Cover Letter Template for literary journals

When submitting your stories, poems, nonfiction, or other creative writing to literary journals and magazines, you often need a cover letter. But this shouldn't be a nerve-racking experience or difficult task each time you submit.

Start with a cover letter template: 

• can be customized to each submission
• includes helpful placeholders for important information
• provides an example of a writer's bio 
• gives guidance for what not to do

Why this template?

I've used this template to submit over 600 times since 2015 and earn publications from 6-word stories online to award-winning fiction in print.