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What literary magazines are open for submission? That Book Chikka has the answer

Stop spending hours researching #litmags that are open for submissions! Here's a list of 95 publications that want your work. Follow me to get this list every week and check out the blog here 👇🏻https://t.co/GLjVTkHPJa #writingcommunity #writerslift
— Jessica Kusisto (@ThatBookChikka) October 13, 2024

Like a lot of writers who seek to get their work published in literary magazines, I go to several sources for intel, including Duosuma, Poets & Writers‘ list, Submittable, and of course my own, ever-expanding compilation of literary magazines on X/Twitter, Litmags, etc. (now up to 314 different litmags and litmag-adjacent accounts).

But my go-to source lately has become Jessica Kusisto’s weekly compilation of literary magazines that are open for submission.

Friday Five: Q&A with indie author Kayla Hicks

‘You are going to make mistakes and this is okay, just make sure to learn from them.’

Kayla Hicks is a multi-genre indie author who is a prominent voice in the X/Twitter writing community. I appreciate how she uses the platform to encourage discussion about the writing business and share her own insights. I recently enrolled in her free, three-day email course for writers interested in using social media to build their audiences, and found great information in each lesson. I hope she offers it again!

Photo of Kayla Hicks, indie author — Kayla Hicks

Kayla is the author of 14 multi-genre novels covering the young adult, superhero fiction, and children’s categories. Her first, a YA dystopian novel titled Kale Stone: An Outliers Tale , was published in 2017, and her latest, The Day the Gnomes Moved In, came out a few months ago. So in addition to her activity on social media, she is a prolific writer as well. Kayla generously agreed to share more of her thoughts on writing in this week’s Friday Five.