I wrote several posts for the LA Times that are now up on Jacket Copy. One of the best panels I've ever attended was "Life Stories," featuring the new Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding ("Tinkers") and Rafael Yglesias, winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award (not to mention Colson Whitehead and moderator David Kipen). […]
I’m here at the Publishing: Editors Speak Out panel at the LA Times Festival of Books. All of us in the front row are laughing, because it feels like we’re in an orchestra pit — the stage is that elevated in Broad 2160. I’m a bit fearful because publishing panels can turn into zombie attacks […]
I’m looking forward to all the fun and hubbub surrounding this weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books. I know I’ll sit in on at least three panels: Yann Martel in conversation with Michael Silverblatt Unstoppable Voices Susan Straight Maile Meloy Mona Simpson Jane Smiley Marianne Wiggins Life Stories Paul Harding (author of Tinkers, […]
At the VQR blog, there's a perfect and funny recap of how AWP feels: At AWP, you sit at a table in the book fair peddling your literary journal, try to answer writers when they ask why you haven’t published their work, walk past tables of literary journals, wondering why they won’t publish your work, […]
I’m perpetually amazed by the publications people put together. Sometimes less amazed and more amused. Sometimes less amused and more stunned. Literature isn’t dying, it’s just mutating into the place where really whacked out people publish it. Let’s be honest: these calls for submissions are crazy. Monsters and Mormons Anthology: They say that since Mormons have been […]
In the sidebar to the left, you can see I’ve added a new page listing literary markets for novellas. If any of my super-savvy readers know of additional markets, please add them in that page’s comments.
ATTENTION: See my updated list. The market for publishing novellas is much slimmer than for short stories, but it’s not non-existent. Below are some markets to send that novella or novelette. Many are literary journals and some are contests. Since I get asked all the time about literary journals that allow you to submit novellas, […]
So these are the journals I got my grubby fingers on and humped back to California in my carry-on backpack. Total # of journals: 18 Total # of pounds lost while carrying them through airport: Unknown, but likely substantial The Sun Blue Mesa Review Crab Orchard Review The Gettysburg Review Third Coast Colorado Review Nimrod […]
"Even esteemed journals sometimes seem like they're run by squirrels, marmots, or lemurs." — Timothy Schaffert At the AWP panel "The Road from Journal to Book," five writers/editors talked about the fiction of literary journal hierarchies. They named Cliff Garstang's Perpetual Folly Pushcart Rankings and the Top 50 Journals by Every Writer's Resource as examples of […]
At AWP, even the urinals advertise lit journals. Of course, don’t think about the connotations of advertising your lit journal on the pisser. But perhaps Bull should expand its tagline: “Fiction for Thinking [And Pissing!] Men.” You know it’s a good reading when halfway through the story, the reader, Aaron Burch of Hobart, rips off his shirt. […]
