Editor Interviews

We have a WordPress site along with Facebook and Bluesky. For now those are sufficient for getting the word out.

We have a growing presence on Instagram (mostly) and other social media platforms. Please give us a follow for upcoming information and fun vibes. Instagram: @salthilljournal

We use a range of very experienced and successful publicists.

In all the usual ways: social media, working with our distributor, PR lists, attending conferences and conventions, submitting our books to various awards, maintaining a multi-author Substack blog, doing twice-monthly podcasts (audio & video), publishing a monthly e-newsletter.

We are active on social media, with several outlets having 30,000+ followers, we also have 100,000+ subscribers on our Substack. Finally, we offer authors we publish the opportunity to be interviewed.

We use email and social media to inform our followers of the release of each quarterly issue. We also schedule Zoom launch readings. It's a great way for the authors to mingle and share their work with one another.

Occasional FB posts and on the website (the journal is as much for the students working on the journal as it is for the authors we publish).

Through social media outlets, and by word of mouth.

We advertise every piece/artist on social media: Instagram, Facebook, X, Bluesky

Social media, word of mouth, blurbs, reference letters, etc.

We promote on several Facebook groups, and on X. Most of it through Duotrope, word-of-mouth

Social media and word-of-mouth.

Substack and social media

We have a dedicated marketing department working furiously behind the scenes to promote our books directly to readers as well as to bookstores and libraries. You’ll see our books regularly appear on social media and in other genre spaces; we also work with an established distributor and their sales and marketing teams to expand our reach.

We actively participate in book fairs such as the Olympia Zine Fest and the Bay Area Book Festival. Our magazine is available in bookstores around the world. We also host annual launch events for each new issue in multiple cities, providing opportunities to meet our readers, authors and collaborators in person.

Besides being on listed on hubs like Duotrope, ChillSubs, CLMP, etc., we have an email newsletter that sends out a couple times per season with Blood Tree news plus new books from past contributors, as well as a Facebook page that we post big announcements to. Our primary promotional network outside our website is Instagram, since the literary arts community is so large on there and it allows us to visually showcase our artists alongside our authors. (As much as we hate Meta, at least it's not Twitter, y'know?)
The biggest promotional tool is our website, where we have webpages dedicated to our contributors' books, presses/journals/programs they operate, exclusive reviews of their books, and exclusive interviews with them. Behind-the-scenes, we're also ideating things like a Substack or a podcast, so stay tuned!

On our website and on our social media channels: LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Substack.

Social media. Every story gets at least one post and the magazine as a whole gets a few. I also share the covers with the writers early so they can promote themselves. I will also do the occasional podact.

Social media, mostly Bluesky. We'd love to promote on more sites but unfortunately we find the policies of many social media giants to be more problematic than we can personally stomach. It would be nice if that changed.

We promote RABBLE REVIEW and our contributors across our social media accounts. We also have a newsletter that goes out twice a month. Recently we started to do launch livestreams for issue launches, and those stream on YouTube and Twitch, with the archives of those streams going up on our YouTube channel. Contributors are asked to send in recordings of themselves reading their published work. Our website has pages with full artist credits as well. Once a contributor is featured in an issue of RABBLE REVIEW, they are welcome to promote their other projects on our website. We have a "Contributor Corner" where we feature other projects our contributors are working on.

Local bookstores, Instagram, and sponsored events.

We give their work special spotlights on Instagram. Our issues are online, which allows us to give every piece a unique and special rollout.

We have a Facebook page and take out an ad each year for the contest in Poets & Writers. We promote some of our authors on our website; for example, our intern will interview authors with forthcoming books and publish the interview on our blog. We also use Duotrope (thank you, Duotrope!).

Our editors are chronically online, so we do a whole lot of social media promotion! We're most active on Bluesky and Instagram, but you can find us just about everywhere @othersidespec. We also send out advance copies of each issue to reviewers and we submit work to awards and best-of anthologies. We're currently developing a street team program that we hope will help us connect with more readers and more bookstores!

We promote our project and authors through our newsletter, Instagram and Bluesky pages, and through involvement in literary events and book fairs.

The Quasar Review maintains an online presence on various social media sites. We promote individual editions on our Instagram, @thequasarreview_2084 and are considering individual author/artist spotlight features.

