Please start class by finishing the writing exercises provided this week. When you are done, please explore the concept of a professional literary magazine. You should be able to answer these questions: Please type the answers to these questions and print for a grade.
What is it?
How does one get published in a lit mag?
What are the benefits to having your work published in a lit mag?
Is it important to find a magazine that is a good fit for you?
What is a query letter? A SASE?
Homework: Find three literary magazines that you would like to submit your work to. Make sure you do your research. I would like you to write an explanation about why these magazines are a good fit for your writing. How often does the magazine put out an issue? I would also like you to find the submission requirements and deadlines for each magazine. Extra credit if you get your hands on a copy of a back issue of a magazine. Extra extra credit if you subscribe to one of the magazines you choose.
This website is awesome:
http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazines/
Write a Query Letter
These links are pretty good. The third one has a sample!
http://www.agentquery.com/writer_hq.aspx
http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/query-letters-and-examples/
http://www.jamesrussellpublishing.biz/queryletterbk.html
http://www.pw.org/literary_magazines
ReplyDelete1. Write a decent piece of writing and submit it to the magazine.
ReplyDelete2. You have published work which is how authors get known. Its essentially a good way to get known.
3. You want your work to be represented well in a collection of stories that compliment your work. Similar content or theme, will help pull readers in who are interested in the genre you're writing.
4.a query letters purpose is to seduce the agent or editor into reading or requesting your work. The query is so much of a sales piece that you should be able to write it without having written a single word of the manuscript.
5. A SASe is an envelope with the sender's name and address on it, with affixed paid postage and mailed to a company or private individual.
Karlamarie Perez
ReplyDeleteWhat is it? A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature. They usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews, and letters. -wikipedia
How does one get published in a lit mag? You can get published in a literary magazine if you are professional, familiarize yourself with a small group of literary magazine, make your cover letter stand out, get connected, get involved, enter contests, submit simultaneously but thoughtfully. “From Pen to Print: 8 Tips for Getting Published in Literary Magazines”
What are the benefits to having your work published in a lit mag? It will build your resume, build your sense of community, agents read lit mags, it improves your work, practice getting rejected. “What's So Great About Submitting to Literary Magazines?”
Is it important to find a magazine that is a good fit for you? Yes, because you would want your work to fit in it, or be a style that you like.
What is a query letter? A SASE? A Self Addressed Stamped Envelope
1.Write a piece of work that moves you, read it aloud and then send it out to the world.
ReplyDelete2. It builds your resume, improves your work, allows your work to stand with the best of the best and you don't know who reads them.
3. It is important to find a magazine that's a good fit for you because you want your work to be with similar pieces so you can see what you need to improve on and compare your ideas and style with others.
4. A query letter is what draws in the editor or agent into reading or requesting your work. A SASE is a self-addressed stamp envelope that has the senders name and address on it and it's then mailed to a company or private individual.
1. You must get your work out to several publishers and get connections with influential people. Also write good pieces.
ReplyDelete2. Your writing is seen by many people, including important publishers and editors.
3. Your writing is placed next to other aspiring and distinguished writers. People can also give you feedback on your pieces that have similar styles of writing.
4. A query letter has one purpose, and one purpose only: To seduce the agent or editor into reading or requesting your work. The query is so much of a sales piece that you should be able to write it without having written a single word of the manuscript.
5. A SASE is a self-addressed stamped envelope.
1. A subscription-based periodical magazine that mostly shares poetry, short stories, and essays.
ReplyDelete2. Have your work cycled through a number of editors and readers to ensure that it is the most refined version possible. Having a popular story also gives editors more confidence in publishing your story.
3. It gives your story exposure as well as showing your prestige to be published alongside a number of other veteran writers.
4. Its important to be published alongside works that are similar in tone and structure to your own. If it compliments your story, it helps it stand out all the more.
5. A query letter is a letter that aims to convince the editor it is sent to to read or request your work, without having even looked at it. A SASE is an envelope with affixed paid postage that is mailed to a company or private individual.
1. In order to get published in a lit mag, one must first familiarize themselves with the kind of work the magazine usually accepts. It is important to listen to feedback and notes written in rejection letters.
ReplyDelete2. The main benefit of being published in a lit mag is to get your work out there.
3. It is very important to find a lit magazine that is a good fit for you and your writing style because there is a higher chance of publication if your work shares a similar quality.
4. A SASE is a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope. The purpose of a Query is to persuade an editor or agent to read your work.
Three literary magazines I would consider submitting to Shenandoah, Tin House, and Boulevard because they all seem to publish work with a dynamic, contemporary voice.
http://www.pw.org/literary_magazines
ReplyDeleteHow does one get published in a lit mag?
ReplyDeleteOne has to go to a lit mag website and read the submission guidelines which shall lead you straight to the promise land.
What are the benefits to having your work published in a lit mag?
The benefits to having your work submitted in a lit mag are getting feedback on your work, getting your name and work noticed, and to add things to your resume.
Is it important to find a magazine that is a good fit for you?
Yes, because you want your work to be read by people who appeal to it, and your work probably won’t be accepted if it doesn’t fit the theme.
What is a query letter? A SASE?
A query letter is what draws in the editor or agent into reading or requesting your work. A SASE is a self-addressed stamp envelope that has the senders name and address on it and it's then mailed to a company or private individual.
1. A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature that contains short stories, poetry, essays, book reviews, interviews and more.
ReplyDelete2. People have to create a cover letter and either mail in or submit your literary piece online to a literary magazine in order to be published.
3. Publishing your work in a lit mag gives you more published experience and exposure that you can put on your resume. Also, people like publishing agencies can read your works and publish your own for you.
4. It is important to find a magazine that is good for you because your work will be in there forever. That is the type of writing style people will associate with you whenever they read your work and works similar to it.
5. A query letter is a letter asking an agent or an editor to read or request your work. A SASE is a self-addressed stamped envelope that is used when sending manuscripts to literary agents.