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!
What Michael DeForge and Anders Nilsen have managed to do is highlight some of humanity’s best traits—and reflect them back to us through the use of these flighty, flittering creatures. Life is beautiful, they seem to be pleading. Take a moment to look at things from a different perspective.
Elaine Sexton’s poems are active, nimble, curious—they often seem to be trying to solve a problem or puzzle out the right words to describe our too-often wordless emotions. No wonder her first book is called Sleuth. Elaine’s other books include Causeway and, most recently, Prospect/Refuge. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and New York…
The House of Representatives and U.S. Senate are considering tax reform bills that, if passed, could affect writers and literary nonprofits across the country.
