Twenty-five literary agents represented over 50% of the major prize-winning novels in the 21st century. That's cartel level corruption and control, especially when there is a 0% chance any of us could get our work in front of any of those agents.
Donโt be a reader, be someone who wants to live so fully, wants to transform the world so much that, without reading the most important books ever, it wouldnโt be possible.
Did BookTok need manifestos, movements, and leaders to kick-start its literary renaissance? Nope, through collective action and decentralized command, with the leader being the books they loved, HUNDREDS of millions of books have been sold, because teenagers, moms, and grandmas all came together and PUSHED them IRL and online.
Being a successful writer in 2026 isnโt going to be about practicing writing or self-promoting, it will be about what you select to improve, and its correlation with the psychic need of readers who are starving for great literature.
Donโt worry about being better than the GOATs, that will get you nowhere anymore. Worry about transcending your logical shell and pride, and using that freedom to interface with your readers through words in a way that will do the same for them.
So, letโs rephrase it: You donโt care enough about your writing to make it better or figure out ways to make people interested in you before they read your piece, so they donโt enter it in scan mode.
Writers who say โI donโt care about monetizing my workโ donโt realize, that your work becomes monetizable when people care enough to stop being scanners that hit the like button out of pity, and start reading your work so deeply that it rocks their world, and they just have to
I am starting my literary magazine to clear ground for writers after decades of the workshop voice, the literary virus, dominating literature. Things are so bad that poets are returning to form again, and fiction writers to minimalism ๐คฃ
New readers donโt need to be awakened into literature through the logical linguistic literary Olympics of the past few centuries, as it primes them to worship the mind, instead of FEEL the deep waters below, darkness above, and the abandoned steel mill on the edge of town.
The literary renaissance is about to wreck the entire NYC publishing industrial complex and all the nepo cronies corrupting the true power of literature.
Youโve belittled the existence of the men and women who live in the trees, who write about the wind, and shoved unsymbolic industry plants down our throats for over a century.