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Erik Harper Klass

Erik Harper Klass

A Guide for the Formattingly Perplexed

How to Correctly Format Your Work for Literary Journals

7 min readFeb 10, 2024

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A Guide for the Formattingly Perplexed

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Erik Harper Klass

Why the Author (Usually (but Not Always)) Eschews Nested Square Brackets

And why you should too!

8 min readApr 21, 2023

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Why the Author (Usually (but Not Always)) Eschews Nested Square Brackets

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Erik Harper Klass
in
The Writing Cooperative

Glass, Fire, and Siamese Lambs

How Field Research Can Improve Your Writing

7 min readJul 8, 2022

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Glass, Fire, and Siamese Lambs

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Erik Harper Klass

How I Made $0.02/Hour as a Writer

And how you can too!

6 min readJan 16, 2022

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How I Made $0.02/Hour as a Writer

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Erik Harper Klass
in
The Writing Cooperative

The (Usually-but-Not-Always-Unacceptable) Comma Splice

With the (unasked for) help of Jonathan Lethem

7 min readNov 25, 2021

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The (Usually-but-Not-Always-Unacceptable) Comma Splice

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Erik Harper Klass
in
The Writing Cooperative

The Art of Timing Your Submissions to Literary Journals

Get your stories or essays published using a two-round approach

6 min readAug 23, 2021

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The Art of Timing Your Submissions to Literary Journals

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Erik Harper Klass
in
The Writing Cooperative

Punctuation Fun with Ulysses and Infinite Jest

Improve your writing by learning how to (actually) use ellipses and em-dashes

7 min readMay 2, 2021

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Punctuation Fun with Ulysses and Infinite Jest

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Erik Harper Klass
in
The Writing Cooperative

What I Learned About Writing After Reading 1,000 Stories Last Year

Eight writing tips that will help you get your work published in the best literary journals

13 min readFeb 13, 2021

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What I Learned About Writing After Reading 1,000 Stories Last Year

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Erik Harper Klass

The Grammar Rule Only Copyeditors Know

This essay is 100% apolitical. I promise. (It’s about hyphens and dashes.)

6 min readDec 12, 2020

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The Grammar Rule Only Copyeditors Know

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Erik Harper Klass

Zen and the Art of Getting Rejected

How reframing short story rejections can lead to publishing success

6 min readNov 14, 2020

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Zen and the Art of Getting Rejected

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Erik Harper Klass

Erik Harper Klass

Erik runs a full-service submissions company called Submitit: www.submititnow.com. Email: klassology@gmail.com; Twitter/IG: @Submitit_Now; FB: @SubmititNow.

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