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How to Get Out of Your Own Way on the Road to Publication
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How to Get Out of Your Own Way on the Road to Publication

"Are you sabotaging yourself?"

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Robert Villanueva
Apr 04, 2024
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Welcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world.


Writers on the road to publication in literary magazines — whether short stories, poems or nonfiction pieces — know the process can be fraught with obstacles. What many writers don’t realize is that they themselves may be one of those obstacles.

Are you one of them?

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Robert Villanueva
Robert Villanueva is a fiction assistant at The Heartland Review. His many publications include Blue Unicorn, ellipsis … literature and art, The Maine Review, The Summerset Review and his fiction collection, “A Fable of Freedom and Other Stories.”
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