writingforyourlife

Yesterday I said I need to be more diligent with submitting work to magazines and journals.

Today, I give you…  THE BIG LIST of LITERARY MAGAZINES !

By the time you finish looking through the links, you’ll have 1800 less excuses for not being published.  Here’s my strategy for getting through this massive list:

1. Start at the top of the list and use new tabs to open 5 links at a time on your browser.
2. Quickly look at each site.  In a text document, copy and paste links to the ones that seem to meet your requirements.  Close each tab as you finish with it.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until your eyes shrivel. Make note of where you’ve left off.
4. Sleep.
5. Repeat steps 1 to 4 until you have your own personalized list of appropriate places to send your work.

A quick note of caution:  when looking at links, I didn’t bother wasting time on any magazines that had dodgy looking sites, or those that were obviously not my type of writing.  I immediately closed any tabs with pictures of vampires on them, or those that had very poor quality design.  If their website looks terrible, what does that say about their magazine?

Also, make sure you understand whether a magazine/journal is offered in print or only online.  Many websites make it difficult to tell.  Being offered publication online isn’t as prestigious as having your work accepted in print.

If you have used other lists, please send us the link.   Best of luck!