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Literary Journals: A Gateway to the Future of Publishing

When I think of the future of writers and writing, I often look to literary journals. It’s not that writers have to get published in literary journals to find success. Rather, it’s that many award-winning novelists tend to cut their teeth publishing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in literary publications. Maybe that’s just the nature of literary journals.

As Lynne Nugent, managing editor of , says, “Literary magazines are able to take a chance on

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