Sending your words into the world
Submission Tools
Submitting to Magazines
Finding places to submit
Their database will let you search literary magazines by topics and genres as well as by other criteria, such as whether the journal allows you to submit to other journals simultaneously.
Another site that allows you to search literary magazines, calls for submissions, and writing contests.
A searchable database of magazine reviews with some more specifics on the kinds of writing particular magazines might be publishing.
Literary Outlets for Environmental Writing
A list of links to publications devoted to essays, articles, short stories, or poetry about ecology and the natural world.
A portal for electronic submissions that is used by the vast majority of literary magazines. Getting an account is easy and free. You can search their database for open calls for submissions and check on the status of any pieces you have submitted through the portal. They also will send you the weekly Submishmash Newsletter via e-mail, which contains current calls for submissions.
Keeping track
A free tool for logging and tracking your submissions and for finding out how long it takes magazines to respond. Not every magazine or anthology will have an entry here, so it is best to also keep a separate list or spreadsheet of all of your submissions in a notebook or on your computer. This becomes especially important when one of your pieces has been accepted somewhere, so that you will remember where you need to withdraw simultaneous submissions of your manuscript.
Find out wether your form rejection was the journal's "standard" rejection or whether they truly meant to encourage you to submit more work to them by sending you a "higher tier" rejection.
Submitting a
Book Manuscript
Writing a Synopsis
How to Write a Synopsis (Fuse Literary)
Mastering the Dreaded Synopsis (Writer's Digest)
Memoir Synopsis (Louisa Daesay)
Comp Titles:
Literature Map lets you enter authors' names to find other authors that the algorithm has deemed "similar". Note that some people you consider “famous” might not have made it onto this “map”. (Think “New York City” not “Buffalo”.)
Agent Search
More on understanding magazine submissions:
Becky Tuch's articles on choosing literary magazines and on simultaneous submissions
Allison William's Brevity Blog entry on creating writing that is "good enough" for your target journal.
Lynne Barret's article on understanding how editors select submissions and what that means for how to submit and how to work with rejections
Ellie O'Leary's guest post on Trish Hopkinson's blog decodes terms and presents a list of rules to follow during the submission process.
Lincoln Michel's "Ultimate Guide to Getting Published in a Literary Magazine"
Laura Maylene Walter's blog entry for the Kenyon Review and Kim Liao's post on Lit Hub explain how "Rejection Goals" create submission success.