Tin House is Getting Acquired; US libraries Lose Federal Support; Unauthorized Use of Books for Meta AI training; 3 Calls for Submissions.
This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is an opportunity for me to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication. This includes a wide range of opportunities for writers, publishing news, helpful articles we have read recently, and subscriber’s recent success stories.
Opportunities:
Haymaker Journal, which was reviewed by Ella Peary last year, is now open for their second issue. They close to submissions on March 31st.
The Woolf is open to submissions on the theme of Bully, and close to submissions on April 9th.
The Brussels Review recently reopened to submissions across most genres.
News:
Zando will acquire Tin House‘s book publishing operations. This includes the frontlist, backlist, and trademark, but does not include the Tin House Workshops and Podcast, which will continue on under the same name, but independent and separate from Zando (confusing, I know!). It seems like some of the primary staff at Tin House will simply transfer over to Zando. To learn more, go here. I do not know yet how this will impact Tin House’s open reading period.
In the US, a recent Executive Order was passed that eliminated the agency that supports libraries. You can read more about it here. The American Library Association has released a response here.
Authors Guild has published a new article on Meta’s unauthorized use of books for AI training that is very much worth reading.
While working on press research, I encountered a press, behaving in a surprising and unexpected ways. Note that I am not reviewing the press, or linking to their main page directly and sharing this out of interest only. I have taken screenshots for my own records. It’s very normal to encounter free downloadable catalogs on small press websites, but when I clicked on the catalogue link on On Rowan Prose Publishing’s site, I encountered a page selling it for 6.99 USD as a downloadable PDF, and 10.99 as a print magazine. Note, this was just for the catalogue of books they’ve published. I found the press listed on Duotrope.
On a more personal note, On March 13th, the podcast Listen & Be Heard, featured an interview with me as part of their third season. You can listen to it here.
Subscriber Success Stories:
Corey D. Even’s short story will be published in Flame Tree’s upcoming anthology Achilles, which you can preorder now.
Norie Suzuki’s short story What Was Not Ours was published in Fictive Dream.
Susan Well’s The Prank was published by Persimmon Tree.
Kurt G. Schmidt’s nonfiction piece Our Young Son Wished for Us to Die Together, was published by 7th-Circle Pyrite.
Jan Miles’ Animals: “(for us)” was published by Honey Literary.
Stephen Ingram’s work Alana was published in Synkroniciti Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 1, “Identity” issue, synkroniciti.com.
Yvonne Fein’s Unreliable Chronicles was published by Persimmon Tree.
Dylan Night had an essay published the Awakening Within Anthology through Wingless Dreamer.
Daniel Speechly’s essay The Hedonists’ Checklists was published in LIT Magazine.
Denise Diehl has a short story, The Yellow Dress, published in the Academy of the Heart and Mind and another piece, The Intended View published in Bright Flash Literary Review.
Kevin Eric Paul published Cycles in Nature.
Janeen Webb‘s Scorpion Girl was published by PS Publishing.
Lisa Monterosso’s book, Sharkfin and the School of Fish was published by Tiny Seed.
Levi Abadilla‘s story, Adam and Eve as the First Horror Story, was published by Singapore Unbound.
Kevin Anthony Brown‘s article Organizing Solitude: Jean Giono by Himself, was published by New English Review.
Lance Mason won Gold in the Men’s Travel section of the 2025 Best Travel Writing Solas Awards for his piece, The Tango of Death.
Lewis Brett Smiler’s The Sculptor aired on Creepy podcast.
Louisa Prince’s story ‘Memories buried in the hourglass was published by CafeLit Magazine.
Ignatius Fernandez’s article Reflections on the Year Gone By was published by The Wise Owl.
Please send us an email at success.stories@authorspublish.com if you have a publication success you want to share in our next update. You must include a link to the publication. You can also Include a link to your website (if you have one), and the publisher/journals main landing page. The publication date must be within three months of the current date. Please note that we are only listing work that has been traditionally published by literary journals, magazines, or traditional presses. We are not covering vanity presses or self-published books.
Bio: Caitlin Jans has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the co-founder of Authors Publish and The Poetry Marathon. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including: The Literary Review of Canada, The Fiddlehead, Jelly Bucket, The Penn Review, The Adroit Journal, and Killer Verse. Her prose and poetry has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, BILiNE, The Best Small Fictions Anthology, and The Best of the Net. You can learn more at www.caitlinthomson.com.
