Literary Submissions Guide – 2019 Edition

SUBMITTING TO CREATIVE WRITING PUBLICATIONS IN THE DIGITAL ERA

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What does it take to become a published literary writer in 2019? To start with, impeccable creative writing, along with money and time, followed by a diet of tears and gnawed-off fingernail crescents, and topped-off by a certain morbid fascination with how many literary submissions you have to send out before somebody recognizes your artistic talent.

Hence the three-month hiatus between posts on the Notes of Oak Literary Blog — writing submissions are consumptive, deflating, expensive, and yet, still worth it when even one acceptance letter finally flutters in. But even more than all those things, trying to get published nowadays involves navigating a changing terrain of submission routes and resources. Relying on my knowledge that has resulted in a whopping four publications thus far, let’s tour this rocky realm of getting published in the digital era.

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