>we STRONGLY encourage submissions from persons of color, immigrants and the undocumented, and members of the LGBQT community ;) >Take a look at what we publish to get an idea of our journal! --> Life is sad
my feelings are hurt
>Trump is evil
^^^WINNER OF THE 2017 POETRY CONTEST
Of course I'm only slightly exaggerating, but this is a big problem with modern day publishing. What are we to do?
Submit to journals and publishers that aren't retarded.
Charles Smith
Da fuck are you even talking? Links or gtfo
>What are we to do? We flood them with no libtard works
Aaron Morales
Very rare and hard to find. If you can link me to such examples, please do
Every single outlet on submittable and other major publishing sites
>flood them with no libtard works As if they would accept them, they want to appeal to the masses
Ian Lee
Has it occured to you that people completely different to you are more interesting and novel to read, because you already know about those similar to you?
Jayden Thompson
Are you retarded?
I believe you're missing the point. And no, it's not interesting to read garbage prose poetry about bleeding vaginas and "muh fascist trump" that was typed in 10 minutes. Fuck yourself
Jaxon Rivera
no one wants to read your gay fantasy story. stories about trannies are 100% more entertaining.
Austin Ross
name two
Sebastian Allen
not OP, but I can confirm. Been writing for 2 years and been researching the market for the past half year, managed to get one story published(I write a lot of short form horror/dark speculative) and 8/10 magazines that pander to my sort of niche have that explicit "we highly encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds black LGBQT etc communities to submit"
I've actually had rejection letters that stated that although they loved my story, they already had an overwhelming amount of submissions and wanted to expand their demographic, and me being a white male seemed to indicate I was prime for the cut list
Examples of mags I have seen this done with- Apex magazine Strange horizons Shimmer Clarkseworld
Those are four of the biggest pro paying markets I've found that seem to pander exclusively to this, and when I go to read some of their back issues literally every protagonist is either a rugged resourceful woman or some kind of non binary homosexual something or other. Strongly considering pulling a Laird Barron and just making 90% of my characters gay or lesbian and see if this appeases the editors of all these lit mags.
Ian Gutierrez
>tfw gay I don't think my writings are what they're looking for though. Faggotry has somehow sanitised, in spite of its superficially increasing flamboyance. I submitted a story once about my sexual awakening via shit on Wikipedia. Is the world ready for video game animal boners and 8 hour /d/ edging stints? Maupassant wrote stories about fat syphilitic prostitutes and DIY abortions, Leon Bloy about all manners of fucked up shit. The 50s greeted Mishima's fantasies of devouring classmates favourably.
Cameron Evans
Can you post a link to your published story? I'd be interested to see what kind of garbage do you write, that makes you feel entitled about your work over others', who have had much fewer opportunities to be read.
Never mind, I'm sure they actually love your story and told you to fuck off because they don't want good content. Just like cunts are quick to tell whatever lie comes up first so they can get away from you without you sperging out, and get dicked by someone else instead. Alas, the injustice of our times!
Jaxon Hernandez
it's not prose poetry, fucking idiot.
Juan Russell
Yeah, that's what poetry is today, you obviously haven't had experience publishing poetry or anything for that matter. I don't write fantasy nor do I write stories Yeah, it's bleak in my opinion. I recently submitted under a mongolian pseudonym and what do you know, I had a 50% increase in my acceptances! I want to start my own journal but I lack the resources and skills required. What coding skills would I need to learn?
Jason Sullivan
>slightly exaggerating your dumb
Carter Gomez
I visited /mu/ for the first time the other day. They have bad taste in music, but it wasn't overrun by utter fucking drivel.
Lesson: pretending to read makes you pretend to be a wanna-be authoritarian dickhead until you actually become one. Though you never actually read.
Dylan Wood
>Every single outlet on submittable and other major publishing sites
literally link to an example or fuck off
Easton Allen
Are you a tranny or a black?
Why is this board so fucking brainwashed.
Go to submittable. Go to poetry magazine. Go to the Kenyon Review. You don't have an idea of what you're trying to defend
It's easy to spot the trannies and the SJWs and all the other lefty faggots because they love taking words used on their degenerate asses and using them back on us as buzzwords devoid of all worth.
Why? Because they're too stupid to fully understand the meaning of these words, or that there's something wrong with them and people on this planet know more about mental illnesses like transgenderism and leftism than them.
This board is under attack because there are no intelligent black philosophers. The closest the blacks have to heroes are the rabble-rousing power-grabbers, and the odd quarter-black woman that made coffee for people that actually mattered to NASA. SJWs don't want you to notice this.
/co/ is under attack because right after Rick and Morty got half its writers fired and replaced by diversity hires, the writing quality dipped and the SJW one started using the show to work through his "Confusing feelings" about his shit marriage and divorce. Rick's an infinitely-powerful god now with no enemies or reason to care when he gets into this week's jam. Also, people like mocking the shit tumblr art style, and that's triggering. SJWs don't want you thinking these things.
www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com
Liberals are retarded sheep that think the above link will lead you down the path of racism, sexism, bigotry, and evil. Enlightened individuals learn the truth before saying what the other Intelligent People Club Members say.
