“I’d like to talk about formatting and punctuating dialogue,” said Erik Harper Klass gleefully.
(Preliminary note: The author does not recommend or condone using adverbs with dialogic attributives. In the title above, and...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Oct 23
- 4 min
Submitit's Three Submission Strategies
If you’ve signed up for a Submitit submissions package, you know that we submit your story to up to twenty journals, in two rounds of...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Sep 15
- 8 min
How to Write a Winning Bio and Story/Essay Blurb for Literary Journals
Usually literary journals ask writers for a third-person bio. And a few ask for a story or essay “blurb” (generally optional) that...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Aug 17
- 4 min
Bake Your Stories
I have learned over the years that it’s important to let my work sit for a while when I’ve completed a draft. I’ve come to call this...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jun 22
- 5 min
Glass, Fire, and Siamese Lambs: How Field Research Can Improve Your Writing
For a long time, I dreaded conducting field research for my fiction writing. I think this goes back to my early writing days: ah, those...
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Erik Harper Klass
- May 1
- 4 min
I’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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Mar 3
- 6 min
How 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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jan 15
- 6 min
How 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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Nov 19, 2021
- 6 min
The (Usually-but-Not-Always-Unacceptable) Comma Splice
With 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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Oct 3, 2021
- 4 min
How 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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Sep 4, 2021
- 6 min
Do 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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Aug 8, 2021
- 2 min
July Acceptances!
We've had another great month of acceptances, before the inevitable summer slow-down (when many journals seem to go into hibernation).......
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jul 21, 2021
- 6 min
The Art of Timing When Submitting to Literary Journals
I’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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jul 11, 2021
- 2 min
Another 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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
I'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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- May 30, 2021
- 1 min
Congratulations 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%...
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Erik Harper Klass
- May 8, 2021
- 6 min
Punctuation 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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
And 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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Apr 3, 2021
- 1 min
More 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...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Mar 27, 2021
- 1 min
Congratulations 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,...
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