"Submissions Best Practices"

Host Amber Wheeler Bacon discusses her experience working with journals such as Ploughshares, Four Way Review, and SCWA publications, her personal submissions strategies, and shares a few tools for tracking submissions.

 HOST Amber Wheeler Bacon is a writer, editor, teacher and literacy coach. She has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is on the board of directors of the South Carolina Writers Association. Her work has appeared in Five Points, Post Road, New Ohio Review, Crazyhorse and Witness, and you can find her writing online at Ploughshares, CRAFT, Fiction Writer’s Review and New South. She is the recipient of the 2018 Breakout 8 Writers Prize sponsored by The Author’s Guild and a Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. Her story collection, We Were Vessels, was one of five finalists for Hub City Press’s C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize and a finalist for the Moon City Fiction Award. She serves as a fiction editor at Four Way Review and is represented by Amy Bishop at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.