>A Note to Writers >================= >Email submissions have many advantages. In addition to the fast and >reliable transmission, the editor may give more rapid turnaround to >email inquiries. The opportunity for writer-editor communication and >feedback is increased. The ability to find the specific outlet for >a particular piece is improved. Also, in comparison to the telephone, >people can read their mail whenever they want instead of at random >interruptions. They can measure their responses carefully and archive >them for future reference. For submissions, the intermediate step of >rekeying typewritten text is largely eliminated. >Please treat this capability of email submission with the utmost respect. >If you abuse it you may jeopardize your own and fellow writer's future >opportunities. An editor may decide capriciously that only junk comes >in electronically, and ignore or remove the capability. Or, the editor >may pay special attention to all the gems of articles that can be >discovered and polished there. Always treat the editor with kind >regard. If an article is rejected, simply resubmit elsewhere, make >changes, or abandon it. The email address is *not* a hotline to flame >or harass editors. >Whenever you hear of a new address, please inform the author of this >list. You do not gain anything by withholding it from your fellow >writers. Everyone benefits when the list is thorough and complete. >A comprehensive list of outlets encourages competition between them >for your writing based on rights and remuneration policies, similar >to an electronic Yellow Pages. >Also, feel free to approach editors you know about the idea of setting >up the service of internet email submission addresses. Tell them that >their competitors have set up the system and that there are many >potential benefits, perhaps ultimately eliciting improved reader >satisfaction and interest. >A Note to Editors >================= >From the current perspective, you are in one of two categories: a >backward Luddite or a visionary pioneer, depending on whether you have >never heard of internet email or are utilizing it and supporting >submissions through it. (That is a joke.) Sincerely however, in the >near future conducting writing transactions over the internet may >become the medium of choice for many markets. Of course, there >are disadvantages along with the grand incentives to support >this capability. Many editors however have found the ability >to receive submissions and queries via email to be immensely >valuable in cultivating future issues' articles. In some cases, you >may be competing with them directly for knowledgeable and interesting >articles and writers. If a writer sees two outlets with similar content >but one with more ideal rights or remuneration arrangements, which will >s/he submit to? >The author of this list strongly encourages you to support and solicit >articles via email. It may allow you to interact and direct your >writers more effectively and less stressfully. It may allow you to >improve the quality of submissions by expanding the available pool and >increasing the target and focus of individual pieces. Ultimately it >may make you more responsive to readers than your competition. >Potentially, both the writer, editor, and reader benefit from the >dynamic arrangement. All this is written in speculative terms, however, >because it is not guaranteed. You may find that irrelevant or useless >queries increase, but even so a wider selection pool may render that >unproblematic. >Other Resources >=============== > Newsgroups > ---------- > alt.journalism > Journalists and journalism students. > alt.prose, alt.prose.d > Predecessors to rec.arts.prose, lower distribution. Disscussion in > alt.prose.d only. > alt.zines > `zines' or small low-circulation low-cost newsletters of fringe > elements > misc.writing > Accomplished and beginning writers. Submissions, queries, markets, > etc. > rec.arts.prose > Posted fiction for review. Discussion of posted articles. > rec.arts.poems > Posting and discussion of original poetry. > rec.arts.sf.written > Written science fiction. Great authors. Writing style. (?) > rec.mag > Magazines (?) > rec.mag.fsfnet > Fantasy and science fiction discussion, movies and television (?) > Mailing Lists > ------------- > - MAGAZINE > Topics: ``Expert opinion or help from established scholars and > professionals. Covering the history, current state and future > prospects of the American Magazine, and issues related to magazine > publishing. Primary focus is journalistic, but also addresses other > magazine-publishing matters of economic (management, marketing, > circulation, production, research), technological, historical and > social importance.'' > Subscription: send JOIN MAGAZINE in > message body to or (BITNET) > > Moderator: David Abrahamson > - Small Press Mailing List > Topics: ``Concerns of authors and editors involved with the small > press, both of books and of magazines. 