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?
Literally just ask chat.gpt to generate a list of free websites and forums to publish your stuff to and voila you’re off to the races.
“literally just use the plagiarism machine to give you an answer of middling quality that for all you know could be totally out of date” that’s you
No, because me and every single one of my peers was robbed to create it and iterate upon it; and I don’t fuck with theftboxes or the people who touch them
I just searched for “submit short stories” and this was the first three results.
https://thewritelife.com/where-to-submit-short-stories/
https://blog.reedsy.com/guide/short-story/where-to-submit-short-stories/
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.
Good points from other users.
You’re kinda asking the wrong question.
Where to start writing? Wherever you are when you write.
Where to publish? Seems to be what you’re looking for—
You’re likely an unknown author. So you are going to have to figure it out yourself In terms of marketing
Do you just want your stuff out there? You can put it almost anywhere
Do you want people to find you? Then you’ll need to market yourself (and yes I just threw up a little writing that)
It will be up to you to get people to find and read your stuff , sorry but yeah you mostly have to market yourself
So yeah put your page in there when you post your content here, and blue sky, and everywhere. Make a podcast of you reading your stuff, make it easy to share so new people can discover you.
Self published books and print on demand— worked for Andy Weir (the Martian) and Hugh Howey (Silo) and 50 shades of gray
Good luck
In all seriousness, visit your local library and ask them about it. Most library systems work with local authors to promote their work and regularly hold meetups and workshops for writers. Many cities have local zines, publishers, and anthologies. By getting to know your local writing scene, you can find opportunities to do readings of your work, have works published in collections, and so on.
