Q: How do you decide where to submit your writing?

"...with any submission strategy, it’s good to define for yourself what your goals are."

Welcome to our weekend conversation!

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In a recent open discussion thread, there was a request for me to describe my experience submitting and eventually publishing a personal essay. The essay is called “My Father Calls Me, Wondering About His Car. It was published in BULL Magazine in Fall 2024.

I’m happy to talk about my process.

First, I think that with any submission strategy, it’s good to define what your goals are. This came up in a recent Lit Mag Chat session. A writer asked the most simple (and perhaps important) question of all: How should I decide where to send my work?