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.
Congratulations, Barbara, and thanks for sharing about submitting many times to One Art. Just a few days ago, I got my third rejection from them, though Mark did say, "I look forward to reading more of your poems in the future." I'll take that as encouragement to persevere. :-)
Thanks, Anne. I kept telling myself this would be the last time I'd submit, but then I'd send more poems every two months. Thanks, @MarkDanowsky, for your constant encouragement.
Congratulations on being accepted by One Art. Such a great platform. I’ve been there in the past, along with a boatload of rejections. Totally worth it.
Mazel tov on your acceptances! I had a piece in ONE ART earlier this year and Mark was wonderful to work with. I love your title and can't wait to read it.
I love Moss Piglet for that. I have written several pieces that are thoughtful for them, but not ones I've spent weeks on, and they are a respectful, fun venue.
Once upon a time (in 2022 or 2023), I submitted to Moss Piglet and the editors never ever replied. Ah-hah! These folks are still publishing! Good for you!
Congrats!! Can relate to the many rejections, but it does ease the pain when you get a more personal rejection with an invite to submit again. Wishing you luck in your future submissions!!
Thanks, John. I just wish Duotrope had a way to search within its submission manager for "Try us again." It's in the notes, but I don't think I can search within notes. Oh, well. Another case for managing submissions through a spreadsheet.
I have asked - there is a way to send them suggestions - and I have just forgotten how I did it, but I think it was via the submissions tracking page. YES! Okay, found it... If you click on "Guide to Using this Page" on the Submission Tracking Page (the Guide is top right) and you scroll to end of the Guide, there is a way to click on leaving them a suggestion.
Barbara, my solution is: I note this in my daily writer's journal, using a special orange ink reserved for "enc - try again" + my own hand-drawn symbol.
Another trick: reserve the last line on your daily journal's page for "reminders." That way you need not visually scan the entire page. You just re-read the last daily entry.
Spreadsheets are so NOT my thing.
A daily diary is my thing because Oscar Wilde himself suggested that I should keep a dairy . . . . . . "so I would have something sensational to read in the train." #quote
This is the response from Duotrope... (the second response, the first of which I am not sharing - it was just a thank you for the suggestion thing), and I think this is helpful to note...
Hi, Emma,
I’ve been thinking a bit more about your suggestion, and there are a couple of options to track a publication that asks you to resubmit to them in the future. One option is to ‘Favorite’ the listing and create a personal note in the Favorites list for the publication. https://duotrope.com/guides/favignlists.aspx
The submission tracker does have an icon for rejections that have requested a rewrite, but it sounds like you want to track a publication that sent a firm rejection.
I'm so excited about your acceptance for ONE ART, which I really enjoy, and receive the daily poems—congratulations! If Moss Piglet is online, I'm looking forward to reading "Dance Lessons". And more congrats on being asked 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.
I loved this story. I had to stop in the middle to subscribe to Sewanee Review so I could finish it. So -- in suspense here. Beautiful, measured writing. It's wonderful. Hearty congratulations, Buku.
I loved the way the repetitions made it sound both like an incantation, like something just too simple and so also a little ominous -- waiting for the pattern to break. Happy to subscribe to Sewanee!
No I’ve I worked with the directors before and just wrote to my editor and asked him if he was interested in seeing another story and he said yes, and I sent it to him and he said they were going to publish it
This month, I had a micro fiction published in Suddenly, and Without Warning. This one has a twist ending, so seemed like a good fit. It had gotten comments from other editors that it was "too dark" but here they liked the "dark humor." I discovered the publication last month on Lit Mag News, when fellow LMN denizen Dave Nash posted his piece that they published in August.
Also, in the spirit of monthly braggadocio, I’ll share that my story “The Ones That Get Away” has been nominated for the next Best of the Net anthology. Many thanks to the editor of Feign (honest, no relation!), Kylie Ryback.
That "Knowledge" of yours is great! Really loved it. All the details, and how I couldn't wait to discover what was in the boxes. And the husband in on it too - with his own desires. Wonderful work.
