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Lit Mag Giveaway!
We appreciate the hard work editors put into every publication. We’ve done our best to spread the word about great literary journals and magazines in our Lit Mag Spotlights and Lit Mag Love Contest, where we asked participants to enter by signing up for two new subscriptions to lit mags of their choice. Over twenty generous publications participated in promotional giveaways! Now we’re helping to promote print and online literary journals and small presses in a big way by offering another journal-related giveaway.
Once we reach 10,000 Likes on Facebook, we will give away a huge assortment of literary journals and other literary goodies (bookmarks, tote bags, etc.) to two lucky Facebook fans, each prize valued over $300.
Here’s a list of all the print and online literary journals and small presses who contributed:
Please share this info and Like us on Facebook to help us reach our goal of 10,000 Likes!
When you get a really nice rejection letter
Part of you is all:
And another part of you is like:
Writer's Relief for American Writers & Artists Inc.: "Make Literary Magazines Work For You"
As a freelance writer in the world of copywriting and web writing, your passion for writing might extend to the world of literature.
Hoping to publish a novel or memoir? Or a collection of poems/stories/essays?
The great news is that writing in the world of literature doesn’t just indulge your interest; it can also further your professional freelance career by diversifying your portfolio and demonstrating the range of your talents.
The first step is to submit your writing to literary magazines.
Writer's Relief Blog: "What are Simultaneous Submissions?"
Tips for following submission guidelines
Do submissions make you:
> Frustrated?
> Bleary?
> Frantic?
> Time-crunched?
> Despondent?
> Distracted from your actual writing?
There’s hope!
Writer’s Relief is accepting new clients for a limited time only—just until April 17. (link to Review Board form: http://www.writersrelief.com/review_board/)
What would your literary magazine be called?
Featured Client: David Hancock
Writer David Hancock On How To Publish Online
Read More: www.writersrelief.com/blog/2013/03/featured-client-david-hancock/
when people tell me to keep rejections for when I’m famous
Huffington Post/Writer's Relief's Writer Wednesday: "New To The Literary Scene? 3 Places You Can Start Earning Publication Credits"
At some point, everyone’s the new kid on the block. For writers, this situation can be extremely daunting. You may be wondering, “Who would want an unpublished writer?” or “Where do I even start?” While these concerns are legitimate, you shouldn’t let them deter you.
Rest assured that every author started out as an unpublished writer. There are many editors of literary magazines, and presses that not only accept books, short stories, poems, and novels of writers new to the scene, but encourage submissions from unpublished writers. With so much talent yet to be discovered, it would be to an agent’s or editor’s disadvantage to only consider work by well-known and published writers. As we like to think: There’s a place for everyone!
Writer's Relief Blog: "Crunching Numbers: Report Shows Some Major Lit Mags Publish More Men Than Women"
GalleyCat, a publishing industry blog, posted this just in time for women’s history month:
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts have released a report entitled “The Count 2011,” revealing that male writers outnumbered female writers in many publications last year.
Picking up on where last year’s report left off, this report tracks the statistics of gender balance among writers published at literary magazines, including The New Yorker (overall: 165 women, 459 men), Poetry (overall: 134 women, 179 men) and The Threepenny Review (overall: 19 women, 37 men).
They also looked at authors reviewed, book reviewers, and interviews at certain publications, including: Harper’s (book reviewers: 13 women, 65 men) and The New York Times (book reviewers: 273 women, 520 men).
Writer’s Relief Demographics
At Writer’s Relief, we take these numbers seriously; all writers should. Regardless of what factors may be causing this imbalance, the imbalance in and of itself is worth attention and concern.
The good news is that the publishing industry—thanks in part to the analysis of groups like VIDA, as well as the outcries of high-profile authors like Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult—is starting to pay closer attention to its own practices.
And we at Writer’s Relief thought we would do the same.