We promote it by posting it on the web and providing lavish commentary that boosts the author by stating eloquently what is best about their work. Both Editors comment on all works published on a daily basis with incisive praise and interesting asides that relate to the author's work and shed light upon it. Our commentary on our writers and artists makes us truly unique.

We are an online journal but plan an annual print anthology starting this year. Promotion is through social media, word of mouth, and the Southern Festival of Books.

Our website has recently had a makeover, which has helped to increase views. We don't publish every poem or prose piece online in full, but the print magazines are available to order. We promote our contributors on Instagram and FaceBook and their full bios are available online, even if their work wasn't selected to be published in full on our website.

The winning Fellow gets to read at the pen parentis literary salons alongside established authors who are also parents. Their work is published online in Dreamers Writing and the editor may also publish the piece in print. For a full year, the fellow is mentored in our organization and included in a cohort of other writer parents. For the rest of time, the Fellows meet annually online to catch up on success stories.

We have recently sold The Story Plant to a major multimedia startup and, as such, we have access to marketing resources we've never had before. Going forward, we will be marketing aggressively through publicity, advertising, influencer marketing, and bookseller merchandising.

Our biggest platform is our Instagram, where we share contributors reading their published pieces via Reels. We also have an annual launch party on the Flagler College campus where we read works from the latest issue. Our Director of Development, Sarah Clayton, makes stickers, bookmarks, and other promo materials from our artists' pieces with their permission.

IHRAM Press is on Instagram and Facebook @ihram_press and IHRAM Press, where we share upcoming submission calls, new releases, and opportunities. We have also started an exclusive monthly newsletter, where readers can receive updates. We love to promote our authors and artists on our social media pages, website, and newsletter!

Social media, and ads on Amazon, FB/IG. We're always trying new things though, so if someone comes up with a brilliant idea, we're all for trying it.

Usually, posting things on Instagram and Twitter.

We promote our issue launches on social media with campaigns unique to issue, and we follow our contributors and share their other work whenever we're able.

We promote our journal and writers via social media (Facebook and Instagram) and at local and regional writing conferences whenever possible.

We do special issues, publish anthologies and use social media.

We feature an author each week on social media. We also publish a monthly celebration post for previous and current participants of SmokeLong workshops.

We promote new work through Litro’s website, newsletter, and social media channels, with tailored features for each publication. Authors are highlighted through editorial spotlights, interviews, and issue launches, and we work to place work in wider cultural conversations through partnerships, events, and award submissions. Our focus is on sustained visibility rather than short-term promotion spikes.

The Best of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction anthology is available from book stores and in our local libraries.
We celebrate our authors on the podcast, and their stories are enjoyed by readers and listeners around the world.
It is our honour and privilege to promote our authors’ work.
We hope you’ll join their ranks by entering the next Not Quite Write Prize!

We promote our publication through our Substack newsletter, A Moss Piglet Primer, and on social media (Facebook page and group for Krazines) and Instagram account for @juniorbarnesart. One of our regular contributors distributes information via a group email to other regular contributors.

Yes and vigorously. The work in our journal is widely read and promoted.

YES! And uniquely so. We work closely with our authors to book readings/outings/soirees/whatever it takes to raise awareness of their work and set them toward further success.

We use social media marketing, and we participate in many in-person events including conferences and vendor markets. I also work to establish a relationship with regional independent booksellers to market our print anthologies through them.

We're super active on social media, especially Instagram. We also send out a newsletter with all of our recent publications on a monthly basis and that reaches about 8,000 subscribers.

We promote our project and author online, primarily through Substack as well as social networking.

We are working on building robust SEO for the site and our featured stories. We also provide authors with a small media kit to help promote their stories.

Email lists, local newspapers and magazines, and social media.

Facebook, writers conferences, word of mouth. Our editor-in-chief, Dan Cuddy, would have known more. He died on August 16, 2025. Our founding editor, Jim Doss, may also know more.

Through social media, in-person events (like conventions), and our newsletter.

We advertise on social media, Chill Subs, Duotrope, and other listing sites. Sometimes I do grassroot promotion and post fliers in local spaces.
As far as promoting authors, we post works on socials as well as doing the occasional interview from time to time.

We use social media heavily and attend AWP and the Word of South festival each year.

We promote authors and artists through social media, on our Facebook, Instagram, and X accounts.

We use social media, press releases and newsletters and our own networks. We regularly host live events and fiction workshops and are in constant contact with literary agents and publishers.

