five things editors want in your writing submissions to journals. This is all based on my experience reading submissions, publishing work in a lit mag, and talking to dozens of editors from other...

“You’re participating in a conversation, so you should know what has already been said so that you can push the conversation forward.” Lilly Dancyger In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks with...

“Write rhymes with fight for a reason. We’re not all meant to be at the frontline...I’m way more comfortable sitting down and trying to figure out how to write back against something that I really...

Moving into the copy editing stage is actually my favourite, when you get to work with the authors directly. —Lue Palmer   In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks to her colleague Lue Palmer...

“When I'm not writing enough, I lose track of what I believe, who I am, and who I truly want to be.”—Rachel Thompson Dear listeners! As I’m getting back into the swing of setting up interviews with...

This idea of supporting and holding each other up and putting each other ahead is something I learned early on. I do feel strongly that there's room for all of us to succeed.—Tamara Jong In this...

“We’re looking for work that has an artfulness to it. I understand how, with everything going on in the world today we want to scream sometimes and it comes through our writing. Sometimes that kind...

“I think there is too much pushing forward in a way that is not motivated by pleasure that is motivated by shaped ambition or greed or some sense that people have as to what they should want....

Had I not had a community of writers around me to support me, I would not have been successful, because there are people who were pushing me. —Angela Wright You probably already know, or have heard,...

Four actively publishing writers on writing what you're meant to be writing and publishing in your own time and your own way. Ellen Chang-Richardson is a poet, writer and editor of Taiwanese and...

“Really, the thing that keeps me writing is knowing that at some point I will have some kind of shared connection with readers.” —Meli Walker In this episode, I talk to Meli Walker about writing...

“What would happen if you consider the specific, personal details you're crafting in writing as a part of a whole pattern in the world?” I explore going from the intimate to the broad, the personal...

“I think anything that’s written about well can be interesting.”—Shashi Bhat, EVENT This is a special replay episode—my very first podcast episode. I'm re-releasing this conversation with Shashi...

“Trust that the reader came with you, trust that you did a good job and that you brought us there.” —Emily Wojcik This episode is a replay of a conversation I had in 2019 with Emily Wojcik, the...

“Poems, no matter what they are about or how they approach the world, have to need to happen.” —Rebecca Salazar, Plenitude This is a replay of a conversation I had with Rebecca Salazar of Plenitude...

“We both really like having, essentially, the guts to look at not just issues in their full complexity, but also not to try to gloss over the ugliness.” —Amy Mitchell, The /tƐmz/ Review Amy Mitchell...

50th Episode! Rachel answers listener questions about publishing in lit mags. This special episode is all about you, the listeners. Rachel answers your questions, mostly about submitting and...

“Don’t give up and recognize that the writing is a thing in and of itself as well. You need to be able to love doing the writing and just love being in this world that you create with your...

“Nothing has to happen in the story. There doesn't need to be explosions or big shocking twists. It's just enough to have well-developed characters and a beautiful world.” —Terese Mason Pierre,...

Katelyn Keating is the editor-in-chief of CRAFT and a freelance production manager for independent publishers. She is on staff at the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop. Her essays...

“I’m interested in asking different questions and in the vulnerability of language that allows for an honest attempt at expression and a way to investigate complex questions.” —Janice Lee This is a...

“You’re kinda playing with fire when you delve into trauma writing. It’s possible to push yourself past your own limits and touch on things that are more tender than you thought.” —Josh Brandon of...

"Food in itself is its own language and it as a language, whether it's a love language or a complicated language, can speak across barriers...even if our relationship with food is different,...

“We like to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like things that are funny, things that are sad, and things that are both funny and sad at the same time. We especially love to...

“I think that when a writer doesn’t have a good understanding of who they are and what their beliefs are…they are going to necessarily lack the conviction in their writing to go daring places, and...

In this episode, Ploi Pirapokin and Rachel Thompson start deep, jumping right into discussing estrangement for writers. Ploi shares about writing through immigration statuses and her Genius Visa....

The biggest epiphany I had about my writing in the last year is that there is nothing special about my story. This sounds like a terrible epiphany, I realize! But it was so liberating. This episode...

