April Markets Newsletter (50,000 subscribers and counting!)
Intro by Angela Mackintosh; Markets Column by Ashley Memory
|
|
Writers,
It’s been interesting staying at home during the lockdown. You find yourself making great time management decisions—like binge-watching the docuseries
Tiger King on Netflix, which you really have to strap in for because what you thought was a documentary about tigers turns out to be more like
Joe Dirt. Except the mullet-sporting hero’s name is Joe Exotic, and he’s a gay polygamist and country singer, dabbles in meth, and feeds his tigers Walmart meat—and, neat fact, he actually ran for president during the 2016 election. (You may remember John Oliver highlighting him on
Last Week Tonight.)
Oh wait. Did I say “great time management decisions”?
|
|
Besides awesome Netflix binges, I’ve been quoting books to stay in the literary mindset. “Call me Ishmael,” I’ll say to my husband, and then promptly refuse to answer to it because, duh, it’s not my name. We’re not used to spending so much time together, and I’m sure I’m driving him bananas. One happy camper: my nineteen-year-old tuxedo cat. She never wants us to leave the house.
Ever.
These days, the saying “truth is stranger than fiction” definitely resonates, and I’m not talking about just the
#TigerKing. It’s these surreal times that fill me with so much anxiety, but somehow, also inspire me to write.
|
|
A few weeks ago, at the crematorium where my husband was working—that was before his doctor recommended he quarantine due to lowered immunities caused from six months of chemotherapy—he received the first Coronavirus death in Los Angeles. She was a woman in her sixties, a loving wife and mother, who returned from traveling in Asia with her husband. Since it was history in the making, I felt compelled to write an essay that braids my husband’s story, her story, and my own into a piece on these unprecedented times. I’m still revising it, as things change daily; but as writers, we can use this time to document history—even if it’s just jotting down notes in our journals. (Check out the sidebar for editors seeking COVID-19 stories.) Or, if it’s too overwhelming to write about, you can take time for a creative diversion and pen something imaginative. When we’re in the fictive dream, our current state has a way of filtering into our prose, and you never know what magic those subconscious thoughts will inspire.
One thing I’ve noticed while sheltering is I need more motivation to write. If you’re anything like me, you could use some butt-kicking inspiration and levity to keep that pen moving. Well, we have just the thing for you! Our new markets newsletter.
I’ve been in a memoir writing group with several WOW subscribers since last July when we took
Dorit Sasson’s memoir writing workshop together. Our group is called the “Mem-warriors.” As we battled through our works-in-progress over the past few months, fellow mem-warrior, Ashley Memory, provided us with markets to keep us motivated and on track. I marveled at her carefully curated selection and finally asked her if she’d be interested in writing a markets column for WOW
! I’ve been wanting to bring the markets newsletter back for several years, so I’m glad she said yes!
Our mission is to provide fresh markets (mostly paying) for the creative writer—poets, playwrights, fiction and creative nonfiction writers, and more. WOW’s team member, Nicole Pyles, is also on our markets team; and with her help, we’ll be sending out a variety of targeted market reports every so often geared toward freelancers, bloggers, and more.
In this newsletter,
Ashley inspires writers to spring into writing with April deadlines for contests and publications.
We also share Success Stories from WOW subscribers
and our community on social media. (I share my recent successes in the column, too!) If you have a success story you’d like to share with fellow writers, please see details below on how to submit your story/links.
We are also accepting newsletter sponsors. If you'd like to reach 50,000 writers via email, and also help support WOW, please visit
this page for details.
Remember, WOW is a paying market. We have sent out acceptances for our May/June issue and are still in the process of getting back to all the wonderful writers who queried us—some we'll move to another issue, and some we may use for the blog, and others will be invited to query us for the next two e-zine issues. If you'd like to query us, please visit the
Contact Page and scroll down to "Submissions" and look for themes and deadlines.
Until then, stay brave, dear writing warrior, and keep submitting!
We deeply appreciate you, and hope you and your loved ones are healthy and safe.