I promote publications through social media, through attending artisan and Christmas markets to sell in person, and through the authors who publish with me.

We promote on Facebook extensively.

We promote primarily on Hot Flash Literary’s Facebook page, but also use our own social media as well, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Substack, etc.

The promotional world is always shifting beneath our feet. Discoverability is a huge problem. What worked for us last month may not work this month. So we are constantly shifting and re-evaluating our promotional strategy. In general, we've virtually abandoned our print advertising in trade publications (like PW, Kirkus, etc) because we don't seen a return anymore on that substantial investment. We advertise on all social media platforms (paid advertisements in addition to postings on our own channels), some Bookbub advertising, as well as paid advertising on Amazon. We send books and galleys to genre conferences nationwide for inclusion in attendee book bags. We send out notices to our newsletter subscribers. We put digital galleys up on Netgalley to reach media, reviewers and librarians...and to generate Amazon and Goodreads reviews. But, again, that could all change tomorrow morning.

We use social media (in particular Instagram) to promote our authors and issues and to connect with the writing community. We also table at the annual AWP conference, as well as some other writers' conferences in the Midwest. We can also distribute to bookstores and libraries, and we've appeared at conferences to introduce ourselves to Midwestern booksellers.

We are starting to do more readings. It's hard for a national pub because our authors are all over. We will reach out to their local bookstores as well. And we have a webpage for each author that helps with google results for their name. And we do social posts about all our authors. For the pub in general, we'll take out some digital ads. We keep sending copies to Poets & Writers magazine, but have yet to hear anything!

We promote artists primarily through an artist spotlight, specifically emerging voices. We also share published work and announcements on social media—on Instagram and Bluesky at @neonsmokemagazine.

We regularly post on Twitter, Bluesky, Substack, and Facebook. We happily consent to interviews with journals that promote writers and literary publications, and we nominate for major literary awards (see above).

Previous issues were sold nationwide at various independent book stores as well as online. We essentially had world wide sales with orders coming in from all over. We will utilize social media to promote the issue as well as hold a release party at a hugely popular Annapolis record store that carries zines. We also have various pledge levels and add-ons to our crowd funding event that could mean payments for some authors.

We use Instagram and Bluesky to promote our issues and submission calls, as well as to highlight individual authors and artists we've published. We're also listed on Chill Subs and Duotrope.

I have a Soul Poetry Facebook page and Instagram page. I post work and author profiles often on Facebook and tag them is they have joined the page. I also promote other published works by my authors (books, chapbooks, etc) whenever they reach out to me and ask me to do so.

It's an area I am working on. NFNF is active on Bluesky and Facebook, both of which have good flash fiction communities and we are trying to grow on Instagram. We are very reliant on word of mouth and the authors letting their own networks know they've been published.

Socials! Twitter, Bluesky and Instagram. I post about every published piece and try to maintain enough of a community on each that they get reach. I also keep an eye out for any writers I've pubbed in the past and try to boost their work in other mags anytime I see it.

We send out a quarterly newsletter. We also advertise and promote each issue on social media.

We promote our published authors via local events, book sales, book festivals, our lit magazine WWPH WRITES, and social media.

We manage bluesky and Instagram accounts to stay connected and share everything we can. We advertise issues on these platforms as well. We are members of sites like CLMP where we submit to lists all the time. We've done very well just on building a supportive community.

We post all our new work to subscribers through a free subscription, and we also post to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and also to LinkedIn if the work is appropriate for that space.

On social media.

Social Media (FB, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Bluesky), Parsec Monthly Newsletter, word-of-mouth and bookmarks/ cards at conventions

Substack, twitter, our newsletter, the occasional very targeted ad.

We choose a featured piece every week and display it prominently on our homepage for the duration of its run. We also post 1-2 authors’ headshots and snippets of their work on our Instagram. We love lifting up our contributors and helping their pieces reach new readers!

We use our website and social media, we send out press releases, our authors reach out to their local bookstores and reading venues, we provide a digital Media Kit for our authors to use and we send it to the author's local and hometown media outlets and any alumni associations. We also do a press release when our authors win awards. We are members of CLMP, so we also send the information to them for inclusion in their roundups.

I'm on Substack, and I promote on Facebook and other social media channels.

We take a holistic approach, working with the author to determine a plan that ranges from soliciting reviews and pitching features to posting on social media and setting up readings and other events.

