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Beating the Numbers Game: Submissions Strategies
Friday, February 9, 2024
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
In this panel, we discuss what it’s like as a literary magazine editor moving through the slush pile: sins we’re willing to forgive, and those we’re not. We’ll also look at tools to finding literary magazines that are a best fit for your work, how to rate them, and when to submit to what. We’ll also look at strategies for submitting to contests. If submitting is a numbers game, then we’ll help you figure out your best odds.
Participants
Amber Wheeler Bacon’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Ecotone, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, and online at Ploughshares and CRAFT. She received the 2018 Breakout Writers Prize from the Author's Guild, a 2021 Bread Loaf scholarship, and the 2022 Lit/South Award for flash fiction.
Keith Pilapil Lesmeister is the author of Mississippi River Museum and We Could've Been Happy Here. He is a founding editor of Cutleaf and EastOver Press. He currently teaches at Northeast Iowa Community College.
Jonathan Bohr Heinen is the managing editor for Crazyhorse. His writing has appeared in Cimarron Review, Arroyo, Tusculum Review and has received special mention in the Pushcart anthology. He teaches at the College of Charleston and is on the staff of the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Libby Flores