I had a piece of memoir, "Contraband Marginalia", come out in Split Lip Magazine. I really love this magazine and it was a goal of mine to someday get something published there. I initially wrote the story as flash CNF and it was rejected 10 times. Split Lip asked for a rewrite/resubmit and I worked hard on taking the readers' notes and building out the story. It more than doubled in length. After it was accepted, I did another round of revisions with the memoir editors, who were great. Split Lip was both challenging and really personable and I am grateful I got to work with them. https://splitlipthemag.com/memoir/0924/kasey-butcher-santana
I also had "On the Vine" out with Write or Die, which I found through Chill Subs. That piece had a more straightforward path after I submitted to an open call for essays. One round of light edits. They were also a joy to work with! https://writeordiemag.com/essays/on-the-vine
I enjoyed your piece in Split Lip. A fascinating look into the world of the jail librarian. Congratulations! Split Lip is a venue I have yet to crack, though I've received personal rejections from editors.
Very nice essay, a good mix of the personal with the situations and interactions with the incarcerated. I can see why they would have asked you to expand from a flash, there’s a lot there. Congrats on cracking into Split Lip, that’s a tough nut, and they sound great to work with. (As an aside, I once applied for a job teaching writing in a prison in CT. I didn’t get it, but hit it off with the director of the program and he shared the story about how he had once hired someone for a teaching position, but the day before the person was due to start, he got an anonymous tip that the guy was planning to kill someone inside. He never knew if it was true or not, but couldn’t take a chance, so had to withdraw the job offer and find someone else. And worry for a while that the guy would now come after him.)
Your piece in Split Lip is great - such urgency! I could not stop reading. I love how you open with such specificity and intrigue. And I'm a lover of libraries. Thank you.
Becky, thank you for inviting your readers to boast about our successes!
Last week The Los Angeles Review published my story "House on the Hill" on the flash fiction page of their website.
It's only my second publication. A dozen or so other journals rejected it before the editors at LAR chose it. They were very kind, and very swift: they sent me the acceptance less than three months after I submitted it.
I don't send out work until it's very polished, so there was no heavy-duty editing to do. I also like the artwork they chose: a photo of the gaunt Gothic house from Psycho. It complements the story perfectly .
It's one of the things I love most about the Lit Mag Brag, discovering new writers and poets -- and new target publications, as well. Wishing you all the best!
I won a contest! I love writing from prompts, especially when I need some structure and a deadline, just what Exposition Review's 405 contests offer. So I did a thing and won some $$$$. https://expositionreview.com/flash-405/all-the-way-home/
I worked on short stories for around a dozen years. I'm pleased that my collection appeared in May, published by Academic Studies Press, but the reality is that most agents are not interested in short story collections and promotion is what sells books. The title:The Nansen Factor, Refugee Stories. Now, I'm writing a novel and essays. Next month, HuffPost will publish a personal essay of mine. Watch for it! This is my fourth attempt with HuffPost. Very little editing done. New title: After 3 Decades Of Marriage, My Husband Chose To Move Overseas. What Happens To Us Now?
Congrats. I helped one of writewithoutborders.com clients with an essay, suggested HuffPost and they took it within a week or so. We were both thrilled.
I had poems come out in MacQueen's Quinterly http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ25/Grossman-White-Oak.aspx , Panoply https://panoplyzine.com/frog-shrouded-by-gary-grossman-2/ , Red Wolf Editions Leaflet 78 https://redwolfjournal.wordpress.com/2024/09/12/leaflet-no-78-by-gary-grossman/ and a haiku in Cold Moon Journal https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2024_09_05_archive.html . Also had poems accepted in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Eunoia Review and Red Wolf Editions . My poet friend Julie Marie Wade is publishing both rejection and acceptance stats on FB, so I thought I'd compile mine for 2024 so far. I've had 36 poems published or accepted by 16 different literary reviews. These include four reprints (i.e., previously published poems). On the downside, I've had submissions rejected by 50 literary reviews (a submission typically involves 3-5 poems, but occasionally just one). The rejection total doesn't include multiple submissions to a single journal of which there were five or six. Currently, I have submissions sitting at 35 reviews. And yes, here in Athens GA we were lucky to have the eye of Helene pass right over us, with not too much damage to the town, and only a 12 hour power loss at our home.
Thanks for sharing the stats. I love hearing those. Reading everyone's news is motivating me to send out more work before September's end, although I should be grading student papers.
36 poems published is amazing! Really interesting to read through the stats you provided. Congratulations and I'm glad Helene didn't cause too much damage in your area.
I had 5 poems accepted this month in 3 different journals, all new to me: Cypress Review, Mixtape Review, and 100 Subtexts. They should all be live soon.
