Don’t Neglect The Small Press

Somewhere to Start

It can be difficult to know where to send your writing. The ‘Writers and Artists’ Year Book’ is full of agents, publishers and mainstream magazines and newsagents’ shelves are growing to fit the plethora of magazines published weekly, monthly and so on. Yet, it isn’t just a case of sending work off be it poetry, a short story, article or book and waiting for it to be accepted. It seems everyone wants to be a writer and the well-known and well-paid markets are becoming all the more competitive, with top writers competing against one another. 

Publishers are frequently being quoted as saying that stories, books etc that would have been accepted ten, twenty years ago, no longer have a place in today’s market. So where does a writer start?

You could do worse than to start with the small press market. They often accept work, which other…