This course is for the students who already have a few polished pieces (poems, a short story or a creative nonfiction piece) they can submit for publication, with a few more pieces in progress. The course is aimed at learning about the landscape of publishing online and in print, focusing mainly on independent literary journals. Students format their pieces, write short bios and cover letters, and send their manuscripts out into the world. They also get some behind-the-scenes experience: they work as contributing editors of Germinate; they talk to editors of small presses and literary journals, and they put together concepts for their own journals.