Also, I was delighted to learn this week that I won the Midwest Chapbook prize sponsored by Laurel Review. My book, Broke Republic, will be published in spring of 2024 by GreenTower Press. Very exciting, because I've been shopping this manuscript around for 5 years with no luck.
What a month. What a year. On September 1 my story "Escuderos" came out in River Styx. This is the first chapter of my novel, and a completely free standing story. That almost didn't happen. This is a story that has been workshopped several times, and rejected 88 times. I had given up on this story and was sending only to smaller online pubs. The only reason I sent it to River Styx was, well, I had not sent anything to them before and they showed up in Submittable. They accepted the story almost a year to the date. I had to forgo a contract with a British publisher because they would not publish anything where I did not have 100% the rights of the material, and technically speaking, until River Styx published the story, they had the rights. So finally, I get contacted by their managing editor, and the changes that he suggested, well, were not to my liking. He didn't like that they could hear through the phone little frogs chirping even though they were inside a house. I had to explain to him that the frogs were something very important because they were authentic, and yes you could hear them inside because houses in Latin America are not sealed like houses in the United States. Windows are always open. I did agree to other changes, but they decided to moth ball the story to the fall. What? That was crazy. They even removed my access to the story. We emailed back and forth and talked about what I wanted to achieve. One, was that Americans would understand how surreal Venezuela is. Two, that a Venezuelan, when reading felt the details that can only be known when you have lived (and suffered) there. So we came to a great understanding. As we wrote to each other, the namesake of the novel, "The Air Beneath her Feet" got accepted to a different publication, The Write Launch. I would go through a similar process with their editor. But back to River Styx, now their editor was fire up about the story and worked all over that weekend so the story would go live on September 1. He found some photo of Caracas and manipulated it to look surreal. Our exchanges from then on were those of comrade in arms.
Geez!! I thought I had a backstory to my publication but yours beats it hands down!! Congrats on the publication (love River Styx) and for your persistence in knowing the story you wanted to tell!!
Luis, this reminds me of an experience I had with The Vassar Review where the editor didn't understand the cultural differences of 1970s West Germany and now. It was a challenging process. I admire your perseverance.
No actual publications this month, but several acceptances, one of them from a dream publication Flash Frog, who I’ve been after with 14 previous attempts.
Congratulations on the acceptance by Flash Frog, Liz! (Gosh, with Gary's "Frog Shrouded" and Luis's little frogs chirping, this is turning out to be quite a frog-themed issue!)
Feedback can be a joy or a minefield and anything in between. Check out "Getting the Right Feedback on Your Work"which just appeared in Lit Mag News this past week. It makes for 81 essays of various kinds (travel, humor, personal) that have been published or accepted in just over 3 years. Check out the fascinating comments: https://litmagnews.substack.com/p/getting-the-right-feedback-on-your
I enjoyed reading this piece of yours. I co-facilitate a workshop and we are always considering how feedback can help writers best. Thank you for that!
Congratulations to everyone for so many excellent publications in September. And thanks again, Becky, for this wonderful space to share and celebrate our successes.
I had a poem “Morning Walk” published in a print anthology by Poet’s Choice this month.
I also had a flash CNF piece “What the Horses Know” published in the inaugural issue of a print magazine The Gilded Weathervane. They publish rural pieces, and the issue was so beautiful. The editors were great to work with.
I had another CNF piece “Invisible Me” published in Does It Have Pockets. I had only submitted it to two other mags when I got the offer from DIHP to publish with some minor edits. The edit suggestions were phenomenal and really improved the overall energy of the piece.
Last week, I received a couple of acceptances from lit mags I’m very excited about. Something to look forward to this winter!
I’m heading out to the Virginia State Fair with my grandkids on this beautiful fall day. I’ll look forward to reading your linked pieces when I get home. Hope everyone is safe and well.
I haven't joined in on past brags, so this is my first: I had a little micro-review (of a short story by Colm O'Shea that was published in the Stinging Fly) run in the Sept. issue of Split Lip Magazine -- https://splitlipthemag.com/reviews/0924/review-of-feeling-gravitys-pull -- and simply wanted to acknowledge for other writers the editorial thoughtfulness and deep investment I felt from SLM.
When I pitched my initial draft, I did so because I was impressed with how its "Inter/e/views" section offers a unique opportunity for engaging with other essays and short fiction. After its acceptance, I found each stage in the editing process excavated even more, especially given the brevity of form.
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.
