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I could blog about publishing and web journalism news all day, but that won't help anybody learn how to write better. Today, I have a couple new publications and writers for your reading, submitting, and thinking pleasure.

Last night I discovered the literary magazine Saltgrass, edited by blogger and writer Julia Cohen. They are a brand-new project mixing unknown poets with established writers--a virtual laboratory for fledgling authors like ourselves. Check out the Submission Guidelines and pick up a $5 issue for more information.

Then, Ed Park and Richard Grayson are guest blogging for Ed Champion this week. Ed Park blogged about a mystery publication called The New York Ghost. Maybe it's an incredible new magazine, maybe a fiendish trap. Either way, I subscribed.

Then, Grayson blogged about Peter Cherches, a New York writer with some great memories about his days as a struggling writer. Read it for some inspiration to get you through the next rejection letter or unanswered magazine query. Check it out:

"Long before I reinvented myself as a food and travel blogger, long before there were blogs, I was a “downtown” writer and performance artist. The recent publication of the anthology Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 (NYU Press) has inspired this reminiscence. Over the years I’ve published fiction and other short prose pieces (which some choose to call prose poems) in many literary magazines, most with pretty small circulations..."