Much love,
Angela, and Team WOW
!
|
Angela Mackintosh, editor
Recommended resource:
|
|
Editors Seeking COVID-19 Stories
HuffPost Life
Health and wellness editor Lindsay Homes is looking for writers who are interested in reporting service-focused COVID-19 stories. Pay is $350 snd up per story. Pitch Lindsay (with clips):
lindsay.holmes@huffpost.com
Shondaland
Editor Britni Danielle is looking for interesting quarantine life stories. Do you have an innovative way to pass the time while sheltering at home? Pay is $250 for 500-800 word stories. Send your pitch to Britni:
britni@shondaland.com
SF Gate
Editor Dan Gentile is looking for creative ways to cover the pandemic with focus on Bay Area life. $100 - $300 per story. Pitch Dan at
dan.gentile@sfgate.com
The Quarantine Journal: Notes from the Inside
Looking for true stories and reports from where you live. A series of viral dispatches about life during the coronavirus. $75 for less than 1000 words. Pitch editor Carina del Valle Schorske:
carina.schorske@gmail.com
The Bitter Southerner
Editors are seeking stories that show community and individual responses to the novel coronavirus. They want to know how individual local communities across the South, both urban and rural, are coming together. Pay varies, but their rates are typically $250 and up. Pitch your story idea to editor Chuck Reece under
COVID-19 in the South.
The Guardian
The River
Managing editor Phillip Pantuso is looking for stories about how COVID-19 affects Hudson Valley life in a myriad of ways. Rates start at $0.25 per word. Pitch Phillip at
phillip.pantuso@chronogram.com
Vice
Senior editor Maxwell Strachan is seeking coronavirus pitches: "If you know a rich person who is struggling in the coronavirus era to complete basic normal person tasks like cooking dinner and cleaning an apartment, please do email me":
maxwell.strachan@vice.com
(Note: I REALLY want to read that article!)
Wintertickle Press
Not Cancelled
CNF Anthology Contest
Editors are seeking uplifting Canadian stories around the COVID-19 response. Creative nonfiction 2000 words or less. Prizes: $100, $50, $25. Deadline: April 10.
Details.
|
|
By Ashley Memory
In our neck of the woods, spring beckons with dogwood blooms and the almost deafening symphony of birdsong every morning. The change of season signals a renewal for me as well, a time to get serious and truly sink my teeth into the goals I set earlier, such as the completion of my memoir. However, as much as I enjoy this project, it requires high levels of concentration and energy, which can be draining.
If you’re like me, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed at times by all that our work demands. While I plow through the grittier parts of what I hope will be a book one day, I’ve found immense satisfaction from regularly submitting smaller pieces to contests and publications. Sometimes, I send off short stories or poetry, but I also enjoy trimming chapters from my memoir into stand-alone essays and submitting them. This allows me to celebrate little milestones along the way. And there are at least five reasons why you should consider throwing your own hat into the submission ring, too.
Submitting regularly to contests and publications:
1. Keeps you on a regular schedule of meeting deadlines, which curbs procrastination.
2. Motivates you because there’s nothing like seeing your own byline in print, whether it’s your
first or your
fiftieth.
|
|
3. Builds a portfolio of published credits—a huge selling point when querying agents.
4. Expands your circle of writing friends exponentially. One of my besties lives in Chicago, and we wouldn’t have met at all if we hadn’t both been published in the same online magazine two years ago.
5. Teaches you so much about the industry. Yes, you can even learn from rejections. Last year, I submitted an essay to “Funny Women,” a column in
The Rumpus. I got rejected, but I didn’t give up. More on this later.
Still not convinced? Lest I forget, in addition to a byline, you can also earn money and prizes. Recognition of any form validates our work and serves as a colossal reinforcement on the darker days. Over the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to earn far more than money. I’ve won T-shirts, a tote bag, a backpack, even a weather station I still use today. A writer friend once snagged a year’s supply of sticky notes! How cool is that?
You may already be a pro at submitting; but for any writer, it’s a challenge to stay on top of the rapidly evolving markets. To help, every month, we’ll sort through them and cull a list of upcoming deadlines for contests and publications, including quirkier ones you might not know about. Our first issue features over twenty calls for a diverse range of work, from cowgirl poetry and genre-crossing slipstream stories to intersectional feminist work and tales of dream inspiration. And the best part? These markets want your work right now!
