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Glass, Fire, and Siamese Lambs: How Field Research Can Improve Your Writing

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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I’ve Made Some Changes to Submitit’s Algorithm

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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How Submitit Evaluates Smaller Literary Journals (So You'll Know They'll Stick Around)

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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How I Made $0.02/Hour as a Writer (and How You Can Too!)

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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The (Usually-but-Not-Always-Unacceptable) Comma Splice

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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Do Androids Dream of a Universal Style Guide?

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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The Art of Timing When Submitting to Literary Journals

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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I'm not only the owner; I'm also a client

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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Punctuation Fun with 'Ulysses' and 'Infinite Jest'

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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Congratulations to H S Derkin for an Accepted Story!

Erik Harper Klass

Mar 19, 2021
1 min

Congratulations 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...

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What I Learned About Writing After Reading 1,000 Short Stories Last Year

Erik Harper Klass

Feb 28, 2021
11 min

What 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...

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Congratulations to Ann Montgomery for an Accepted Essay!

Erik Harper Klass

Feb 26, 2021
1 min

Congratulations 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"...

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Erik Harper Klass

Feb 15, 2021
1 min

Submitit 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...

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BLOG

Glass, Fire, and Siamese Lambs: How Field Research Can Improve Your Writing

I’ve Made Some Changes to Submitit’s Algorithm

How Submitit Evaluates Smaller Literary Journals (So You'll Know They'll Stick Around)

How I Made $0.02/Hour as a Writer (and How You Can Too!)

The (Usually-but-Not-Always-Unacceptable) Comma Splice

How Well Does Submitit Work?

Do Androids Dream of a Universal Style Guide?

July Acceptances!

The Art of Timing When Submitting to Literary Journals

Another Month of Acceptances!

I'm not only the owner; I'm also a client

Congratulations to Dvora Rabino!

Punctuation Fun with 'Ulysses' and 'Infinite Jest'

And Still More Congratulations!

More Congratulations!

Congratulations to Judy Stanigar ...

Congratulations to H S Derkin for an Accepted Story!

What I Learned About Writing After Reading 1,000 Short Stories Last Year

Congratulations to Ann Montgomery for an Accepted Essay!

Submitit on the Radio!

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