Publishing

So you’ve written a short story (or maybe a poem or essay) and you’d like to see it published; how do you go about submitting it to literary journals? This post plans on walking you through finding and choosing the right journal(s) for you, what simultaneous submissions are, submission guidelines and industry standards for when pieces are missing, the difference between a cover letter and a query letter, and finally, reasons you may want to track your submissions and how.