How to Keep Track of Your Submissions

Posted on by P. A. Harper

Wether you’re a writer, an artists, a businesses, or other grant seeker, find out how to keep track of your submissions here.

Jamie Todd Rubin’s Free Story Submission Tracker Spreadsheet

I love this free submission’s tracker, and not because it’s free, but because you can adapt it to your needs no matter what your submitting and need to keep track of because it is customizable. I use it for tracking fellowship, grant, publishing submissions. It’s my top choice.

My Story Submission Tracker Google Spreadsheet is now Freely Available

Query Tracker

Query Tracker, is a free online tool dedicated to helping writers find literary agents. If you’re a writer, this is a great tool for the shared collective knowledge.

https://querytracker.net/

The free version includes:

  • List of top literary agents and publishers.
  • Tools to keep your queries organized.
  • Access to the searchable database of agents and publishers
  • The ability to track queries
  • Basic Search Filters
  • The benefit from the collective knowledge of thousands of other writers, enduring the query process just like you.

The premium is $25 per year, and version includes all the benefits of the free version plus:

  • Advanced Search Filters
  • Filter Your Query List based on the Status of the Query
  • Number of folders available
  • Number of projects available
  • Assign priority values to queries
  • Add private agents and publishers to the database
  • Access to the Data Explorer
  • Access to the Agent Query Timeline
  • Access to the Member Timeline
  • Access to the Agent Reply Data
  • Access to the Comment Feed
  • Access to Premium Reports
  • Archive old queries to keep your query list clean and organized
  • Export Query Lists
  • Print Query Lists

Duotrope

Duotrope is another submissions tracker, it doesn’t have a free version, but do offer a free trial period. However, you can also use it find publishers of visual art, including photography, and poetry. The cost of an annual subscription is $50.00 for your. https://duotrope.com

They also run a contest of sponsorship, consisting of two-year Duotrope Gift Certificates (a USD $100 value) for the First Place winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art categories (excluding translations and scripts/plays). They promote the contest while it is running in both the weekly (members-only) and monthly (non-member) versions of their e-mail newsletter, which currently have over 54,000 subscribers combined. https://duotrope.com/sponsorship/