September lit mag brag!
Come on out and brag your lit mags!
Welcome to our weekend conversation!
My dear friends, it appears we have once again stumbled, fumbled, bumbled, cartwheeled, catapulted, crept and/or schlepped our way to the end of another month!
If you’re a seasoned vet around these parts, then you know just what this means. If you are brand new here, welcome.
The end of each month is a space dedicated to all of you. It’s to celebrate your hard work, your perseverance, your refusal to give up, your passion and persistence. If you’ve published work in a lit mag this past month, please tell us all about it.
Where did the work appear? Share the link!
How did you find out about this magazine?
Was the piece rejected many times before it found its splendid little home?
Did the editors work with you on revisions?
Did you revise as you submitted or was it done and out the door?
Are you pleased with the final product?
Don’t be shy now! We want to celebrate with you, read your work, and we want to discover great places for our work too.
So please, step right up, come on out and brag your lit mag!
This month saw one acceptance: a poem, “My Mother Could Write Lines for Fortune Cookies,” by ONE ART (Thanks, @MarkDanowsky!). I’d been trying to get into this lit mag since May 2023 with submission of 30 poems altogether. This one required a revision of the last stanza. It will appear next month. I learned about this lit mag from Lit Mag News.
My poem, “Dance Lessons,” appeared in the 1970s-themed issue of Moss Piglet, my first time in this lit mag that I learned about in Lit Mag News. I didn’t submit this anywhere else (I pulled it out of inventory for the theme) and didn’t need to revise.
So, so many rejections this month. But I did get a few personal rejections, naming my short story or poem that almost made it, and asking me to send more work.
The story just came out recently in the Sewanee Review. There were minimal edits that the editors did, but I usually send in heavily revised work over months, so there wasn’t too much revision to be done luckily. It’s sort of a precursor novel that I’m going to be starting on.
https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/ganges-hudson