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!
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I got a chance to sit down with Kim Addonizio and talk about poetry, the blues, and her new rock and roll band Nonstop Beautiful Ladies. PK: The relationship between poetry and music has long been a contentious one. Ezra Pound in ABC of Reading argued that “poetry begins to atrophy when it gets…