In this episode, I have the pleasure to talk to Rowan McCandless about finding your writing community. Rowan is someone who is a part of my writing community and it's the better for it. She is...

In this first solo episode after the Write, Publish, and Shine podcast reboot, I talk about the five things editors want in your writing submissions to journals. This is all based on my experience...

Big announcement! And before we get to it, I want to thank you for continuing to listen in this almost year since I released new podcast episodes. I feel you out there; I see the numbers, too, so I...

“The Unpublishables is a platform for all kinds of rice eaters everywhere to get together and make shit happen through our words, music, and artwork.” Read the complete episode transcript. Writing...

“Editing is a position of power that I take seriously. I’m a writer, author, creative in different ways and I experienced the negativity of being a victim of systems of oppression,” Julián Esteban...

The Swamp publishes work that evokes a sense of place, which, for The Swamp, is broadly defined. “We look forward to reading work that we can inhabit, no matter its geography. We do give preference...

Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. They celebrate the...

Ecotone’s mission is to publish and promote the best place-based work being written today. Founded at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2005, the award-winning magazine features writing...

About Blanket Sea Arts & Literary MagazineBlanket Sea features work created by people living with chronic illness, mental illness, and disability. “There aren’t many places where writers and...

About Whiskey Island Founded in 1977, Whiskey Island is a nonprofit literary journal published by Cleveland State University. They accept submissions of original poetry, fiction, and creative essays...

“Our impulse is to trust writers and follow their lights. In cases where we’re editing and working closely with them, it’s to help them get to that place that they’re wanting to get to, but might...

"I think intersectional community asks us to be open and mindful of difference. It asks us to have a posture of listening that requires a lot of effort, it requires a lot of heart, it requires a lot...

In this episode of Lit Mag Love: A podcast for creative writers who want to publish, host Rachel Thompson interviews Jónína Kirton from Room's Turtle Island Responds. Room Magazine’s Turtle Island...

In this episode of Lit Mag Love: A podcast for creative writers who want to publish, host Rachel Thompson interviews Doyali Islam from Arc magazine.Their conversation covers offering an...

In this episode of the Lit Mag Love Podcast, host Rachel Thompson talks with Alexandria Petrassi from So to Speak journal. Their discussion covers how the “canonical” writer has changed. “When...

In this episode of the Lit Mag Love Podcast, host Rachel Thompson talks with Sakina Fakhri and Diana McClure, founders of Azure magazine. Azure accepts literary fiction, creative non-fiction,...

In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks with Marianne Chan and Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice, the respective poetry editor and flash fiction editor with Split Lip magazine. These are two editors who both...

In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks with Robin Richardson, founder of the Minola Review. She discusses how she overcame early critiques of her writing by men—critiques she internalized. And they...

In this episode, Rachel talks with Maya Marshall, a self-described demanding and productive writer and editor with [PANK] magazine—yes, the magazine founded by Roxane Gay. Among much glorious and...

“I’ve just become better at noticing those little mechanical things,” says the guest for this episode, Donna Talarico, the founder and publisher of Hippocampus Magazine. Hippocampus makes...

“To me, a very intimate piece of memoir that could in no way be fact checked was just as valid as a piece of investigative journalism.” Sierra Skye Gemma Sierra Skye Gemma is Room's contest...

As always this episode truly takes you behind the scenes of a literary journal—in this case, it’s a University-based journal in the centre of controversy. (Below, we link to articles that will...

Rachel interviews Carleigh Baker, an editor with Joyland, who talks about the difference between her first and future books, “You can only gaze at your navel for so long. If that’s what you needed...

The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than forty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendour and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue features personal...

The New Quarterly—TNQ, for short—is a Canadian literary journal known for wit, warmth, and literary innovation. Our style is celebratory, and we’re well known for finding, as well as nurturing,...

Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West...

About Maisonneuve Maisonneuve literally means "new house" and suggests the spirit of collective enterprise the magazine gathers under one roof. The magazine takes its name from Paul de Chomedey...

An online independent literary magazine dedicated to the publication of new and innovative writing, The Gravity of theThing has been named one of thirty best online magazines in 2016 (Bookfox) and...

The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum, which counts amongst its members and alumni winners of numerous literary awards,...