Ken
given what seems to be the situation down there I don't really know.
What I've always thought & what seems to work to a degree in Canada (&
I suspect in Australia & New Zealand, etc), is that new writers look
around at various journals (now the online ones as well), find ones
that seem to publish work similar to what they're writing, & send their
own off to same. After a certain degree of publication, one is in a
position to start thinking about a small press (usually a small one), &
trying a few. That's because the editors at same probably read around &
notice new names & the work they like.
Oh, knowing someone helps, if s/he is involved with a press or a mag;
they'll likely take a look anyway.
Certain forms of self-publishing might work now. Meredith Quartermain
had published quite widely in journals but also published some
chapbooks in the series she & her husband do, but as one chapbook among
20 or so others it did not look like mere self-publication, & she was
also being published by other chapbook presses, & then sent us what I
can only call a fabulous ms.
But I tend to agree with Mark's take, that getting into the 'game' of
victor & loser in writing is getting out of the actual game of writing
& the comradeship that should be at the heart of the endeavour
(although I don't/can't deny that there's a part of me I wish wasn't
there that still *wants....)
Doug
On 5-Aug-05, at 11:45 AM, Ken Wolman wrote:
>
> How do you proceed when you have no connections in the literary world?
> Self-publish? Pray? Get a copy of Poet's Market, find a dowsing
> rod, and point at the entries with magnetic properties?
>
> Ken, clueless in Princeton
>
>
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