LitMatch

About LitMatch

What it is

LitMatch is a map of who publishes whom. It is built from the public record of literary publishing: who has appeared in which journals, who edits them, which presses publish which writers, which programs they came through, which agents represent them, and who translates whom, from which languages. Enter your own publications and the map shows where you sit in it, who is near you, and where your work might go next.

By writers, for writers

LitMatch is made by writers in western Massachusetts, and it is made for writers: poets and fiction writers trying to place a poem, a story, a manuscript, or a book. We started it because we could not figure out where to send our own work, and the only tools for that were searching the web and asking around. Everyone who publishes knows the field has a shape. We wanted to see it.

We are not publishers, editors, or agents. We sit on the same side of the desk as you.

Where the data comes from

Everything in the map comes from public sources: contributor notes, mastheads, press catalogs, program pages, and agency client lists. We record who published where. We do not record what anyone wrote, or judge it.

The record is only as good as those sources. If we have you wrong, or you would rather not be listed, write to us and we will fix it. Better still, claim your record and correct it yourself.

What we do not do

We never hold a manuscript. In the Manuscript Exchange the file travels by email between the two writers; only the payment and the reader's letter pass through LitMatch.

Nothing you enter here is used to train anything. Every reader in the Manuscript Exchange is a named writer with a public record, and the letters are written by them.

There are no ads, and we do not sell your data.

How it makes money

Searching the map and adding your publications is free. In the Manuscript Exchange, readers set their own prices, and when a paid read is completed LitMatch keeps 15 percent of what the reader charged.

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Search writers, editors, agents, journals, presses, programs, books, and the connections between them.

Try Your name The Paris Review Fence Graywolf Press UMass Amherst MFA

youyou

The Paris ReviewParis Review

FenceFence

The Massachusetts ReviewMass. Review

Copper Canyon PressCopper Canyon

Wave BooksWave Books

UMass Amherst MFAUMass MFA

a writer near younearby writer

a first bookfirst book

an agentan agent

Writers

Poets, fiction writers, and translators, and where they have published.
Editors

The editors behind the journals, and who they publish.
Journals

Magazines, who appears in them, and which are reading now.
Presses

Publishers from indie presses to the Big Five.
Agents

Literary agents, the writers they represent, and your paths to them.
Programs

MFA programs and the writers who came through them.
Books

Collections, novels, and translations, and the presses behind them.
Connections

How all of it links together.

Where to send

Start with what you have published.

Enter your publications and LitMatch shows who publishes writers like you, which journals are reading now, and where to send next.

Add your publications I haven't published yet

Manuscript Exchange

Get your manuscript read.

Writers whose work sits near yours read chapbooks, collections, and novels. They set the price. You get a letter back: what's working, what to cut, and where to send it. The manuscript travels by email between the two of you; LitMatch never holds the file.

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PoetryFiction

your record

Five journals. Fence is your strongest and anchors the rest. Four writers sit near you, and between them they reach four rooms you haven't been in.

No fiction credits yet. Two of your poetry rooms, Fence and Boston Review, take stories; add one and a fiction record starts here.

youyou

FenceFence

Boston ReviewBoston Review

jubilatjubilat

Forklift, OhioForklift

b l u s hb l u s h

NoraNora

TeodorTeodor

PriyaPriya

InesInes

PoetryPoetry hidden door

A Public SpacePublic Space

OversoundOversound

The TinyThe Tiny

Your fiction record is empty. The map below and the numbers on this page are your poetry record; a story credit starts a second one.

Your publications 5

FenceYour strongest. It anchors the number.
685
Boston Review
630
jubilatClosed. Counts as history.
603
Forklift, Ohio
590
b l u s h
520

The number on the right is the journal's Standing, 300 to 850. Where you place matters more than how much.

Where you stand

707Established

Likely range 671 to 743. Fence carries it: take Fence out and the number falls 61 points, which is the point. A record leans on its best room.

LitScore reads placement, not volume. Eight journals at 550 do not outrank one at 685.

Writers near you

Nora HalvorsenFence jubilat
Reads on the Exchange
Teodor LindqvistBoston Review Fence
Reads on the Exchange
Priya Venkataramanjubilat Forklift, Ohio
Reads on the Exchange
Ines Marchettib l u s h Boston Review
Reads on the Exchange

Near means they publish where you have. Not friends, not a recommendation, a shape.

Rooms they reach that you haven't

Poetrythrough Nora and Priyahidden door
A Public Spacethrough Teodor and Ines
Oversoundthrough Priya
The Tinythrough Ines

A hidden door is a room two or more writers near you have reached and you haven't sent to. Where to send takes it from here.

Your taste

Hybrid

88th pct

Experimental

83rd

Surreal

63rd

Lyrical

44th

Traditional

18th

Place-based

27th

Read off the five journals, not your poems. The tick is the field's median; only the dimensions that set your record apart are shown. Five mapped journals, coherence 69 of 100.

