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Writing Wildly: How to Turn Experiments into a Cohesive Book

"I Want to Read Stuff That Makes Me Feel Alive." A Chat With Brian Mihok, Editor of matchbook

Sunday Lit Mags Comin' Down!

Time for a Lit-Mag-Adjacent Brag!

Who Reads Lit Mags? We Do! Spotlight on Nightmare; Weird Horror; The Dark Magazine; Nocturne; & Short Story, Long

Save the Dates! October Panels, Interviews, Info Sessions and a Class!

September lit mag brag!

"Place, Climate & Justice." A Chat With Simmons Buntin, Editor-in-Chief of Terrain.org

Getting the Right Feedback on Your Work

A Few Surveys for You...

Good Morning, Lit Mags, How Are You?!

Q: Why do so many writers *not* follow submission guidelines?

The Perils of Editing Poetry

“Why Do Lit Mags Fold? And How Do Writers Spot Lit Mags With Staying Power?"

Q: What are the pros & cons of publishing your own work on Substack?

Embrace the Suckitude! On Feeling and Dealing When Submitting Your Writing

"We Want to Read Everything That Comes In." A Chat with Jason Lee Norman, Editor of Funicular

Watch Me Dance, Dance the Lit Mag Away!

Should Facebook posts count as "previously published"?

Who Reads Lit Mags? We Do! Spotlight on Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Joyland, The Ekphrastic Review...

August lit mag brag!

Swim Another Lane: Why You Should Write Outside Your Comfort Zone

All Lit Mags Had To Do Was Stay!

Who reads lit mags?

How Does a Writer Build Community?

"Trying to Support as Many Different Kinds of Writers and Writing as I Can."A Chat with Beth Staples & Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Editors of Shenandoah

What can writers learn from the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders show?

Ten Ways I Found Homes for My Work (And Became a Better Writer)

Don't Go Breaking My Lit Mag!

Should editors be more transparent about their editorial processes?

Unexpected Experiences: On Artist Residencies for Writers

"The Submittable Minds." A Chat with Sumitra Singam, Nina Miller, Sally Reiser and Grant Shimmin, submission readers

Another Year of Reading Lit Mags! 2024-2025

Can we have a productive conversation about submission fees?

When a Plagiarism Accusation Is Weaponized as a Means to Discredit You

Summertime, and the Lit Maggin' is Easy!

July lit mag brag!

The Slow and Sad Death of the Literary Magazine

Update!

How do you cope with waiting?

My Writing Life

What are your lit mag questions?

Humor? Seriously?

What percentage of a book should be unpublished at time of submission?

Writing a Novel in Short Stories

June lit mag brag!

Better to Have Loved and Lost a Lit Mag

Can we talk about book blurbs?

Gatekeeping Against the Robots

Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Lit Mags!

Is this company using lit mags to collect and sell our data?

Overcoming My Fear of Rejection

"I'm a Working Writer." A Chat with Aiden Grace Smith, Professor of Writing & Publishing

"Follow Your Weird." A Chat with Christy Tending, Nonfiction Editor of Sundog Lit

What do we make of editors selling editorial services (and more!) in rejection letters?

When is the Best Time to Submit?

Another One Bites the Lit Mag!

What should writers make of guidelines that promise to monitor writer behavior?

I Finally Said What I Was Thinking

May lit mag brag!

"The Goal is to Keep Working." A Chat with Michael Ray, Editor of Zoetrope

What Volunteering as a Slush Reader Taught Me About Rejection

Lit Mag Shack, Baby, Lit Mag Shack!

What to do about publication without notification? And other lit mag horror stories...

An Editor’s Top 5 Craft Tips for Emerging Writers

Claude AI is here. Are we ready?

Let Me Tell You About My Dad

Oh, Yes, I'm the Lit Mag Pretender!

Should you re-submit a piece that's been rejected, if you've revised it?

Rejection Doesn't Have to Hurt

"Hook Them With Voice." A Chat with Jamie Poissant & Drew Robertson, Editors of The Florida Review

April lit mag brag!

Zoetrope discount for Lit Mag Reading Club!

Could a Spreadsheet—Yes, a Spreadsheet—Improve Your Writing?

I Would Walk 500 Lit Mags!

How do you get validation as a writer?

Writing Through Grief

Lit Mag Chat with Erik Harper Klass, Part 2

Is your submissions strategy intentional?

My Most Valuable Writing Lesson & Publishing Advice

Jolene, Please Don't Take My Lit Mag!

Is publishing in a magazine's online arm the same as publishing in the magazine?

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

Announcement: Lit Mag News Will No Longer Cover Lit Mags

March lit mag brag!

Florida Review discount!

"Is This Story Malleable?" Lit Mag Reading Club Q & A with Lena Valencia & Patrick Ryan, Editors of One Story

The Sisyphean Poet: On Facing Doubt and Anxiety in Creative Work

A Hard Lit Mag’s A Gonna Fall!

If you publish something and revise it, can you submit it again as a new work?

A Letter to the Editors of Literary Magazines

Under what circumstances should editors retract published work?

"We Want to Share the Best." A Chat with Joseph Levens, Editor of The Summerset Review

Backing In (A Futile Attempt to Write a Hermit Crab Essay; I Think My Butt’s Too Big)

I Could Drink a Case of Lit Mags!

Do lit mags do enough to promote their contributors?

How to Read Between the Lines of Your Rejections

What is the protocol for withdrawing a poem from a journal? (And is it as complicated as it seems?)

Do You Pay?

"You Need to Bring Us With You." A Chat with Suzanne McConnell & Alanna Weissman, Editors of Bellevue Literary Review

Hey I Heard You Were a Wild Lit Mag!

February lit mag brag!

Really Hard to Understand and Even Harder to Follow Submission Guidelines for Our Literary Journal

What does it mean when writers "appropriate" from other cultures? How can editors handle these works artfully?

"Be Good! Be Good!" A Chat with Landon Houle, Editor-in-Chief of Raleigh Review

Typos? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Typos!

You Got a Fast Lit Mag!

What does it mean when editors consider a writer's bio in judging writing contests?

The Plagiarism Plague

How do you know when a piece is ready to send out for publication?

Cultivating Contentment in Your Writing Life

"A Literary Snapshot of Our Culture." A Chat with Rebecca Markovits, Editor of American Short Fiction

People are Strange When You're a Lit Mag!

January lit mag brag!

Why Heresy Press? Why Now?

How do we handle plagiarism in the lit mag community?

Says I: Against the Repetitive Use of “Says” and “Said” in Prose

I'll Be Working My Way Back to Lit Mags, Babe!

How do you feel about lit mags that ask for a photo of you when you submit your work?

How a Mom of Five Submits Her Poems

"We're Looking for the Setting to be Palpable." A Chat with Jennifer Acker, Editor of The Common

Is lit mag publishing fair?

Dear Lit Mags: Stop Making Submission Guidelines So Complicated