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36 opportunities this month, including calls for full novels & short story collections (opens the original)
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I just read an excellent article in Poets & Writers by author Lyzette Wanzer, titled “Strategic Submissions.” Wanzer has been published in over thirty literary journals, magazines, and books. She’s also been the recipient of eleven grants, ten residences, and three fellowships. So when it comes to practicing an effective strategy for submissions, she knows from whence she speaks. Here I’ve summarized three of her excellent pieces of advice:Keep a clean, devoted, nothing-else-on-it calendar for y
It's a Big Ocean Out There: 41 High-Quality Submission Opportunities in the Next 6 Weeks (opens the original)
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Here’s an image I want you to focus your eyes on for a full minute. Imagine floating in that beautiful blue sea. Imagine closing your eyes and dreaming of… what… nothing, maybe; just dreaming of whatever bobs into your mind. Relax. Open your mind to all possibilities. Breathe.I’m inviting you to take in that feeling—of the limitless expanse all around, of the fathomless depths, of the infinite sky above. All of life is open to you. So too, then your writing and the possibilities of sharing your
Wow - 35+ Submission Opportunities in the Next 6 Weeks (opens the original)
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Maybe you’re suffering a drag-you-down mid-year low. I am, if that’s any consolation. It comes with the territory when you start submitting your work regularly. Because… duh… you start receiving rejections regularly. And unless you’re unnaturally well adjusted, or just plain egomaniacal, you get at least a little bit bruised every time, no matter what positive mantra you repeat to yourself.It just sucks, subjecting your work to critical examination and allowing yourself a ping of hope and then,
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