Why 707

Anchor
Fence, your strongest room
685
Breadth
five distinct journals, steeply diminishing
+22
Repeat appearances
none recorded yet
+0
Recognition
prizes and anthologies, none recorded
+0
Established
likely range 671 to 743
707

Take Fence out and the number falls to 646; take b l u s h out and it moves 3. A record leans on its best room, which is the point.

Where to send

Poetry is a hidden door.

Two of the four writers nearest you publish there, and you have never sent. Open where to send for that and the next three.

Open where to send

Your book

Fence Books is one hop away.

You are already in the house. Two more presses publish poets with records like yours, and one is reading now.

Open your book

Manuscript Exchange

Four readers near you.

Nora, Teodor, Priya and Ines read chapbooks and collections. Closest first.

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Journal · Poetry · Standing 685

Fence

Poetry, fiction, and hybrid work · Founded 1998 · Open now

What it says about itself: Fence favors work that resists literary camps and easy genre labels.

Your connection

You have published here. Nora and Teodor, two of the writers nearest you, appear here too, and forty-one mapped writers connect four of your journals to it.

Anchors: jubilat, Boston Review, Forklift, Ohio. A cluster this wide is stronger than any single co-publication bridge.

Editorial fingerprint

ExperimentalHybridSurrealIntellectual

Leans toward

Work that resists easy classification
Hybrid, cross-genre, and translation-minded writing
Language-conscious formal invention
Queer and culturally boundary-crossing work

Less natural

Conventional workshop lyric with no reading risk
Work that feels aligned to a school or a theory

Six of twelve editorial dimensions, read from what the journal has actually published. The lists on the right are written from its own pages.

Where the editors publish

The Brooklyn Rail 3 editors
American Poetry Review 2
Ploughshares 2
The Paris Review 2
BOMB 2
Ninth Letter 2
Poetry 1
Adroit Journal 1

Twelve of twelve editors mapped. Their own credits, not a claim about who reads your submission.

Writers here also appear in

The Paris ReviewBoston ReviewjubilatBOMBPloughsharesThe Brooklyn RailAmerican Poetry Review

Nearby journals

CopenhagenThe Quarterless ReviewIncessant Pipe

Standing

685Standing

Rank 26 of 344 poetry journals. Likely range 655 to 715. Stable, pays.

Submissions

Open now

Closes Sep 30, 2026. $5 plus a two-issue subscription. Poetry, fiction, and hybrid.

Checked Aug 12, 2026 against the journal's own page.

Visit Fence ↗Guidelines ↗

Presses connected

Fence Books same house
Omnidawn 3 poets in common · open
Wave Books 2 poets in common
Conduit Books 1 poet in common

Your book ranks them for your record.

Writers near you here

Nora Halvorsenshares Fence and jubilat with you
reads on the Exchange
Teodor Lindqvistshares Fence and Boston Review with you
reads on the Exchange

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Journal · Poetry · Standing 758

The Paris Review

Poetry and fiction, with the interviews · Founded 1953

What it says about itself: A magazine that publishes the best writers it can find, and asks them how they work.

Your connection

You haven't published here. Nora and Priya, two of the writers nearest you, have. Nora is the shorter path: she appears in Fence with you.

What it publishes

Leans toward

Poems with a finished surface
Established voices, with a few debuts each year
Translation

Less natural

Work that depends on its own frame or theory
Very long sequences

Editorial fingerprint

NarrativeIntellectualTraditionalFormal

Leans toward

Stories with a strong shape and a finished surface
Sentences that carry the intelligence
Work in translation

Less natural

Genre fiction with the genre left on
Fragmentary or procedural prose

Writers here also appear in

The New YorkerPoetryGrantaBoston ReviewFenceConjunctions

Nearby journals

GrantaThe New YorkerConjunctions

Standing

758Standing

Rank 8 of 344 poetry journals. Likely range 735 to 780.

Submissions

By portal, in reading periods that vary by section. This window is unverified; check before you send.

Visit The Paris Review ↗

Presses connected

Copper Canyon 4 poets in common
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 3 poets in common
Graywolf Press 2 poets in common

On the Exchange

Nora and Priya both read. Nora · Priya.

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Press · Poetry, fiction, nonfiction

Graywolf Press

Nonprofit press · Minneapolis · Founded 1974

What it says about itself: A nonprofit publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, committed to writers over the long run.

Your connection

You don't have a book here. Two poets who appear in Boston Review, where you have, have books at Graywolf. Teodor is one of them.

Poets here also appear in

Boston ReviewThe Paris ReviewPoetryAmerican Poetry ReviewThe New Yorker

Roster

31 poets on the roster are in the map. 6 of them share a journal with you.

Nearby presses

Copper CanyonWave BooksMilkweed

How it takes manuscripts

Through agents and its prizes. Unsolicited reading is not verified; LitMatch checks reading states and this one is open.

