A New Way to Submit Your Best Writing to Contests and Publications

Duotrope’s free submission tracker takes on Submittable

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“How to Track Your Literary Submissions” on The Writing Cooperative provides many details related to the top two submission trackers for writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry — Submittable and Duotrope. Recently Duotrope introduced its new submission platform, Duosuma, which not only allows writers to submit directly to publications but can integrate with the Duotrope tracker. This development has the potential to make Duotrope a much more comprehensive competitor to Submittable, which has provided publishers with an intuitive submission platform — and a highly preferred option to email submissions — over the past decade.

The submission tracker on both Submittable and Duotrope lists every piece you’ve submitted using the individual platform. Since Submittable is also a submission platform, the status of each of your submissions is automatically updated when a publication sends you an acceptance or a rejection. Now, through Duosuma, Duotrope also offers that same feature, which means you no longer have to update each of your submissions manually as long as your submissions are made via Duosuma — and you sign up for the Duotrope $5/month or $50/year subscription. The subscription provides access to a number of…