Behind the Scenes
Everything I Submitted from 2006-2008 & What Happened To It
[Key: Journal / Title of Work / Date Sent / Date Response Received / Accepted?]
[Strikethrough = withdrawn]
2008
Proximity (solicited) Bath or Mud (reprint) 12/29 1/14 Y
Dewclaw (solicited) New Sick & Sentencens 12/29 12/29 Y
Dalkey Archive 2 nov excerpts 12/29
The Cupboard Sourcebook 12/18 RETRACT
Diagram 100 Children 12/16 1/14 N
Noon Sourcebook 12/12 2/20 N+
Fence I am a Destroyed Person 12/11
Crazyhorse List 11, 48 12/11
Swink 43 12/10
Hobart Smoke House 12/8 12/11 Y
Typo Some of RA2 12/7 12/29 N
Absent Some of RA + Footnote 12/7 1/3 N
Chaffey Review 11, 30 12/3 3/3 Y (11)
American Short Fiction Sourcebook 12/1 2/2 N
Pank 38, 48, Egg 11/22 12/3 Y (38)
Rome Review 42 11/16 11/22 Y
New Madrid 48 11/15
Euphony 30, 48 11/15 2/25 N
Packingtown Review 25, 48 11/15 SEND BY MAIL
Upstreet 28, 48 11/15 11/17 N
West Branch 48 11/15 12/9 N
Center 48 11/15 12/12 N
The Normal School 25, 37 11/15 2/17 N
The Pinch 41 11/15 2/20 N
Oxford American 8, 28, 35 11/15 7/15 N
Cincinatti Review 8, 24 11/15 1/16 N
14 Hills 38, 46 11/15
Seneca Review 50 11/15 12/20 N
Quarterly West 30 Nonfic, 8/25 Poetry 11/12 5/9 N+
Lumina 25, 46 11/12 2/2 N
Bat City Review 24 11/12 1/4 N
Saint Ann’s Review 24, 35 11/12
Jubilat 30 11/12
Columbia 35, 37, 41 11/12 5/27 N
Southwest Review 41 11/12 11/16 N
Greatcoat 35 11/12 3/28 N+
AGNI 41 11/12 1/23 N
Third Coast 37 11/12 1/6 N
Conjunctions Eruption Instructions 11/12 1/12 N
Literary Review 28 11/11 2/15 N
NY Quarterly 28 11/11 1/20 N
Baltimore Review 28 11/11
Boston Review 28 11/11 3/23 N
Failbetter Undestructor 10/20
Puerto del Sol Choir(s) 10/20 11/6 Y
St. Petersburg Review Hymnal(s) 10/17 10/1 N
FC2 Sukenick Prize Nightmare 10/10 5/15 N
12 Stories (solicit) Nightmare section 10/8 10/21 N+
Third Coast Choir(s) 10/5 10/31 N
Columbia Choir(s) 10/2 10/4 N+
Tin House Choir(s) 9/20 3/23 N+
Denver Quarterly Hymnal(s) 9/20 1/30 N
Subtropics Hymnal(s) 9/20 9/30 N
Black Clock Choir(s) 9/15
Sonora Review 11, 14, 35 9/14
AGNI Choir(s) 9/10 10/8 N
Keyhole Books Nightmare 9/8
New Orleans Review Choir(s) 8/17 10/5 N
Ecotone Choir(s) 8/17 9/30 N
Noon Choir(s) 8/17 9/15 N
Fence Books NIGHTMARE 8/15
Dalkey Archive NIGHTMARE 8/10 12/10 N+
Barrelhouse Ruined Child 8/6 8/25 Y
Cream City Review Grope Movie 8/3 9/22 N
Sycamore Review 14, 37, 39 8/3 10/20 N+
Third Coast Grope Movie 8/3 10/10 N
Bat City Review Egg 8/3 11/20 N
Ploughshares Egg 8/3 3/23 N+
Conjunctions Copy Family 7/30 8/17 N
Letterbox What Want 7/29
Flatmancrooked NIGHTMARE 10k 7/28
No Record NIGHTMARE 7/28
Florida Review Light Smear 7/27
Open Face Sandwich 3 excerpts 7/27 8/6 Y
Fugue State Press NIGHTMARE 20pp 7/20 7/27 N+
Ellipsis Press NIGHTMARE 7/20 11/2 N+
Turtle Point Press Scorch Atlas 7/18 7/27 N+
Bat City What Want 7/10
Unsaid 2 from Nightmare 6/31 10/5 Y
Dzanc WHERE AM I 6/30 7/11 N+
Low Rent Krissy Taylor 6/26 6/27 N
Epiphany 14, 37 6/17 6/23 N
The Corduroy Mtn. MASSIVE FABRIC 6/5 6.27 Y
IG WHERE AM I full 6/5 7/28 N
Unsaid 4 piece 6/4 8/10 Y(2)
Bellevue Literary Press WHERE AM I 6/4 6/6 N+
Melville House WHERE AM I 6/4 10/20 N+
Gargoyle Egg 6/3
LoFi Books WHERE AM I query 6/3 ASSUMED NO
IG WHERE AM I query 6/3 6/5 SEND FULL
FC2 WHERE AM I query 6/3 ASK IN OCT
Two Dollar Radio WHERE AM I 6/3 3/2 SEND FULL
McSweeney’s Books WHERE AM I 6/3 2/16 N
McSweeney’s Egg 5/28 9/18 N
Bellevue Literary Review Egg 5/28 11/22 N
Pistol Room of Hair, 39 5/27 8/25 Y
Calamari Ever (novella) 5/26 Y
Nano Fiction 13 Dream Dream 5/22 6/8 Y
NYTyrant Books SCORCH 5/18 NOT NOW
Bust Down the door… Friends Apocalypse 5/17 5/18 Y
Redivider What is left from nowhere 5/16
NYTyrant Ever, Exit Method 5/16 5/16 Y
Quick Fiction Slur 5/15 7/25 N
DIAGRAM Other Houses 5/11 5/31 N
Failbetter Exit Method 5/9 6/9 N+
Unsaid Egg 5/9 SEND MORE
Harp & Altar 4 excerpts 5/9 7/12 N+
Canteen iTunes 5/4
5_trope Nov_DOPPELGANGER 5/3
Surreal South Seabed 5/3 4/18 N
Quick Fiction WHAT / HOW SON SICK 4/30 7/1 N+
Smokelong DISEASE RELICS 4/28 6/4 Y
The Lumberyard DISEASE RELICS 4/28
DIAGRAM The Copy Son 4/28
Columbia Ever 4/26
Pequin The Son’s Book 4/23 4/23 Y
21 Stars NOVEL excerpt 4/23
Harp & Altar 3 from NOVEL other 4/23
Fairy Tale Review BATH BATH 4/21 9/22 N
Wigleaf 3 from NOVEL 4/21 4/22 Y
Keyhole Books SCORCH ATLAS 4/13
Knockout 43, 8 4/9 6/10 N
