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"Most of Success is Not Giving Up." A Submissions Webinar with Bethany Jarmul

2 days ago | litmagnews.substack.com | Becky Tuch

Ahoy, friends! I bring you something different today: a webinar, newly wrapped!This is the first webinar I’ve ever hosted through Lit Mag News. Bethany Jarmul is a poet and nonfiction writer who published two pieces on this site: Launch Your Writing Career with the Snowball Strategy and How I Got an Acceptance From My “Dream Journal”...and You Can Too. I found her approach to submissions so interesting, so refreshingly practical and actionable that I simply wanted her to come talk to us.
Let My Love Open the Lit Mags!

3 days ago | litmagnews.substack.com | Becky Tuch

Welcome to our bi-weekly news roundup!Greetings Lit Magstronauts,What do we make of writers assuming false identities in order to test lit mags for bias? On April 4th, The B’K Magazineposted on X:The author in question, Jasper Ceylon, was indeed assuming different identities and racked up a fair number of publications as such. He documented his endeavor on .
Q: What are your stories that got away?

5 days ago | litmagnews.substack.com | Becky Tuch

Welcome to our weekend conversation!A few weeks ago we had a conversation around the question of whether certain subjects are too taboo for lit mags. I found the discussion that weekend particularly moving. So many of you shared stories of writing related to personal experiences which has been hard for you to place in literary magazines. These were stories of health struggles, miscarriages, childhood trauma, aging, and more.
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1 week ago | litmagnews.substack.com | Becky Tuch

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Q: Can you judge a lit mag by its cover?

1 week ago | litmagnews.substack.com | Becky Tuch

Welcome to our weekend conversation!Last week, I interviewed Angela Yuriko Smith, Editor of Space and Time Magazine. She mentioned that early issues of the journal’s cover had been drawn by Gene Simmons. Yes, that Gene Simmons, of KISS glam rock super-stardom. Who woulda thought a guy like this ever had any involvement with literary magazines? In the late 60s, he evidently did. After our conversation, I found myself going into the rabbit hole of lit mag cover art.
A special tax-season treat

1 week ago | litmagnews.substack.com | Becky Tuch

That is all. Good luck with tax season, everyone. May the odds be ever in your favor.
"Here for the Newer Writers." A Chat with Angela Yuriko Smith, Editor of Space & Time Magazine

2 weeks ago | litmagnews.substack.com | Becky Tuch

Howdy, pals! I come with April’s first editor interview, freshly wrapped. Today I had the delight of speaking with Angela Yuriko Smith, Editor of Space & Time Magazine. Space and Time Magazine has been putting the best speculative fiction and poetry in ink for over five decades—a must-read for true fans of the strange and unusual. Readers can look forward to stories from the future stars of genre fiction intermingled with unique tales from pros like Jessica A.
Kiss a Lit Mag Good Mornin'!

2 weeks ago | litmagnews.substack.com | Becky Tuch

Welcome to our bi-weekly news roundup!Greetings Lit Magroscopes,Last night, while reading Michio Kaku’s book Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and our Lives by the Year 2100, I came upon a quote (emphasis my own):The corollary to the Cave Man Principle is that if you want to predict the social interactions of humans in the future, simply imagine our social interactions 100,000 years ago and multiply that by a billion.
Q: What do we mean by "AI-generated" writing?

2 weeks ago | litmagnews.substack.com | Becky Tuch

Welcome to our weekend conversation!I had an interesting conversation with Grok this morning. Grok is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI. The newest version, Grok3, was unveiled in February, 2025.
Announcing...A New Enterprise!

3 weeks ago | litmagnews.substack.com | Becky Tuch

Friends! A special announcement!I am thrilled to share with all of you that I will be…launching a literary magazine! Yes, me! After covering the lit mag landscape for so many years (almost two decades, if you can believe it), I have decided to create a little project of my own. Introducing…The Fifty Cent Club. Why “The Fifty Cent Club”? A whole lot of reasons, and I’m delighted to share them all.