text: i am an amateur writer and need professionals like authors and publishers of  literature materials as sponsors i write novels,poems,essays,short stories and plays. go  to any good book store..barnes and noble, books-a-million, to name a couple.  ask for the writer's market book and buy it.  it will answer your questions..you can email the publisher. the book  tells you thousands of magazines and publishers who are looking for you..what thay want, how they want it and what they pay..most important, how to get their attention and sell them your poems, novels, articles, etc.