|
|
Ashley Memory lives in rural Randolph County, North Carolina, with her sculptor husband, Johnpaul Harris. When she's not musing on a new metaphor, she's trying to learn to drive a skid-steer loader and move earth. Her writing has appeared in many publications and magazines, including
Romantic Home
s,
The Raleigh News & Observer
, and
The Thomas Wolfe Review
, and most recently online in
The Rumpus
,
O.Henry
,
Gyroscope Review
, and
Women on Writing
. Her first poetry collection,
Waiting for the Wood Thrush
, was published by Finishing Line Press in November 2019, and she's currently at work on a memoir of her life in the Uwharries. For a forkful of the literary life, follow her blog,
Cherries and Chekhov
, or find her on Twitter
@memoryashley
.
|
|
Negative Capability Press Poetry Contest
Deadline: April 17
The same award-winning press that published Mary Oliver, May Sarton and John Updike will award cash prizes of $100, $50, and $25 in their annual contest. The top three winners and five honorable mentions will have their work published online. To enter, submit an unpublished poem up to 40 lines of any style or form, multiple entries allowed. Fee: $5 per poem.
The 2020 Peseroff Prize in Poetry (
Breakwater Review
)
Deadline: May 1
In honor of Joyce Peseroff, poet, teacher, editor, innovator, and mentor. Submit up to three unpublished poems, no restrictions on content or form.
|
|
Aura Estrada Short Story Contest – “Ancestors”
Deadline: April 15
All entries must be related to the theme of “ancestors.” The editors want to know “Who are your people? Who made you who you are? What about you only makes sense to someone who knows where you’re from? What’s a secret about your past?”
Parhelion Literary Magazine – Flash Summer 2020
Deadline: April 30
Craft Short Fiction Prize
Deadline: April 30
Seeking unpublished fiction up to 5,000 words. Three winners will be selected by guest judge Alexander Chee.
$2,800 awarded. Fee: $20.
The Saturday Evening Post
No deadline.
The gold standard of short stories—home of work by Edgar Allan Poe and F. Scott Fitzgerald—publishes one short story in their six print issues each year and now welcomes submissions to their online platform New Fiction Friday. Each week, they feature fresh fiction (unpublished, 5,000 words max) from authors all over the country. All general fiction submissions will be considered for both print and online publication.
|
|
Longreads
No deadline.
Longreads, the official blog of WordPress, currently seeks contributions of personal essays and memoirs for their essay series, preferably 2,500-4,500 words and up to 10,000 words. “These pieces should tell a true story. Where necessary, there can be some journalistic reporting, but generally these are personal narratives.”
Woman’s Day
No deadline.
The magazine trusted by our mothers and grandmothers and now enjoyed by over 3 million readers welcomes your digital contributions. It’s a competitive market, but if you’ve got an unpublished, true page-turning story that might inspire others, give them a shot. They’re seeking essays on “themes of triumph in the face of adversity, starting over, forgiveness, secrets, family relationships, and motherhood.” No published word limit for essays but the length of pieces online ranges from 800 - 1,000 words.
|
|
Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival, Burbank, CA
Deadline: April 15
Seeking full length plays never published or produced that stand alone as an evening of theatre with an 80-minute minimum running time. The emphasis is on language; stage business should not be considered as part of the play’s running time. Fee: $20. For more info and to submit, see:
https://www.garrymarshalltheatre.org/new-works-festival-2020
|
|
Chicken Soup for the Soul, an esteemed and world-renowned storyteller, seeks true and unpublished stories (up to 1,200 words) and poems about ordinary people having extraordinary experiences for their best-selling series of books.
Pays $200 and 10 free copies of the book your work appears in. No fee. Stories should be told in first person, and have a beginning, middle, and end. Their latest themes intrigue and inspire me, and I’ve already thought of stories or poems for each one. How about you?
•
Listen to Your Dreams – Deadline: April 3. “Dreams are often the way we tap into our own inner wisdom….. Sixth sense, gut feeling, premonitions, instinct. We want to know about your dreams. What have you learned from your dreams? Did you listen? Did any of your dreams come true? Please do not submit stories about realizing your dreams, as in aspirations or hopes. We are talking about dreams while you are asleep!”
•
Christmas Is in the Air – Deadline: April 30. “We are now collecting stories for our Holiday 2020 book and we are looking for stories about the entire December holiday season, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and New Year’s festivities too. Please share your special stories about the holiday season with us. Be sure that they are ‘Santa safe’ so that we don’t spoil the magic for precocious readers.”
