North American Review Submission Manager The North American Review is the oldest literary magazine in America (founded in 1815) and one of the most respected. We are interested in high-quality poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on any subject; however, we are especially interested in work that addresses contemporary North American concerns and issues, particularly with the environment, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class. We like stories that start quickly and have a strong narrative arc. Poems that are passionate about subject, language, and image are welcome, whether they are traditional or experimental, whether in formal or free verse (closed or open form). Nonfiction should combine art and fact with the finest writing. We read poetry, fiction, and nonfiction year-round. Please submit no more than five poems, one short story, two short-short stories, or one essay (no more than 30 pages typically). The status of your submission can be checked by logging back into the submission system.
Everything in Writing and Life is Fiction I don’t know how to write. Which is unfortunate, as I do it for a living. Mind you, I don’t know how to live either. I’ve written six books now, but instead of making it easier, it has complicated matters to the point of absurdity. Something, obviously, is going on. I do no research. And I mean that—everything is fiction. So I love hearing from people who have no time for fiction. Related: Read Keith Ridgway’s interview with Cressida Leyshon about his short story “Goo Book,” which appeared in the April 11, 2011, issue of the magazine. Illustration by Richard McGuire.
21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic (Updated 2012) It's easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic. Over the years, we've grown the Moz blog to nearly a million visits each month and helped lots of other blogs, too. I launched a personal blog late last year and was amazed to see how quickly it gained thousands of visits to each post. NOTE: This post replaces a popular one I wrote on the same topic in 2007. #1 - Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share When strategizing about who you're writing for, consider that audience's ability to help spread the word. If you can identify groups that have high concentrations of the blue and orange circles in the diagram above, you dramatically improve the chances of reaching larger audiences and growing your traffic numbers. #2 - Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers Thankfully, you don't need to spend a dime to figure out where a large portion of your audience can be found on the web. sources: Comscore + Google
20 Great Places to Publish Personal Essays « Writerland I frequently receive e-mails from people looking for places to publish their personal essays. Fiction and nonfiction writers alike all have a great story about the time Aunt Harriet came for dinner and left on the back of a horse, or the time the cat disappeared and returned six years later, or the time they had an epiphany about the meaning of life while walking through the woods at dusk. But where can you submit that funny, poignant, life-changing essay that’s gathering virtual dust in a folder on your computer? Who will publish it? And who will pay? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 7×7—Another West Coast publication, 7×7 has an Urban Ledger column for which readers can pitch their personal essays. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. In addition to those listed above, there is a plethora of other literary journals that publish personal essays. Do you have any publications to add to the list, or details/tips about any of those listed above? Be Sociable, Share!
A Little Ode to the Little Magazines and their Very Big Work | TMR Blog (*today’s post comes to us via the wonderful Latanya McQueen.) I remember how in college, before there were resources like Newpages or Duotrope, to find out about literary journals one had to either order them or go to the bookstore and look at them. Weekends during my senior year my best friend and I would frequent all the independent bookstores that we could find. I was twenty-one and had never even heard of Tin House before. Wondering what to make of a Tin House Conjunction I still have many of the issues from that time in my life despite my transient existence over the years, having kept them all for nostalgia’s sake. And yet, by the end of it, he says how his life got better “save some scars.” In that same issue is a story by Justin Torres. The brothers revelry is interrupted when their mother, tired from always working graveyard shifts, comes into the kitchen. I don’t know why I remember these two stories more than the others. And I suspect if you’re reading this, you have too.
How to build your own app for free | Mobile Ever want to build an app for yourself? It's actually not hard. There are a number of companies that offer the ability to create your own app for a minimal fee, which is great for small businesses looking to stay relevant in this increasingly mobile world. Or if you just have a lot of time on your hands. Take Conduit. The company made its money creating branded toolbars found on your browser. "We're trying to give companies a tool to really go mobile," said Ori Lavie, vice president of product strategy at Conduit Mobile. I've tried the service, and it's pretty simple to use. For the purposes of testing, I decided to build a mobile application out of my personal Tumblr blog, Annoying PR. To add content to the app, I typed in the address for my blog, which drew in the feed. In terms of the look, I was able to change up the color scheme. There's also an option to run mobile ads on the app, in which Conduit and the customer would split any potential revenue.
Get Paid $50 to Write a Guest Post There’s been plenty written on the web, including this blog, about websites like Associated Content and Demand Media. The problem with these sites is that they use a revenue sharing model which means most people will never earn more than a buck or two for their article. We know your time is more valuable than that, so we’ve put together a list of blogs that will pay you $50 or more for every article that you write for them. Guest blogging is pretty easy and most articles only need to be between 500-600 words. However, most bloggers have high standards, so you’ll want to make sure you’re producing your best work to increase the chances that your post will be published. On to the list…. 1. This site was founded by Heather Wheeler and Joanie Demer, who have both featured on TLC’s Extreme Couponing. 2. This website is all about building online businesses. 3. Writers Weekly was established in 1997 and it is a freelance writing ezine and hub for all things writing. 4. 5. Another writing blog.
Jorie Graham wins Forward Prize Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham has become the first American woman ever to win one of the U.K.’s most prestigious poetry accolades, the Forward Prize for best collection. She will receive an award of 10,000 pounds. Graham is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in the English Department at Harvard. The Forward judges expressed their hope that Graham’s win for her 12th collection, “Place,” would find her “startling, powerful” poetry a wider readership in the U.K. The judges, headed by the poet Leonie Rushforth, called Graham’s collection “powerful, never predictable” and “a joy” to read, showing off her “huge confidence” and original use of form. “The energy, intelligence, and breadth of the poems … reflect a heightened perception and a philosophical exploration of the discomfort of living,” said Rushforth and her fellow judges, a panel of the poets Ian McMillan and Alice Oswald and the literary critics Emma Hogan and Megan Walsh.
Master Dayton | Freelance Writing | How to Be a Freelance Writer | How to Become a Freelance Writer Art Magazines Accepting Submissions, Magazine Submissions | Gnome Magazine Now accepting submissions for our next issue, themed Critique. Please submit writings, proposals and artist projects (that speak, in some way, to ideas surrounding: critique, criticism and/or critic.) Writers: We are currently accepting submissions for exhibition reviews and featured articles. Please e-mail submissions or proposals to Kimberly at submit@gnomemag.com. We are also accepting submissions for column writings. [1] Word Bank Word Bank is a column in which writers choose two to three words to connect into a thematic, creative, or narrative essay. [2] Dinner Dinner is a column in which writers describe a hypothetical dinner they experience with a famous person or persons. Visual Artists: We accept submissions for artist projects year long. E-mail all submissions to submit@gnomemag.com.
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Fiction Magazines Worth Reading | Wet Asphalt Not so long ago, I despaired at the idea of finding a place to publish my own fiction. Like many aspiring writers, I flipped through Writer's Market and sent stuff out to the supposed top of the short story food chain, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, etc., with predictable results (that is, rejection). But then why should I have been surprised? I didn't generally like the stories published in those magazines (they are usually, shall we say, boring). Even if I was writing the best possible stories I could in the style I liked (and I definitely wasn't) I probably wouldn't have been published in those venues. With this in mind, I set out to find short story publications that I could actually read regularly and enjoy. A Fly in Edited by Shelley Jackson, who is an excellent writer in her own right. A Public Bills itself as: "An independent magazine of literature and culture.