Roundup: On Submitting to Literary Journals

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Mar 25, 2023

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Note from Radha: Note from Radha: After back-to-back trips to NYC and Seattle (AWP23), plus three (now entering four) months of intense work projects, I’m taking a short hiatus to replenish. I’ll be back with new posts on April 8th. In the meantime, please enjoy these themed roundups of Poet to Poet’s most popular posts to date.

On Submitting to Literary Journals

The Power of Threes: The literary journal submissions strategy that doubled my acceptance rate

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The Power of Threes

Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash It has been many years (too many, don’t ask!) since I first started publishing in literary journals. I remember the utter thrill of receiving my first “yes” from FIELD—a journal filled with voices that continue to influence me to this day. “I’m part of this!” I thought. And I was. And then I continued to be. For that…

a year ago · 17 likes · 8 comments · Radha Marcum

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X. P. Callahan

Writes Diary Poems

Mar 25Liked by Radha Marcum

I ran across this very good essay and recalled that someone in the last Wednesday session was struggling or at least preoccupied with the experience of not writing:

https://littlepatuxentreview.org/2018/10/11/concerning-craft-to-the-writer-who-is-not-writing/

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