Magazines for writers?

[chongjasmine]

What are some magazines that teach the craft of writing?

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Good question. Watching with interest!

 

[Toby Frost]

It depends where you are, I suppose. There's a print one in the UK called The Writer. I was once in it, somehow, but that was a few years ago.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

I think Blogs and Forums and online Magazines are killing print mags apart from the low end of market that's sold in Tesco.
Certainly most of the Future Publishing Niche titles are worthless now compared to a Broadband Subscription.

I've found here the the best place in 20 years. Learnt more here in last 8 months than previous 50 years.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Puts on different hats. One of many roles has been as a consultant to the magazine business, although I don't do much anymore. Magazines are doing okay, actually, as a medium, especially those that blend a strong online platform with distribution (Future struggled so badly partly because of the blend of mags they did that they tended to have a very digitally aware readership) And because of the mixed-business model more specialist news shops still exist than bookstores in the U.k.

The two main writing mags in the UK are Writing magazine and Writers forum and should be in most big supermarkets and big news retailers - your Smiths and Easons should do them. But, also, because of the way news distribution works any news shop can order them in for you, so ask your local newsagents.

Writing Digest has a good online platform, good for agent interviews and the like.

I'm with Ray, though, in terms if how useful they are for teaching you how to write. But their interviews with writers are good, and they list events and such like well.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Easons and whatever "The Gathering" has is the limit here. Easons here isn't bad for books, but range of mags is barely better than Tesco! Really no Easons mags you'd buy if you have Broadband, unless you want something glossy for coffee table. But despite being #3 City, Limerick is far worse than Dublin, Cork, Galway for shops. My distant memory of Belfast Easons was that it was much larger. The mag section here is about 2.5m x 4m floor space. The upstairs stationary x4 size. Basement book section maybe x8 to x10 bigger.

Forbidden Planet used to be here with a load of niche graphic mags/comics / SF &F / Anime type stuff. Long gone.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Easons and whatever "The Gathering" has is the limit here. Easons here isn't bad for books, but range of mags is barely better than Tesco! Really no Easons mags you'd buy if you have Broadband, unless you want something glossy for coffee table. But despite being #3 City, Limerick is far worse than Dublin, Cork, Galway for shops.

Forbidden Planet used to be here with a load of niche graphic mags/comics / SF &F / Anime type stuff. Long gone.

Ah, yes, in ROI it's a much less resilient model - mainly because UK magazines cost so much more than in the UK and there isn't the same depth in the Irish magazine producers. If I was in the south, I'd be on the internet, too. (but some of the online magazine sites are worth a look at.)

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Dublin is probably OK, but it's western Britain.

there isn't the same depth in the Irish magazine producers

No depth. Photos.

Many UK mags now much shallower than 20 years ago. HiFi mags stopped being any use in early 1980s, at latest. Full of fake snake-oil* nonsense to sell their expensive advertisers.

[* Edit, real snake-oil may have some small medicinal value]

 

[Christopher Lee]

I don't know about outside the U.S., but Writer's Digest is easily the most popular and widely read in the country. Their website is solid as well, containing forums and tutorials and all kinds of stuff. They have a section where you submit stories for practice and everyone can read them.

 

[jastius]

Here is a list of magazines for and about writing.. (I have snuck some Canadian ones in..)

The first is an annual issue dedicated to writing contests.. But it links to their main website.
Http://m.pw.org/magazine

http://www.everywritersresource.com/


www.everywritersresource.com/topliterarymagazines.html

http://www.writermag.com/

http://www.blurb.com/blog/our-favorite-magazines-for-writers

www.cwj.ca

talkingwriting.com
http://talkingwriting.com/

Magazine | The New Quarterly
www.tnq.ca/magazine

List of magazines by genre that you can submit to.
http://letswriteashortstory.com/literary-magazines/

Magazine search engine..
http://duotrope.com/

Magazines with a Canadian focus. ... Sorry ...
www.grainmagazine.ca

http://blog.magazine-awards.com/2013/11/07/a-writers-guide-to-canadian-literary-magazines-journals/

www.writerswrite.com/.../eight-tips-for-getting-published-in-magazines-60...

www.right-writing.com/magazine.html

www.narrativemagazine.com

These ones focus on noveling methods..

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/08/how-to-write.../308043/

www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/.../how-to-write-your-first-novel

And this one is simply funny..

http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/7-things-that-will-doom-your-novel-how-to-avoid-them