Database VS Print
Stop! Don't buy that 500 page directory of poet publishing resources! Consider purchasing a membership to the online version first.
I'm big on databases because:
- database searching is more time efficient than reading with a highlighter
- you specifically search markets that your writing style
- the information is updated on a regular basis as opposed to annually
- the results allow for "click-throughs" to web sites
- each search starts clean without dog-ears, highlights for a previous writing subject or slashes for out-of-date info
Are you sold?
The Writer's Market is the biggest database I know of, but being Canadian means that it is more difficult to find all of the Canadian resources listed there. http://www.writersmarket.com
The Canadian League of Poets has launched an online Poetry Market "database" and you can get yourself a username and password to it by calling 416-504-1657 and paying $20.00 CAN for the year.
This small fee gives you access to over 80 Canadian poetry periodicals, over 100 US periodicals and 85 international periodicals. You will be able to search over 130 Canadian reading venues and festivals and over 50 Canadian book publishers. However the database is not searchable. It is really just a list of resources.
Check it out http://www.youngpoets.ca/markets/
I'm big on databases because:
- database searching is more time efficient than reading with a highlighter
- you specifically search markets that your writing style
- the information is updated on a regular basis as opposed to annually
- the results allow for "click-throughs" to web sites
- each search starts clean without dog-ears, highlights for a previous writing subject or slashes for out-of-date info
Are you sold?
The Writer's Market is the biggest database I know of, but being Canadian means that it is more difficult to find all of the Canadian resources listed there. http://www.writersmarket.com
The Canadian League of Poets has launched an online Poetry Market "database" and you can get yourself a username and password to it by calling 416-504-1657 and paying $20.00 CAN for the year.
This small fee gives you access to over 80 Canadian poetry periodicals, over 100 US periodicals and 85 international periodicals. You will be able to search over 130 Canadian reading venues and festivals and over 50 Canadian book publishers. However the database is not searchable. It is really just a list of resources.
Check it out http://www.youngpoets.ca/markets/