Finding a Common Thread When Making a Collection of Short Work and Poetry

Creating a collection of your short work, whether fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, can be a good publishing strategy when you have many works in your portfolio. Professor and author Donna Arthur Downs has a large portfolio of personal essays and poetry, and has found success when finding common themes or topics and submitting her work as chapbooks or collections. She recommends writers research the publishing opportunities that are out there for collections. You can find publishers looking for submissions...