Ghost Road Press SCORCH (4 stories) query 4/9 ASSUME NO
Milkweed Editions SCORCH ATLAS 4/8 8/10 N
BOA Editions SCORCH ATLAS 4/8 5/10 N+
Crazyhorse BATH BATH 4/7
Bellevue Literary Press SCORCH ATLAS 4/7 4/7 N+
Improbable Object ebay, snaredrum 4/4 6/2 Y
A Public Space BATH BATH 4/3 11/11 N
Mustachioed Spungen, Snare, EBAY 4/1
Parthenon West (30, 38, 40, 41) 4/1
Cab/net (43) 4/1
Fou (43) 4/1 7/11 N
Tarpaulin Sky COMB ROOM 4/1 8/1 Y
StorySouth The Ruined Child 4/1
Denver Quarterly BATH BATH 4/1 5/10 N
Another Chicago Mag BATH BATH 4/1
VQR BATH BATH 4/1 4/22 N
McSweeney’s BATH BATH 3/31 4/15 N
Mid-American Review (35) 3/31
Apalachee Review (35) 3/31 7/21 N
Florida Review (35) 3/31
Pindeldyboz Friends Apocalypse 3/27
Fence Books SCORCH ATLAS 3/26
Oranges & Sardines 4 pieces (solicited) 3/25 4/11 Y2
4W8W SCORCH ATLAS query 3/25 ASSUME NO
[sic] The Ruined Child 3/19
Weird Tales The Ruined Child 3/18 6/23 N+
Ploughshares Room Comb 3/18
Practice Room Comb 3/18
Subtropics Room Comb 3/18 3/31 N
AGNI Room Comb 3/18 4/6 N+
Tin House Room Comb 3/18 5/16 N+
Ecotone Room Comb 3/18 4/22 N
DIAGRAM $5 contest Many forms of Rain 3/12 5/18 Y
Conjunctions Light/Smear 3/11 6/9 N+
Keyhole (solicited WW) 14, 39 3/9 10/9 Y
Turntable & Blue Light KAUFMAN / Bloom 3/3
Ocho (solicited) McAULIFFE / Odor is 2/28 2/28 Y
Drunken Boat SHAKUR / Snaredrum 2/27
Typo TATE / Snaredrum 2/27 5/10 N
Word for/Word KAUFMAN 2/27
Dusie TAYLOR 2/27 6/24 N
One Story PRETEND I’M THERE 2/27
New Madrid (14, nonfic) 2/27 6/11 N
Publishing Genius PRETEND I’M THERE 2/25 3/1 Y
Monkeybicycle.net TAYLOR 2/23 2/25 N
Diode (solicited) (12, 14, 16) 2/23 2/24 Y
DIAGRAM KAUFMAN 2/22 2/29 N+
Pindeldyboz FARLEY 2/22
McSweeneys.net KAUFMAN 2/22 2/25 N+
Keyhole SPUNGEN TATE Landlord 2/22 4/9 Y
Knockout Tupac, IP: NC, Bloom, In 2 2/20
Why Vandalism? FARLEY 2/19 2/24 Y
Backwards City Weight Gainer / What is left 2/18
Sleepingfish Landlord, 2 from, 1 & Ano 2/18
Gulf Stream Bath or Mud 2/18
Monkeybicycle Friends Apocalypse 2/16
Diagram PRETEND I’M THERE 2/16
Southeast Review EVER 2/16
Apex Digest Friends Apocalypse 2/16 3/3 N
A Public Space Drowned Neighborhood 2/16
Redivider EVER 2/15
New Madrid Weight Gainer (revise) 2/9
The Normal School EVER 2/9
Opium 6 Weight Gainer (revise) 2/7 2/27 Y
12th Street The Ruined Child 2/6 STUDENT ONLY
Action Yes (solicited) Months 37-x, Gristle 2/5 2/7 Y
Tin House Weight Gainer 1/27
Harpur Palate Drowned Neighborhood 1/27 4/3 Y
Ecotone Drowned Neighborhood 1/27 2/14 N
Noon Try not to think about it 1/22 2/15 N
Memorious Months 37-X, Landlord 1/22 2/24 Y
The Dream People Months 37-X 1/22
Florida Review (30) 1/22 3/20 N+
Blue Earth Review (16, 25) 1/22 2/17 N
CutBank (28) 1/22 5/15 N
Columbia (28, 30) 1/22 9/22 N+
BEAR PARADE Pretend I Am There 1/17 1/27 N+
New Madrid Bath or Mud 1/17 2/5 N
Meridian The Ruined Child 1/13 3/4 N
n+1 (all nonpublished SA stories) 1/5 5/3 N
Avery Bath or Mud 1/5 4/6 Y
Harp & Altar Something About A 1/2
DIAGRAM Something About A 1/2 1/22 N
Word For/Word Something About A 1/2
2007
Cimarron Review Television Milk 12/31 4/6 N
Triquarterly Drowned Neighborhood 12/31 3/9 N
Packingtown Review (12) 12/31 2/7 N
Turnrow (12) 12/31
New Orleans Review Weight Gainer 12/31
Soft Skull SCORCH ATLAS (30 pp) 12/31 6/9 N
Coffee House SCORCH ATLAS (20 pp) 12/31 1/28 N
Melville House SCORCH ATLAS (full) 12/31 4/9 N+
Hawthorne Books SCORCH ATLAS (50pp) 12/31 3/16 N+
FC2 SCORCH ATLAS (5) 12/26 5/30 N+
Alice Blue In 2 Weeks, Inst Poem NC 12/24
See You Next Tuesday There were always other 12/24 12/25 Y
Keyhole Snaredrum, Matlock 12/19 2/22 N+
Borrowed Premise Ant. Twin Peaks 12/17 12/17 Y
West Branch Many Forms of Rain 12/17 3/9 N+
Euphony What is Left from Nowhere 12/17
Crazyhorse Bath or Mud EXT 12/17
Fence Weight Gainer 12/17
Bat City Review What is left from 12/15
cold-drill Want for Wish for 12/14 Y
Fascicle Matlock, Snaredrum 12/13 HIATUS
Sink Review Matlock, INS Poem A 12/13
Dislocate Want for Wish for 12/13 5/11 N+
Carolina Quarterly Want for Wish for 12/13
Sleepingfish Bloom Atlas EXT 12/12
Failbetter.com Bath or Mud EXT 12/12
Chicago Review Want for Wish for 12/10 1/28 N
Zahir Want for Wish for 12/10 1/28 N
Southern Review Want for Wish for 12/10 3/10 N
New England Review Want for Wish for 12/10 4/22 N
Knockout Ruiner, Trance, Snare, Odor 12/8 2/19 N+
McSweeney’s books SCORCH ATLAS 12/8 4/15 N
