duotrope.com

If you write, you know how difficult it can be keeping up with the reading periods, contact information, themes, and other aspects of literary journals as you prepare your work for publication. I want to recommend the website Duotrope.com as an indispensable resource for fiction writers and poets. The website tracks all sorts of valuable information for writers, including the response times from editors, the percentage of those responses that are acceptances versus rejections, and it breaks that information down even further by including data on how many of the rejections are personal versus form. You can see recent covers of the magazine and link to the magazine's website to see if it looks like something you'd be interested in subscribing or submitting to. Duotrope sweeps through the websites and checks the status of markets that remain idle too long or do not respond to submitters or editors. At this time there's no tracking mechanism for creative non-fiction, and magazines that only solicit book length mss. or do not have a web presence are not included in the database. Still, I can think of no other resource that is as consistently useful as Duotrope.com, so if you write and submit your work, check it out.