Let me encourage you to send your stories out. Of course, you can publish your stories on your own blog but anyone can do that. Self-publication is easy. It’s only when someone else puts in the time to read your story and to publish it on his or her site can you begin to think that the story has more than personal sentimental value. Plus, you get a link back to your own site that will bring you more traffic.
I’ve been fortunate to have several of my stories published by other online publishers. Unfortuately, only two are still up and running and going strong. They’re both good ones. Just go to Word Riot www.wordriot.org and Word Catalyst Magazine www.wordcatalystmagazine.com and punch in my name, Guy Hogan, into their search boxes. I had one story accepted by Word Riot and several accepted by Word Catalyst Magazine.
Publishing your own stories is a great feeling, I know, but knowing someone else wants to publish your stories is an even better feeling.
I’m sure you know that the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette has a Call For Submissions tab at the top of the page, too.
Yours truly
Guy Hogan
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Calling All New Writers
Rejection is a fact of life for a writer. Before I started getting published in publications like Word Riot, Word Catalyst, The Front and several other publications I got years of rejection notices.
One of the reasons the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette was started was to give new and aspiring writers a publication where they could learn about writing and a quality publication where they could submit their stories and not get an impersonal rejection notice if their submission wasn’t accepted for publication.
Every rejected story will be given a reason for the rejection. And if the story would be publishable with more work I’ll work with the writer to get the story in to the Gazette. All this at no charge.
A story that is publishable will be posted within 48 hours. Just read and follow the submission guidelines under the ”Free Workshop And Submissions” tab at the top of the page.
It would be a very good idea to read a couple of the stories in the sidebar on the right under “Great Flash Fiction Stories To Read” to get an idea of the quality and the kinds of stories that are published by the Gazette.
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