elimae More Light (wall excerpt) 12/4 12/5 Y
Sidebrow More Light (wall excerpt) 12/4
Alice Blue Review More Light (wall excerpt) 12/4
Cream City Review Drowned Neighborhood 12/3
Faultline Drowned Neighborhood 12/3 Y BUT EDIT, N
Apalachee Review (14) 12/3 1/25 N+
Fairy Tale Review (14) 12/3
Saranac Review (14) 12/3 2/15 N
Tin House (31) 12/3
Lady Churchill’s RW Bloom Atlas 12/3
Conjunctions Drowned Neighborhood 12/3 NO SS, BL
21 Stars Review Trance Index 12/2
Capgun Ruiner, Snaredrum, Odor 12/2
Harp & Altar Snaredrum, Ins Poem A 12/2 12/12 N
Many Mountains Moving Drowned Neighborhood 12/1 1/17 N+
Baltimore Is Reads All I want is 12/1 12/2 Y
Featherproof Books Scorch Atlas (FULL) 11/30 9/7 Y
Small Beer Press SCORCH query 11/30 ASSUME NO
Natural Bridge (33, nonfic) 11/28 5/10 N
DIAGRAM Snaredrum 11/28 12/10 N+
Gulf Coast Bath or Mud EXT 11/28
Horseless Review Snaredrum 11/28 12/31 N
Word For/Word Snaredrum 11/28 12/18 N
West Branch The Disappeared 11/28
Upstreet (33, 25, nonfic) 11/28 1/12 N+
/nor The Disappeared 11/28 12/17 Y
Ellipsis (33) 11/28 3/10 N
Diode Snaredrum, Ruiner, Odor is 11/28 1/12 N
Sycamore Review Many Forms of Rain 11/28 3/9 N
Fugue Bath or Mud EXT 11/28
Ecotone Bath or Mud EXT 11/28 12/18 N
Alligator Juniper (6) 11/26 2/22 Y
Conduit Bloom Atlas EXT 11/26 2/9 N
Meridian Bath or Mud EXT 11/26 1/13 N+
Mcsweeney’s.net (12) 11/26 11/29 N
AGNI (31, nonfic) 11/26
Featherproof Books 50 pp SCORCH ATLAS 11/25 11/30 FULL
DZANC BOOKS 2 from SCORCH ATLAS 11/25 NEW POLICY
Gulf Stream Bloom Atlas 11/25
Bat City Review (11, 31, poetry), Ruiner 11/19
Third Coast Many Forms of Rain 11/19
Open City Many Forms of Rain 11/19
Orchid Many Forms of Rain 11/19
Crazyhorse The Disappeared 11/17
Florida Review The Ruined Child 11/16 1/22 N
H_NGM_N Odor / Trance / Ruiner 11/14 1/27 N
StorySouth Odor / Trance / Ruiner 11/14 3/16 N
BOMB Many Forms of Rain 11/12 2/29 N
Santa Monica Review Many Forms of Rain 11/12 3/20 N
Sou’wester What is left 11/12 2/22 N+
Flyway TV Milk 11/8
St. Petersburg Review (30, 32 nonfic) 11/8 5/29 N
Capgun Ruiner, Rep Err, All I want 11/7
Iowa Review (30) 11/5 12/14 N
Faultline (30) 11/5 12/1 N
14 Hills (6, 20 nonfic) 11/5
New Orleans Review The Disappeared 11/5
11:11 (20, nonfic) 11/5 2/23 Y
The Hat Ruiner, Rep Err, All I want 11/3 11/9 N
Packingtown Review (31) 11/3
Stirring Ruiner 11/1
Juked Ruiner 11/1 2/17 Y
Mid-American Review Friends Apocalypse 11/1 3/24 N+
Sentence Landlord, Trance Index 11/1
CutBank (31, nonfic) 11/1
Passages North (31, nonfic) 11/1
Salt Hill Journal (31, nonfic) 11/1 12/14 Y
Jubilat Trance Index 11/1 12/19 N
Diagram Odor is 10/30 11/15 N
Front Porch Rep Error 10/30 11/14 Y
Backwards City Review What is left…/ Bloom EXT 10/23 RESUBBED
Salt Hill Journal What is left… 10/23 11/1 N
Sonora Review What is left… 10/23 4/13 N
Harp & Altar All I want is… 10/22
The Pinch (28) 10/20 1/17 N
H_NGM_N Odor is, Rep Error 10/20
Front Porch Odor is 10/19 10/30 N+
Sink Review Rep Error 10/17
Fence The Disappeared 10/17
Spinning Jenny Rep Error, Odor is 10/17
Quarter After 8 Rep Error, UTICA DR 10/17
Noon Landlord 10/16 11/10 N
Orchid Exponential 10/16
Unsaid 13 Plastic Doors 10/16 10/16 Y
storySouth Replication Er, Odor is 10/16
Water-Stone Review The Disappeared 10/16
Bateau Contest INSOMNIA MANUAL 10/16 4/4 N+
Subtropics (28) 10/15
Adbusters The Disappeared 10/15
Ontario Review The Disappeared 10/15 11/6 N
Missouri Review The Disappeared 10/15 11/6 N
Euphony The Disappeared 10/15
Florida Review The Disappeared 10/15 11/16 N+
Sycamore Review The Disappeared 10/15 11/22 N
Ecotone The Disappeared 10/15 11/22 N
Orchid 13 Plastic Doors 10/14
Onion Union IP U, Insomnia 10/14
Cab/net IP A, Odor is, Trance Index 10/14 11/9 N
Unicorn Mountain Landlord 10/14 ASSUMED REJ
Mustachioed Odor is, Insomnia, IP U 10/14 2/22 N
Parthenon West Trance Index, Landlord 10/13 3/8 N+
No Trance Index, IP: NC, NOE 10/13 11/12 N+
Softblow What to do with nowhere 10/11 10/12 Y
Noon 13 Plastic Doors 10/11
Satellite Telephone Instructional Poem NC 10/10
Bear Parade MANUAL FOR INSOMNIA 10/10 10/12 N+
VQR Instructional Poem AD 10/7 10/20 N
A Public Space The Ruined Child 10/7 1/29 N
Canteen Landlord 10/7
The Normal School (28) 10/7 2/7 N
Parthenon West IP for NOE, AD, Coma O 10/5 10/9 N+
Jubilat Instructional Poem NOE 10/5 10/17 N
Diode Instructional Poem A 10/4 11/2 N
