The Lit Mag Love Intensive
Write, Revise, and Publish Your Luminous Writing
September 17, 2023–February 11, 2024
write, Revise, & publish with lots of support!
The Lit Mag Love Intensive is a four-month program for writers who want to generate, revise, and publish new works of writing with expert support and a community of writers at your back.
This holistic intensive takes writers through the journey of developing new, luminous writing with lots of feedback, training to help you skilfully edit your work, and a custom-tailored plan to submit your writing for publication. You’ll finish the program with completed short works of writing already submitted for publication to places that most fit your voice.
Do you crave support and structure so you can write your most luminous work?
Does this sound familiar?
- Your writing practice has slipped and you need deadlines, encouraging feedback, and help to hone in on your unique voice.
- You feel overwhelmed about where to begin when it comes to revising your writing and want to develop your editorial skills.
- You don’t know what to send lit mags, or whether there’s a place out there for your unique voice.
- You want a community of writers to support you and your dreams of writing your most brilliant work and getting published.
Write, Revise,
Publish!
At the end of your Intensive you will have...
- polished several stories, poems, or hybrid work.
- submitted your work to publications that fit you.
- prepared for a big “YES” for your writing and your writing dreams.
- found your place in a community of writers.
Hi, I'm rachel Thompson
I am a literary magazine editor (with Room), a published author, and the host of the Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast.
I am here to help you publish your most luminous work.
Writers I Instructed Have Published in Over 200 Journals and Anthologies!
200 (Plus!) Lit Mags Published
Click for a list of just SOME of the journals that published writers after they have worked with me
50 Word Stories
Angry Old Man Magazine
Anti-Heroin Chic
Apparition Literary Magazine
Askance Journal
Atlas and Alice
Atticus Review
Augur Magazine
Automata Review
Baltimore Review
Barren Magazine
Belletrist Magazine
Better Than Starbucks
Black Dandy
Blank Spaces Magazine
Broken Pencil
Bywords
Canthius
carte blanche
Carve Literary Magazine
Catapult
CBC
Chaudiere Books
Cleaver Magazine
CNFC
Cold Creek Review
Contemporary Verse 2
Contrary Magazine
County Lines: A Literary Journal
Crab Fat Magazine
Crack The Spine
CutBank
Cypress: A Poetry Journal
Dappled Things
The Deadlands
Door is a Jar Magazine
Dreamers Creative Writing
Drunk Monkeys
Empty House PressEntropy
Escape Pod’s Artemis Rising 4
Ethel
EVENT Magazine
Existere
Filling Station
Five on the Fifth
Flash Fiction Magazine
flo.
Forge Magazine
Freeze Frame Fiction
Fustion Fragment
Geez Magazine
Geist
Glint Literary Journal
Gone Lawn
Grain Magazine
Haiku Seed
Hamilton Arts & Letters
Hart House Review
Held Magazine
Hippocampus Magazine
Hobart
Humber Lit Review
Imprint Anthology
In/Words Magazine
Invisiblog
JMWW
Journal of Compressed Arts
Joyland Magazine
Juncture Workshops
Kissing Dynamite Poetry
Light and Dark Magazine
Literary Mama
Little Fiction Big Truths
long con magazine
LooseLeaf Magazine
Madcap Review
Maisonneuve
Marías at Sampaguitas
Memoir Magazine
Minola Review
Mom Egg Review
Nailed Magazine
Neworld Review
OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters
Oyster River Pages
Panorama Journal
Parentheses Journal
Plenitude Magazine
Porcupine Literary
Prairie Fire
PRISM international
ProximityPseudoPodPulp Literature
QWF Writes
Red Alder Review
Red Eft Review
revue
PØST poésie contemporaine
Reckon Review
Ricepaper
Riddled With Arrows
Riddle Fence
River Teeth Journal
Room
Rust + Moth
Sabr Literary Magazine
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly
SAVVYMOM
She Writes Press
Silver Birch Press
Six Hens
Sky Island Journal
Small Beer Press Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
SubTerrain Magazine
Synth
Tales To Terrify
The /tƐmz/ Review
The Antigonish Review
The Arcanist
The Brevity Blog
The Cabinet of Heed
The Common
The Dalhousie Review
The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review
The Ekphrastic Review
The Feathertale Review
The Fiddlehead
The Foundationalist Journal
The Globe and Mail
The Gravity of the Thing
The Loyalhanna Review
The Lyre
The Malahat Review
The Masters Review
The Maynard
The Nasiona
The New Quarterly
North Dakota Quarterly
The Puritan
The Rumpus
Sleet Magazine
The Sun
The Walrus
The Wicked Library
The Writer Magazine
The Writing Disorder
This Magazine
Thread
Three Drops from a Cauldron
Tiny Essays
Train Journal
Understory Magazine
Unlost Journal
Vallum Magazine
Vastarien: A Literary Journal
Watch Your Head
Wild Musette Journal
WordWorks
X-R-A-Y
Rachel’s managed to have really awesome people gravitate towards her programs. There’s such magic that happens—all the different perspectives are super helpful.