We promote our contributors with the same care we bring to reading and editing their work. We feature every piece across our social media platforms, our newsletter, and our website. We highlight contributors before, during, and long after publication. We also share updates about awards, future publications, or any recognition related to their work, even when it appears in other journals. Each year, we attend AWP and use that opportunity to feature our contributors, connect them with readers, and expand the reach of their work. Our goal is not a single announcement. Our goal is sustained support. When we publish a writer, we commit to championing their work beyond the issue.

Instagram and Bluesky.

We have a newsletter and social media channels. We also have a press distribution system.

Our primary base is on Bluesky. We also advertise on Instagram and Threads, however the algorithm is not our friend. We made a brief foray into TikTok and discovered that we are old and TikTok reminds us of a casino: loud and flashy. Mastodon yields no interactions for us so we've let it rest. We try to make a couple of cons a year to distribute merch and network. Synergy! Level Setting! Building Capacity! We know ALL the business terms and sometimes use them correctly!

Good question. Let me come back to this in a few months. I will say, I have tried a few different tactics: readings, distributing books to potential reviewers, advertising in poetry journals like Fence. For me, the most success I've had at getting books into people's hands is the face-to-face encounter of the reading.

We promote on social media, primarily BlueSky.

We are neolithic, but we are trying to get better. We inexpertly stumble through social media, and we will soon try our hand at podcasts, more public readings, and anything we can think of to get more eyes on the amazing work we publish.

Social Media
Duotrope
Poets & Writers
Other digital interfaces
Community outreach
Networking

On Facebook. And I encourage the writers I publish to share their work with their family, friends and other social networks to get more traffic.

We nominate for various awards and maintain a minimal social media presence. Every decade or two, we publish best-of print anthologies. Otherwise, we rely on word of mouth and our ever-growing community of readers and contributors.

We promote through our website, X (twitter) and bluesky.

We promote on our Instagram page and through our newsletter — including shout-outs for previous writers we’ve published when they win awards or have new books coming out. We want to create a kind of family around this space of creative writing inspired by science.

Via our weekly newsletter, biweekly podcast, social media, press releases, and public events.

Via our website, social media, university network, personal networks, and word of mouth. We have a special contributor spotlight that highlights upcoming work and accomlishments from anyone who has had work published with us in the past.

Currently, we are posting on BlueSky and Instagram. I am currently looking into physical opportunities throughout Maryland to promote our contributors!

Yes, on Instagram and through public readings and events.

We use social media (X, Facebook and Instagram). We offer scholarships to our Masterclass for previously published authors and nominate them for prizes whenever possible.

For every magazine publication, I take out paid ads on Pinterest. I also post every new project (blog and magazine) on BlueSky, Mastodon, and Pinterest. All of the artist or author's contact information is shared on social media and in the publication itself.

We promote the journal, our authors, and our call for submission through social media, our websites (clockhousewriters.com and clockhouse.net), and our mailing list. We also include calls for submissions in Duotrope, Poets & Writers, CLMP and other sites and publications.
As well, we utilize IngramSpark’s promotional email audiences.
For the launch of each volume, we have an online reading event with authors from the publication. It’s a great opportunity to meet a community of authors and experience their work in a supportive environment.

Ya know, me and my cohorts agree, we are awful at marketing. I hate social media with a passion. But, we have a blusky (@realneondystopia.bsky.social?), and a discord with a lovely little community. We rely on word of mouth, so write on every bathroom stall you end up in that Neon Dystopia is fine and good. But we are not looking for a good time, only eyeballs and Patreon bucks.

We promote all of our published pieces on X.

I use Substack to send out the work that has been published in our journal. Each week, our readers receive one of our publications directly to their email, and I promote the work as well as the authors on our social media platforms. We also use our events as a way to share our authors' work with others, where we offer open mics and live readings for people to share their writing.

We promote the work via our social media, Substack, emails, and press releases. We also host online open mics and live author readings to get more attention to the author's work as well as our publications. And a lot of networking and word of mouth. But we are actively working on getting more press for our work as well.

We contact reviewers and have a strong social media presence. Most of our sales seem to come from word of mouth rather than from reviews or ads.

I promote Collaborature on my blog and through the WordPress community. Other writers and publishers promote it as well. Feed the Holy; Prolific Pulse Press; Pure Haiku; Sunflower Tanka; and many others help to promote the journal. I appreciate them all!