Southeast Review The Ruined Child 10/3 12/13 N
Vestal Review One & Another & the last 10/2
[sic] Instructional Poem A 10/2
Sou’wester The Ruined Child 10/2 11/10 N+
Triquarterly The Ruined Child 10/2 12/16 N
Alaska Quarterly Review The Ruined Child 10/2 3/16 N
Fairy Tale Review The Ruined Child 10/2 12/1 N
McSweeney’s Tour of the Drowned 10/2
Ploughshares The Ruined Child 10/2 2/24 N
Oxford American Instructional Poem NOE,AD 10/1 3/12 N+
AGNI (12, nonfic) 10/1 11/26 N+
Hayden’s Ferry Review (28, nonfic) 10/1 9/22 N+
/nor Coma Ocean, Ins P NOE 10/1
Versal Instructional Poem A 9/28 12/19 N+
Past Simple Instructional Poem A 9/28 1/14 N
Unpleasant Event Schedule Instructional Poem A 9/28
Mustachioed Instructional Poem A 9/28 10/13 N
Sidebrow Instructional Poem A 9/28 10/27 N
La Petite Zine Instructional Poem AD 9/27
The Tiny Instructional Poem AD 9/27
5_trope Instructional Poem AD 9/27
21 Stars Review Instructional Poem AD 9/27 12/2 N
Pineapple War Instructional Poem GE 9/26 9/26 Y
No Landlord 9/25 10/5 N
Ellipsis Coma Ocean 9/24
Gulf Stream Coma Ocean 9/24
Jubilat Coma Ocean 9/24 10/5 N
Southern Review (28, nonfic) 9/24 12/8 N
New South Exponential 9/24
Packingtown Review (19, 25) 9/24 11/3 N+
Murdaland UTICA DR 9/23 2/18 N
VQR (6, 16) 9/21 9/30 N
Hobart TV Milk 9/20 10/29 N
Diode Instructional Poem NT 9/17 10/4 N
H_NGM_N Instructional Poem NT 9/17
Typo Instructional Poem NT 9/17 1/4 N
Blue Earth Review Contest Landlord, Gristle, Bath 9/17 2/15 N
Bust Down the Door… Landlord 9/16 9/26 N
Absent Chinese Dinner Div. 9/16 4/22 N
No Gristle 9/16 9/26 N
Zahir Television Milk 9/16 10/27 N
LIT Water Damaged 9/16 11/8 Y
Phoebe Seabed (full) 9/16 10/1 Y
Denver Quarterly Damage Claim 9/16
Clockwork Phoenix Television Milk 9/13 — N
Ontario Review (28) 9/13 10/5 N
Santa Monica Review (28) 9/13 10/18 N
VQR (28) 9/13 9/21 N
Salt Flats Annual Television Milk 9/13
Southwest Review (28) 9/13 10/22 N
AGNI (28) 9/13 10/1 N+
Open City Exponential 9/13
Willow Springs Exponential 9/13 11/15 Y
Connecticut Review (6 nonfic) 9/11
Cimarron Review (6 nonfic) 9/11 11/16 N
Lake Effect Damage Claim 9/11 10/23 Y
Fence (6) 9/11
Barrelhouse (12) 9/11 12/26 N
Backwards City Review Months 37, Damage Claim 9/10
One Story Seabed (Full version) 9/5
St. Petersburg Review Water Damaged 9/5
Western Humanities Rev Television Milk 9/2 12/3 N
Tin House Tour of the Drowned 9/2 12/1 N
Iowa Review Tour of the Drowned 9/2 10/9 N
Tampa Review Television Milk / Water D 9/2
Southern Review Television Milk 9/2 9/20 N
Shenandoah Water Damaged 9/2 10/22 N
Phoebe Water Damaged 9/2 9/14 N+
Pearl Gristle, Bath or Mud 9/2 9/18 N
Columbia (11, 25) 9/2 12/21 N+
New England Review Tour of the Drowned 9/2 12/8 N+
Seneca Review (26) 9/2 12/10 N+
Flyway Water Damaged 9/2
5 Points Tour of the Drowned 9/2 11/2 N
Ninth Letter Ruined Child / Gown 9/1 10/1 Y!
Fugue Television Milk 9/1 10/17 N
Passages North Water Damaged / Gristle 9/1 10/22 N
Fairy Tale Review The Gown 9/1
Willow Springs Damage Claim Q / Gristle 8/30 9/10 N
Ploughshares The Gown 8/24
Unruly Months 37-X 8/23
Call: Review Damage Claim Q 8/23 9/24 N
New American Writing Damage Claim / TV Milk 8/23 9/10 N
Florida Review Damage Claim Q 8/23 10/9 N
Sentence Damage Claim Q 8/22
Sojourn Months 37-X 8/21
Aquapolis Months 37-X 8/21
Shampoo A Healthy Communication 8/21 1/4 N
Octopus Search Engine 8/20 1/22 N
Sonora Review (12, 27) 8/16 10/11 N
Alaska Quarterly Review The Gown 8/16 WITHDRAWN
Subtropics Drowned Neighborhood 8/16 9/26 N
Folio Gristle, Bath or Mud 8/16 10/13 N+
West Branch Exponential 8/16 9/17 N
Sou’wester Electricity 8/16 WITHDRAWN
Georgia Review Drowned Neighborhood 8/16
Ecotone Electricity 8/16 WITHDRAWN
New Madrid Electricity 8/16 WITHDRAWN
Zoetrope Contest Drowned Neighborhood 8/15 12/1 N
Chicago Review Drowned Neighborhood 8/15 12/1 N
Conduit Bath or Mud 8/15
Southeast Review Electricity 8/15 WITHDRAWN
Fourth Genre (26, 27) 8/15 10/18 N
Threepenny Review Gristle 8/12 8/20 N
Post Road Electricity 8/8 WITHDRAWN
Mississippi Review One&Another&theLast 8/8
Pebble Lake Review (27) 8/7 9/5 Y
McSweeney’s The Gown 8/7
Conjunctions Exponential 8/6 9/13 N
Maisonneuve (21, 27) 8/5 ASSUMED
Salt Hill (27) 8/5
Snow Books PUPILS 8/5 ASSUMED
Columbia Poetry Review (26, 27) 8/2 WITHDRAWN
Sycamore Review Electricity 8/2 WITHDRAWN
Sentence review of R Lopez 8/2 WITHDRAWN
