Duotrope

There is a website which is incredibly useful to writers of poetry and short fiction called Duotrope. Many know about the site already, but I continue to be surprised when people I know to be excellent writers do not know about it.

It happened to me again this weekend. In an effort to get the word out and with the hope that some of the great fiction and verse out there might get to readers sooner rather than later, I thought I'd post the link. Here it is:

www.duotrope.com

Not only does the site allow you to search for places to submit your prose and poetry, it allows you to order the results and to track your submissions (this last, only if you create a login, which is not necessary for searches). The site will also let you know if a market is temporarily closed.

Duotrope provides stats on how quickly a market tends to respond, what the acceptance rate is, and more.

To close, I would like to once again encourage those who are writing on a regular basis but not sending their work out to make a change this year. Submit your work. You will be rejected. Learn to live with rejection. Continue to submit.

Have fun with Duotrope. Hope it helps. Pass the link along.