In our Roundups segment, we’re looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. We explore posts from our archives as well as other top literary magazines and websites, centered on a certain theme to help you jump-start your week.
Between holiday weekends and vacation, lemonade and fireworks, we hope you are finding time to write, revise, and submit this summer! To help you out in your endeavors, here are some posts with submission tips and advice. We’ve also included a couple lists of calls for submissions and journals currently accepting submissions. Reminder: Ploughshares is also reading submissions. Good luck! Now go submit your work!
The Review Review gives us some helpful tips and discusses “What Editors Want.”
More submission tips from Gulf Coast: “Submit the work that you feel strongest, biggest, and sharpest about.”
We know that not all literary journals accept submissions during the summer. Fortunately Poets & Writers keeps a comprehensive list of literary magazines that you can search.
You can also check out the calls for submissions listed at both New Pages and The Review Review.
Do you have any tips or helpful links? Please post them in the comments!
Dismembering the American Dream: The Life and Fiction of Richard YatesKate Charlton-JonesUniversity of Alabama Press, August 2014279 pages$49.95 Buy: book | ebook An English professor, a former colleague of mine, once admitted to me that he wasn’t much of a fan of the novelist about whom he had spent his entire career writing. I’m sure…
Kundiman has become one of the most exciting and admired literary communities in America. Its story begins with a handful of people, scraping together funds and finding volunteers, to get going.
No matter how we try to hide mortality—or hide from it—the temporary nature of all that we have finds ways of invading our consciousness, like a corpse that grows putrid as the days go by, forcing us to acknowledge and deal with its presence.