Life would be easier for you if we stopped posting and let you SJWs run wild over this board, but there needs to be at least one site where people that still read can speak freely.
Luke Peterson
why are we so smart and everyone else do dumb bros?
Jacob Gonzalez
you're delusional
Adrian Edwards
I didn't realize this board was full of women and shitskin liberals who blindly followed propaganda and cultural enrichment until I entered this thread
I sincerely hope you're all just being "xD SO IRONICCCC JUST LIKE DFW XD"
Kevin Martinez
>says the liberal Go watch some CNN sweetie
Dylan Campbell
A thread that is nearly nineteen hours old should have a lot more posts in it, I think I'll dump some Yotsuba to balance things out.
Xavier Davis
itt: a whole lotta triggered butthurt
Cameron James
>he reads cartoon books
Why are you here
Mason Jackson
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Justin Walker
more of the same self-centered projections good luck, burgerman, you'll need it
Caleb Diaz
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Anthony Cook
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Anthony Phillips
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Justin Brooks
You leave my goddamn cartoons alone you goddamn dirty filthy apes!!!
Logan Martinez
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Angel Bailey
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Noah Kelly
Thank you Chemo-chan.
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James Cruz
Does anyone on this board read or do they just complain about their shitty poetry?
Landon Collins
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David Martinez
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Lucas Cox
The liberals are too busy crying about mean words and books :c
Also, OPs thread wasn't crying, it was a valid point and could have been discussed. But as we see, this board is full of dumbasses
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Joseph Cooper
>tfw you have a popular black first name but are actually white
maybe this will increase my chance of getting published. So long as they never see a picture of my pasty ass
Zachary Butler
>OPs thread wasn't crying it was complaining
Daniel Rodriguez
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Xavier Turner
What is the name of her tall friend?
Alexander Morgan
imagine taking time out of your day to type this. your existence must be an unending circus
Caleb Richardson
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David Howard
god you're so new it hurts, go read stoner
Jack Morgan
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Kevin Perry
>how can we fix this
Rightfully complaining. I think you're complaining more than he was. I've been here before you came here from a news article, not sure why you think someone who isn't a gay kike isn't someone who's been on the board long.
Connor Robinson
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Brody Gonzalez
>Of course I'm only slightly exaggerating, but this is a big problem with modern day publishing. What are we to do?
Stop exaggerating, probably.
Adam Rivera
>Rightfully complaining that no one wants to read his shitty tfw no gf story? no one on this board has an ounce of talent, OP is a pathetic fag deluding himself if he thinks anything else
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Samuel Ramirez
Holy fuck why are you so angry about this? He stated the problem that is modern publishing, not his own work. Why are you on a literature board when you cannot read? I bet you're a woman.
Isaac Martinez
Speak for yourself, bucketcrab
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Matthew Gray
>Holy fuck why are you so angry about this? im not angry >He stated the problem that is modern publishing which is patently false note that he didn't actually post his story >Why are you on a literature board when you cannot read i definitely read more than you >I bet you're a woman wrong again prove me wrong, id be pleasantly surprised
Grayson Phillips
Who knows if he is right or not because all he has done is 'slightly exaggerate' what modern publishers are accepting. He's just complaining because he's shit.
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Justin Foster
This is true. If you have to exaggerate to get a point across you're probably bad at writing because you can't think sensibly.
Cameron Davis
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Michael Morales
>I'm not angry You must be. >patently false This just shows you have NEVER pubblished anything or tried. I love spotting how lefties defend things they don't know. Also, he never ONCE stated he wrote stories. And if he did, he didn't need to post it, why would he? >More well read xD No. I swear to you you're not. >wrong Then you're some hipster faggot. Post face. Send contact info. Please post writing.
Easton Lewis
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Luis Jackson
>You must be whatever helps you sleep at night >This just shows you have NEVER pubblished anything or tried I never said I was an aspiring writer. >why would he? so we can accurately determine if his writing deserves to be published. hint: he doesn't >No. I swear to you you're not. whatever helps you sleep at night (x2) >Then you're some hipster faggot nope
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Owen Wilson
WELL THEN YOU WOULDN'T FUCKING KNOW ABOUT PUBLISHING YOU TWAT
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Charles Smith
There's a 0% chance that his writing is anything but pure trash. Find me a single person with talent on this board
Christian Sullivan
>swears OP is wrong about publishing >defends his empty view >"I'm not a writer" >believes he knows the situation in publishing
The true state of this board, ladies and gentlemen
Jayden Hall
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Josiah Brown
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Landon Powell
>I'm not a writer
Then why are you pretending to know anything about publishing.