So recently I’ve been seeing a number of publications that seek out pre-published material. Think of it as a second chance for your piece to find an audience. Here are three different magazines focusing on round two.
Second Writes is a new literary journal specializing in material already published. The publishers of the journal are frustrated that all everyone wants is First North American Rights. What about Second Rights? And so was born Second Writes. Their first issue contains an essay from the New Yorker, which doesn’t seem to need the publicity of a second go-around, but I’m hoping that future issues will focus more on the back roads and byways of publishing, to highlight the overlooked but not under-talented. Best of all, they pay $150 per piece, which isn’t shabby considering First Rights have already been sold.
According to the May/June issue of Poets and Writers, New Millennium Writings also accepts any stories for contests that have not been published in journals with circulations above 5,000. So that’s 97% of lit journals. (According to my completely facetious calculations).
Lastly, here is one that many more of you are familiar with: Utne Reader. They are always on the look for reprints, culling all the best out from the jetsam and flotsam of modern culture. It’s a bit like the logic of Harper’s Magazine Readings section, except on a much grander scale. Unlike the two above, Utne focuses solely on nonfiction:
Many of the articles in Utne Reader are reprinted from the hundreds of magazines, newsweeklies, newsletters, and literary journals we receive regularly, and we welcome previously published submissions. (Yes, this includes online sources.) We do not accept fiction or poetry.
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I had 4 poems appear in the first issue Second Writes–it’s a really well-done publication.