Where have you been published?

I used to have poetry published fairly often, considering how little effort I put into it. I was in a poetry group that was pretty popular hereabouts, and a few of the members were really dedicated to publication, so I ended up in the same anthologies, collections, and books as my capital-P Poet friends. Had a few poems in Minnesota Parent, Wind magazine, Flying Island, plus a few collections. It was nice but not something I can see myself being devoted to…too much trouble for no payback. I’d much rather be published posthumously, and let someone else do the work. :slight_smile:

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I don’t know why photography wouldn’t count.
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I’ll vote accordingly then. I wasn’t sure if the OP was just looking for writers or not.

Add me in for photography as well. I’m based in London so been in most of the UKs newspapers, but also in NY Herald, Sydney something or rather, a bunch of Eastern European papers that pay peanuts, a few magazines and trade mags, a gerzillion websites including the front page of the BBC site a few times, the centre fold in a number 1 selling album and probably a few other things I now forget. It’s nice to see but I’m still yet to pick up a paper or magazine and just discover one of my pictures which would be nice. Instead someone always has to tell me first. And far too often is the credit left off or my name misspelt.

I have co-authored two IT books - one with Osborne/McGraw-Hill and one with Oracle Press. I received royalties on the first and straight payment for the second. I think I came out ahead by not getting royalties…

Bback when the earth was still cooling, I was a staff reporter for the daily rag in a city I used to live in, so plenty of stories of all kinds in three years.

One story got picked up by UPI. I’ve since forgotten the name of the business, but thieves broke into a local commercial bakery and took $800 worth of the most killer cheesecakes I’ve ever tasted. That’s all they took: cheesecakes. Bashed in a door, backed up a truck, loaded up and off they went.

I got a whopping $30.00 for my tale. :smiley:

My Others are:

Several posters and academic presentations. While definitely not as prestigious as an article, it counts as “published” for purposes of “cannot repackage in article format and submit this for publication”.

For corporate manuals, corporate webpages.

For non-serious Stuff, a couple of MUDs and several fanzines. I normally wrote for one fanzine, but a piece about Howard Chaykin’s completely assholic behavior during a Setmana del Cómic got printed or re-printed by half a dozen more.

I used to write fiction and non-fiction for a small group of local newspapers, including a weekly column (1981-1986). Then my wife and I published a local magazine for around nine and a half years that I contributed to regularly (2001-2011). I’m back now to writing a monthly fiction column for a local newspaper. A few of my “Report From Potter’s Point” columns were republished in Teemings. (I created the little New England town of Potter’s Point in 1984 and have been writing about it ever since. After 200 or more installments following a regular cast of characters, I have just started work on a mystery novel set there.)

My full-time job for the last sixteen years has included the writing of lots of promotional press releases that have been published in many newspapers and periodicals.

And many years ago a couple of children’s play I wrote were produced by local theater groups.

I’ve blogged, too, but not much.

Forgot to ask - do translations count?
Other than what I wrote above, I translated several technical manuals from German to English that were later used for everything from electrical household products to aspects of nuclear generators.

I might add that translation of technical manuals is a royal pain in the ass to do - multiple ways to translate some sentences, some words have no direct translation and often there are idioms that don’t translate well. The good news is that you get paid top dollar to translate technical crap, and when you are finished, it really is “your” work.

I just sent my 100th article off to an editor. There is a bit of duplication (one of them was a research announcement, then published in the proceedings of the International Mathematical Union where I was an invited speaker, and then a long (> 100 pages) article with all details, but I think that represents at least 90 distinct papers. Then three books. The first one I got royalties on but when it went out of print I posted it gratis. The second one has been reprinted twice and when they sell out the third edition I will post that too. I collected some royalties on that (and, in principle, could collect more). The third (which is based on a lot of life’s most important work) will likely never sell out (sigh). But if it did, I would post it too. That one pays no royalties.

I’d say that photographs and translations should count.