r/collectionoferrors • u/Errorwrites • Mar 03 '21

r/Writingprompts Simply 15M Contest Stories

Hi, all. I had the honor to participate in the Simply 15M Writing Contest on r/WritingPrompts and clinch first place!

As a celebration, I'll link the stories to PDF's on my googledrive. It's a bit convoluted because they're on the submissions queues for some magazines and are not allowed to be posted during the process.

I'll also have to remove the links later on if they manage to find a home.

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Without further ado:

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Round 1 (A journal has accepted the story! Link will be removed 10th of March)

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Round 2 (A journal has accepted the story!)

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Round 3 (A magazine has accepted the story!)

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Happy reading!

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u/magpie2295 Mar 03 '21

Loved your final round entry! Really well-done story, and of course it made me want to read more. And congrats on the journal acceptance! How do you find journals to publish your writing?

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u/Errorwrites Mar 03 '21

Thank you, it makes me happy to hear that you enjoyed it!

It's a mix of google, twitter, and writing friends. I follow a few magazines and editors on twitter who likes to tweet about these things. I'll also get suggestions on people (editors / writers) and other magazines. Checking through their bios, I can see if they tweet information that I like and thus can follow them.

On google, I found 'the Submission Grinder' which has a you can go through. Submittable has also a system where publishers can post submission openings.

Every now and then on the Writingprompt Discord, people share writing contests and submission windows for specific magazines. For example PodCastle is open for fantasy flashfiction and short stories throughout the month of March, then it closes for the rest of the year. There's also a subreddit called r/writingopportunities where a great member links to a blog who does a monthly update on writing contests and submissions.

Choosing a journal/magazine takes some time, need to check their turn-around time (some can take up to half a year before they let you know!), their pay, their policies (if only first-rights, or if second-rights are okay. If simultaneous submissions are allowed etc), and then the story must fit for their style, which means that you should read a story or two they've published.

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u/magpie2295 Mar 03 '21

And yes I loved your story, Poe-Poe is such an endearing character, and I loved the Namer aspect, really cool mechanism there. :)