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The publishing landscape is changing, and not only for
full-length books. Newspapers and magazines are losing advertising revenue and
shedding staff, and now offer far fewer openings for freelance work. In
parallel, the small magazines produced with devotion and optimism, the ones
that offered poetry, literary fiction, science fiction or fantasy, the ones
printed on cheap paper and posted to people who would actually read them, have
migrated to websites. Such markets used to offer payment in the form of a contributor’s
copy. Now would-be writers are assured of ‘exposure’. See your name on screen
and join the millions shouting out their words to a largely uncaring world.
As writers, we keep going. As a rule of thumb, I used to
reckon that one submission in 6 would be accepted. In addition to the
publication of A Shackled Inheritance, a
full-length romance, in 2016 I had 8 acceptances out of 71 submissions (short
stories, poems, essays, translations), roughly one in 9. One flash fiction
website folded before my story was published, 3 short pieces were published in
print anthologies and 3 on websites, leaving one in the pipeline. There is even
another one still in the pipeline from 2015.
It would be interesting to know how other writers are faring.
Madeleine McDonald
It would be interesting to know how other writers are faring.
Madeleine McDonald
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