Archive: October 2026

202 stories published in October 2026

How to Pitch a Literary Magazine: A First Submission Guide
🖋️ Literary Arts How to Pitch a Literary Magazine: A First Submission Guide

A literary magazine submission needs a short cover note, a story formatted to the magazine's guidelines, and a realistic target list, not a mass email to fifty editors. Reading recent issues matters more than any cover-letter trick, because fit is what editors judge first.

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This week’s news in Venn diagrams.
Creative Nonfiction Oct 16, 2026
This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

I’ll let you figure out which, but one of these jokes had to be updated right before publishing. The news simply refuses to stop, folks. Hopefully this weekend will be restful for you—personally, I’ll be taking inspiration from these Polish

On Growing Up Cantonese American in Southern California
Creative Nonfiction Oct 16, 2026
On Growing Up Cantonese American in Southern California

Sabrina Popo wasn’t like other grandmas. She was my grandma. She lived on her own and juggled a heavy social rotation of dim sum, senior ballroom dancing, and mahjong with her girl friends. I’d have to be penciled in to

Photographing the Radical Change of 1960s and 70s America
Creative Nonfiction Oct 16, 2026
Photographing the Radical Change of 1960s and 70s America

This deeply personal project—Rebels with a Cause—is a photographic book that captures the 1960s, a formative period of American history when groups of rebels initiated a series of changes and started a revolution unlike any other. The book is our

Will Maclean on F*cking Up a Notebook to Write a Novel
Creative Nonfiction Oct 16, 2026
Will Maclean on F*cking Up a Notebook to Write a Novel

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. There’s a great artist called Bobby Fingers whose YouTube channel documents him making insanely detailed sculptures of celebrities, taking the viewer on a journey through his creative process as he

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