Third Coast Bloom Atlas, Bath or Mud 8/2
Blue Earth Review Burnsong, Months 37-X 8/2 12/9 N
Cream City Review (20) 8/1 11/4 N
Cab/net Months 37-X 7/31 9/29 N
Cabinet (16) 7/30 ASSUMED
Wandering Army What I’ve Been… 7/30 8/23 Y
Quick Fiction Gravel 7/29 8/19 Y
Story Quarterly Gristle 7/28 ASSUMED
Radical Society (14) 7/25 CLOSED MARKET
The Journal (14, 16) 7/25 11/29 N+
Smokelong Search Engine 7/24 7/30 N
Pleiades Gristle, Bloom Atlas 7/24 8/13 N
Madison Review Gristle, Months 37-X 7/24 10/5 N
New Orleans Review Gristle 7/24 10/26 N+
Juked (print) Burnsong 7/24 1/20 N
GUD Gristle 7/21 7/24 N
Many Mountains Moving (11, 13, 14, 25) 7/17 10/17 N
Canteen (13) 7/17 10/2 N
River Styx (11) 7/17 9/29 N
Blue Mesa Review (11, 26) 7/17 9/10 N
Cutthroat (11, 14, 21) 7/17 10/28/09 N
Harpur Palate Bloom Atlas, Bath or Mud 7/17
Black Clock Bloom Atlas, Bath or Mud 7/15 ASSUMED
Dislocate Bloom Atlas, Bath or Mud 7/15
Hunger Mountain Months 37-X 7/13 8/16 N
cold-drill Months 37-X 7/13
Lake Effect (11, 14) 7/13 9/11 N
Harvard Review (11, 25) 7/13
River Teeth (11, 16) 7/13 3/12 N
14 Hills (14, 26) 7/11
Opium Contest Discipline of No Want 7/11 8/21 Y.com
Shimmer Heir 7/10 7/21 N
Narrative Magazine Burnsong 7/10 10/8 N
Zahir Heir 7/8 8/27 N
Cimarron Review (25, 26) 7/8 8/24 N
Oxford American (12, 16, 25, 26) 7/8 8/24 N+
New American Writing (16, 25, 26) 7/8 8/1 N
Mid-American Review (25, 26) 7/8
Fence (12, 25, 26) 7/8 10/30 Y
Nimrod (25, 26) 7/8 9/11 N
Night Train (5, 18) 7/5 9/28 Y (18)
/nor (13, 18, 21) 7/3 WITHDRAWN
Conjunctions Months 36-X 6/29 7/26 N
Caffeine Destiny (5, 6) 6/28 8/12 N
Small Spiral Notebook What I’ve Been… 6/27 7/14 N
Unpleasant Event Sched. What I’ve Been… 6/27 Withdrawn
Evergreen What I’ve Been… 6/27 Withdrawn
Aquapolis What I’ve Been… 6/27 7/30 N
Bellevue Lit Review One&Another 6/27 1/2 N+
Rattle (12, 20) 6/27 8/8 N
Short Fiction (UK) Burnsong 6/26 ASSUMED
GUD Heir 6/26 6/27 N
Capgun (5, 18, 22) 6/25 WITHDRAWN
Barn Owl Review (6, 14, 18) 6/25 9/16 N
failbetter (14) 6/24
Willow Springs One & Another 6/24 10/4 N
Santa Monica Review One & Another 6/24 9/4 N
RHINO (12, 14, 16) 6/24 9/10 N
Pebble Lake Review One & Another 6/24 8/6 N
Ontario Review Weight Gainer 6/24 8/8 N
Omnidawn Heir 6/24
Chautauqua (14, 22) 6/24 8/27 N
Call: Review One & Another, Gown 6/24 7/26 N
Bateau One & Another & the Last 6/24 3/29 Y
Bat City (12, 22) 6/24 11/19 N+
580 Split (12, 16) 6/24 10/30 N
Atlantic Monthly (12, 16) 6/24 8/20 N
Redivider Weight Gainer 6/24 2/15 N
Night Train The Gown 6/24 7/5 N+
Crazyhorse One&Another, Burnsong 6/24 11/16 N
NANOfiction The Way the Ruin Came 6/22 6/24 Y
Unsplendid (5, 11) 6/4 6/20 N
Controlled Burn Burnsong 5/30 6/2 N
Gargoyle Weight Gainer 5/30 9/10 N+
American Short Fiction Weight Gainer 5/22 11/7 N
Hobart Weight Gainer 5/16 6/4 N
SHALLA Fake Fire & R (reprint) 5/11 5/20 Y
Apocryhpal Text OVERHEARD 5/11 6/17 Y
cabnet (5, 11) OVERHEARD 5/10 5/18 N
Mississippi Review Burnsong 5/7 5/10 N
Practice Journal Weight Gainer 5/7 Withdrawn 8/26
Euphony One&Ano&Last & Gown 5/6
Lillies&CB Review One&Ano&Last & Gown 5/5 8/22 N
Fantasy Magazine Heir 5/5 6/7 N
Controlled Burn More Light 5/5 5/6 N
Trampoline House Burnsong 5/5 ASSUMED
Aquapolis More Light / Last XMAS 5/4 6/22 N
NOON One&Ano&Last 5/1 5/23 N
Unicorn Mountain (5, 23) 4/30
Smokelong The Gown 4/30 5/3 N
Glimmer Train The Gown 4/30 5/27 N
Juked (NEW MAN excerpt) 4/29 7/1 N
Another Sky Press (horror) More Light 4/29 ASSUMED
Southern Fried Weirdness Heir 4/28 4/30 N+
Ugly Accent The Sentence 4/26 Withdrawn 5/4
Fugue Burnsong 4/26 6/15 N
Good Foot (5, 11, 22) 4/26
Jubilat (20) 4/26 8/19 N+
South Dakota Review More Light 4/26 7/3 N
Night Train Burnsong 4/26 5/4 N
Evergreen Review The Sentence 4/26 Withdrawn 5/4
Harvard Review More Light 4/23 6/19 N
Broken Pencil Weight Gainer 4/22 Withdrawn 8/26
Mississippi Review Weight Gainer 4/18 4/21 N+
Best New Poets (1, 3) 4/18 8/21 N
New Genre More Light 4/18 8/19 N+
Cranky Chap Contest INSTRUCTIONS 1-10 4/13 11/3 DNP
Bateau Anniversary 4/13 Withdrawn 4/17
Swink Weight Gainer 4/12 LIKED, WAITED
Florida Review Weight Gainer 4/12 8/22 N
Subtropics More Light 4/10 4/18 N
Summerset Review The Sentence 4/10 Withdrawn 5/4
The MacGuffin More Light 4/10 ASSUMED
Apalachee Review Burnsong 4/10 5/31 N
Opium Print Weight Gainer 4/7 8/2 REWRITE
Avery Weight Gainer 4/7 Withdrawn 8/26
