Originally posted on The Rejection Survival Guide:
I believe you have had the misfortune to meet my self-doubt demons. I wanted to dedicate today’s post to one of them; a tiresome little guy I like to call the What-If-I-Actually-Suck Demon. He’s not one of my regulars, probably because…
One Hand Clapping is a new print and online literary magazine that offers great writing for free. “It aims to give a platform to unpublished and lesser-known writers by allowing them to share a space with those who are more established.” You can read their first issue here. For […]
The unique thing about Jacar Press’ gorgeous online magazine One, is that they read until they find the 21 poems they really love, and those poems then make up the next issue. So submit early for your best chances to be published! Jacar Press “believes that writing still matters. . […]
To elide is to drop a consonant in pronunciation. Elision also has a second meaning: the process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas. That definition could as easily apply to sculpture as to poetry. To composing as to screenwriting. It’s no surprise that the […]
Originally posted on Bernadette Geyer:
. Because this list gets a lot of page views, I’ve moved it to my new website blog and updated it with new links and new awards. If anyone knows of additional contests for already published books (or galleys), please post a comment…
This is my first collaboration poem to be published! Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and I set to writing this piece together. You can read more of Shiffler-Olsen’s poetry in Quarterly West and Rust + Moth. We’re honored to have “Three atheists and a Mormon walk into a café” published in […]
The Literary Whip is a new podcast where editors of literary magazines speak to rejections–specifically, pieces that almost, but not quite, made the grade. They’ll also share where pieces worked, but more importantly, where they went wrong. I wondered how and why this podcast came to be, so I asked […]
