Poetry Says

Ep 56. Getting published.


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Past guest Sean Wright joins us again this week to talk about the process of getting his first collection published (!) along with navigating the world of poetry journals. How do you know where to send work? What do you say when you do? We don’t have all the answers but these are our tips on making it out of the slush pile.

Publishers and journals mentioned (by no means exhaustive):
  • Kent MacCarter’s essay on Australian poetry micro-presses: They will oxidise before you even finish reading
  • Close Up Books
  • Tincture
  • Cordite
  • Verity La (check out Sean’s poem Lucilia Cuprina – an Ode)
  • A Hundred Gourds
  • Meanjin
  • Island
  • Overland
  • The Lifted Brow
  • List of UK poetry magazines
  • pressure gauge journal
  • Plumwood Mountain
  • Rabbit Poetry Journal
  • Snap Literary Journal
  • Australian Poetry Journal
  • Flash Cove
  • Going Down Swinging
  • Southerly
  • Westerly
  • Australian Book Review
  • Foam:e
  • Best Australian Poems
  • Resources that can help (or cause a meta-fiddling addiction):
    • Submittable
    • Trello
    • Scrivener
    • Pressbooks
    • Tim Love’s website: Litrefs Articles
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