Congratulations, Barbara, and thanks for sharing about submitting many times to One Art. Just a few days ago, I got my third rejection from them, though Mark did say, "I look forward to reading more of your poems in the future." I'll take that as encouragement to persevere. :-)
Fantastic perseverance!! Congrats!!
Thanks, Anne. I kept telling myself this would be the last time I'd submit, but then I'd send more poems every two months. Thanks, @MarkDanowsky, for your constant encouragement.
Congratulations on being accepted by One Art. Such a great platform. I’ve been there in the past, along with a boatload of rejections. Totally worth it.
Love the title! 🥠 Congrats on staying with your goal!
Mazel tov on your acceptances! I had a piece in ONE ART earlier this year and Mark was wonderful to work with. I love your title and can't wait to read it.
Congratulations, Barbara, on the acceptances and the encouraging rejections!
Congratulations, Barbara!
I love Moss Piglet for that. I have written several pieces that are thoughtful for them, but not ones I've spent weeks on, and they are a respectful, fun venue.
Well done Barbara. Congratulations.
Congratulations, Barbara.
Once upon a time (in 2022 or 2023), I submitted to Moss Piglet and the editors never ever replied. Ah-hah! These folks are still publishing! Good for you!
Congrats!! Can relate to the many rejections, but it does ease the pain when you get a more personal rejection with an invite to submit again. Wishing you luck in your future submissions!!
Thanks, John. I just wish Duotrope had a way to search within its submission manager for "Try us again." It's in the notes, but I don't think I can search within notes. Oh, well. Another case for managing submissions through a spreadsheet.
That is a great idea, and Duotrope is usually open to new ideas, we could ask!
I have asked - there is a way to send them suggestions - and I have just forgotten how I did it, but I think it was via the submissions tracking page. YES! Okay, found it... If you click on "Guide to Using this Page" on the Submission Tracking Page (the Guide is top right) and you scroll to end of the Guide, there is a way to click on leaving them a suggestion.
Barbara, my solution is: I note this in my daily writer's journal, using a special orange ink reserved for "enc - try again" + my own hand-drawn symbol.
Another trick: reserve the last line on your daily journal's page for "reminders." That way you need not visually scan the entire page. You just re-read the last daily entry.
Spreadsheets are so NOT my thing.
A daily diary is my thing because Oscar Wilde himself suggested that I should keep a dairy . . . . . . "so I would have something sensational to read in the train." #quote
This is the response from Duotrope... (the second response, the first of which I am not sharing - it was just a thank you for the suggestion thing), and I think this is helpful to note...
Hi, Emma,
I’ve been thinking a bit more about your suggestion, and there are a couple of options to track a publication that asks you to resubmit to them in the future. One option is to ‘Favorite’ the listing and create a personal note in the Favorites list for the publication. https://duotrope.com/guides/favignlists.aspx
The other is to create a ‘Tag’ for the listing.
https://duotrope.com/guides/tags.aspx
The submission tracker does have an icon for rejections that have requested a rewrite, but it sounds like you want to track a publication that sent a firm rejection.
Best wishes,
Carol -- one of the Duotroopers (admin team)
I very much look forward to reading it.
Congratulations! That's fabulous about ONE ART and all the rest too.
Congratulations on such a great month!
I'm so excited about your acceptance for ONE ART, which I really enjoy, and receive the daily poems—congratulations! If Moss Piglet is online, I'm looking forward to reading "Dance Lessons". And more congrats on being asked to send more work!
congrats!
Congratulations, Barbara! I look forward to your link(s).
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
Sorry, I should add that. It’s a story about an Indian family living in New York City. And their broken dreams.
I loved this story. I had to stop in the middle to subscribe to Sewanee Review so I could finish it. So -- in suspense here. Beautiful, measured writing. It's wonderful. Hearty congratulations, Buku.
Thank you. I could have sent you the pdf
I loved the way the repetitions made it sound both like an incantation, like something just too simple and so also a little ominous -- waiting for the pattern to break. Happy to subscribe to Sewanee!
Congratulations, and thanks for the link to your story. I love the Sewanee Review.
I love the Sewanee Review. I've always wanted to be there. So super congrats!!!
Congrats! That's obviously a prestige journal . Thanks for the link. I look forward to reading.
Congrats! That’s a big win!
Love the Sewanee Review! Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Thank you
Congrtulations! I look forward to reading.
Congratulations! I'm looking forward to reading it. Had you submitted the story elsewhere as well?