The fact that Rachel is an editor as well as writer, felt like she was qualified from a unique and valuable perspective. The revision techniques I learned from her helped me challenge myself more, and I’m more confident as I write my stories.
I’m surprised and delighted to say the piece that I worked through won first place in the Prairie Fire CNF contest.
Rachel deeply cares about helping emerging and established writers. She believes in building and cultivating writing communities—spaces for writers to meet, share work, get feedback, and grow.
Working with Rachel Thompson transformed my writing by opening avenues to publications, developing community, and furthering my commitment to craft. Rachel is a fantastic mentor.
I feel like the revision lessons were built for me. I have so many ideas, revelations, and a lot of clarity about my writing now. Rachel Thompson is the truth.
Program details
WHAT DO WE DO IN LIT MAG LOVE PLUS?
The intensive is divided into three sections—generating, revising, publishing. During each section there will be weekly lessons with concrete, detailed assignments and deadlines. You will need 6-8 hours available per week to work on your writing and editing, reviewing and responding to work from your peers, and for your publishing assignments. (Though there will also be two weeks off from our discussion for you to synthesize what you’ve learned and take a break.)
You set your own schedule throughout the program, as the work is done asynchronously, with the exception of our live calls in our workshop month in October.
Once registered, you will have lifetime access to all of the lessons.
Connection Times
1) Live Calls
During the intensive you will have two one-on-one mentorship calls with Rachel, weekly workshop calls during the month of October, and group coaching calls during the Revision and Lit Mag Love courses.
2) Weekly Workshop Video Calls in October
During the month of October, we will meet in the morning Pacific time/midday Eastern time for a workshop led by Rachel. You’ll read and respond to the work you generated through the lessons and assignments in our generating segment of the intensive.
3) Online Discussion
For an hour a day—Sundays through Wednesdays—you will login to discuss our lessons while also sharing and receiving feedback. Rachel will also be there for your questions and to support you.
Program Schedule
September 17—February 11, 2023
With Breaks
Workshop Synthesis: October 28–November 4
Revision Synthesis + Holiday Break: December 16–January 9
6–8 HOURS PER WEEK
Sundays through Wednesdays, you and your cohort connect to review and respond to each other’s writing and/or share your progress. Connect on your own schedule on those days. All work is done asynchronously, except for our live calls on Sundays in our workshop month in October.
Enrollment
Includes membership in the Writerly Love community for the duration of your intensive.
Pay in Full
One-time paymentPayment Plan
Four monthly paymentsAll prices in USD and include applicable taxes.
Securely pay with your Visa, MasterCard, or PayPal account.
If you are a Lit Mag Love course alum, you will get 15% off the intensive. (If you didn’t receive a special registration link yet, please email me at hello@rachelthompson.co.)
Sliding-Scale Pricing
I offer sliding scale pricing options to provide more access for writers who need this.
Support Tier 1 (10% price reduction)
For recently unemployed writers or writers experiencing reduced income and who do not have access to generational or personal wealth. Join at support tier 1 level
Support Tier 2 (25% price reduction)
For writers who are experiencing financial insecurity and who also do not have access to personal or generational wealth and/or savings. Join at support tier 2 level
And, I offer reconciliation pricing for IBPOC and/or Trans Writers.
IBPOC +/ Trans Reconciliation Price Details
I offer reconciliation pricing in recognition of how colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism concentrates resources and wealth into the hands of the few at the expense of the many.
This pricing is offered ONLY to Indigenous, Black and other writers of colour and transgender writers because systemic racism and transphobia create financial disadvantages for these communities.*
Join at 40% price reduction. (IBPOC & or trans writers only)
*Because this tier is limited to 5 spots per year, if you are a IBPOC and/or trans writer with some means or funding, you may wish to choose from the sliding-scale tiers above.
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Rachel’s kind and wise instruction, her asynchronous learning format, and the beautiful group of writers she attracts will keep you going through the darkest nights of the soul.