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I wrote a true sex story for The Sunday Night Sex Show and then I decided I liked it, so I sent it to Nerve. Peter at Nerve responded quite quickly saying it's not right for where Nerve is at right now. This was a slight variation on the common "not right for us" statement. This one is just a temporal thing, I guess.
Heyoooooo! Sunday, October 25th. 7:30 PM. The Burlington. 3425 W Fullerton.
Ima gonna read a true sexy story. It's really not that sexy - but the main act is sex, or an attempt at the like.
As I understand, the other readers will be: Jacob S. Knabb, Natalie Edwards, Ryan Sarros, and Molly Each.
Get it while it's hot.
Nothing to take the wind out of the sails of Rejection 200, like getting Rejection 201 at the same time. I think it's darn well apropos.
The first rejection was a form rejection from The Kenyon Review.
The second was an email form rejection from Aufgabe, for a paper submission. I am wondering where my SASE is. Granted I'd withdrawn four of the five poems via email, but still.
Maybe they plan on sending me a secret surprise in my SASE. Maybe they saw that the rejection was going to be a birthday of sorts, and decided to send me a card instead. I bet that is it.
I'm very excited about the new site The Big Other launching today. It's an online forum discussing art, literature, music, and whatever.
The people contributing are numerous and wonderful: Leni Zumas, John Dermot Woods, Sean Lovelace, Michael Leong, Jac Jemc, Christopher Higgs, Greg Gerke, Molly Gaudry, Luca Dipierro, Kim Chinquee, and Ryan W. Bradley.
My first post is about text that shows up in non-paper based art.
Check it out! Often!
I think maybe getting to rejection 199 is more exciting than getting to rejection 200. It's like the boat ride in Willy Wonka..."not a speck of light is showing so the danger must be growing and the rowers KEEP ON ROWING"... I love that scene.
Anyway.
Bat City Review rejected a story today. This story is getting rejected a lot and I think it's really one of my favorite stories I've ever written, so, ya know, there's no accounting for taste.
200 should be here any day now. I think I want pizza. Good pizza. Pequod's.
Another pretty quick paper rejection: Gulf Coast in about 6 weeks.
Sometimes, to convince myself to go to the trouble of making some paper submissions, and also to make spending $8 on a sheet of stamps seem more fun, I go to the post office and ask the lady to show me the "special stamps." The lady always seems delighted to do this.
I ran out of special stamps today. I probably won't make more paper submissions for a while.
The October issue of Pank is live with rad work from: Amye Archer, Jimmy Chen, Katie Cortese, Karen Dietrich, Neil de la Flor, Travis Fortney, Karen Gentry, Steve Gibbon, Joseph Goosey, Derek Henderson, Sarah Hilary, Jac Jemc (with audio!), Jennifer Juneau, P.H. Madore, Pauline Mason, Eric McKinley, Jen Michalski, Gary Moshimer, David Peak, Richey Piiparinen, Dan Portincaso, and J.R. Salling.
Check it out. They hit this one out of the ballpark.
I have to leave for the Scorch Atlas Release Part in 5 minutes, which you already know about, I'm sure, and hopefully I will see you at No Coast at 7PM,
BUT
really I'm writing to remind you that Quickies is tomorrow at 7:30 at the Innertown and the the readers are get-out-of-here awesome.
First of all there will be something of a Dollar Store Summer Tour reunion with Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Jac
Jemc, Caroline Picard, and hosts Mary Hamilton and Lindsay Hunter,
BUT ALSO THE SPECTACULAR:
Elizabeth Wylder, Ben Tanzer, Kate Duva, Aaron Plasek,
Casey Bye, Tim Racine, and Richard Thomas.
I know. Get there.
1935 W. Thomas, Chicago
http://quickieschicago.blogspot.com/
Last night, I was checking up on some older submissions I'd made and realized, the Poetry Center's Juried Prize had still not been announced. I entered in January. Their website has finally been updated to list the winners, though I have yet to receive my SASE back.
Here are the luckies:
1st place: Lina ramona Vitkauskas
2nd place: Carrie Oeding
3rd place: Richard Fox
I think that was the last contest I entered on that weird binge last winter. Praise the lord. My sins are behind me.
Is anyone else sending out paper rejections right now and receiving back rejections quicker than you ever dreamed? Prairie Schooner just noped me in less than a month, too.
Is it that everyone has online submissions now, so that when you think about the hassle of getting together physical papers and two envelopes of different sizes and stamps and paperclips, it just doesn't even seem worth it, so the good people of the archaic paper submissions are getting a nice little break in the speed of the slush pile? Or are my stories just getting that much worse that they can tell from the look of the return address that I'm not the writer I'm looking for?