No I’ve I worked with the directors before and just wrote to my editor and asked him if he was interested in seeing another story and he said yes, and I sent it to him and he said they were going to publish it
Uh, that is astonishing.
The editors not directors. Sorry I’m using voice diction.
This month, I had a micro fiction published in Suddenly, and Without Warning. This one has a twist ending, so seemed like a good fit. It had gotten comments from other editors that it was "too dark" but here they liked the "dark humor." I discovered the publication last month on Lit Mag News, when fellow LMN denizen Dave Nash posted his piece that they published in August.
Here’s mine: https://www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/knowledge/
Also, in the spirit of monthly braggadocio, I’ll share that my story “The Ones That Get Away” has been nominated for the next Best of the Net anthology. Many thanks to the editor of Feign (honest, no relation!), Kylie Ryback.
https://www.feignlit.com/featured/theonesthatgetaway
(For anyone with longer stories to market, they’re one of the places that consider fiction up to 7,500 words.)
Congratulations! I loved the ending of "Knowledge." Dark, yes, but funny!
Congrats Jon! I loved the tension in this and how it continued through past the finish.
Also proud to be a fellow denizen here.
Congrats Jon!
Read the ones that get away and so absorbed in this other world. Writing is magic.
Thanks for reading the story, Shifra, glad you liked it and appreciate your comment.
Love your Knowledge story! Dark and amusing. ❤️
Thanks, Jen!
Awesome. I would love to get nominated! Congratulations!
That "Knowledge" of yours is great! Really loved it. All the details, and how I couldn't wait to discover what was in the boxes. And the husband in on it too - with his own desires. Wonderful work.
Ah Jon, wonderful micro! I love when things slip like that.... gives me a tickle. Congrats on Best of!
Ewww. Very dark indeed! It's always about finding the right placement, isn't it? Congrats on the publication AND the best of net nomination!
Congratulations!
Congratulations on these, Jon! Can’t wait to read!
I had a piece of memoir, "Contraband Marginalia", come out in Split Lip Magazine. I really love this magazine and it was a goal of mine to someday get something published there. I initially wrote the story as flash CNF and it was rejected 10 times. Split Lip asked for a rewrite/resubmit and I worked hard on taking the readers' notes and building out the story. It more than doubled in length. After it was accepted, I did another round of revisions with the memoir editors, who were great. Split Lip was both challenging and really personable and I am grateful I got to work with them. https://splitlipthemag.com/memoir/0924/kasey-butcher-santana
I also had "On the Vine" out with Write or Die, which I found through Chill Subs. That piece had a more straightforward path after I submitted to an open call for essays. One round of light edits. They were also a joy to work with! https://writeordiemag.com/essays/on-the-vine
I enjoyed your piece in Split Lip. A fascinating look into the world of the jail librarian. Congratulations! Split Lip is a venue I have yet to crack, though I've received personal rejections from editors.
Thanks so much! Fingers crossed for you! Personal rejections are a good sign.
Beautiful piece. Thanks for sharing it!
Thank you!
Lovely piece, Kasey--congratulations!
Thank you!
Very nice essay, a good mix of the personal with the situations and interactions with the incarcerated. I can see why they would have asked you to expand from a flash, there’s a lot there. Congrats on cracking into Split Lip, that’s a tough nut, and they sound great to work with. (As an aside, I once applied for a job teaching writing in a prison in CT. I didn’t get it, but hit it off with the director of the program and he shared the story about how he had once hired someone for a teaching position, but the day before the person was due to start, he got an anonymous tip that the guy was planning to kill someone inside. He never knew if it was true or not, but couldn’t take a chance, so had to withdraw the job offer and find someone else. And worry for a while that the guy would now come after him.)
Wow! I wonder if it was true or not? Definitely not a chance he could take!
Thanks for reading!
I loved both, but especially the Split Lip piece - congratulations!
Thank you!
Two excellent publications, congrats Kasey!
Thank you!
Congratulations! Absorbing reads both. Thanks.
Thank you!
Two of my dream places to be published. Congrats!! The Split Lip piece is so wonderful. Looking forward to reading your essay in Write or Die next!
Thank you so much! I'm still pinching myself a bit.
Gosh, yes, Split Lip. Love it and jealous.
Thank you!
Your piece in Split Lip is great - such urgency! I could not stop reading. I love how you open with such specificity and intrigue. And I'm a lover of libraries. Thank you.
Thank you so, so much!