Visit Graywolf ↗

Journals connected

Boston Review yours · 2 poets in common
The Paris Review 2 poets in common
Poetry 5 poets in common

On the Exchange

Teodor, who has a book here, reads novels and collections. His page.

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Program · MFA for Poets and Writers

UMass Amherst MFA

Program for Poets and Writers · Amherst, Massachusetts · Three years

What the map shows: A program whose graduates keep appearing together, in jubilat, which was edited from Amherst, and in the small presses around it.

Your connection

You didn't come through here, but jubilat did, and so did Teodor. Three writers who appear in jubilat with you came through the program.

Writers who came through here publish in

jubilatFenceBoston ReviewConjunctionsThe Massachusetts Review

Presses around it

Factory Hollow PressWave Books

Nearby programs

BrownIowaSyracuse

In the map

160 writers in the map came through the program or taught in it. 14 of them appear in a journal where you have.

Applying

Applications open in the fall. LitMatch doesn't rank programs; it shows where their writers go.

Visit the program ↗

On the Exchange

Teodor came through two years ahead of you and reads novels and collections. His page.

LitMatch

← Search

Search

No page for “that” yet.

The prototype has ten pages built. The real map has 840 journals, 57 presses, 35 agents, and 1,500 writers.

Try one of these

Fencejournal
The Paris Reviewjournal
Graywolf Presspress
UMass Amherst MFAprogram
Poetryjournal
Nora Halvorsenwriter
Mira Castellanosagent
Rosalind Achebe-Marreditor
The Long Fieldbook
Browse everythingby kind

Or start with you

Search your own name and the map probably has you already. Find my record.

What a search returns

Writers, editors, agents, journals, presses, programs, and books, each with a page like the ones above, and the path from you to it.

LitMatch

Start

Start with your name.

As it appears in print. The map probably has you already.

Your name

What you write

PoetryFictionNonfictionTranslation

EmailFor your sign-in link. No password, and we never show it.

Find my recordI haven't published yet

LitMatch

Is this you?

One record in the map matches your name. Nothing to fill in yet.

Fencecontributor note
Boston Reviewcontributor note
jubilattable of contents
Forklift, Ohiocontributor note
b l u s hissue page

Every credit names where it came from. Claiming the record makes it yours to correct, and anything wrong comes off with one tap.

That's meThat's not me

LitMatch

Start

Start with what you're working on.

No publications needed. Tell the map where you want to be.

Your name

What you write

PoetryFictionNonfictionTranslation

Where do you want to publish?

FenceThe Paris Review+ add a journal

Two or three is plenty. The map finds the writers who publish there and the readers among them.

EmailFor your sign-in link. No password.

Show me who reads thereJust look around

LitMatch

Log in

Welcome back.

Your email, and we send a link. No password.

Email

Email me a sign-in linkNew here? Sign up

The link works once and expires in an hour. In this prototype it takes you straight in.

LitMatch

PoetryFiction

your record

Nothing here yet. Add the first journal and the map starts drawing.

youyou

Your publications 0

Start with your strongest. One journal is enough for the map to place you; three is enough for it to start pointing.

TryFencejubilatBoston Review

Where you stand

·No number yet

LitScore reads placement, not volume, so it waits for a journal. Where you place matters more than how much.

Where to send

Opens with your first journal.

Next moves and hidden doors come from the writers who publish where you have.

Your book

Presses one hop from you.

Poets get presses, fiction writers get agents. Both start from a record.

Manuscript Exchange

Readers are open now.

You can find a reader before you have a record. Tell them where you want to be.

Find a reader

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Manuscript Exchange

four readers
for RUINS

Writers who share a journal, press, or program with you. Closest first.

youyou

UMass MFAUMass MFA

TeodorTeodor

FenceFence

Copper CanyonCopper Canyon

InesInes PriyaPriya

Mass. ReviewMass. Review

NoraNora

AllLettersSwaps

RUINS · poetry · 62 pages Change

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Reader's Letter

Nora Halvorsen

Poet, editor · Returned a letter 4 days ago

You both appear in Fence and The Massachusetts Review.

PublishedReviews · 3

FenceThe Paris ReviewMass. ReviewPloughsharesCopper CanyonWave Books

4.7from 3 verified reads

★ 5 · Reader's LetterJune 2026

She found the poem I had been hiding for a year and told me to open the book with it.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterMarch 2026

Clear about what to cut. Sent a list of six journals and two were right.

★ 4 · Manuscript swapJanuary 2026

Generous notes, a little late. Worth it.

Full read

$155

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Ten pages

$35

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Request

Reader's Letter

Teodor Lindqvist

Poet, novelist · Full until 3 weeks from now

Came through UMass two years ahead of you.