•
Age Is Just a Number – Deadline: May 31. “So, you’re a certain age now, and you’re ready for what’s next…. You might be going on the adventure of a lifetime or taking long walks in the woods. The one thing you know for sure is that you’re not ready to stop living! We are looking for stories about the humorous or serious sides of life after 60.”
Sequestrum Literature & Art – “Magical Realism”
Deadline: April 15
For this issue, the editors seek unpublished “literary-quality writing with a healthy serving of imagination.…Call it slipstream. Call it magical realism. Throw around words like cross-genre, urban/high/low fantasy, hard/soft sci-fi, experimental, absurdist, fabulist, weird, surreal, or a regular fairy tale.” Sounds to me like the sky is the limit with this issue, and I can’t wait to read it! Fiction and nonfiction not to exceed 12,000 words and up to 4 poems (35-line max for each). Fee: $6.35 per category.
So To Speak: a feminist journal of language & arts
Deadline: April 18
Seeking unpublished poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that “matches an intersectional feminist viewpoint.” Think: Ada Limón, Victoria Chang, Carmen Maria Machado, Shze Hui Tjoa, Eula Bliss, and more.
On poetry: “We select poems that, lyrically and politically, are razor-sharp and bold.” Submit up to 5 poems not to exceed 10 pages.
On fiction: “Short stories and flash fiction pieces that engage challenge and surprise us….We particularly love stories that tackle multiple intersections (of race, class, ability, sexuality, and/or gender equality).” 4,000 word limit.
On nonfiction: “We want to read essays that are felt in the bones, that are transformative, that shy away from easy answers…. We deeply admire complex and sophisticated nonfiction that puts its subject under a tight lens, and does not ignore complications of narrative.” Also considers memoir, profiles and other creative nonfiction up to 4,000 words. No fee.
http://sotospeakjournal.org/guidelines/
Women on Writing Quarterly Flash Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Contests
Deadlines: April 30 (Creative Nonfiction) and May 31 (Fiction).
Our favorite writing community and long-time Writer’s Digest “Best Website” offers quarterly contests judged blindly with multiple cash prizes and more for 20 winners, up to $1,350 (fiction) and $1,175 plus a gift certificate to CreateWriteNow (nonfiction), an affordable critique option, and a 300-entry limit on each contest. Open to any style and self-published entries are permitted. What’s not to love? Fee: $10 (Flash Fiction) and $12 (Nonfiction).
https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/contest.php
28th Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Deadline: April 30
Seeking unpublished OR published work up to 6,000 words and offers $8,000 in prizes. First prizes in both the fiction and essay contest receive $3,000 and two-year gift certificates to Duotrope and 10 honorable mentions will receive $200 each. Fee: $20.
Colorado Review
Deadline: May 1
Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (15-page max) of any style and short stories of contemporary themes (no genre) between 15 -25 manuscript pages. Visit their website at
https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/colorado-review/ to read past work or to purchase sample issues. Fee: $3.
True Chili
Deadline: May 1
Don’t you love the title? This online journal of Western stories and poetry is published twice each year by Underwood Press. Editors “We're suckers for Cowboy poetry. And stories. So whether you are a cowboy or a cowgirl, whether you call yourself a vaquero or a caballero, or maybe you’re just a dreamer like the rest of us, send us your best work. If we love it, we will want to publish it and so share it with the world.” Unpublished work only. No published word limit; stories range from 900 words to over 5,000. Optional fee: $3. For a wild ride, read a sample poem, “Driving This Stagecoach” by Catherine Gewertz at
https://underwoodpress.com/truechili/2019/12/15/driving-this-stagecoach-by-catherine-gewertz/. For more info and to submit, see
https://underwoodpress.com/truechili/submissions/
Boulevard
Deadline: May 1
Seeks unpublished personal essays and fiction up to 8,000 words (pays $100-$300 and sometimes higher for accepted work) and a maximum of 5 poems up to 200 lines (pays between $25-$250 and sometimes higher). Very prestigious journal with distribution in national bookstores. Fee: $3 to submit online, free by mail.
|
|
You probably knew that
April is National Poetry Month, right? Yay! So crank out that poem. But did you know that April is also
National Canine Fitness Month (Woof woof!) and
National Straw Hat Month (Pass the daiquiri, dahling!)? Let’s recognize those holidays by submitting to:
The Bark
No deadline.
