/lit/ - Literature

If you're accepting everything and I'm not looking to read a little bit of everything than i wont even bother picking it up. If you want to do genre, pick a genre and roll with only stories of that genre. This will get you a targeted audience much quicker than dipping into all spectrums.

After a while (if you make it that far) you can start picking and choosing stories that fit into the mold of what you want to feature. Writers will pick up on this (bonus points if you paint a clear picture on a submissions form) and enter more stories following what you normally publish. Congrats your not shit.

does anyone have any advice on breaking into the literary fiction journal sphere?

obviously places like new yorker, the paris review, harper's, mcsweeney's are going to be completely off limits unless you're already established

but what are some good entry-level journals to submit to? kenyon review? granta? n+1?

would being published in local/collegiate lit journals help at all in reaching the higher-tiers?

I've written a few short stories and would like to submit them to some magazines / journals, but the sheer number of them is intimidating. I thought I'd start a general thread on publishing, making money from writing, etc. Some questions for discussion:

>how do you pick a magazine or journal to submit to?
>is it better to target specific ones or send blanket submissions to many at a time?
>is it easier to publish genre fiction?
>What are advantages / drawbacks to using a pen name?
>What are advantages / drawbacks to self-publishing?
>What should a writer know about copyright and general ownership / publishing rights before submitting to literary magazines?

So, any thoughts or experience?

Hey /lit/, what literary magazines are you a reader or former reader of?