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(I'm bumping this ... yeah, it's a year old, but the details are pretty much the same).


If I had to mention one thing in a letter to an submissions editor, it would be that I was published in last year's Verandah. It's a sweet thing indeed to have on a writer's resume.

Don't wait until the last minute to submit - start working on something special now. Something that will stand out in a few hundred entries and scream, "Publish meee!" No submissions that actually scream, though. The editors are pale, subterranean creatures with weak hearts.

Have a careful read of the submission requirements at:

http://www.myspace.com/VerandahLiteraryJournal
http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/verand ... index.html

Get cracking and good luck!

I wanna know if I can submit a travel piece; I'm no fiction writer- period. Nothing in the way of a short story, a novelette, a script. Naught. So give me some advice on how to get published in Verandah as a non-fiction writer, travel writer, feature writer and all round unimaginative little A316 student . cheers.

Have you done the creative non-fiction subjects (ALW 223 & 250 from memory)?

We're looking for creative non-fiction, much like you'd find in the Age or Australian on weekends. Check out copies of the good lit journals - Meanjin, Westerly, HEAT etc. (they should be in the library).

We're looking for the unusual and opinionated. Something that makes readers sit up and take notice, because it's something they haven't considered before. What we're not looking for are 'travel blogs' - I went here, I went there, this was funny.

I can tell you right now that we want to balance the fiction out with some NF, and I haven't seen one piece yet.

Hope this helps.

(I'm bumping this ... yeah, it's a year old, but the details are pretty much the same).


If I had to mention one thing in a letter to an submissions editor, it would be that I was published in last year's Verandah. It's a sweet thing indeed to have on a writer's resume.

Don't wait until the last minute to submit - start working on something special now. Something that will stand out in a few hundred entries and scream, "Publish meee!" No submissions that actually scream, though. The editors are pale, subterranean creatures with weak hearts.

Have a careful read of the submission requirements at:

http://www.myspace.com/VerandahLiteraryJournal
http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/verand ... index.html

Get cracking and good luck!