Getting It Published

Have questions about getting your work ready to submit or about the publishing industry in general? Join Nimrod International Journal‘s editor-in-chief, Eilis O’Neal, and associate editor, Cassidy McCants, for answers about anything and everything publishing. Editing, revising, the role of literary agents, writing query letters, traditional vs. small press vs. self-publishing, using social media – it’s all on the table in this open Q&A session!

Nimrod International Journal is published twice a year by The University of Tulsa. Since its founding in 1956, its mission has been the discovery, development and promotion of new and diverse writing. Nimrod publishes short fiction, short creative nonfiction and poetry.

Cassidy McCants received her M.F.A. in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is an associate editor with Nimrod and is the creator/editor of Apple in the Dark. Her work has appeared in The Lascaux Review, Liars’ League NYC, Gravel and elsewhere. She won the 2020 Innovative Short Fiction Contest from The Conium Review.

Eilis O’Neal has worked at Nimrod for over twenty years and is currently the journal’s editor-in-chief. She is also the author of the young adult fantasy novel The False Princess, and her short fantasy has appeared in Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and other publications.