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Recommended: Duotrope.

3/26/2011

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When Floorboard was born, I envisioned--in addition to fine poems and photos and a blog--an entire page devoted to websites that are helpful to writers.  As it turns out, that may be too many ideas for one baby journal.  I think it may be better--more fruitful and interesting and streamlined with the rest of the journal--to start a "Recommended" column here at the FloorBlog, which will allow for some annotation and commentary, not just a list.  So I'll be moving the items that we currently recommend to this column, "Recommended," instead, and will make it a point to add to this list.  If you know of a resource that may be of interest to writers and photographers, send it my way: jen@floorboardreview.com
Duotrope's Digest: search for short fiction & poetry markets
I met Duotrope twice.  Our first meeting was much too brief and left me unable to remember its name, and it came at that "floundering hopelessly" stage of my first semester of teaching college.  But my second meeting with Duotrope has refreshed my writing in ways I can't count.  It's like the writing secretary I wish I had.  Duotrope is a massive database of markets for poetry and fiction, and it includes not only links to literally thousands of journals (of which Floorboard is one), but also their average response times, acceptance rates, and--a feature I find especially interesting--other places where writers are submitting work in addition to each listing.  Perhaps most notably, Duotrope provides a submission tracker for registered users, which includes dates, days out, and type of response.  If you ask me, Duotrope is addictive in a similar way that Etsy.com is addictive, or super dark chocolate: I'm so glad we met.  Keep it coming.
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