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Kitchen Table Quarterly: Now Seeking Submissions

Kitchen Table Quarterly is a new online journal dedicated to exploring the personal and collective stories that create the history of each human. “Adolescent blunders, dental records, the archaic origins of long-held or long-lost traditions—we want to know all of it.” They want to explore the intersections and interactions of the cultural and personal, geographical…

How to Successfully Encourage Preorders

By Aliya Hall Preorders are an integral part of the publishing process, whether you’re publishing traditionally or indie. That said, it can be a challenge to encourage readers to order your book early instead of waiting until after its release. Preorder incentives are one way to not only draw more hype around your book, but…

Thread: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions

Updated October 21st, 2024: A subscriber pointed out that even though Bookouture has been very active, and is still expanding into other imprints, there have been no new publications from Thread in a year. I would not submit to them at this time. Thread is a new non-fiction imprint from Bookouture which is owned by Hachette….

The Deadlands: Now Seeking Submissions

The Deadlands is a new online magazine featuring otherworldly speculative writing about “the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere.” It’s an exploration of the unknown world of death, and those who live there. They’re looking for a broad range of cultural perspectives on the afterlife, as well as on the process…

Easy Character Creation Through 25 Core Elements

Sarina Byron Have you ever discarded manuscript after manuscript owing to a lack of that special something? Everything you write seems to be missing that special zest, that soul and you don’t know what it might be. Well, let me assure you that you are not alone. Every writer has gone through this and there…

Nashville Review: Now Seeking Submissions

Nashville Review is an established and respected online literary journal, edited by the MFA students at Vanderbilt University. They aim to keep the publication free and accessible to all readers, and to include all kinds of writing: “From expansive to minimalist, narrative to lyric, epiphanic to subtle: if it’s a moving work of art, we…

The Creative Unconscious in Writing

— By Clive Matson In her presentation of books for writers, Van Baalen’s choices suggest spells, enlightenment, nefarious doings, and lighthearted play. What would you think of “Cozy Mysteries,” “Steal Like an Artist,” “Beyond Fear,” “Bird by Bird,” and “Bones”? Adult versions of Dungeons and Dragons? These books deal with magic. The ones I most…

FEED: Now Seeking Submissions

FEED is an online journal of short-form writing, seeking to satisfy the hunger of modern readers. Serving up bite-sized poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, FEED hopes to satiate the need for literature in a fast-paced world: “…the editors of FEED aim to serve readers through the same format we’re creating from: on screens, with space and…

5 Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in September 2021

These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and they are open in September. They are a mix of literary and genre markets, and not all of them are open through the month. PseudoPod This is an online and audio horror fiction magazine – “dark, weird fiction. We run the spectrum from grim realism or…

What Writers Need to Know About Newsletter Service Providers

By Olaitan French Many contemporary writers build their audience and supplement their income by creating a newsletter and sending it through a subscription service.  Newsletter service providers allow content creators and individual writers to carve out a revenue program either as a side hustle or as a full-time business venture. Very little technological knowledge is…

Announcing The Eleventh and Twelfth Recipients of Authors Publish Fund for Literary Journals

In September 2020, we started a new fund for literary journals. You can learn all about this fund here. We selected the recipient of the fund using a random number generator. We are announcing the winners of the July and August. We are sorry they are a little late. Thank you to everyone who has…

Always Crashing: Now Seeking Submissions

Always Crashing is a magazine of experimental poetry and prose. They also publish “nameless things around and in-betweens,” such as collages and videos, and “labyrinths, manifestos” and “the generically transgressive.” You can get a sense of their edgy aesthetic by reading the journal online. Based in Chicago and Pittsburgh, Always Crashing has been published in…

5 Types of Editing That May Help Your Manuscript

By Zenstateofmind  Editing is part of the writing process. It is something every writer must do in order to polish their work and help readers connect with the stories they are telling. Editing takes many forms, some focusing on the story on the sentence level, and others from an overarching structural level. Below I break…

3 Effective Ways to Boost Your Writing Productivity

By Abdulraheem Jameel Ango It is a not-so-hidden secret that writing takes more than just the ability to write. The ability to write, ideas, resources, all these are part of the ecosystem of writing; the largest and arguably most important part of this ecosystem is productivity. Productivity is simply the act of producing quality work…

Rowman & Littlefield: Now Accepting Book Proposals

Roman & Littlefield is a independent publisher based outside of Washington, DC. They focus on educational publishing, academic publishing with a focus on Humanities and Social Sciences, and well as publishing government and official data. Some of what they publish is very specific and niche, while other work is clearly intended for a broad audience….

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