{"id":2392,"date":"2017-08-14T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2017-08-14T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:36:18","slug":"publication-news-and-an-interview-with-dariel-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2017\/08\/14\/publication-news-and-an-interview-with-dariel-suarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication news and an interview with Dariel Suarez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re so proud of Dariel Suarez (Fiction 2012) who currently serves as the Head of Faculty & Curriculum at Grubstreet<\/a>. \u00a0His short story \u201cMudface\u201d was published in the Winter 2017 issue of\u00a0The\u00a0<\/i><\/a>North American Review<\/i><\/a>, and the opening story in his collection, titled \u201cThe Man From the Zoo,\u201d is forthcoming in\u00a0The Massachusetts Review<\/i>. \u00a0In addition, Dariel’s collection\u00a0A Kind of Solitude\u00a0<\/em>was a\u00a0finalist for the Autumn House<\/a> full-length fiction manuscript contest and the New American Press Fiction Prize! \u00a0Hearty congrats, Dariel!<\/p>\n

We were lucky enough to have a chance to pick Dariel’s brain about literary magazines and the submissions process:<\/p>\n

What are a few of your favorite literary journals and what do you like about them? \u00a0How do you decide where\u00a0to send your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love literary journals that publish culturally diverse and international works. Some good places include Prairie Schooner, The\u00a0Massachusetts Review, Granta, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Guernica,<\/em> and Hayden’s Ferry Review<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I usually send my stories to my favorite journals first, in tiers. I wait about 3 months before doing another round of submissions if\u00a0the story hasn’t been picked up, and so on. I use resources like <\/span>Duotrope.com<\/a>. Poets & Writers, and <\/span>Newpages.com<\/a> to browse\u00a0through journals, note submission periods, dates for contests, themed issues, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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There seem to be a lot of new journals popping up. \u00a0Why do you think people are founding new ones when there are already so many out there?<\/b><\/p>\n

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With the internet and social media, there are many new ways to publish nowadays. There also seems to be a demand for historically underrepresented voices, and with some of the more traditional literary journals perhaps taking longer to catch up, people have just been launching new journals instead. I think it\u2019s good to have a broad range of options, particularly for writers who are just beginning to submit work and need to build their publication credits. The first few publications I had were with really small online and print magazines, and this prepared me to successfully submit work to more established places later on. I\u2019m not saying this is the way every writer should do it, but having the options certainly helped me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Do you have any advice for other writers who are submitting work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the submission guidelines! Always. Editors will appreciate it if you properly follow instructions. Make sure to write a succinct\u00a0and friendly cover letter. Most importantly, revise whatever piece you’re submitting until you don’t know how else to improve it.\u00a0Share it with a couple of trusted readers for feedback if you can before you send it out. Finally, research publications so that you\u00a0can submit your work to places where it might be a good fit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who’s actually reading literary magazines? \u00a0Are people subscribing to them and reading them on the\u00a0regular?<\/span> \u00a0Are you?<\/b><\/p>\n

I think writers, agents, and editors are definitely reading literary magazines. I have two shelves in one of my bookcases filled with lit mags. I\u2019ve subscribed to a few in the past, and every time I submit to a contest, it includes a year\u2019s subscription to the publication. I also occasionally buy an individual issue if I really like the magazine and\/or the writers being featured. I always encourage my students to familiarize themselves with\u00a0contemporary publications, so that they can enter into an intellectual, critical, and artistic conversation with what\u2019s being published.<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s a good short story that you’ve read this summer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0“Spiderweb” by Mariana Enr\u00edquez. It’s in her wonderful collection Things We Lost In The Fire<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you, Dariel! \u00a0We wish you the best with your\u00a0writing!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re so proud of Dariel Suarez (Fiction 2012) who currently serves as the Head of Faculty & Curriculum at Grubstreet. \u00a0His short story \u201cMudface\u201d was published in the Winter 2017 issue of\u00a0The\u00a0North American Review, and the opening story in his collection, titled \u201cThe Man From the Zoo,\u201d is forthcoming in\u00a0The Massachusetts Review. \u00a0In addition, Dariel’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,620,954,8791,4163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}