Do you all know about the Zoetrope workshop online?
This was a really important resource for me when I was writing from overseas. They have several different genres–fiction poetry, flash fiction, playwriting–and readers/writers from all over the professional scale. You have to read and review five stories before you can post one. Shorter stuff generally gets reviewed first. They have more directions on the site.
I found it great for figuring out what works and what doesn’t work in a story. Also, some of the writers on there are spectacular readers. A lot of them, like me, were writing from places with less access to writers. I still keep in touch with writers I met on there.
It’s Francis Ford Coppola’s site. Apparently everything you submit is potentially considered for Zoetrope’s magazine, but with the slush pile over at that publication, it’s hard to imagine.
Nora Bonner 