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Finding a reputable home for your poetry can be daunting. Just Google “poetry publications,” and you’ll get 33,900,000 hits. On the bright side, that means there is a market for you. The trick is finding it. With such a vast ocean of information to wade through, how can you tell which markets are respectable? How do you avoid vanity presses and locate publications that won’t just publish your work, but that may also advance your career?
Recapping the Independent's excellent annual conference.
What's so great about book clubs, anyway?
Debut novelist Kim Church talks about the untold stories surrounding adoption and birth mothers, Southern fiction, and the importance of finding the right voice.
A look at a successful book club and how they do what they do.
Moving from one genre to another can sure change your point of view.
A monthly feature that looks at books of and about poetry.
What do literary types have queued up on their nightstands and ready to read before lights-out? We asked a few of them, and here’s what they said.
