Tag: literary magazines

Friday Five: lessons from a lit mag first reader

What I’ve learned from the past six months of reading submissions for a literary magazine

For the past six months or so, I have volunteered as a first reader for a literary magazine. In this role, I’ve been one of the first people to read some 150 flash and micro-fiction submissions to this magazine. They come from writers of all kinds. There are the newcomers seeking their first acceptance, the veterans with several publications and awards to their credit, the MFA graduates and PhDs, the college professors, the undergraduates, the college dropouts, the writers of science fiction, horror, humor, crime, romance, fantasy and just about every other genre, including literary, and writers from every continent except Antarctica. I’ve read pieces submitted for contests as well as regular submissions to the magazine.

The experience of reading all of these submissions has taught me a lot about writing and the submission process, and I hope these five lessons will help you, too.

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Feast your eyes on these recent publications

Nibble on these morsels published recently in The Argyle Literary Magazine’s “gastronomy” issue

Earlier this month, a couple of my pieces were published in The Argyle Literary Magazine‘s special “gastronomy” issue. As the title of this themed issue makes clear, the stories, poems, and creative nonfiction pieces of this issue all have something to do with cooking or eating food.

I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read my contributions, which are companion pieces of a sort:

I hope you’ll also take the time to feast on some of the other delicious writings in this special issue and read more from The Argyle‘s previous issues.

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