I write short stories and poetry. I’ve posted here on Lemmy a bit. I’d like to start publishing/ posting.
I’m afraid medium/ substack needs a lot of “publicity” and requires me to have social media accounts to promote it.
What other options are there? Any publications I can submit to? And are substack and medium any good?
When I was first publishing short stories, the best single piece of advice I received was to use thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com It’s a repository of (most) journals and magazines that publish short stories/novellas. Definitely skews more SFF than strictly literary, but it was truly revolutionary in getting my stories to actual publications. I think it does poetry as well, but poetry was always way too difficult for me lol.
Also, if you want someone to beta read your stories just shoot me a DM and I’ll be happy to provide feedback/tips :) Good luck, and don’t get discouraged by rejections in the beginning!
Oh thats incredible thank you. I might just take you up on the offer to beta read a story! Thanks.
No worries :) one of the better kept secrets in selling short stories for sure