PublishedReviews · 2

The Paris ReviewGrantaPloughsharesConjunctionsGraywolfWave BooksFSG

5.0from 2 verified reads

★ 5 · Reader's LetterMay 2026

The only reader who told me what the book was actually about. I rewrote the middle third.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterFebruary 2026

Slow, thorough, exact. Four pages on my first ten.

Full read

$248

4-page letter on 62 pages · 4 weeks

Ten pages

$35

1-page letter on your first 10 pages · 1 week

Join wait list

Reader's Letter · swap

Priya Venkataraman

Poet, publisher · Returned a letter 9 days ago

You both appear in Fence; she runs a press that publishes poets like you.

PublishedReviews · 5

FencePoetryConjunctionsBennington ReviewCopper Canyonruns a press, 12 titles

4.8from 5 verified reads

★ 5 · Reader's LetterJuly 2026

Ruthless on ordering. Exactly what I paid for.

★ 5 · Poem swapJune 2026

Traded twelve pages. Her notes were better than the workshop I paid for.

★ 4 · Reader's LetterApril 2026

Sharp on structure, lighter on the line.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterFebruary 2026

Told me which twenty poems were the book.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterNovember 2025

Sent it to two journals she named. Both took something.

Full read

$186

3-page letter on 62 pages · 3 weeks

Ten pages

$35

1-page letter on your first 10 pages · 1 week

Request

Manuscript swap

Ines Marchetti

Poet · Portland, OR · Finished a swap 2 weeks ago

You both appear in Fence; her two books are at Copper Canyon.

PublishedReviews · 4

Mass. ReviewTin HousePoetry NorthwestCopper CanyonCopper Canyon

4.9from 4 verified reads

★ 5 · Manuscript swapJune 2026

We traded 40 pages and I rewrote my ending that week.

★ 5 · Manuscript swapApril 2026

Honest to the point of pain. Ask for it.

★ 5 · Manuscript swapMarch 2026

Read like an editor, wrote back like a friend.

★ 4 · Manuscript swapDecember 2025

Took the full 30 days. Notes were worth the wait.

Manuscript swap

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40 pages each way · notes both ways · 30 days

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Your deskopen

Six writers near you want a reader.

Three chapbooks, two collections, one novel

Set a price and a pace, and read for the people one hop from you.

Waiting

3 chapbooks2 collections1 novel

You set itYour price, your pace

Open your desk

LitMatch

Manuscript Exchange

two readers so far
for RUINS

You haven't added publications yet, so these readers publish where you want to be. Add your publications and the map takes over.

youyou

FenceFence

The Paris ReviewParis Review

NoraNora PriyaPriya

Where do you want to publish?FenceThe Paris Review+ add a journal

RUINS · poetry · 62 pages Change

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Reader's Letter

Nora Halvorsen

Poet, editor · Returned a letter 4 days ago

She has published in Fence and The Massachusetts Review, both on your list.

PublishedReviews · 3

FenceThe Paris ReviewMass. ReviewPloughsharesCopper CanyonWave Books

4.7from 3 verified reads

★ 5 · Reader's LetterJune 2026

She found the poem I had been hiding for a year and told me to open the book with it.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterMarch 2026

Clear about what to cut. Sent a list of six journals and two were right.

★ 4 · Manuscript swapJanuary 2026

Generous notes, a little late. Worth it.

Full read

$155

3-page letter on 62 pages · 3 weeks

Ten pages

$35

1-page letter on your first 10 pages · 1 week

Request

Reader's Letter · swap

Priya Venkataraman

Poet, publisher · Returned a letter 9 days ago

She has published in Fence, where you want to be, and runs a press that publishes poets like you.

PublishedReviews · 5

FencePoetryConjunctionsBennington ReviewCopper Canyonruns a press, 12 titles

4.8from 5 verified reads

★ 5 · Reader's LetterJuly 2026

Ruthless on ordering. Exactly what I paid for.

★ 5 · Poem swapJune 2026

Traded twelve pages. Her notes were better than the workshop I paid for.

★ 4 · Reader's LetterApril 2026

Sharp on structure, lighter on the line.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterFebruary 2026

Told me which twenty poems were the book.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterNovember 2025

Sent it to two journals she named. Both took something.

Full read

$186

3-page letter on 62 pages · 3 weeks

Ten pages

$35

1-page letter on your first 10 pages · 1 week

Request

Not open yet

Nine writers who publish in Fence haven't opened a desk.

They're on the map. They're not on the Exchange yet.

One note from LitMatch tells them a writer is looking. No names, no pressure, and you're told when one opens.

FreeSent once, from us

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Reader's Letter

Nora Halvorsen

Poet, editor · Returned a letter 4 days ago

In her words: I read for structure and cuts. I am slow and I am blunt, and I always say where to send it.

How you connect

You both appear in Fence and The Massachusetts Review.

