Articles by Emily Harstone

Emily Harstone is the pen name of a published writer. Her work has been published in ten countries, four continents, by over fifty different journals. She is a professional submissions adviser and editor. If she owned a dog it would be named Wystan.

Three Tips for Submitting Your Work

If you have never sent your creative writing out to a literary journal before, the experience can be intimidating. Many productive writers try to avoid submitting. But there is no real way around it if you want to get your work out into the world. The Reviews on this website can really help you know…
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Writing Prompt: Eavesdropping

One of the best ways to learn how to write natural, compelling dialogue, is to listen to people. Not necessarily people you know, because  you’re likely to get caught up in the conversation yourself and that makes it less about observing and more about discussion. Instead, to really get a good feeling for how different…
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Review of The Adroit Journal

The Adroit Journal  is a print journal. It was started by a high school student named Peter LeBerge several years ago.  He is now in college, and most of the team of editors and readers behind it are also in college. You would think a young person might not take editing a literary journal as…
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Review of Connotation Press

Connotation Press is one of those rare literary journals which is open to a wide variety of writing and creative pursuits. Not only do they accept poetry, fiction, and creative reviews they also accept movie reviews, video poetry, essays on art, and screenplays, among other things. Connotation Press is willing to accept for consideration almost…
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Writing Exercise: The False Letter

A lot of writers complain of having writers block, an inability to come up with new things to write. Sometimes this happens when you are between projects, other times it happens when you have not written for a while. Occasionally it will happen in the middle of a project, when you cannot think of what…
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Stone Highway: Now Open For Submissions

Stone Highway is a new literary journal that publishes short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry. They release three issues a year, online and in print. Stone Highway has only been around for two years, but they have already established a good reputation. This partially because they are part of a larger publishing company called Sundress…
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Review of The Rusty Nail

The Rusty Nail is a new online literary magazine. They focus on making writing easy to access on the web. They publish in various formats and have a Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube account. The journal is based in Idaho but they accept submissions from all over the world. The work they choose to publish tends…
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How to Write a Query Letter That Gets You An Agent

You have completed your first novel. You have edited it a number of times. You have already put a considerable amount of work into it, but it is not a book yet, it’s still a manuscript, not to be found in bookstores, but on your hard drive. You have reached the turning point. Now the…
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