Welcome

Literate-Ly Magazine is a bi-monthly literary magazine. Literate-Ly Magazine: From Reviews to Literary News, From History to Her-Story, Built to educate & Promote Authors. 

The current issue is always located at https://essenceenterpriseus.com/literate-ly-current-issue

The issues run as follows:

January to February

March to April

May to June

July to August

September to October

November to December

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 The purpose of Literate-Ly Magazine is to recognize authors and their work, expose new reads for readers, allow authors and literary professionals share their work and experience, and to educate authors of all levels and experience. All contributors get a discount ($15) of a full page of Advertising Space for one year (Contributors are Author Spotlight, Author Interviews, Short Stories, or Articles). Any reviews or book information that are included in the magazine do not count for contribution, as they are randomly selected to be in the magazine. 

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The mission of Literate-Ly Magazine is to educate, entertain, inform, and promote authors and other literary professionals.

Amy will contact authors who want to be in the Author Spotlight directly. You can get an interview by request, but Amy will contact who she wants to do an author spotlight on.  The author only needs to supply their author photo or image of their brand, and their biography, along with any links for social media. The deceased authors spotlight and interview will continue. 

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Author Interviews can be requested by the author, or may be contacted by Amy Shannon directly.  Author interviews have up to 3 author interviews per issue, but that number can also increase in case of interest. All contributors get a discount for a Full page AD for a full year (6 issues), for only $15. Authors can send up to 3 photos to be included in their interview in the magazine.  The deceased authors spotlight and interview will continue. 

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Amy's Bookshelf Reviews posts reviews and information about the book that has been reviewed. Each issue (as of 2025), will have two selected Amy's Pick of the Month Books, and instead of just reviews, a select few genres that provide the review, the book's information, and where to buy the book. 

The Genre Categories are:

Out of this World 

Thrillers and Chillers

The Gritty Gumshoes

Fantasy and Fairytales

Historical Fiction

True Crime Titles

Children/YA Titles

Poetry

Memoir

Anthologies

The reviews from Amy's Bookshelf Reviews, will now be limited to specific genres (these genres may change from issue to issue), depending on the books that were read, reviewed and posted in the previous months before the issue on Amy's Bookshelf Reviews. 

Authors who are interviewed (with interviews accepted AFTER January 1 2025) will no longer get a free full page 8x10 Ad. Instead, they will get a discount AD for $15 which will stay in the magazine for 6 issues (one year). Even if their interview is a few issues down the road, the AD will go automatically into the next issue of the magazine. 

Regular Advertising is now all full page Ads, 8X10 Portrait, with a QR Code. For 3 issues, (6 months) it's $15, and for a year (6 issues) it's $25. Anyone who purchases an Ad, their Ad will also go in the advertisement magazine, Bookly Litvertise for 3-months for free. If they want it longer, then there are various fees for that magazine (it goes live January 1, and it a monthly magazine). 

If you are a business and want an annual advertisement, you can be invoiced with recurring payments for each year. If you wish to do it annually, you can get a 15% discount for the first year ($21.25). 

Accepting Author Contributions (free to contribute)*

• Articles about writing
• Short Stories
• Expert Articles
• Writing 101

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Articles about writing or expert articles should be no less than 500 words and no more than 1500 words

Short Stories should be no less than 500 words and no more than 5000.

Writing 101 should be no less than 500 words and no more than 5000.

Writing Tips should be more than 10 but less than 200 words
 

​The contributions listed above can be in a Text or Word document, and you can add up three images for the articles, and one for the short story contribution. 

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Want to contribute? Fill out the form below and give me your "elevator pitch"

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*There is no compensation for being a contributor except for being a contributor. However, all authors of an article get a byline. The author of the article's name, Business Name, and website. All are italicized at the end of the article. The Title will also say "by ... author name."

If an author wants the magazine to print any of their poetry in the magazine, there will be a small fee of $10 per three poems. If you're interested, just send me an email. 

 This page will have some writing tips, or an "if I knew then, what I know now about ..." (writing, publishing, etc) section.

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Authors can contribute by filling out the form below and selecting "Writing Tip" and the author will receive a response to get the information about the tip or "if I knew then, what I know now about ..." segment. Repeat tips will not be posted. Authors will be informed if their tip is selected and what issue that will be released in.

 This section will featured a read and reviewed banned book (by Amy's Bookshelf Reviews) , and its information.  

The section will feature an article written by Amy Shannon or a contributing author. It may also feature some information that is important to literary professionals.  

Writing 101

The section will share knowledge and information about writing in general, teach writers something the didn't know, or share experiences with character or plot development. (Contributors also welcome).

Writing Challenges

Sometimes the magazine will have an issue with a writing challenge, and then ask the writer to share their challenge with the magazine, and it will be published.