, Erika), your advice summarizes terrific options and resources for keeping the search for fee-free submissions from becoming chaotic. Thank you so much for your work and research!
First of all, thank you, Erika, for this column -- and for your very helpful columns with fee-free opps.
* * Writers: If you ever lose track of Erika, her site is linked on the "Published to Death" Blog.
N.B.: there are poetry zines who do not charge for submissions and who also graciously tend to offer free feedback on rejected poems, if requested.
I always send a Ko-Fi tip afterwards --- and encourage tipping good poetry publishers, subscribing to poetry newsletters, and boosting your favorite zines' posts on social media!
Thank you for this! As an added note to your mention of Submittable's No Fee filter on Discover, the ones where organizations have chosen to add their fees within the form as different answerable options are the ones not filtered out.
An excellent article, and thanks for the Comps and Calls mention! I subscribe to a different litmag every year, so that at least I'm doing something to support them. Though the ones that don't charge submission fees sometimes thank me for listing them in C&C, so that's a way of helping them too. Some very helpful tips here, and I've learned a thing or two. Many thanks.
For every five dollars that I am able to save, I can buy a copy of one of my books at cost to give to a friend, industry person, or future friend. I enjoyed this article and all the great suggestions.
Very helpful tips, thank you!
Really great. Thanks for this, Erika.
Thank you for this resource. As a new author looking to get some of my writing published, I don't have a strong preference either way (actually I'm used to paying fees from Academic Writing), but this guide helped me to understand some of the resources available to begin to get published.
Thank you Erika for your continued help to other writers. Your generosity is an inspiration.
Thanks for this, Erika, and for all you do for our writing community! And thanks to you too, Becky!
Thank you for your effort. All sensible suggestions.
Thank you so much for your meticulous work on this.
Thanks so much for all your work. To help me find free submission opportunities, I downloaded Brecht's Top 1000 Literature Magazines, and then filtered out any of the paying markets, leaving me with a ton of free markets to research.
Am I the only one who thinks Split Lip waiving its submission fee for black writers is absurd? What about hispanic writers? Or Chinese? Or Korean? Or Catholic? Or Jewish? All those groups have been stigmatized, oppressed, or treated unfairly in some way in our history. What about female writers? What about senior writers? Politically conservative writers (who can’t get a thing published even today)? And what about the black writer who was born into an influential and powerful American family? They get to submit for free, too, just because they are black?
When a lit mag has a no-fee policy but tells you on their Submissions page that subscribing for a year moves your work to "the top of the pile," how is that not a submission fee for anyone willing to buy the subscription?
As always (and as a long-time grateful subscriber to your newsletter and links, Erika), your advice summarizes terrific options and resources for keeping the search for fee-free submissions from becoming chaotic. Thank you so much for your work and research!
First of all, thank you, Erika, for this column -- and for your very helpful columns with fee-free opps.
* * Writers: If you ever lose track of Erika, her site is linked on the "Published to Death" Blog.
N.B.: there are poetry zines who do not charge for submissions and who also graciously tend to offer free feedback on rejected poems, if requested.
I always send a Ko-Fi tip afterwards --- and encourage tipping good poetry publishers, subscribing to poetry newsletters, and boosting your favorite zines' posts on social media!
The Gasher First Book Prize has been cancelled, hopefully just for this year.