I often teach a comprehensive course on How to Get Published in Lit Mags. For Thursday on the Stoop, I’ll focus on one aspect—how to find a good fit for your work. That takes knowing how to read and evaluate a journal and understanding the submission guidelines. I’ll keep the focus tight, given the time. But then we’ll have lots of time in the second half to address their questions about submitting. And that will allow us to touch on other parts of the process that tend to confuse.

Andrea A. Firth is a writer, editor and educator living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an Editor at Brevity Blog, which publishes essays on CNF craft and the writing life every week day in the year. She is cofounder of Diablo Writers’ Workshop where she teaches creative writing and provides developmental editing. She’s had the pleasure and privilege of teaching for Blue Stoop more than once. Andrea has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Saint Mary’s College of California. She was a finalist for The Missouri Review's 2021 Perkoff Prize in nonfiction, and her work has appeared in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Allium, The Coachella Review among others. Learn more about her and read her recent work at www.andreaafirth.com.