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Literary mags

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When literary agent Jenny Bent was the guest on the Yahoo Forum TWLAuthorTalks last week, someone asked her what literary journals a writer should target to help build his/her reputation.

The journals Jenny listed are: Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, Paris Review, Granta, Tin House, Glimmer Train, A Public Space, Zoetrope, Atlantic Monthly, Virginia Quarterly Review.

Well guess what? Several of these journals are participating in a promotion — they’re discounting their subscription price if you subscribe to three or more. Details are here on the Emerging Writers Network blog.

Agents read these journals, keeping an eye out for promising new writers — and being published in them is a great way to move your query to the top of an agent’s stack. Need I say more? ;-)

New review on the block

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In Slate, Meghan O’Rourke has a piece about Virginia Quarterly Review, a literary magazine that received six nominations for this years National Magazine Awards.

This made the Virginia Quarterly Review the second-most-nominated magazine, behind the Atlantic, which received eight, and ahead of The New Yorker, Harper’s, New York, and National Geographic, all of which received five. It was as if a scrappy farm team had demolished the Yankees in an exhibition game.

Click the link for the how’s.