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Author: Cady Vishniac
How Not to Follow Up
Hey, writers, let's talk submissions again! It's been a while. I've previously written about what cover letters should look like, what stories you should probably not show litmags, other stories you should probably not show litmags, etc. I'd like to add to this a list of behavior you should never ever indulge in when following… Continue reading How Not to Follow Up
Don’t Work Your Way Up, Actually
Why take yourself out of the running for the thing you really want?
Let’s Find You Some Help
You should show your actual writing to as many people as possible, getting all the advice you can wrangle out of them, before you spend hundreds of dollars applying for grad school. In this article I list specific venues for you to get critiques from other people.
The Only Cover Letter Template You’ll Ever Need
Once, in undergrad, I submitted a story I wrote for my sophomore workshop to n + 1 and got a positive response, an interest in putting the thing in their next online issue if I could only revise it enough. I couldn’t revise it enough, because I was secretly the newest of writers, and anyway,… Continue reading The Only Cover Letter Template You’ll Ever Need