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Congratulations to Marjorie Tesser! Marjorie's collection, The important thing is., is the winner of the Firewheel Chapbook Award winner.
I am proud and excited that my collection, This Stranger She'd Invited In, placed as a finalist alongside:
(Hello again, Molly!) Congratulations to all!
The first issue of Melusine, or Woman in the 21st Century, is posted. New Fiction from: Yu-Han Chao, Alison Hicks, Marilyn Harris Kriegl, and Jac Jemc.
New Poetry from: Corrine De Winter, Barbara Daniels, Susana Slaviero, Lyn Lifshin, Lori Lamothe, Kristine Snodgrass & Maureen Seaton, Juliet Cook, Melissa Culbertson, Margarita Engle, Irene Sherlock, Kylie Gordon, Marian Brown St. Onge, Marla Cordle, Jane Herschlag, Lois Bassen, Suzanne Roberts, Melissa Carl, Whitney Vaughan, and Rachel McKibbens.
New Non-fiction from: Tara L. Masih, Arlene L. Mandell, Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, and Tessa Dratt.
Reviews from Ann Cefola, Juliet Cook, Karen Rigby, and Melissa Crandell.
There's also an interview with pretty Lyn Lifshin.
Give a new magazine some support. Check it out.
Well, I'm a few days behind what with my internet abstinence, but have you seen the new issue of Lamination Colony? It is as if a Rubik's Cube and that color tester tv screen had a baby and that baby was born and started saying amazing things! There are 100 boxes and 38 writers and over 60 pieces. There is Kim Chinquee, Adam Robinson, Ben Mirov, DS White, Matthew Salesses, Blaster Al Ackerman, M.T. Fallon, Adam Good, Stephanie Barber, J.A. Tyler, Catherine Moran, Cooper Renner, Luca Dipierro, Amanda Raczkowski, Rupert Wondolowski, Whitney Woolf, Lauren Becker, Michael Bible, Robert Swartwood, Darcelle Bleau, Robert Bradley, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Aimee Lynn-Hirschowitz, Shane Jones, Conor Madigan, Krammer Abrahams, Shatera Davenport, Jordan Sanderson, Stacie Leatherman, Josh Maday, Joseph Young, Jason Jones, Gena Mohwish, Jen Michalski, Aby Kaupang, Jac Jemc, Karen Lillis, and Justin Sirois.
Hello there. I am back from internet vacation. I got some good work done. I got a couple rejections. I got a piece accepted that I'd withdrawn. I got rained on a bunch. I got a little sanity back.
The first rejection was from Copper Nickel, whom I lo-o-o-o-o-ve. It was the first personal-ish rejection I got from them. So that's cool.
The second rejection was from Stones Throw. Tami said she enjoyed reading the poems I sent, but had to say no. Okey-doke.
The acceptance was from Anemone Sidecar and they were very gracious when I reminded them that I'd already withdrawn that piece, asking me to send more work for the next issue.
All in all, not too much happens when you're MIA. I recommend such a hiatus to all. It was sort of great to only be alive one way for a minute. No I am back to my many-faced self.
I'll be away from the internet for one week. See ya April 2nd.
Thanks to Colin Bassett of bearcreekfeed for nominating my story, "The Tackiness of Souls," for a Million Writers Award. Everyone should go to the Story South page and nominate everyone else for an award. You can do this until March 31st. Do it.
I received a form rejection from Willow Springs today, which was actually nice because I think the last 3 submissions I have sent them, I've had to withdraw.
You should submit to Our Stories. Our submission period closes on March 31st and we're pretty prompt right now, so you can probably expect a response in the next few days. Not to mention the fact that with Our Stories you always get at least a paragraph of feedback, so there's a good chance you'll see how I dish out a rejection.
Also, you should come out on April Fool's Day to the 5th Anniversary Show of the Rec Room. The theme is "Five Alive." These fabulous people will be reading:
Ploughshares sent a rejection for a story via email. I only had to wait about three months for that one - not bad.
I have run out of things to say about anonymous form rejections.
So instead I will tell you about my new bike. It is my mom's old bike and it has Jacques Anquetil stickers all over it. I think it is from 1971. It's pretty good looking. The mount for a child seat is still hanging out on the back. I think I'm gonna strap a basket on it. If my friend ever gets here, I'm going to take it to Uptown Bikes and have them put a new tube in the front tire and maybe get new brake cables and a new 'saddle' (saddle being the hip term bicyclists call their seat, some lingo which was forced upon me yesterday).
Also, I am at this moment listening to the song, "I Don't Know Much," performed by Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville.
Happy Sunday afternoon, my friends.
I got a nice little form letter from the kind people at Birkensnake.
It's not like I'm surprised that Stanford doesn't want to pay me to write there for 2 years. I wasn't going to apply because the deadline snuck up on me and I figured it was pretty much the slimmest chance that ever was anyway, but then they extended the deadline, and I'm a sucker for interpreting coincidences like that as some powerful work of fate.
Here's what does bother me a little: I got an email rejection. How much money did I send them as an application fee? $50 I think. Send me a little souvenir piece of paper of my youthful folly. Then I can put it into the Ruth Bader Ginsburg folder where I keep all of my other rejections, including last year's Stegner rejection which at least featured a photocopy of Eavan Boland's signature.