I’m a big dog lover (and to clarify, not just big dogs, but all dogs, from teacups to the titanic), and I simply drool over
The Bark magazine. Help celebrate canine fitness by taking Phydeaux for a walk and then submitting a 300-word short story told from your pooch’s point of view to be considered for their online edition. Can you imagine the “curb creds” you’ll have with Phydeaux? Read one here:
https://thebark.com/content/new-lady-friend.
The Bark may not be flea-free, but they’re fee-free, so what do you have to lose? Pay is negotiated upon acceptance.
The Daisy Pettles House Older Women Writers Awards
Deadline: April 15
If you’re 40+, celebrate straw hats by entering your essay or story in this dreamy contest in honor of Daisy Pettles, the pen name of novelist Vicky Phillips. For the record, I’m not sure if Daisy Pettles wears a straw hat, but I sure wouldn’t bet against it, and I can easily imagine myself wearing mine while swinging on the porch of the Daisy Pettles Writer’s House, a vintage 1920s arts and crafts bungalow in Bedford, Indiana.
Two Grand Prizes of $1,000 plus a month-long free residency in that cozy bungalow with double porch, limestone patio, a garden, and a DEEP SOAKING TUB. Two Finalists (1st runners-up) receive $250 and the residency if the grand prize winner cannot accept and two finalists (2nd runners-up) receive $100. In case you forgot, let me repeat myself: DEEP SOAKING TUB! And you can even bring Phydeaux! Or Phylicia the cat. I’m serious! Fee: $45. Note: If the fee poses a hardship, don’t let it deter you from entering. Officials will happily consider requests for a reduced fee ($25) or a complete waiver ($0), depending on your circumstances.
|
|
Compiled by Margo L. Dill
Staying positive and celebrating successes, big and small, are two ways to help during the crisis we’re currently facing around the world. We were inspired to do success stories this month when Cindy Bradley wrote to us about an essay she had published after
taking a class with Chelsey Clammer. See Cindy’s success story below!
|
|
We put calls out periodically for success stories on
Facebook,
Twitter, and
Instagram. Please know, we mean any success! You can see from the list below that some writers are celebrating daily word count goals, and some published a book. We love hearing from you about what you are doing, and if anything we’re doing at WOW! helped you reach your goals. In this world where we can sometimes feel disconnected from each other, especially now with social distancing, it helps to hear feedback!
If you aren’t on social media, that’s okay. You can always email at any time any success to me, Margo Dill, at
margo@wow-womenonwriting.com. Because sometimes gmail puts those emails into the spam folder (one frustration with gmail!), please cc
margolynndill@gmail.com or email a few days later if you don’t hear back after using the WOW! address.
Now on to success…
From email:
Cindy Bradley said, “I'd love to share my essay ‘Deadlift’, which I worked on in one of Chelsey Clammer's ‘Not What But How: A Focus on Craft’ classes, with fellow WOW readers/writers. ‘Deadlift’ has just been published by Empty Mirror Press, and can be found here:
https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/deadlift
Carole Mertz said, “Since the end of January, I maintained my daily reading/writing program: Read 30 books (of which 7 poetry collections, 2 spiritual books, 5 novels, 3 essay collections, 3 how-to books, 10 misc.); wrote 4 new reviews, 3 flash fiction, 4 poems; had thirteen acceptances published of which 6 are new clips. Three sites await my reviews. Placed 4 reprints and took a 4-week online course at
Creative Nonfiction. Friends published interview of me at seven sites.”
Here are 5 of Carol's recent publications:
Kathryn Schleich said, "I am thrilled to announce that my crime novel,
Salvation Station, will be released April 14, 2020, by She Writes Press. It's a tale of murder and mystery amid the backdrop of religious fraud and can be preordered on Amazon. As along-time member of WOW, I am grateful for the support of the community."
Angela Mackintosh said, "Thanks to workshopping my essays with our fantastic community of writers and instructors in
WOW! Workshops, I've had four recent creative nonfiction essay acceptances! '
Happy Sobriety Birthday' was published with
Eastern Iowa Review, '
Fullerton Girls' was published in
iō Literary Journal; and two are forthcoming: 'Doing It in Public' is scheduled to publish in
X-R-A-Y Literary Journal on April 1st, and 'Girls Like Us,' an experimental animated flash CNF piece, is publishing in
Exposition Review this May. If you're looking for quick turnaround times and editors who are wonderful to work with, I recommend all four of these journals. X-R-A-Y Lit came back with an acceptance in less than 24 hours! Fastest. Response. Ever."
