Ten questions to keep in mind Choosing which Magazines to Submit to There are so many journals that it can be hard to choose. Here are some key questions to ask yourself to narrow them down: 1. What literary magazines do you like that match your writing style? […]
Following a trail on the web a few years back, I came across an interview (www.thereviewreview.net/interviews/ten-bad-poems-every-good-one-conversation-washing) with a poet I didn’t yet know, Kathleen Flenniken, formerly Poet Laureate of Washington State. And there, in response to the question “Is there a poem you are a little embarrassed to […]
Every once in a great while a poet comes along who captures a huge following and the rest of us feel all the feels. (Jealously, envy, rage at the injustice, happiness that at least people are reading poetry.) The last time this happened in the United States was […]
Years ago, when I was young and impressionable and dreamy and romantic and oh so foolish and thought I had something to offer and thought I could help the world—nay, thought I was MEANT to help the world, I fell in love. Hard. You know the kind—big sigh […]
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 […]
Fugue Journal is a literary journal out of the University of Idaho. It was launched in 1990 and has been run ever since by graduate students in the Creative Writing MFA Program. We publish both a Summer/Fall print issue and a Winter/Spring online issue. Working for Fugue for […]
When Trish asked me to write for her blog a few months ago, I was excited. At the time I belonged to a ladies writing group in Hickory, NC called Hickory Word Weavers. We met twice a month and shared our work. We had about ten minutes of […]