Bust Down the Door… Heir 4/2 7/7 N
Caketrain HIVE,OVERHE,Ann,Xmas 3/26 4/16 Y (A&H)
Ecotone Heir 3/26 4/30 N
Cadillac Cicatrix (6, 21) 3/20 ASSUMED
Southern Gothic Burnsong 3/20 Withdrawn 4/10
New Madrid (8, 20, 21) 3/19
Postcards from Hell Postcard 3/14 4/12 N
Eleventh Muse (6, 8, 11) 3/14 CLOSED
Hobart Print Burnsong 3/10 4/5 N
NANOfiction Anniversary & OVERHE 3/9 Withdrawn
Euphony (6, 8, 22) 3/9 4/22 N+
Cranky Burnsong 3/9 ASSUMED
Backwards City Burnsong 3/9 6/2 N
Thieves Jargon Paula 3/9 4/3 Y
Black Warrior Review (8, 14, 22) 3/8 6/28 Y (22)
The Rambler (8, 13) 3/8 4/20 Y (8)
Nerve.com (18) 3/8
GA Review (8, 19, 22) 3/8 4/20 N
Passages North (8, 14, 22) 3/8 6/1 N
Lake Effect Burnsong 3/7 7/9 N
Land Grant CR (20) 3/7 10/24 N
Bellevue Literary Review (14, 22) 3/7 4/16 N
Sycamore Review (14, 20, 21) 3/7 7/11 N
Rattle (14) 3/6 4/13 N
Smartish Pace (14, 20) 3/6
Harpur Palate The Gown 3/6 4/30 N
FriGG The Sentence 2/28 3/12 N
Alice Blue The Sentence 2/28 4/5 Y
Sidebrow The Sentence 2/28 4/15 N
Smokelong Paula 2/27 3/1 N
Quick Fiction Search Engine 2/22 7/24 N+
NOON Anniversary 2/21 3/24 N
Redivider (10, 19) & <OVERHEARD 2/21
Cream City (10, 19) & <OVERHEARD 2/21 5/13 N
Caketrain (10, 19) & If You Put 2/21 3/18 N
Burnside Review (10, 17) 2/21 4/21 Y (17)
Magma Poetry (19) 2/21
The Believer (16) 2/21
Magma Poetry <OVERHEARD, When 2/17 2/21 N
Literary Review (4, 5, 11) 2/16 2/27 N
turnrow (4, 5, 11) 2/16 9/18 N
21 Stars Paula 2/15 Withdrawn 4/3
Unsaid Burnsong 2/15
Adbusters (16) 2/15
Barrelhouse Print (5) 2/15 4/2 N+
Pebble Lake Review (16) 2/12 6/3 N
Renovation (4) 2/12 Withdrawn 3/6
Esopus (4, 13) 2/9 ASSUMED REJ
Murdaland More Light 2/7 4/17 N+
Ecotone (20) 2/1 3/26 N+
Sycamore Review (20) 2/1 4/1 N
Memoir (and) (20) 2/1 9/13 N
Backwards City (20) 2/1 6/3 N
Storyquarterly Heir 1/29 4/1 N
Pebble Lake Review (4) 1/28 2/12 N
Pindeldyboz (print) (12) 1/28
Parthenon West (17, 19) & Flag Day
Quick Fiction Anniversary 1/27 2/4 N
VOX (12, 17) 1/27
Quarter After Eight (13, 17) 1/26 6/27 N
Other Poetry (UK) (15) 1/25
GUD (12) 1/23 6/24 N
Bust Down the Door… Piercing Rodney’s 1/23 1/30 N
Quick Fiction If You Put… 1/22 2/4 N
cold-drill More Light 1/22 4/23 N
Creative Nonfiction (16) 1/22 4/20 N
No (17) 1/22 Withdrawn 4/21
Ninth Letter (8, 18) 1/22 3/8 N
Pleiades (16) 1/21 4/1 N
Bust Down the Door… (12) 1/21 1/23 N+, Other
Hayden’s Ferry Review (16, 17) 1/21 5/28 N
400 Words On My Way Home… 1/20 6/17 Y
Brick (17) 1/18
Copper Nickel (14, 10, 12) 1/18 3/1 Y (4,10)
Upstreet (5) 1/18 3/12 N
GUD (10, 14, Yes I Am) 1/15 1/22 N
Cabinet (4, 12) 1/15 ASSUMED REJ
Cimarron Review (14) 1/9 2/6 N
Crazyhorse (16) 1/9 2/22 N
A Public Space (16) 1/9 7/14 N
Mcsweeneys (6, 13) 1/9 7/25 N
Oxford American Burnsong 1/9 6/27 N
MiPOesias (15) 1/7 1/9 Y
Harpur Palate (2) 1/8 Withdrawn 1/20
Other Magazine (8) 1/4 Withdrawn 1/18
New American Writing (14) 1/4 1/15 N
Jubilat (5) 1/4 3/21 N
Southeast Review (4) 1/4 Withdrawn 3/3
Avery Heir 1/3 4/1 N
Fugue (13) 1/2 4/4 N
Flint Hills Review (13) 1/2 4/1 N
McSweeneys (2, 10, 13) 1/2 Withdrawn 1/9
2006
A Public Space List of 50 (2) 12/28 Withdrawn 1/9
Land Grant CR List of 50 (6) 12/28 Withdrawn 3/3
Bellevue Lit Review List of 50 (10) 12/28 Withdrawn
Magma Poetry List of 50 (10) 12/28 1/21 N
Painted Bride List of 50 (9) 12/28 10/22 N
Frostproof Review List of 50 (10) 12/27 Withdrawn 1/21
Tarpaulin Sky Print List of 50 (12) 12/27 3/1 N
Parthenon West List of 50 (7) 12/27 Withdrawn 1/28
Pebble Lake Review List of 50 (7) 12/26 Withdrawn 1/28
Conduit List of 50 (11) 12/23 4/15 N
Dislocate Contest List of 50 (11) 12/23 2/16 N
Black Warrior Review List of 50 (11) 12/23 2/27 N
Mcsweeneys.net List of 50 (9) 12/22 12/27 N
Esopus List of 50 (8) 12/21 1/3 N
Opium – 7 Line contest Baptism Chord 12/20 2/1 N
Pindeldyboz Print List of 50 (7) 12/19 Withdrawn 1/28
NOON List of 50 (4) 12/17 1/4 N
NOO Journal List of 50 (7) 12/14 1/26 Y
Caketrain List of 50 (5) & Burnsong 12/14 2/14 N
Smokelong Quarterly If You Put It That Way 12/14 Withdrawn 1/23
Spork List of 50 (7) 12/14 Withdrawn 1/28
Murdaland Another 12/12 Withdrawn 2/7
Sleepingfish List of 50 (6) & Thrust 12/9 3/1 Y (Thrust)
Barrelhouse Ryan’s 12/9 12/14 N
Storysouth List of 50 (5) 12/7 2/15 N
Blackbird List of 50 (5) 12/7 9/17 N
Ploughshares Heir 12/7 5/1 N
Opium Print List of 50 (4) 12/6 1/24 N,online?