From Facebook:
Janet Coburn said, “My second book was published this year (
Bipolar Us), despite the publishing company shutting down right before it was finished. It's now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It's meant for anyone with bipolar disorder and their friends or loved ones.”
Elm Ford said, “I have broken readership records on a blog I contribute to and won 3 prizes for most reads. Pretty chuffed.”
Lynn Nicholas said, “At the start of 2020, I morphed from writer to author with the publication of my book,
Dancing Between the Beats. I've since thrown a champagne launch party, done a few public readings and signings, and sold enough copies to feel validated. My blog www.lynnnicholaswrites has gained a few readers as well.”
Also, I gained my TEFL certification to teach English abroad, which is one of my educational goals kind of related to writing, because I love teaching.”
Georgia Hubley said, “On Jan 1, 2020, I turned cartwheels...well…in my mind. My story, ‘
Thank You, Sister Friend,’ appeared in the January issue of
Sasee Magazine. On Feb 5, 2020, notified by Guideposts, my guardian angel story will appear in their May/June issue of ‘Angels on Earth.’ On March 1, 2020, my story, ‘Empty Nest,’ appeared between the covers of the Spring issue THEMA Literary Journal. Then Friday the 13th, March 13, 2020, was my lucky day: received a heads-up. My angel story will appear in an upcoming
Woman's World issue (cover date April 20th). Available on newsstands: April 9th - April 15th.”
From Instagram:
@notes_onthego said, “I wrote an article that was posted on
fitlivingtips.com about the health benefits and fun with paddleboarding. If you haven’t tried it, I definitely recommend doing it (someday).”
@fullmoons_and_lattes said, “I've been writing since my dad passed in Aug 2018. I've entered a few competitions, and on 1st March, I won 1st prize in the
Dream Quest One writing competition.”
@carrieksorensen said, “I've mostly met my goal of 2k words a day this past 6 weeks or so and finally managed to finish my first draft of a manuscript I've restarted and scrapped and restarted for years.”
@karendraper_author said, “My book,
The Place of Us, has received 14 five-star Amazon reviews so far this year!”
|
|
Authors, has your book event been canceled? So many people are impacted by the crisis happening around the world, and we would like to invite you to participate in our group author giveaway. It's called the Stay Home and Read Event! This is for all authors, no matter when your book was published or whether you had an event canceled or not. We'd love you all to join in!
Here are the details:
- The giveaway starts April 13th and will last until May 3rd. Our ideal
deadline for authors to sign up is March 31st, but if you sign up a few days after, that's still fine.
- All authors participating in the giveaway will be included in an email newsletter about the giveaway sent to 50,000+ subscribers and promoted on our social media accounts.
- We will be hosting the giveaway via Rafflecopter. You can promote up to 3 social media accounts (which will be added as extra entry options). You can also add an email newsletter for readers to sign up for your newsletter.
- There is a fee of $50 to participate. $10 of this fee will go directly to the grand prize giveaway of an Amazon Gift Card.
- There will be 3 winners of the giveaway, so be prepared to send out at least three books to the winners.
- The winners will be US only which will save you on shipping costs. You have the option to choose to send an e-book or print copy.
If you'd like to join in, sign up for the giveaway at this Google form here:
|
|
Pat yourself on the back if one or more of these listings has inspired you to throw your own “straw hat” into the ring. Submitting takes courage. The subjective nature of our art means that we’ll have our hearts broken occasionally. And it can be tough. But nothing tempers the disappointments more than having a writing project waiting for you. Keeping multiple works in various stages of completion – whether I meet a particular deadline or not – is standard practice for me because it keeps hope alive. As a writer friend told me long ago: “A good story will always find a home.”
And as I mentioned above, I learn so much by submitting. Turns out I wasn’t quite funny enough for “Funny Women.” At least not yet. But when I later learned that
The Rumpus needed essays for a themed contest on “Food and Family,” I suspected that a chapter about a cake disaster from my memoir just might fit the bill. So I took a deep breath and submitted it, and to my great delight, “
A Soul-Satisfying Crunch: Kitchen Sink Granola Bars” was accepted by and published in
The Rumpus in December 2019.
So…what are you waiting for?
~ Ashley Memory
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