Published

FenceThe Paris ReviewMass. ReviewPloughsharesCopper CanyonWave Books

Reviews

4.7from 3 verified reads

★ 5 · Reader's LetterJune 2026

She found the poem I had been hiding for a year and told me to open the book with it.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterMarch 2026

Clear about what to cut. Sent a list of six journals and two were right.

★ 4 · Manuscript swapJanuary 2026

Generous notes, a little late. Worth it.

Offers for RUINS · 62 pages

What do you want from this read? Two or three sentences. It goes with whichever offer you choose.

Reader's Letter

A three-page letter on all 62 pages: what is working, what to cut, where to send it.

Back in 3 weeks

$155

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Ten pages

A one-page letter on your first ten pages, same shape as the full one. A way to try a reader before a full read.

Back in 1 week

$35

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Manuscript swap

40 pages each way, notes both ways, 30 days.

Starts when you both accept

Free

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How it works

Your payment is held by LitMatch and released when the letter arrives. If it doesn't, you're refunded.

The manuscript goes by email between the two of you. LitMatch never holds the file.

Every reader here is a named writer with a public record, and that record is on this page. Letters are written by them. A reader who has a machine write one is removed and you are refunded.

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← All readers for RUINS

Reader's Letter

Teodor Lindqvist

Poet, novelist · Full until 3 weeks from now

In his words: I read whole manuscripts, once, carefully. Expect four pages on your first ten and one on the rest.

How you connect

Came through UMass two years ahead of you.

Published

The Paris ReviewGrantaPloughsharesConjunctionsGraywolfWave BooksFSG

Reviews

5.0from 2 verified reads

★ 5 · Reader's LetterMay 2026

The only reader who told me what the book was actually about. I rewrote the middle third.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterFebruary 2026

Slow, thorough, exact. Four pages on my first ten.

Offers for RUINS · 62 pages

What do you want from this read? Two or three sentences. It goes with whichever offer you choose.

Reader's Letter

A four-page letter on all 62 pages, with a separate page on the opening.

Back in 4 weeks · next opening in 3 weeks

$248

Join wait list

How it works

Your payment is held by LitMatch and released when the letter arrives. If it doesn't, you're refunded.

The manuscript goes by email between the two of you. LitMatch never holds the file.

Every reader here is a named writer with a public record, and that record is on this page. Letters are written by them. A reader who has a machine write one is removed and you are refunded.

LitMatch

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Reader's Letter · swap

Priya Venkataraman

Poet, publisher · Returned a letter 9 days ago

In her words: I edit for a living, so I read like an editor: ordering first, then the twenty poems that are the book.

How you connect

You both appear in Fence; she runs a press that publishes poets like you.

Published

FencePoetryConjunctionsBennington ReviewCopper Canyonruns a press, 12 titles

Reviews

4.8from 5 verified reads

★ 5 · Reader's LetterJuly 2026

Ruthless on ordering. Exactly what I paid for.

★ 5 · Poem swapJune 2026

Traded twelve pages. Her notes were better than the workshop I paid for.

★ 4 · Reader's LetterApril 2026

Sharp on structure, lighter on the line.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterFebruary 2026

Told me which twenty poems were the book.

★ 5 · Reader's LetterNovember 2025

Sent it to two journals she named. Both took something.

Offers for RUINS · 62 pages

What do you want from this read? Two or three sentences. It goes with whichever offer you choose.

Reader's Letter

A three-page letter on all 62 pages, with a proposed order.

Back in 3 weeks

$186

Send request

Ten pages

A one-page letter on your first ten pages, same shape as the full one. A way to try a reader before a full read.

Back in 1 week

$35

Send request

Poem swap

12 pages each way, notes both ways, 2 weeks.

Starts when you both accept

Free

Propose a swap

How it works

Your payment is held by LitMatch and released when the letter arrives. If it doesn't, you're refunded.

The manuscript goes by email between the two of you. LitMatch never holds the file.

Every reader here is a named writer with a public record, and that record is on this page. Letters are written by them. A reader who has a machine write one is removed and you are refunded.

LitMatch

← All readers for RUINS

Manuscript swap

Ines Marchetti

Poet · Portland, OR · Finished a swap 2 weeks ago

In her words: Swaps only. I read 40 pages, you read 40 pages, we both write it down. Nobody gets to be polite.

How you connect

You both appear in Fence; her two books are at Copper Canyon.

Published

Mass. ReviewTin HousePoetry NorthwestCopper CanyonCopper Canyon

Reviews

4.9from 4 verified reads

★ 5 · Manuscript swapJune 2026

We traded 40 pages and I rewrote my ending that week.

★ 5 · Manuscript swapApril 2026

Honest to the point of pain. Ask for it.

★ 5 · Manuscript swapMarch 2026

Read like an editor, wrote back like a friend.

★ 4 · Manuscript swapDecember 2025

Took the full 30 days. Notes were worth the wait.