I just got a rejection from Split Lip. I’ll keep trying! Congratulations on this!👊🏽
Fingers crossed for you! <3
Congratulations! Great piece.
Thank you!
Kasey,
What a gripping piece about marginalia. i also appreciate your take on gardening and writing. Congrats!
Nice pieces both, thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much!
well done, I've had poems rejected by them multiple times <g>, but I'm still submitting...
Fingers crossed for you!
Becky, thank you for inviting your readers to boast about our successes!
Last week The Los Angeles Review published my story "House on the Hill" on the flash fiction page of their website.
It's only my second publication. A dozen or so other journals rejected it before the editors at LAR chose it. They were very kind, and very swift: they sent me the acceptance less than three months after I submitted it.
I don't send out work until it's very polished, so there was no heavy-duty editing to do. I also like the artwork they chose: a photo of the gaunt Gothic house from Psycho. It complements the story perfectly .
Here is a link:
https://losangelesreview.org/house-on-the-hill-by-peter-beynon/
Nice job! Writing it & placing it!
Thanks for reading my story, Meg. It was fun to write, and I'm very glad to hear it was fun to read!
So clever! That was highly enjoyable.
Thanks for reading, Colette, and for your compliment.
World's best opening! Excellent and clever all through. Congrats, Peter!
Shifra, thanks so much for your kind compliment. I'm very glad you enjoyed my story.
Oooh, great piece! I love LAR. Congratulations!!
I'm so glad you liked it, E. Ce! Thanks for letting me know.
Excellent! Love this. Congratulations!!
Julie, thanks very much for taking the time to read my story; I'm glad you liked it!
It's one of the things I love most about the Lit Mag Brag, discovering new writers and poets -- and new target publications, as well. Wishing you all the best!
Wow, can’t wait to read it. Congratulations!
Thanks, Ann!
oooh. Great flash!! I’m sending the link to it out to friends!! Congrats, Peter!
How nice of you to read it, Anne! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I did & my screenwriting friend just wrote back that she liked it too!!
I am so happy; I'd assumed, or feared, that I'd never hear from any readers after it went live. Thanks for sharing it with your friend, Anne.
Great piece, Peter! Congratulations!
Thanks, Carol! It's very kind of you to let me know you enjoyed it.
My poem selenic was published in Lowestoft Chronicle in #59, their Fall issue.
https://lowestoftchronicle.com/issues/issue59/julieallynjohnson/
Congratulations, Julie! I love the imagery in this poem.
Donna, thank you. I'm so pleased you enjoyed my poem!
The "smaller prey" line brought a great chill. Congratulations!
Thank you, Lisa. I'm so pleased you liked it!
Congrats!! I really enjoyed your poem :)
Thank you, John! I wrote this during a Zoom poetry workshop call. Glad you liked it.
beautiful work
Emma, thank you!!
Looking forward to reading this, Julie. Congrats!🎉
Thanks, Tracie. I hope you like it!
Beautiful poem, Julie—thank you for sharing the link!
Thank you, Carol!
I won a contest! I love writing from prompts, especially when I need some structure and a deadline, just what Exposition Review's 405 contests offer. So I did a thing and won some $$$$. https://expositionreview.com/flash-405/all-the-way-home/
Spare and very full! What a wonderful glimpse at a better world. Congratulations!
Thank you!
Congrats, Sarah! Enjoy your winnings!
Thanks, Dave!
Really nice one, Sarah, congrats on the win!
Thanks, Jon!
Congratulations, Sarah, on your win! "All the Way Home" is a fine and touching story!
Thanks, Donna!
Love it--congratulations!
Thanks!
This is really well done - I could feel the harsh return to reality as soon as she walks back into the house with the mom smoking.
Thank you! Exactly what I wanted.
Congrats, Sarah!
Thanks, Luanne!
Congratulations!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Thank you!
I got a poem accepted after submitting it to one and only place, and a flash accepted after 24 rejections. Dreams CAN come true!
Congrats! It's hard to keep sending stuff out.
This is awesome! Way to persevere :)
Wow, that’s awesome. It’s so wonderful to hear great news like this. Gives me hope.
Yes! Congratulations!
I worked on short stories for around a dozen years. I'm pleased that my collection appeared in May, published by Academic Studies Press, but the reality is that most agents are not interested in short story collections and promotion is what sells books. The title:The Nansen Factor, Refugee Stories. Now, I'm writing a novel and essays. Next month, HuffPost will publish a personal essay of mine. Watch for it! This is my fourth attempt with HuffPost. Very little editing done. New title: After 3 Decades Of Marriage, My Husband Chose To Move Overseas. What Happens To Us Now?