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Any topic of interest to writers or potential > writers is appropriate (i.e. format, story ideas, dialogue, > characters, agents, producers, directors, actors, studios, problems > and/or solutions).'' > Subscription: > - Creative Writing Pedagogy for Teachers and Students > Topics: ``a place to discuss how and why creative writing is being > taught at colleges and universities, including the role it plays > in the curriculum, the history of creative writing programs, the > shape and flavor of creative writing courses, and the influence > it has or should have on students' lives'' > Subscriptions: > - Megabyte University > Topics: ``an unarchived list primarily for professors, teachers, > graduate students and administrators involved in teaching composition > using computers.topics of discussion have included software > descriptions and comparisons for use in teaching composition, > determining real audience for composition students, and > announcements of upcoming conferences, both actual and virtual. > Many of the members of this list also participate in the MediaMOO > weekly online conferences and other activities'' > Subscriptions: > Moderator: Fred Kemp > - The Composition Digest > Topics: ``a weekly newsgroup for the study of computers and writing, > specifically writing instruction in computer based classrooms." > Subscriptions: > > - Purdue Rhetoric > Topics: ``Rhetoric, Professional Writing, and Language Discussion > Group - a scholarly forum for discussion of rhetoricand composition, > professional writing, and language research. > Subscriptions: > - English Forum > Topics: ``An archived discussion forum on electronic communication in > instruction and research of English, writing, and literature.'' > Subscriptions: > - WIOLE > Topics: Writing Intensive Online Learning Environment, an archived > list for writing instructors. > Subscriptions: > > - Writing Center > Topics: ``A discussion list for directors of academic writing centers, > including evaluating software for writing instruction, use of tutors, > and other issues specific to writing centers.'' > Subscriptions: > FTP sites > --------- > A large collection of electronic `zines' and other miscellaneous > electronic text files can be found on the University of Michigan > archives, etext.archive.umich.edu. > Other writing-related FAQs can be found on rtfm.mit.edu: > /pub/usenet/news.answers/writing. > Miscellaneous > ------------- > A more accurate list of electronic `zines' is posted intermittently > to alt.mag, alt.zines, posted by John Labovitz . > ``Electronic Writers' Workshops and Online Education in Creative > Writing'' (Bowers & Butcher, 1993) is available from gwuvm.gwu.edu: > /WRITERS.RESOURC. Compilation of resources for writers and for > writing teachers on the national network services, part 1. Part 2, > virtual classrooms and tools for collaborative writing projects. > Part 3, `a new breed of literatary magazines that are written, > published, and read exclusively by network users...finding a > readership beyond the best hopes of many professional and academic > literatary magazines' editors.' Part 4, copyrights, what constitutes > publication in the electronic realm, antidotes to `remarkable > examples of misinformation'. >Most Wanted List >================ >This list can grow and prosper if you help keep it updated, use the >information herein wisely, and help recruit new sources. Please do >NOT send random editor email addresses unless those editors specifically >approve of advertising them. Currently most wanted: >- More popular newstand magazines, esp. paying ones. Asimov's, Analog, > etc. >- Old discussion on MAGAZINE email list about email submission > addresses. >- FTP sites. >- any elaboration on places with `(?)' >When submitting updates to the list, PLEASE include all known information >in the categories recorded. That is: email address, description of the >general content of the outlet, remuneration policies, and the rights >involved. The editor of this list prefers outlets that are `well >established' and are not likely to disappear. Also, another list by J. >Labovitz better tracks electronic `zines'. See `Other Resources' above. >Send comments to . >Credits >======= >Special thanks to the following people for contributing especially >valuable information to this list: >Kyle Conway >Ed Stastny >Cecilia M Tan >David Abrahamson >Laura Packard >John Bowers >Special thanks to the forward-seeing editors who have the patience, >vision, and expertise to support email submissions. >Change History >============== > v1.3 (11/93) > Grist addition. Fix of the Lansing vs. Ann Arbor (thanks many > people!) Fringware Review. Fiction & Writing lists. Bowers papers > on cyberspatial writing resources FTP pointers (highly recommended). > Poetry list. Screen Writing list. Creative Writing Pedagogy list. > Megabyte University. Composition Digest list. Purdue Rhetoric list. > Writing Intensive Online Learning Environment list. Writing Center > list. (New mailing lists added are from Bowers paper, thanks!) > v1.2 (9/93) > MCI Mail magazine addresses included. Posting frequency changed. > Glitch that posted to `misc.writers' oblivion instead of > `misc.writing'. > v1.1 (8/93) > Writer's Workshop list, Cyberspace Vanguard added. > v1.0 (8/93) > Wilde Oakes, Lighthouse added. Posted to *.answers groups & > archived at rtfm.mit.edu. > v0.6 (8/93) > > Added `rights,' `comments,' `type' categories. Reordered > list categories. Added small-press list. Paladin and Circlet added. > v0.5 (7/93) > Basics of email address, newsgroup list, editor & writer notices, > submission protocol, etc. in place after initial query on > misc.writing. >Distribution >============ > FTP > --- > This FAQ is available from the standard FAQ server rtfm.mit.edu via > FTP in the file /pub/usenet/news.answers/writing/resources > Email > ----- > Email requests for FAQs go to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with commands > on lines in the message body, e.g. `help' and `index'. > Usenet > ------ > This FAQ is posted every 21 days to the groups misc.writing, > rec.arts.prose,rec.arts.sf.written,misc.answers,rec.answers, > news.answers. >-- >ld231782@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU