Poetry
The Weight of Names
Write a poem exploring the significance of a name — yours, someone else's, or an imagined one.
Share Your Work
A community-first place to share news and practice craft.
Library Agents isn't a publisher or literary magazine. We're a members' community — submit your news for our weekly roundup, respond to prompts, and share what you're reading.
Where you can contribute
Three ways to share with the community.
Author News
Submit launches, awards, and new publications for our weekly community roundup and social sharing. Editors select what goes out each week.
Writing Prompts
New prompts every week. Members can submit responses for possible inclusion in the community prompt showcase.
Reading Recommendations
Members can nominate books — their own or others' — for the community reading list shared with our subscribers.
Member submissions
Share work as a member.
Members submit news, prompt responses, and reading recommendations by email to our editors. The Library Agents editorial team reviews submissions weekly and labels published items clearly.
See membershipSubmission Guidelines
Straightforward and honest.
- News submissions: title, publisher (if any), release/award date, cover or headshot, and a short blurb (150 words max)
- Prompt responses: 500 words max for prose, up to 3 poems, original work only
- Include a short third-person bio (75 words max) with your submission
- Turnaround: news items considered weekly; prompt responses reviewed monthly
- We're a small community platform — not every submission runs, and we don't offer payment or editing services
Weekly Practice
Writing Prompts
New prompts every Monday from our editors and guest writers. Members can submit responses for the community showcase.
Fiction
The Last Bookshop
A small-town bookshop owner discovers a handwritten manuscript hidden in a donated box of old books.
Creative Nonfiction
Cartography of Home
Draw a map of a place you once called home — not as it was, but as you remember it. Then write an essay navigating that map.