Congrats. I helped one of writewithoutborders.com clients with an essay, suggested HuffPost and they took it within a week or so. We were both thrilled.
Congratulations, Alexandra!
Congrats, That has been my experience with agents as well. To many of them the word short story or literary are bad words.
Congratulations!
Wow, HuffPost! Happy dance!
Many congratulations on the publication of your short story collection, and for getting into Huff Post.
Same here, congrats!
I had poems come out in MacQueen's Quinterly http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ25/Grossman-White-Oak.aspx , Panoply https://panoplyzine.com/frog-shrouded-by-gary-grossman-2/ , Red Wolf Editions Leaflet 78 https://redwolfjournal.wordpress.com/2024/09/12/leaflet-no-78-by-gary-grossman/ and a haiku in Cold Moon Journal https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2024_09_05_archive.html . Also had poems accepted in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Eunoia Review and Red Wolf Editions . My poet friend Julie Marie Wade is publishing both rejection and acceptance stats on FB, so I thought I'd compile mine for 2024 so far. I've had 36 poems published or accepted by 16 different literary reviews. These include four reprints (i.e., previously published poems). On the downside, I've had submissions rejected by 50 literary reviews (a submission typically involves 3-5 poems, but occasionally just one). The rejection total doesn't include multiple submissions to a single journal of which there were five or six. Currently, I have submissions sitting at 35 reviews. And yes, here in Athens GA we were lucky to have the eye of Helene pass right over us, with not too much damage to the town, and only a 12 hour power loss at our home.
Thanks for sharing the stats. I love hearing those. Reading everyone's news is motivating me to send out more work before September's end, although I should be grading student papers.
Congratulations, Gary, on the publications and the acceptances. I especially loved "Frog Shrouded!"
Thanks Donna
36 poems published is amazing! Really interesting to read through the stats you provided. Congratulations and I'm glad Helene didn't cause too much damage in your area.
Thanks John
Gary, I love "Frog Shrouded", and the mis-hearing that often seems to add such fun and laughter to life.
Awesome month, Gary. Can’t wait to read these!
Thanks Tracie!
I had 5 poems accepted this month in 3 different journals, all new to me: Cypress Review, Mixtape Review, and 100 Subtexts. They should all be live soon.
Also, I was delighted to learn this week that I won the Midwest Chapbook prize sponsored by Laurel Review. My book, Broke Republic, will be published in spring of 2024 by GreenTower Press. Very exciting, because I've been shopping this manuscript around for 5 years with no luck.
That's wonderful, Anthony! Gives me hope.
Congratulations, Anthony!
What a month. What a year. On September 1 my story "Escuderos" came out in River Styx. This is the first chapter of my novel, and a completely free standing story. That almost didn't happen. This is a story that has been workshopped several times, and rejected 88 times. I had given up on this story and was sending only to smaller online pubs. The only reason I sent it to River Styx was, well, I had not sent anything to them before and they showed up in Submittable. They accepted the story almost a year to the date. I had to forgo a contract with a British publisher because they would not publish anything where I did not have 100% the rights of the material, and technically speaking, until River Styx published the story, they had the rights. So finally, I get contacted by their managing editor, and the changes that he suggested, well, were not to my liking. He didn't like that they could hear through the phone little frogs chirping even though they were inside a house. I had to explain to him that the frogs were something very important because they were authentic, and yes you could hear them inside because houses in Latin America are not sealed like houses in the United States. Windows are always open. I did agree to other changes, but they decided to moth ball the story to the fall. What? That was crazy. They even removed my access to the story. We emailed back and forth and talked about what I wanted to achieve. One, was that Americans would understand how surreal Venezuela is. Two, that a Venezuelan, when reading felt the details that can only be known when you have lived (and suffered) there. So we came to a great understanding. As we wrote to each other, the namesake of the novel, "The Air Beneath her Feet" got accepted to a different publication, The Write Launch. I would go through a similar process with their editor. But back to River Styx, now their editor was fire up about the story and worked all over that weekend so the story would go live on September 1. He found some photo of Caracas and manipulated it to look surreal. Our exchanges from then on were those of comrade in arms.