Offers for RUINS · 62 pages

What do you want from this read? Two or three sentences. It goes with whichever offer you choose.

Manuscript swap

40 pages each way, notes both ways, 30 days.

Starts when you both accept

Free

Request a swap

How it works

Your payment is held by LitMatch and released when the letter arrives. If it doesn't, you're refunded.

The manuscript goes by email between the two of you. LitMatch never holds the file.

Every reader here is a named writer with a public record, and that record is on this page. Letters are written by them. A reader who has a machine write one is removed and you are refunded.

LitMatch

← All readers for RUINS

Your deskopen · one at a time

Your desk

Reader's Letter and swaps · poetry and fiction · 18 letters returned

In your words: I read for the shape of the whole thing and I tell you which twenty pages are the book.Edit

Waiting for you

2 requests · answer within 3 days or they lapse

Request · Reader's Letter

Mara Feldstein

Poet · Holyoke, MA

THE ORCHARD · poetry · 48 pages

You both appear in Fence.

Asked Monday · answer by Thursday

$120You receive $102
Due 3 weeks after you accept

Pass

FullNot my genreToo long

Accept

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Owen Castellane

Fiction writer · Amherst, MA

SALT YEAR · fiction · 210 pages

Came through UMass a year behind you.

Asked yesterday · answer by Friday

$420You receive $357
Due 4 weeks after you accept

Pass

FullNot my genreToo long

Accept

On your desk

1 read in progress

In progress · Reader's Letter

Dana Okafor

Poet · Brattleboro, VT

LITTLE MACHINES · poetry · 71 pages

Due in 9 days · $178 held by LitMatch

$151Released to you when
Dana receives the letter

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Reader's Letter

Poetry $2.50 a page · fiction $2 a page · a three-page letter · back in 3 weeks · one at a time

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Ten pages · $35

A one-page letter on a writer's first ten pages · back in 1 week · on by default

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18letters returned

94%on time

4.7from 3 reviews

$1,860earned this year

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PoetryFiction

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Three moves for new poems, read off the writers who publish where you have. Then the rooms reading now, the quiet ones, and the editors whose own work sits near yours.

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The TinyThe Tiny open

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Natural next homeJournal · Poetry

Oversound

Standing 595Affinity 842 writers connect you

The closest editorial neighbor to your record: same appetite for the language-first, slightly strange poem that Fence and jubilat took from you.

Priya publishes here, and so does a writer who shares Forklift, Ohio and jubilat with you. Two carriers is the floor for a move.

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Highest upsideJournal · Poetry

A Public Space

Standing 705Affinity 612 writers connect you

The strongest room above your ceiling that still reads like a fit on affinity alone. A credit here moves your number about 16 points and sets a new ceiling.

Teodor and Ines both appear here. Opens October 1. No fee.

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Poetry

Standing 815Affinity 582 writers · 1 editor

You would not have sent here, and the map says you should. Two of the four writers nearest you publish in it, and one of its editors publishes where you do.

Rosalind Achebe-Marr, a poetry editor there, has poems in Fence, jubilat, and Boston Review. Editors reading your kind of poem is the rarest evidence on the site.

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Three answers to different questions: the nearest room, the biggest room you can credibly reach, and the room you did not know you were connected to. Every move names the writers who carry it.

Reading now in your neighborhood

Oversoundno feecloses Oct 15open
Fence$5, you have published herecloses Sep 30open
The Tinyno fee, rollingyear roundopen
Poetryno feeyear roundopen
A Public Spaceno feeopens Oct 1soon
Copenhagenreads by invitationclosed

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Quiet rooms

The TinyInes, and one writer near herStanding 540
CopenhagenNoraStanding 634
The Quarterless ReviewPriya and InesStanding 601
Incessant PipeNoranew, no Standing yet

Smaller journals the writers near you publish in, and the wider field has not crowded into. Same evidence as the moves, fewer people at the door.

Editors whose own poems sit near yours

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Dov HalpernEditor at OversoundBoston Review Forklift, Ohio

An editor's own publication record, not a claim about who will read your envelope. When it repeats across journals you are in, it is the strongest evidence on the site.

Your sends 3

OversoundFive poems · sent Jul 28waiting37days
FenceThree poems · sent May 2accepted61days to answer
Boston ReviewFour poems · sent Mar 11declined94days to answer

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Fence$5, fiction and hybridcloses Sep 30open
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The Paris Reviewno fee, by post or portalyear roundopen

Your book

Three agentsrepresent writers who appear in Fence and Boston Reviewopen your book

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Five journals, 707.

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Your book

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Nora reads for structure and cuts and says where to send it. Ten pages for $35.

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Poets get presses. Four are one hop from your record, one is the same house as your strongest journal, and one is reading now.

Fiction writers get agents. Three represent writers who appear in Fence and Boston Review. One of them, through a writer near you, is two hops away.

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Theo BrandtTheo B.

