A Goodreads user asked Amanda Sun:

How did you go about publishing your short stories in anthologies? Did you have an agent when you submitted the stories? If not, how did you find anthologies to submit to?

Amanda Sun I didn't have an agent yet when I submitted short stories for Tesseracts Fifteen and for Playthings of the Gods. Usually for short story or anthology submissions you can submit directly without representation.

Tesseracts was recommended to me by a friend--she was on their mailing list and heard they were doing a YA anthology, so sent me the call for submissions. I honestly can't remember how I found the now closed small press Drollerie. I think because they published a lot of mythology-based work, I'd been intrigued by them earlier on.

I do recommend Writer's Digest's Short Story Writer's Market, which I believe is updated every year. There are also lots of places you can search online for lists of anthologies accepting work.

Thanks for your question! :)

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