Welcome to the new Lit Mag News Roundup! This bi-weekly newsletter will contain all the latest news in the world of lit mags, including new journals, calls for submissions, interesting contests, job and fellowship opportunities, closing journals, special theme issues, editor profiles, publishing trends, and the occasional bit of lit-mag-biz gossip.

A place to explore the way the short story works. Click to read Story Club with George Saunders, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of readers.

Writer, editor, teacher. Ploughshares, Washington Square Review, Norton Reader, Best American Nonrequired Reading. Copper Nickel Editors' Prize, 5x Best Small Fictions, Flash Fiction America (Norton 2023) Ragdale Fellowship.

Join award-winning novelist and writing teacher Michelle Hoover with tips and special guests for your morning writing wake up call, starting with a 50-day writing challenge to help you get a new project going and keep you in your chair. Click to read The 7am Novelist, by Michelle Hoover, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

Fiction writing exercises, craft essays, and reading recommendations from Matt Bell, author of APPLESEED and REFUSE TO BE DONE. Publishes monthly. Click to read No Failure, Only Practice, by Matt Bell, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

Author of novels and stories, including I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU (Feb '23) and THE GREAT BELIEVERS (Carnegie Medal, Pulitzer finalist). Chicago/Vermont.

Admiring, mooning over, loving, and learning to write stunning sentences. Click to read Stunning Sentences, by Nina Schuyler, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

“So howled out for the world to give him a name. The indark answered with wind.” ― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren :: Reflections on fiction and worldbuilding, on diasporas and elsewheres. Click to read StoryWorlds with Junot Díaz, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Endless education for writers. Click to read The Forever Workshop, by Chill Subs, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

The Inevitable Substack is a twice-monthly newsletter about the art and craft of writing. We'll be doing close readings of fiction and nonfiction by me and by others...and hopefully, some of yours as well! Click to read The Inevitable Substack, by Jennifer Weiner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.