Anaïs OkaforAnaïs O. open

a first novelfirst novel

The manuscriptFull-length collectionChapbookRUINS · 62 pages

Presses one hop from you

reopens springPress · Poetry

Fence Books

Same house as Fence3 poets in common

Fence Books publishes the poets Fence publishes. Closed to open submissions; reads by editor invitation and through the Fence Modern Poets Prize, which reopens in spring.

You are in the house: a Fence credit is the strongest single signal in this catalog. Nora and Teodor are here too.

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Omnidawn

Open through Oct 313 poets in common

Open reading period through October 31, $30 fee, first and second books both read. The most reachable open door on this page.

Three poets with books here publish in Fence and Boston Review. Two of them share two of your journals.

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not openPress · Poetry

Wave Books

Not open2 poets in common

Wave does not take unsolicited manuscripts; it announces occasional open periods to its list. Sign up and the page tells you when.

Two poets with Wave books publish in Fence and b l u s h. The Long Field, Nora’s first book, came out here in 2024.

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Presses are connected through their rosters: poets with books here who publish where you have. A roster is not a set of credits; sharing a publisher is a neighborhood, not a co-publication.

Further out

Factory Hollow Pressjubilat and Forklift, Ohio orbit · by invitation2 poets
Conduit Booksprize, open through Nov 3 · $251 poet
Copper Canyon Pressnot open · reads by invitation1 poet
Graywolf Pressnot open · through agents and prizes1 poet

Ordered by how much of your record the roster shares, with the biggest houses damped.

Book prizes in your neighborhood

Fence Modern Poets PrizeFence Books · reopens spring$25
Omnidawn Open BookOmnidawn · through Oct 31$30open
Conduit Book PrizeConduit Books · through Nov 3$25open
Copper Nickel Book Prizeprinted by Milkweed · Jan 15$25

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Agents whose clients publish where you have

Open to queriesAgent · Fiction

Mira Castellanos

Harbor & Vale Literary

3 of 14 clients connect youReviewed Aug 2026

Represents literary and upmarket fiction, story collections, and the occasional hybrid book. Sold four debuts in the last two years, two of them by writers who came up through journals like yours.

Three of her fourteen clients appear in Fence and Boston Review. One of them shares two of your journals; that is the two-hop path on the map.

Open Mira’s pageQuery ↗

Closed until Nov 1Agent · Fiction

Theo Brandt

Lantern Street Agency

2 clients connect youReviewed Jul 2026

Literary fiction, memoir, essays. Closed to queries until November 1; the page will say so the day it changes.

Two clients appear in Fence. Neither shares a second journal with you, so this is a one-carrier connection: real, but thinner than Mira’s.

Open Theo’s pageQuery ↗

Open to queriesAgent · Fiction

Anaïs Okafor

Meridian & Co.

1 client connects youReviewed Aug 2026

Debut literary fiction and story collections. Especially open to writers with a strong journal record and no book yet.

One client appears in Boston Review. A single carrier is a lead, not a move; it goes in the list because she says she wants exactly your record.

Open Anaïs’s pageQuery ↗

Agents are connected through their client lists: writers they represent who publish where you have. A query letter can name the shared room; that is what the path is for.

Where to send

Poetry is a hidden door.

Two of the four writers nearest you publish there, and an editor there publishes where you do.

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Manuscript Exchange

Get RUINS read first.

Four readers near you read full-length collections. Nora says where to send it.

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Journal · Poetry · Standing 815 · Hidden door

Poetry

Poetry · Founded 1912 · Chicago · Open year round

What it says about itself: The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world, open to every kind of poem and every kind of poet.

Why this is a hidden door

You have never sent here, and the map says you should. Two of the four writers nearest you, Nora and Priya, publish in it. And one of its poetry editors, Rosalind Achebe-Marr, publishes her own poems in Fence, jubilat, and Boston Review: three of your five rooms.

Affinity 58 on its own would not put Poetry on your list. The writers and the editor converging is what opens the door.

Editorial fingerprint

LyricalIntellectualPoliticalFormal

Leans toward

Poems with a clear occasion and a public voice
Range across schools in a single issue
Translation, and poems that argue
Work that reads well aloud

Less natural

Private, hermetic sequences
Purely procedural or visual work

Where the editors publish

The New Yorker 3 editors
American Poetry Review 3
Fence 1
jubilat 1
Boston Review 2
Kenyon Review 2

Rosalind Achebe-MarrPoetry editor · publishes in Fence, jubilat, Boston Review
taste overlap · 3 shared

Writers here also appear in

The New YorkerAmerican Poetry ReviewThe Paris ReviewFenceBoston ReviewjubilatKenyon Review

Standing

815Standing

Rank 2 of 344 poetry journals. Likely range 780 to 845. Stable.

Submissions

Open year round

No fee. Up to four poems through the portal. Response in about six months; the writers here who logged a send waited 148 days on average.

