Everything About Submitting Short Stories | cover letters, submission strategy, rejection

It's more than you ever wanted to know on this topic, because I've overthought this so now you can too! Let's have a chat about how to submit short stories to literary magazines.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:42 - Basics
6:32 - Cover letters
11:22 - Where to submit
14:41 - Rejections
16:42 - Submission strategy
20:25 - Raising your chances
23:19 - Staying confident

MY SHORT FICTION:
☾"I Will Never Tell You This" in The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/never-tel...
☾"Solarium" in The Minola Review: http://www.minolareview.com/shaelin-b...
☾"Barefoot" in The Fiddlehead [print only]: https://thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾ "Wishbone" in PRISM international [print only]: http://prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/pr...
☾ "Wishbone" video reading: https://vimeo.com/420052282
☾ "Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden" in The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/cherry-an...

RESOURCES:
→Submittable: https://manager.submittable.com/user/...
→Prism International cover letter template: https://prismmagazine.ca/wp-content/u...
→How to write a cover letter:   / how-to-write-a-cover-letter-for-a-literary...  
→Lit Mag Love podcast: https://www.litmaglove.com/podcast/
→Reedsy contest directory: https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-conte...
→Reedsy magazine directory: https://blog.reedsy.com/literary-maga...
→Literistic: https://www.literistic.com

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