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Why We Don’t Query Journals about Submissions
We all do something like this: Submit a story to a wonderful journal. Try not to think about it (we know it’ll be a while). But then we...
Erik Harper Klass
Apr 142 min read
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Submitit’s Success Rate (An Update)
It’s hard to imagine that Submitit has been going strong now for over four years. Near the end of 2021 (around a year in) I wrote a post...
Erik Harper Klass
Feb 52 min read
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A Guide for the Formattingly Perplexed
Since part of my job is to work on—which is to say, less euphemistically, “to fix”—formatting issues with the stories and essays I...
Erik Harper Klass
Nov 10, 20236 min read
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The Ephemerality of Literary Journals
(First of all, am I the only one who can’t seem to get enough of the word ephemeral ? It kind of rolls off the tongue. Never gets...
Erik Harper Klass
Oct 14, 20232 min read
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The Possibly Impossible Task of Ranking Literary Journals
I wrote a post not long ago about how I evaluate literary journals , focusing mostly on smaller and usually newer ones. These journals...
Erik Harper Klass
Apr 5, 20236 min read
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The Two Commandments of Lit Mag Acceptances
When it comes to the ethics of getting work accepted at literary journals, the submission gods hath spoken, the prophet hath come down...
Erik Harper Klass
Jan 7, 20232 min read
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Submitit's Three Submission Strategies
If you’ve signed up for a Submitit submissions package, you know that we submit your story to up to twenty journals, in two rounds of...
Erik Harper Klass
Oct 23, 20224 min read
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How to Write a Winning Bio and Story/Essay Blurb for Literary Journals
Usually literary journals ask writers for a third-person bio. And a few ask for a story or essay “blurb” (generally optional) that...
Erik Harper Klass
Sep 15, 20228 min read
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How Submitit Evaluates Smaller Literary Journals (So You'll Know They'll Stick Around)
I’ve written a lot (most obviously here ) about the importance of submitting stories and essays to smaller, newer, and (ostensibly) more...
Erik Harper Klass
Mar 3, 20226 min read
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The Art of Timing When Submitting to Literary Journals
I’ve been running Submitit now for about a year, and I’m happy to say that we—I must say we , since the stories are yours—have had some...
Erik Harper Klass
Jul 21, 20216 min read
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The Eight Mistakes Writers Make Submitting to Literary Journals
I consistently see the same handful of mistakes.
Erik Harper Klass
Jan 3, 20215 min read
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Zen and the Art of Getting Rejected
If you're getting rejected, you are not alone.
Erik Harper Klass
Dec 1, 20206 min read
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How to Quintuple Your Chances of Getting Published in Literary Journals
Five ways to vary your writing and expand your field of literary markets ...
Erik Harper Klass
Oct 31, 20205 min read
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Why You Should be Excerpting Your Novel
A few years ago I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s “The Signature of All Things” in One Story, and was blown away.
Erik Harper Klass
Sep 26, 20204 min read
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The Single Biggest Mistake Writers Make When Submitting to Literary Journals
I’d like to share with you a (partial) list of 40 literary journals. Can you guess what they have in common?
Erik Harper Klass
Sep 4, 20204 min read
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