Checked Aug 20, 2026 against the journal's own page.

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If it lands

Your number moves from 707 to about 843. Poetry would become the anchor and Fence the second room; the four rooms below it add a little each.

Where you place matters more than how much; one credit here outweighs three at 600.

Writers near you here

Nora Halvorsenshares Fence and jubilat with you
reads on the Exchange
Priya Venkataramanshares jubilat and Forklift, Ohio with you
reads on the Exchange

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Writer · Poetry · 7 publications

Nora Halvorsen

Poet · UMass Amherst MFA · One book

Where you overlap: Fence and jubilat. Nora reaches Poetry and Copenhagen, two rooms you have not been in.

Publications

PoetryStanding 815
The Paris ReviewStanding 758
FenceStanding 685 · you too
The Massachusetts ReviewStanding 640
CopenhagenStanding 634
jubilatStanding 603 · you too
PloughsharesStanding 745

Every credit names its source: contributor notes, tables of contents, and the journal's own pages. Nora has claimed this record and can correct it.

Books

The Long Field Wave Books · 2024

Program

UMass Amherst MFA poetry

Writers near Nora

Priya Venkataramanshares jubilat and Poetry
2 shared
Teodor Lindqvistshares Fence
1 shared
youshare Fence and jubilat
2 shared

On the Exchange

Nora reads chapbooks and full-length collections for structure and cuts, and says where to send them. Back in three weeks.

Her reader page

Press and agent

Wave Books, through its open period in 2022. No agent: poets rarely have one, and Nora's book path ran through the press directly.

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Agent · Fiction · Open to queries

Mira Castellanos

Harbor & Vale Literary · New York · Reviewed Aug 2026

How you connect: three of her fourteen clients appear in Fence and Boston Review. One of them shares two of your journals, which puts her two hops from you.

What she is looking for

Literary and upmarket fiction, linked stories, and the occasional book that will not sit still in one genre. In her words: a voice that could only belong to one person, and a plot that makes me late for things.

Literary novelStory collectionUpmarketHybrid

Clients who publish where you have

a writer near youFence, Boston Review, and four more
2 shared
a second clientFence and Granta
1 shared
a third clientBoston Review and Tin House
1 shared

Eleven more clients are on her list; eight have a publication history mapped. Names appear once the writers claim their records.

Books she sold

A first novel Graywolf · 2025
A story collection Tin House · 2024
A second novel Riverhead · 2024
A first novel Coffee House · 2023

Queries

Open to queries

Query letter and first ten pages through the agency form. Responds within eight weeks or not at all; she says so on the page.

Checked Aug 28, 2026 against the agency's own page.

Query ↗Agency page ↗

Use the path

A query can name the shared room. "My stories have appeared in Fence and Boston Review, where your client also publishes" is a sentence an agent reads to the end.

Nearby agents

Theo Brandt Lantern Street · closed until Nov 1
Anaïs Okafor Meridian & Co. · open

Your book ranks them for your record.

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Editor · Poetry editor at Poetry · Also a poet

Rosalind Achebe-Marr

Poetry editor, Poetry · Poet · Two books

Taste overlap: her own poems appear in Fence, jubilat, and Boston Review. Three of your five rooms. That is why Poetry is your hidden door.

Where she publishes

Fenceyou too
jubilatyou too
Boston Reviewyou too
American Poetry ReviewStanding 815
The Brooklyn RailStanding 610

Credits from the masthead note and her own site, each with a source. Editors publish too; where they publish is the taste the journal reads with.

Books

A second collection Omnidawn · 2023
A first collection Fence Books · 2019

Where she reads

PoetryPoetry editor since 2023 · Standing 815 · open year round
open

What this means

An editor's own credits are the rarest evidence on the site. They are not a promise that she reads your envelope, and they are not a personal connection. They are the taste the room is read with, written down.

Masthead checked Aug 20, 2026.

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Book · Poetry · First book

The Long Field

Nora Halvorsen · Wave Books · 2024 · 74 pages

How it got there: Wave took it in the 2022 open period, the first one in three years. Six of the poems had appeared in Fence and Poetry first.

The path

2019 to 2022 poems in jubilat, Fence, Copenhagen, Poetry
Spring 2022 Wave Books open reading period, no fee
Fall 2022 taken; two other presses had it under consideration
March 2024 published

Timelines come from the writer's own claimed record. LitMatch does not infer dates it was not given.

Poems from it appeared in

FencePoetryjubilatCopenhagen

The writer

Nora Halvorsenshares Fence and jubilat with you
reads on the Exchange

The press

Wave Books, Seattle. Not open now; announces occasional reading periods to its list. Two poets with Wave books publish where you have.

Presses for your book

Other first books from this press

a first book 2023 · poems first in Boston Review and b l u s h
a first book 2022 · poems first in jubilat and Volt

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