Literary agent Beth Marshea’s 10-week coaching workshop for Fantasy, Sci-fi, and Horror writers has opened for registration! Will we see you there? One-on-one coaching opportunities are also available from Beth and an amazing variety of experts in the publishing industry.
Publishing Opportunities…
Superpresent – Prose & Poetry – Not Knowing – September 15
Art Sick – Poetry – General – September 30 (submission fee)
Little Fruits Magazine – Prose & Poetry – Harvest’s Bounty – Submit September 1-7, or October 1-7
Instant Noodles – Prose & Poetry – General – November 7
An SFF conference…
Lighthouse Writers Workshop presents Spec Fest, a virtual conference for genre writers of sci-fi, fantasy and everything in between, running from August 29-30.
Hollywood gives poetry a boost…
Thanks to The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s epic film based on the epic poem, UK poetry sales are soaring, according to an article in The Guardian. Compared to the same peroid in 2025, print sales of Homer’s poem increased 1400% in the four weeks up to July 25, and the ancient Greek may break the record for highest annual sales by a poet in the UK.
Some good news…
The social reading platform Fable is growing rapidly, having surged from 3 million to 5 million registered users since last June when it was acquired by Scribd, Inc. The platform encourages its reader base (which leans young) to read outside of their comfort zones to resist potential echo chambers.
Quote of the week…
“Start before you’re ready.”
– Steven Pressfield
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