Had a great first day with other NWP teachers from other parts of the country. We got right to work, though, in true Writing Project fashion — and I expect I’ll be quite tired by the end of the weekend.
Regular readers of this blog probably know that one of the major ideas behind the NWP is that the best teachers of writing are those that are writers themselves. This teacher writing takes a number of forms, this blog being my primary writing environment. Others write poetry, professional articles, keep journals, write fiction, etc. But one end goal of writing is getting that work read, or published. (I’ve been having some interesting conversations lately about whether or not publishing via blogs is really publishing. What do you think?)
Megan, one of the CSUWP’s group of pretty amazing teacher consultants, has put together a really handy resource to help folks who are looking for places to publish. Here’s a link to her three-page spreadsheet of literary journals that accept either poetry, or fiction, or both.
What other handy "Where do I get published?" resources do you know about?
Want to Publish?
February 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Tags: Blogging Community · Writing · Writing Project
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Brett Hinton // Feb 25th 2006 at 5:59 pm
I didn’t see it on Megan’s list and, while it isn’t a traditional journal or publisher, I thought Lulu.com needed a mention to an article like this. The power or effect of an on-demand publisher is yet to be seen, but the idea, at the very least, is a powerful one. I’ve often wondered (since I heard about lulu.com about a year ago) what effect using lulu.com and a student writing assignment might have on quality of student work. They also advertise the capability to sell through Barnes & Noble, Amazon, as well as their own website. An interesting possibility anyway.
Amerloc // Feb 26th 2006 at 7:05 am
I haven’t decided if blogging constitutes publishing or not, at least for me.
Certainly for some of the large, famous blogs and their bloggers, being read by thousands of people a day parallels traditional publication in terms of audience.
But for those of us who play with words or explore ideas in relatively smaller corners of the internet, blogging more closely resembles the “sharing” phase of the writing process. We comment on strengths of phrasing or content, we ask questions for clarification, we engage in the behaviors we want our students to use mid-process.
In the sense that we relinquish control of who reads our words as soon as we hit the “publish post” button, there’s at least an element of publication. But the same could be said of writing words on the stall in the bathroom at the gas station.
So I’m not sure.
Breaking into the Academy // Mar 23rd 2006 at 3:02 pm
More on Being an Academic
Once again, here are some more entries from around the blogsphere about entering the world of higher education and becoming a member of the academy.
Teaching
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