The Possibly Impossible Task of Ranking Literary Journals
I wrote a post not long ago about how I evaluate literary journals, focusing mostly on smaller and usually newer ones. These journals are...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Feb 19
- 7 min
Why the Author (Usually (but Not Always)) Eschews Nested Square Brackets
Are you familiar with the prescriptivism vs. descriptivism debate in re grammar and usage? It’s a doozy. . . . The prescriptivists tend...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jan 7
- 3 min
The Two Commandments of Getting Accepted at Literary Journals
When it comes to the ethics of getting work accepted at literary journals, the submission gods hath spoken, the prophet hath come down...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Dec 6, 2022
- 8 min
“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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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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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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Erik Harper Klass
- Jan 15, 2021
- 4 min
“How (Not) to Write Dialogue,” exclaimed, moodily, Erik Harper Klass.
I’ve been working on a flash fiction story for the past week or so—a story of two lovers. It’s coming together. I have some clever facts...
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