Let's all get into print!

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Mon, 2002-09-30 12:00

Do any of you submit stuff to magazines? I've done a few via email. Any good stories, good tips, useful contacts? Let's set up the ABCtales equivilent of an old boy's network, where we all give each other inside information and first jump at opportunities. Then we can do a big feature on published ABCer's, which would be great.

Come on, let's all make a concerted push. If you know what a magazine likes, why not suggest someone who should submit to it? Let's get ABCtales, our alma mater, mentioned in as many places as possible.

Is anyone with me?

Mon, 2002-09-30 15:09

david floyd

There's three magazines edited (either wholly or partly) by me: Chartist (www.chartist.org.uk) - lefty political mag Piffle (www.pifflemag.co.uk) - satirical mag Exposure (www.exposure.org.uk) - youth magazine Check out the website and if you or you're writing fit into the relevant categories, send us some stuff.

Mon, 2002-09-30 17:32

Andrea

Depends what sort of magazines you're talking about. Small Press? Glossies? National? International? All of the above? Either way, UKA (www.ukauthors.com) has loads of info (and markets) on them all. Can be more specific if *you* are. Oh, can confirm that Piffle's a nice one :-)

Mon, 2002-09-30 19:45

markbrown

Any type of magazine, anywhere, anyhow! The links section of UK Authors is brilliant Andrea, by the way

Mon, 2002-09-30 20:56

Andrea

Thanks. Ok, well, if you click on 'This is where you'll find info about...', most (if not all) of the small presses listed there are accepting submissions and, in the 'markets' section, you'll find loads of mag markets (some US, but it doesn't matter. Actually, they pay better) listed. In fact there are 3 categories: 'Fiction/Article Markets', 'Poetry Markets' and 'Markets General' (which accept both). The 'Articles' section also contains several useful articles re submitting fiction and non-fiction to mags of all kinds. The best tip of all: Study the requirements of the chosen market before you submit.

Mon, 2002-12-16 15:15

trishsmiler

hi all; I think markbrown as a great idea lets work on it. I have only sent one story ( real life) to a magazine which did not want it so I do not know which one to write to now but we should never give in, belive in your dream and your dream will come through for us!!!!! take care

Mon, 2002-12-23 02:32

andrewo'donnell

OK.. the little of what I know. Mostly good for poetry submitters. Haven't sent anything off for around a year now. Writers and Artists Yearbook helps but they're not really involved with small presses and starting out kind of stuff. Poetry London's website has got some good lists if I remember rightly. Poetry Review's new editor is apparently much more youth orientated if your feeling brave (and young!) and like the idea of being printed in the U.K's Big Daddy of Poetry. Bloody near impossible tho.. Otherwise The Wolf is a New Magazine out of the poetry cafe.. you can email them yr stuff on thewolfpoetry@hotmail.com. Also, Nii Parkes's X-Magazine is great and seems to like a good mix of stuff.. he's at www.flippedeye.com. 'Unpublished' is another poetry mag for starting outers.. think you can get them through their monthly reading- Walking the Dog.. try a search on that. Grain, probably the best magazine I've read, bar the Poetry Review, is out of Regina, Canada.. their address is in Writers and Artists, they like kind of ethereal pieces and anything that evokes prairies-esque flat landscapes (East Anglian writers ..this is for you!!) Which reminds me.. if anyone has read a B.C writer called William Lynch, let me know.. he's great.. If any of this helps.. let me know.. and I'm gonna be starting up submissions of my short stories early next year so if anyone has any tips on that I'd be grateful. Tekem Carem and Happy Xmas- Andrew O'Donnell.

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