Nerve.com If You Put It That Way 11/23 ASSUMED REJECT
Salon.com Ryan’s 11/23 Withdrawn 1/07
Sonora Review SS List of 50 (2&3) 11/21 FF FINALIST
Knock Burnsong 11/21 7/14 N
Hobart Web List of 50 (3) 11/21 12/5 Y
Opium Web List of 50 (3) 11/21 Withdrawn 12/5
Punk Planet Ryan’s 11/17 11/23 N
La Petite Zine List of 50 (2) 11/10 1/4 N
DIAGRAM List of 50 (2) 11/10 1/9 Y
GA Review Heir 11/8 12/1 N
Other Voices Burnsong 11/8
Call: Review Burnsong 11/8 1/9 N
Opium Print Heir 11/8 1/20 N
Upstreet Burnsong 10/27 11/3 N
Renovation The Sentence 10/27 Withdrawn 5/4
Pine Ryan’s 10/27
Monday Night Lit Another 10/27 1/16 Y
Knock The Sentence 10/27 Withdrawn 5/4
Echolocation Burnsong 10/27 ASSUMED
Bear Deluxe Heir 10/27
Meridian Burnsong 10/27 8/29 N
Kenyon Review Burnsong 10/27 3/9 N
Glimmer Train Heir 10/27 1/2 N
Grendelsong Heir 10/27 10/27 N
Masionneuve Heir 10/26 ASSUMED
Quick Fiction Morning Logic Loop 10/25 2/22 N
Elimae Fuckdoll (‘Gift’) 10/15 10/16 Y
Juked List of 50 (1) 10/15 11/6 Y
Sleepingfish Another 10/15 12/9 N
Pindeldyboz Print Another 10/10 Withdrawn 1/16/07
Opium Print Yes I Am Aware 9/30 1/31 N
One Story Yes I Am Aware 9/30 3/12 N
McSweeneys Yes I Am Aware 9/30 10/19 N
The New Yorker Heir 9/30
Elimae Lana 9/30 9/30 N
Sentence The Sentence 9/28 Withdrawn 5/4
Diagram Remainder (TRIM) 9/28 10/26 N
Gastronomica Ryan’s 9/28 11/3 N,TS
Hobart Ryan’s 9/20 12/? Y,online
Sonora Review Contest Fake Fire, If You, Thrust 9/18 FF FINALIST
A Public Space Heir 9/6 10/23 N
Quick Fiction Upon Returning Home 9/5 10/25 N
Ninth Letter Heir 9/5 10/2 N
Yalobusha (BH contest) Burnsong 9/5 N
Pindeldyboz print The Sentence 9/1 10/10 N+
Post Road Heir 8/21
Barrelhouse Fake Fire 8/19 8/29 Y
West Branch Burnsong 8/16 9/12 N
DIAGRAM The Sentence 8/9 8/16 REVISE?
Sweet Fancy Moses More Light 8/9 ASSUMED REJ
Greensboro Review Burnsong 8/8 12/24 N+
Southeast Review Burnsong 8/8 9/27 N
Black Warrior Review More Light 8/8 10/10 N
Terminus More Light 8/8 5/2 N
Post Road Burnsong 8/7 8/21 N
Caketrain If You Put It That Way 7/26 10/16 N
Avery Burnsong 7/25 10/8 N+
Fence More Light 7/24 4/13 N
Minima That Dirt 7/24
NOO Journal Thrust Manual 7/17 8/7 N+
Quick Fiction Some…, Remain. & This Is 7/6 8/1 N
Me Three.net Fake Fire & Rescue 7/5 Withdrawn 8/29
NOON Burnsong 7/5 8/3 N
New York Tyrant Burnsong 6/29 ASSUMED
Practice Journal Burnsong 6/20 10/30 N
Dirt Press Rather Than That & This Is 6/20
American Drivel Review Piercing Rodney’s Fore. 6/20 9/19 N
Opium Print Fake Fire & Rescue 6/20 Withdrawn 8/29
Quick Fiction Thrust Manual 6/20 7/15 ALMOST
Land Grant College Review Burnsong 6/20 12/17 N
Adbusters Heir 6/20 HOLD
Maisonneuve More Light 6/20 10/26 N
Caketrain Burnsong 6/20 7/26 N
Copper Nickel More Light 6/20 11/13 N
Bathhouse The Sentence 6/20 Withdrawn 5/4
Quick Fiction Fake Fire & Rescue 6/2 6/20 N+
Conduit Burnsong 5/30 8/2 N
Juked Web Rather Than That 5/28 7/10 N
Juked Print Piercing Rodney’s Fore. 5/28 8/16 N+
Elimae Rather Than That 5/27 5/28 N+
Unsaid Another 5/25 Withdrawn 1/16/07
Cincinnati Review More Light 5/19 6/3 N
Punk Planet Customer Feedback 5/19 ASSUMED REJECT
McSweeneys Heir 5/13 10/19 N
McSweeneys online Thrust Manual 5/10 5/13 N
failbetter Another 5/5 9/23 N
Opium Fiction Prize If You Put It That Way 4/16 6/9 N
Opium Online Two Accounts of the… 4/12 8/1 Y
Swink Burnsong 4/11 6/19 N
Crazyhorse More Light 4/11 6/26 N
Zembla The Sentence 4/10 Withdrawn 5/4
VQR The Bus Driver & No Land 4/10 7/21 N
West Branch More Light 4/7 8/16 N
Hobart The Sentence 4/7 5/12 N
A Public Space Burnsong 4/7 7/12 N
Fence Burnsong 4/7 6/1 N
Land Grant College Review More Light 3/31 5/22 N
Elimae A Parable of… 3/31 3/31 Y
Black Clock Heir 2/21 ASSUMED REJECT
One Story Heir 2/19 7/10 N
Monkeybicycle Print Thrust Manual 2/17
Post Road If You Put It That Way 2/12 5/27 N
Swink online Letter to Chevy 2/10
McSweeneys online Alternative Answers…rev 1/21 1/26 Y
The Morning News.org Letter to Chevrolet 1/21 1/21 N
Syntax A Parable of… 1/18 Withdrawn 3/31 Y
Exquisite Corpse A Parable of… 1/18 Withdrawn 3/31
The Dream People A Parable of… 1/18 2/4 N+
5_trope A Parable of… 1/18 Withdrawn 3/31
Dicey Brown A Parable of… 1/18 1/26 N+
McSweeneys online Letter to Chevrolet 1/17 1/21 N
Gulf Coast Burnsong 1/16 4/3 N
Indiana Review Burnsong 1/16 6/19 N
Georgia Review Burnsong 1/16 2/27 N
Post Road No Land 1/16 2/12 N
The New Yorker More Light 1/16 3/21 N
Dicey Brown Sunburn in 4 Stages 1/3 1/26 N
Tags: i was weird, Submissions
I have a submissions spreadsheet I keep, too. Well, spreadsheet is the wrong term as it’s in Word. It’s not nearly as long, but it’s getting there. Glad to know someone whose work I admire goes through the same rejection process I do. At least my rejections are in good company.
I have a submissions spreadsheet I keep, too. Well, spreadsheet is the wrong term as it’s in Word. It’s not nearly as long, but it’s getting there. Glad to know someone whose work I admire goes through the same rejection process I do. At least my rejections are in good company.
Anyone who writes and submits this much should be commended, but I give you double props for posting the record too. Maybe it’ll start a trend.
