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It changed name to writer s digest with the march 1921 issue. Write down the contact information of publishers pertaining to your genre. For more than 90 years, the experts at writers digest have been publishing. In most cases, you can send submissions in the form of essays and poems via the internet, however book manuscripts should be sent via the post office. Writers digest is searching for the best selfpublished books of the past few years. The books published by the publishers on this list currently qualify for.
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