Recently, the Grinder added poetry markets, but I've found that because this is a new feature, the numbers are less accurate than Duotrope.
ECOTONE DUOTROPE FREE
It's entirely free to use and tends to skew heavily towards speculative markets. Submission Grinder is a similar website for writers on a budget. I've found Duotrope to be immensely useful for finding out how long a journal normally takes to respond, when to query about a submission, finding journals that don't charge fees, and searching for new contests or anthologies.
Since then, I've streamlined my process and let me tell you it is magical.ĭuotrope is a $50/year subscription service that allows you to keep track of your submissions to journals, magazines, and agents (now in beta mode) and also offers a wealth of useful tools, such as an upcoming deadline calendar, Stats on publication responses such as who has the slowest response rate (I'm looking at you, Ecotone) or who is the hardest to get into (currently held by Clarkesworld). However, once I figured out that submitting is a numbers game, this method quickly became too complex. I'd list the date, what pieces I sent out, and the title of the publication. When I first started submitting, I tracked my submissions in a simple Word doc. Throw that spreadsheet out the door, it's time to get online. How do you decide where to send your work? How do you keep track of how many submissions you've sent out? What should your manuscript look like? When should you query about a submission that's been out a long time? There are so many factors that go into submitting, it can be overwhelming.īut thankfully, a great number of resources exist for writers! Here is a list of websites you need to have bookmarked if you're just starting out sending your writing into the world, as well as some tips for using each of these valuable tools.
Writing is hard, but in many ways submitting is harder. As I typed out a very long email, I realized just how much work I put into submitting on a regular basis. A friend of mine recently asked me to break down my submission process from A to Z.
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