Here's the link. https://www.riverstyx.org/escuderos
Geez!! I thought I had a backstory to my publication but yours beats it hands down!! Congrats on the publication (love River Styx) and for your persistence in knowing the story you wanted to tell!!
Just finished reading -- you achieved what you set out to do with the story. Well written!
(And btw: I spent a week on Honolulu island where the extremely loud chirping of the invasive coqui frogs could be heard inside the house.)
Thank you.
Luis, this reminds me of an experience I had with The Vassar Review where the editor didn't understand the cultural differences of 1970s West Germany and now. It was a challenging process. I admire your perseverance.
I enjoyed reading about your wild ride with the editors! Congratulations!
Congrats, Luis. And way to persevere!
Congratulations on the publication, and for keeping those little frogs!
No actual publications this month, but several acceptances, one of them from a dream publication Flash Frog, who I’ve been after with 14 previous attempts.
Congratulations on the acceptance by Flash Frog, Liz! (Gosh, with Gary's "Frog Shrouded" and Luis's little frogs chirping, this is turning out to be quite a frog-themed issue!)
Congratulations! That's always so satisfying!
The Frog is a tough one to get into… congrats!
Congrats! Gives me hope to keep trying with the journals I love most!
Congrats on Number 15!
Congratulations! Flash Frog is tough!
Feedback can be a joy or a minefield and anything in between. Check out "Getting the Right Feedback on Your Work"which just appeared in Lit Mag News this past week. It makes for 81 essays of various kinds (travel, humor, personal) that have been published or accepted in just over 3 years. Check out the fascinating comments: https://litmagnews.substack.com/p/getting-the-right-feedback-on-your
Lev,
I enjoyed reading this piece of yours. I co-facilitate a workshop and we are always considering how feedback can help writers best. Thank you for that!
Thanks. It was a lot of fun to write, to distill years of teaching, editing, being edited.
Lev, thanks for writing that article. It was super helpful.
You're very welcome and I'm glad it helped. My mentor would be proud.
I loved this piece and reposted on several platforms for my writers. Great work!
Thanks for re-posting!
Congratulations to everyone for so many excellent publications in September. And thanks again, Becky, for this wonderful space to share and celebrate our successes.
I had a poem “Morning Walk” published in a print anthology by Poet’s Choice this month.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tracieadams/p/morning-walk?r=lmr4b&utm_medium=ios
I also had a flash CNF piece “What the Horses Know” published in the inaugural issue of a print magazine The Gilded Weathervane. They publish rural pieces, and the issue was so beautiful. The editors were great to work with.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tracieadams/p/what-the-horses-know?r=lmr4b&utm_medium=ios
I had another CNF piece “Invisible Me” published in Does It Have Pockets. I had only submitted it to two other mags when I got the offer from DIHP to publish with some minor edits. The edit suggestions were phenomenal and really improved the overall energy of the piece.
https://www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/tracie-adams
Last week, I received a couple of acceptances from lit mags I’m very excited about. Something to look forward to this winter!
I’m heading out to the Virginia State Fair with my grandkids on this beautiful fall day. I’ll look forward to reading your linked pieces when I get home. Hope everyone is safe and well.
Congratulations Tracie! I have a few in Does It Have Pockets? too! I'll go read yours now. https://www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/anne-graue
Thanks, Anne. Love your poems, especially the night swimming.❤️
Congrats! "Invisible Me" is so poignant. Beautiful!
Thanks, Kasey. 🙌🏽
Congratulations, Tracie! Thanks for putting these on substack. I like how DIHP slipped from the everyday to the surreal.
Thanks for reading, Dave.
Way to go. I love Does It Have Pockets.
Congratulations, Tracie. Loved the prose poem, "Morning Walk".
Congratulations on your lovely DIHP piece!
I haven't joined in on past brags, so this is my first: I had a little micro-review (of a short story by Colm O'Shea that was published in the Stinging Fly) run in the Sept. issue of Split Lip Magazine -- https://splitlipthemag.com/reviews/0924/review-of-feeling-gravitys-pull -- and simply wanted to acknowledge for other writers the editorial thoughtfulness and deep investment I felt from SLM.
When I pitched my initial draft, I did so because I was impressed with how its "Inter/e/views" section offers a unique opportunity for engaging with other essays and short fiction. After its acceptance, I found each stage in the editing process excavated even more, especially given the brevity of form.
Congratulations! We're in the same issue of SLM. I thought the editors were wonderful, too. Your mico-review is really well done.