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Literary Compass
A daily dose of intel on what lit journals actually want. Read one short story a day, read with fellow writers, and navigate the lit journal world. By reading modern fiction we unravel the secret sauce that makes writing good vs. published. ✍🏼
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It Was a Pig of a Day
Colorful Irish Writing is the Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow
Frequency and Breaks
Taking some time off, changing frequency
Under the Hood - Zyzzyva
Decoding What Zyzzyva Wants and How to Submit
What "Carefully Crafted" Means
Sexy times at Ninth Letter
Friday Musings - Eating the Sins of Others
Is literary fiction asking too much of us?
Evergreen Topics
The North Dakota Quarterly - Abortion, history, and fractured memory
Friday Musings - Excerpts Are The Worst
Fiction Excerpts Drive Away More Readers Than They Keep
Don't Reinvent The Wheel. Make the Wheel Better.
The Washington Square Review - How you write about dementia matters.
Best American Short Fiction 2016: Ravalushan
Push the button, Max. We’re going back to 2015.