The Book Munkie

5 Lit Mags Accepting Submissions

Antioch Review is based in Yellow Springs, Ohio. This long-running and respected literary journal considers submissions of essays, fiction, and poetry between September 2 and May 31. The journal pays $15 per printed page.

The Cincinnati Review is also based in Ohio. Though a relatively newer journal, it also considers submissions of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and translation features between September 1 and May 31. This journal pays $25 per printed page for fiction and $30 per printed page for poetry.

Gulf Stream Magazine is based out of Miami, Florida. This magazine’s submission period actually opens tomorrow September 15 to November 15 (and then re-opens on January 15). Writers can submit fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. However, this market is purely a place to build clips as it pays in contributor copies.

Based out of Warrensburg, Missouri, Pleiades considers submissions of fiction, poetry, and essays. Submissions are open from August 15 to May 15. Writers receive $10 as compensation.

Last but not least, Tin House is based out of Portland, Oregon. This well-known literary magazine considers submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction between September 1 and May 31. Published pieces receive anywhere between $50 and $800.

Grabbed this from my Writer’s Digest email. Thinking about submitting something to one of these. We’ll see how it goes. Every time I tell myself that I’m going to submit something I freeze up and nothing seem good enough any more. 

(Source: writersdigest.com)

The Secret to Word Count

givingadamn:

I found this extremely helpful, and thought I would share it with other Tumblr authors:

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Something I saw a lot in queries as an agent were word counts that exceeded 100k. Often, a manuscript exceeded this by a considerable amount: I’ve seen word counts of 140k, 160k and one writer actually told me about a YA manuscript he’d written that was 188k.

Somewhere out there a myth developed - especially amongst science fiction and fantasy writers - that a higher word count was better. Writers see big fat fantasies on the shelf and think that they have to write a book just as hefty to get published. And sometimes a writer just writes a long book because they aren’t yet a very good writer. Good writers learn how to pare a manuscript down to its most essential elements, carving away the word count fat that marks so many beginning writers. And the fact of the matter is, most of those “big fat fantasy” books you see on the shelf actually only have a word count of about 100k to 120k.

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thebookishdark replied to your post: I’m really enjoying “Moonwalking with Einstein”…

i think dialogue is quick to read and generally easy to process. pretty sure that’s what speeds up fiction reading for me. it’s rarely as dense as a page of info or description.

 psychsquirrel replied to your post: I’m really enjoying “Moonwalking with Einstein”…

That’s also true for me. Non-fiction seems to be harder for me to process. I can read a fiction book in days, but a non-fiction will take me a couple of weeks. No explanation.

I think you both make good points. The pages are dense and there aren’t any breaks for dialogue. Plus, I’m trying to pay attention to the memory lessons, while I’m not attempting to be a memory champion it would be nice to not forget as much.