- Your new best friend Jacob Appel won 2nd place in the Iowa Review Fiction Contest.
- A good editor rant over at The Baffaloe Pen called, Dear Editor: Shove it.
- A list of interesting journals by the Lit Scribbler
- According to The Guardian, poet Derek Walcott takes on VS Naipaul....in verse?
- Some rejection blues over at Debbie's Writing Blog.
- For those in need of positive thinking, check out this post at Coffee and Roses.
- A whole book of cartoons rejected from the New Yorker from our friend Mike Lynch
just got rejected from Virginia Quarterly -said they read it but had so many submissions they couldn't comment. FINE
ReplyDeleteI love the journals who don't ever respond, then don't respond to queries either.
Yesterday I wrote what I hope is a positive and encouraging post about rejection as well.
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Writer Reading: A Positive Take on Literary Rejection
I got one from VQR today, too. Must be cleaning house.
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