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After the Workshop, Part 2: Data Mining

In the first installment of this article, we introduced the notion of strategies for tackling your stories after they’ve gone through the standard short fiction workshop. Finding and Using Hotspots By the time a workshop ends, I usually have extensive notes. I also have notes (typically written on story drafts) from others. If I’m on [...]

After the Workshop

This is the third in an occasional series called “A Small List of Things I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago.??? I’d like to add a disclaimer that this is not a how-to column. This column works best as point of reference, a tool by which you can stack my experiences against yours. Somewhere [...]

Most Wanted Journals

Here is my list of the places you would most likely want your short fiction or novel excerpts published. I threw in my comments below. All additional comments or edits happily noted! Antioch Review The Atlantic Monthly (fiction issue): They used to have fiction in every issue, but no more! Esquire: They send nice rejection [...]