Category: Writing Resources

FREE eBook – "The Paid Publishing Guidebook" (download free until April 8)

Thanks to Authors Publish for sharing this free eBook! Just click the link below and enter your email address to download the PDF. (I’ve not noticed any additional junkmail since I first signed up.) Most of their eBooks are only free for a limited time, so download them sooner […]

FREE eBook – “The Paid Publishing Guidebook” (download free until April 8)

Thanks to Authors Publish for sharing this free eBook! Just click the link below and enter your email address to download the PDF. (I’ve not noticed any additional junkmail since I first signed up.) Most of their eBooks are only free for a limited time, so download them sooner […]

Rejection Wiki-what is a tiered rejection and how can I tell if I got one?

We all receive many more rejections than acceptances. There are ways to help interpret the rejections literary magazines and journals send your way. Rejections actually come in many forms, including standard forms, tiered, and personal. Specifically, a "tiered" rejection means the lit mag sends out different levels of […]

6 Questions for CRWROPPS (Creative Writers Opportunities List) founder Allison Joseph

If you are a poet or writer and haven’t yet joined the CRWROPPS list-serve, you could be missing out on great creative writing opportunities! I’ve been impressed and fascinated with this long running, no-cost resource for poets and writers, so I asked founder Allison Joseph six questions to […]

NaHaiWriMo – Write one haiku a day for the month of February!

NaHaiWriMo is a web site focused on the pursuit of writing a haiku a day, every day in February and there’s still plenty of time to join in! The site includes daily haiku prompts and tons of haiku related resources, including links to other haiku organizations. I wondered […]

4 things to look for in a poetry contest – guest blog post by Lisa Mangini of Paper Nautilus Press

It's hard to believe that Paper Nautilus, the small press I started at my kitchen table, will turn 8 years old this year! By the end of this Spring, we will have published a free digital anthology, six annual print issues, and 27 chapbooks in various genres. While […]

5 Tips to Acquire Your Dream Endorsements – guest blog post by John Sibley Williams

For my previous poetry collections, I had kept my endorsements close to home, inviting poets I knew personally and whose passionate support I could trust. In all honesty, I also feared it an imposition to contact "big names" in our poetry community whose work I admired yet to […]

100 Best Websites for Writers in 2019 via The Write Life

An amazing thing happened this week! While technically, the numbered list isn’t ranked in any way, I’m fine with being first on the list, even if it is just alphabetical and a coincidence they listed my blog in the first section :). Thanks to my readers who nominated […]

78 NO FEE poetry book publishers via Authors Publish + important tips on submitting your manuscript

It’s so important to do your homework before sending your manuscript to a publisher. Make sure to take notes for each publisher you research. You will most likely want to compare them to each other before deciding where you want to submit. Make sure the press is the […]

44 Feminist Literary Magazines & Journals

Updated January 2019. In past years for National Women’s Equality Day, I spent some time compiling a list of feminist lit mags and journals and have recently updated the list! You can support these organizations by sharing, reading, submitting to, or donating. Submit your feminist writing and/or contribute […]