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featherproof is a small press publisher located in Chicago, run by the great Jonathan Messinger.

Apple Valley Review is an online independent literary magazine that publishes some really great fiction, poetry, and essays twice a year.

The Experience Project is a networking website unlike any other. A great place for writers to hang out, Experience Project encourages people to share their stories by giving prompts in the form of experience groups to join, such as “I Moo at Cows”, or goals to add, such as “I Quit Smoking”, as well as sections for dreams and confessions. An added bonus for the shy ones: you can be as anonymous as you like. This is not another Facebook. It truly is unique and you won’t know unless you check it out, so at least go look!

A writer’s greatest resource to publishing. “News, information, and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies, and more.”

failbetter

failbetter is an online literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, and visual art. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

Edgy...challenging...unique. Publishing the forceful voices of up-and-coming writers, Word Riot is a force to be reckoned with.

Your mission: Tell your life story in 400 words or less. 400 Words is an online and print literary magazine that features “short-short memoir for an impatient world.” In addition to autobiographies, themes will also be assigned.

It all starts the same. An exercise in creativity, each story begins with a common first line. Where the writer takes you after that? Read it to see. The First Line is a literary magazine of kindling printed quarterly.

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