Okay, so I’m logging onto my computer with the aim of getting alittle homework done before lunch. But what do I find out? That a short story I wrote last year, “The Street Urchin’s Gift” is going to be published by The Writing Disorder next June, sometime around my birthday. Can I just say one thing? Awesome!
The Writing Disorder is an online magazine that caters to a wide variety of interests, including poetry, fiction, art and reviews, and does everything from literary to genre. I found them while looking for a magazine to send “The Street Urchin’s Gift”, and thought they’d make a great match, and I sent it in. It took a while for them to get back to me, but it was well worth it: today I got the email, and you cannot imagine how excited I am!
“The Street Urchin’s Gift” started out as a story I wanted to write for another magazine, one that dealt with Victorian and Edwardian England and liked scary stories. The story itself centers around making an impossible choice when neither one benefits you, and the moral problems of that. When I found out the magazine I had in mind went defunct, I decided that “The Street Urchin’s Gift” deserved another chance. Seeing that I decided right off the bat to go with the Writing Disorder, I’m very happy with the choice I made.
I would like to thank The Writing Disorder for accepting my submission and will try to send a little business your way. In fact, here’s a start: if any of you have a short story or poem that you’d like to see published, here’s the link to the website of The Writing Disorder. Hopefully it’ll be a match for your work.
Rami Ungar The Writer 
Happy birthday! And thanks for the recommendation!
well, i thought i’d try to send the writing disorder a little business, but i’m glad you benefited from it all.
Do you have any tips on putting together a successful submission, specifically to online literary mags like Writing Disorder?
anthony, thanks for reading, thanks for commenting, and thanks for asking. yes, there are several ways to put together a successful submission. and you know what? i’ll think i’ll turn it into a blog post. thanks for the idea.
but for now, here’s two things that are essential to submitting to a magazine: first, have a damn good story. That’s the most important thing to start out with, and it’s the most obvious too, but it’s still something that should be mentioned.
The second would be to read the submission guidelines. Every magazine online these days has criteria that writers should follow if they want to see their work printed, so before submitting anywhere, make sure your story conforms with the magazine’s criteria.
All for now, wait for that blog post.
From a high-altitude perspectice, so to speak, that is sound advice. Hopefully your blog will cover some specifics in terms of the specifics of manuscript formattng and other fundamentals. I just came across a good guide here:
http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
don’t worry, i’ll get into that.