Wow! Inspiring. You got a lot of heart. A lot of heart. Damn!!! Good writing and tenacity gets books published. Seen yrs in B&N
“Conjunctions Drowned Neighborhood 12/3 NO SS, BL”
what is NO SS, BL? at first I assumed it was no simultaneous submissions, blacklisted, but that seems extreme, and also you submitted to conjuctions three more times after this, once receiving an N+ (which I’m assuming is a tiered rejecton?)
this document is weirdly comforting
ha, yeah it’s no simultaneous, which i accidentally was including in my cover letter at the time, and i basically got a letter saying they liked it and would have taken it, but since that, good luck elsewhere. weird. i think BL meant But Liked. this shit is ridic
Wow, I get guidelines and I really like Conjunctions, but to reject a story they would have otherwise taken because it was sim subbed? That’s… incredible.
i just realized the thing got cut in half by the wordpress publish thing because it’s too big; i just added the other half
seeing ‘dicey brown’ makes me wonder what happened mazie louise montgomery, does anyone know
So – what’s the grand total?
she kind of disappeared from the internet writing wize. she’s an awesome writer though. she was doing some youtuby things too http://www.youtube.com/user/mazielouise
Moving chronologically upward, I was following the plight of Burnsong and wondering how the hell you managed to get any kind of response from Story Quarterly in two months, then clicked away for something terribly important, clicked right back and 2006 had totally vanished. Thought maybe it was a tie-in to your new book. I’m sort of disappointed it was only a wordpress issue.
my first internet publication was with dicey brown (i think.) I miss maize.
Very impressive, BB, thanks so much for sharing. I have 394 total submissions from 2007-2011 July, with 45 accepted. I think you’ve beaten me by quite a bit though. Very cool to see where you’re submitting to, I was just thinking of sending out some emails to my fellow writers to ask them what their top 5 places are right now, where would they love to publish (outside of places like TNY, TPR, etc.).
I once started a list of burnt toast. I am a diurnal burner of toast. this has been going on for many years. I subsist on burnt toast, and although I have rejected some burnt toast as “beyond scraping”, I mostly eat the burnt toast. I love/hate burnt toast; mostly love, but sometimes hate (like if I see a picture of eggs benedict on english muffins while I am eating my burnt toast) (actually, I wish I could live on just pictures of food. I like pictures of poached eggs; the puissant yellow of the yolk satiates me.)(I’ve never said “satiates me” before and never will again.) (and I have to agree with what Umberto Eco said about lists {http://tiny.cc/faq3x} – well, I don’t have to, but I do) I like lists in general, and I like this list a lot because of the willingness to incise the wound and let a bit of truth bleed out into the world. maybe no wound, maybe just boredom. maybe no world, just burnt toast.
Blake:
I would be interested to know which of these rejections was most devastating to you.
Such a nice lady.
http://youtu.be/OyP_Z6pV5LE
I once a had a story accepted by three places and got paid $50 by one of the journals that never ran it. Here’s how it happened:
1)Story was accepted by journal that paid. I signed the contract and received a $50 check.
2)A week later, story is accepted by another journal after not reading my withdrawal email. I tell them, too late–story is taken.
3) The NEXT DAY, I learn that journal #1–the one that already paid me–is going under.
4) I immediately contact journal #2, but–within a day–they’ve filled my slot with another story.
5) So, at this point, my story has been accepted by two places that won’t be publishing my story, and to top it off, I’ve been paid $50.
6) Three months later, a better journal (Bayou) than the first two accepts my story. It was rejected a total of 60 times, according to my spreadsheet. And I made $50.
Dear Blake,
Please stop accessing my publications database.
none of them were devastating, i kept doing it
chop it up and screw it
a chink in the armor of mfbomb
10 PRINT “DO YOU LIKE THIS?”
20 GOTO 10
LOL, vice principals
what does the N+ mean?
no but with positive notes about the work
Mazie Montgomery’s actual name is Karen Ashburner. She is writing again and reading in the Triangle (Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill) North Carolina.
blake i like your titles
Eh…I have lots of chinks and no armor.
This is interesting to see and makes me wish I’d been more meticulous with my submission tracking. I’ve always tracked where everything is, but stopped bothering with dates a long time ago and have always done it by hand instead of a spreadsheet that could be analyzed.
nice list
I got here from Facebook. Wow, this reminds me of when I wrote short stories and would send them to what were then called “little” magazines from about ’75 to ’81. Except I never kept any records. I would xerox five copies of each story I wrote, send them all out and every time one came back rejected, I’d send it out the next day. My Bible was Len Fulton’s Directory of Little Magazines and secondarily Writer’s Market and the monthly Small Press Review, which listed “manuscripts wanted.”
I suspect it was a lot easier to get stories published 35 years ago, just as it was easier to get books published, academic jobs, state arts council fellowships, and artists’ colony residencies. There were just fewer people writing, few MFA programs, etc. The competition for younger writers is much stiffer today.
What surprises is me that magazines that published my forgettable stories back then are still around: Sou’wester, Cimarron Review, Sou’wester, Pleiades — probably all associated with universities?
It was, of course, all done by postal mail (the only kind of mail) then, and I imagine most aspiring writers lived for the daily mail with their 9 x 12 manila envelopes. The ones that felt like they had nothing in it but a single sheet of paper were the good ones. If anyone wants to wade through the immature, turgid diary entries I have for that period to see what it was like emotionally (you don’t mention your feelings except in your comment), they can look at http://www.scribd.com/doc/34193989/More-Summer-in-Brooklyn-1976-1979.
We did have it much easier back in the day, I’m convinced, despite the online publications of today.
ah. i always thought it was the other way around, that her real name was mazie montgomery and karen ashburner was the alias.
I enjoy not paying for POETS MARKET every year like in the old (1980) days. The one thing I do miss, though, was the amazing variety of style differences in replies, usually handwritten, often on interesting stationery and stuff. Obviously not happening now (so much.) And going to the mailbox was a lot more fun, too.
I believe her grandmother’s name was MM. She told the story before at a reading we had and I might have the relative wrong. She has gone by several other names in the past, though. Who knows? I make it easier, since few people believe my given name was Crispy Flotilla.
Just curious how a piece was ALMOST accepted.
What about 2009, 2010?
Editors will sometimes tell you if a piece was almost accepted (say, was one of a few pieces that didn’t make the final cut)
Do you keep them in your basement? Racist and a smuggler. Good luck getting into heaven, bro.
Try not to project, bro.
A question from someone who has not (yet) thought about publishing: is this amount of submissions for a two year period the average for a young writer? This list is gigantic.
Yes, assuming you’re going straight slush and not sending to friends or incestuous zines/online journals. I’ve seen much longer. Most of the best journals have acceptance rates below 5%.
As another poster pointed out, there is an oversupply of publishable talent. I read for a journal and reject publishable stuff all the time–there is only so much room.
persistence is not incompatible with devastation
To be clear, in case there is any confusion, I wasn’t using “chinks” in a racial context at all.
love that you posted this
what would you be saying if you were saying what you’re trying to say about how blake was using “chinks”
Blake said I had chinks in my armor.
I flipped it to suggest that I’m vulnerable and have “chinks” on my armor-less body to prove it.
Got to hit us with some STATISTICS. Between 2005 and early 2009 I had a 13% acceptance rate, which is great, until you take out the solicited stuff — then it drops to 7%. Just eyeballing it, yours looks…higher? About the same? Do tell.
duotrope.com brother, for sure
Great to see this. I have something similar. Since Fall 2007 I have 28 short story (a few flash) publications ( a very few have been published twice). But I did do a calculation that in a single year I had made over 300 submissions. I don’t suppose the other years were much different. Embarrassing but true.
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