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Reprints for Creative Shorts: How and Where to Sell a Poem, Personal Essay or Short Story a Second Time

The reprint market isnt just for nonfiction articles. If youre looking to sell a short story, personal essay or a poem thats already been published, theres a good chance you can sell it again. More great news: Those terrific pieces you published on your blog? They can find a new home in the reprint market, too! Any previously published creative short that youve retained the rights to can be published a second (or third!) time.Heres everything you need to know.

New Literary Agent Alert: Patty Carothers

Literary agent Patty Carothers is open to queries! She is primarily interested in YA fiction, especially contemporary stories whose characters shed want to claim as her BFFs.   Learn more and discover how to submit here.

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Successful Query Letter Examples: Anna Quinn and The Night Child

This article is part of a series called Successful Queries. It features actual query letter examples to literary agents that were successful for authors. In addition to the successful query letter, youll also see the thoughts from the writers literary agent as to why the letter worked. Todays features Anna Quinns letter to her agent Gordon Warnock (Fuse Literary) about her novel The Night Child, formerly titled Split.   Read More...

Jess Zafarris Follow @jfarrisknight Jess Zafarris is an energetic multimedia journalist with more than 7 years of experience writing and editing, and the editorial director of Writer's Digest.

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