Erik Harper KlassMay 14 minI’ve Made Some Changes to Submitit’s Algorithm(A warning before you start this post: It’s a little wonky. I dive pretty deep into my algorithm. If you dislike detailed discussions of...
Erik Harper KlassMar 46 minHow Submitit Evaluates Smaller Literary Journals (So You'll Know They'll Stick Around)I’ve written a lot (most obviously here) about the importance of submitting stories and essays to smaller, newer, and (ostensibly) more...
Erik Harper KlassJan 166 minHow I Made $0.02/Hour as a Writer (and How You Can Too!)I write mostly fiction. I’m working on a (ridiculously long) novel, from which I occasionally submit excerpts as short stories to...
Erik Harper KlassNov 19, 20216 minThe (Usually-but-Not-Always-Unacceptable) Comma SpliceWith the (Unasked for) Help of Jonathan Lethem One of the most common grammar errors—or let me put that in quotes: “errors”—I see when...
Erik Harper KlassOct 3, 20214 minHow Well Does Submitit Work?Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. I officially started submit back in October 2020. (Philip Kennedy-Grant, if you’re reading this, I...
Erik Harper KlassSep 4, 20216 minDo Androids Dream of a Universal Style Guide?As an editor, I frequently see the same recurring errors of typography. In this post, I want to focus on the three most common, having to...
Erik Harper KlassAug 8, 20212 minJuly Acceptances!We've had another great month of acceptances, before the inevitable summer slow-down (when many journals seem to go into hibernation).......
Erik Harper KlassJul 22, 20216 minThe Art of Timing When Submitting to Literary JournalsI’ve been running Submitit now for about a year, and I’m happy to say that we—I must say we, since the stories are yours—have had some...
Erik Harper KlassJul 11, 20212 minAnother Month of Acceptances!We've had another great month of acceptances (I'll get to this in a second). One thing I've been noticing is that my second rounds of...
Erik Harper KlassJun 6, 20212 minI'm not only the owner; I'm also a client(Image used with absolutely no permission whatsoever.) Remember those old Hair Club for Men commercials, where a man (with a full head of...
Erik Harper KlassMay 31, 20211 minCongratulations to Dvora Rabino!Congrats to Dvora Rabino for getting a story accepted to CafeLit. Her story, "Hetty Had a Headache," was a Round 2 submission with an 86%...
Erik Harper KlassMay 8, 20216 minPunctuation Fun with 'Ulysses' and 'Infinite Jest'(This article was published in slightly different form in The Writing Cooperative.) An editor, like an ornithologist, stumbles upon...
Erik Harper KlassApr 30, 20211 minAnd Still More Congratulations!I feel like my blog is getting boring with congratulations, but I'm so happy to be helping writers find homes for their work. For current...
Erik Harper KlassApr 3, 20211 minMore Congratulations!We've had a couple new acceptances in the last week.... First, congrats to Erin Rose Belair, whose story "Baby Calls It Home" was...
Erik Harper KlassMar 27, 20211 minCongratulations to Judy Stanigar ...I'm happy to share the news that one of Submitit's client-authors, Judy Stanigar, had her newest novel, Hope is the Thing with Feathers,...
Erik Harper KlassMar 19, 20211 minCongratulations to H S Derkin for an Accepted Story!I'd like to congratulate H S Derkin for getting his short story “How You Learn to Drive Truck” accepted to Charge Magazine. This is a...
Erik Harper KlassFeb 28, 202111 minWhat I Learned About Writing After Reading 1,000 Short Stories Last Year(This essay was published in slightly different form in The Writing Cooperative.) A year or so ago, I started working on Submitit's...
Erik Harper KlassFeb 26, 20211 minCongratulations to Ann Montgomery for an Accepted Essay!I'm very happy to announce that Ann Montgomery got her wonderful (and wonderfully titled) creative nonfiction piece "Papaya Abortion"...
Erik Harper KlassFeb 16, 20211 minSubmitit on the Radio!The Writer Files is a great podcast dedicated entirely to writing. Episodes focus on "the habits, habitats, and brains of a wide spectrum...
Erik Harper KlassFeb 3, 20211 minCongratulations to Keith Hofman for an Accepted Story!I'd like to congratulate Keith Hofman for getting his short story "The Summer My Sister Grew Sideburns" (great title, right?) accepted to...