June 19th, 2012 / 7:43 pm
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What is the one publication you’ve had and most proud of? And exactly why?

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  1. June 19th, 2012 / 7:51 pm Taylor Napolsky—

      You’re killing me with the picture. 

  2. June 19th, 2012 / 9:43 pm Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      A few years back my friend invited me to put a story in this new project of his, an email attachment featuring music, lit, and art. He was in a really good band, and it was a pretty cool experience to receive the literature via email and read it as your own personal issue while listening to the songs. The second one I think featured an excerpt of Lin’s Richard Yates. This was 2008, I think? Anyway, it was pretty cool, and an interesting format, and if anyone wants a copy of it I might still have it archived somewhere.

  3. June 19th, 2012 / 9:54 pm Anonymous—

      Event Magazine. A Canadian poet recommended I submit, and then I did and got accepted, but not before the editor engaged in an email exchange with me in which we talked about the rhetorical situation of one of my poems. It was awesome. My poem sat next to a poem by someone way famous. And I got paid! Now I am in the middle of a year long rejection streak and no one will look at my stuff, but Event Magazine burns brightly in my little ole heart.

  4. June 19th, 2012 / 9:56 pm Shannon—

      I think it was probably being in SmokeLong recently. They are very nice people and I was fully expecting a rejection I was not prepared for an acceptance.

  5. June 19th, 2012 / 10:33 pm pauljessup—

      Glass Coffin Girls, published in the UK by PS Publishing. It was basically free reign, I could do whatever I wanted, and so I just let go, and did exactly what I wanted to do. To me this is the project that feels most like me. And being able to republish all of the stories in anthologies over the last few years has been awesome as well.

  6. June 19th, 2012 / 11:30 pm A D Jameson—

      My first publication was in the Mississippi Review Online, and I received an acceptance email from Frederick Barthelme. Donald Barthelme was one of my biggest lit heroes at the time, and I loved F. Barthelme’s work in the Red Krayola. I don’t think I’ve ever been quite that excited again about placing something.

      http://youtu.be/suKt2puIecY
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Krayola

      That said, my piece was pretty awful, and it’s (mercifully) no longer online. But—thanks, FB!

  7. June 20th, 2012 / 1:20 am Trey—

      I think the one I’m most proud of is Diagram, which was my second ever (and the one before had been a while before that and gone kind of unnoticed, so it felt a bit like my first) because Diagram had published, and continues to publish, so many people I respect and it felt pretty fucking cool to become one of those people. It was also the first time I published something and had strangers sending me emails and facebook messages and stuff about, which is a real ego boost.

  8. June 20th, 2012 / 6:54 am leapsloth14—

       Diagram is the shit, good choice.

  9. June 20th, 2012 / 7:30 am Nicholas Grider—

      Conjunctions, because it’s the only place I’ve been published people have heard of, plus people like me don’t get published in places like that, not with stories about breath control fetishists told in stilted over-formal diction and college textbook questions (really).  Also I got money.

  10. June 20th, 2012 / 8:15 am Luke Geddes—

      Hayden’s Ferry Review. When I first started submitting (way before I should have) I’d chosen it, somewhat arbitrarily, as my #1 dream journal to be published in. They published some of my favorite writers–Stacey Richter, Adam Johnson–and the story they accepted had been rejected at least 40 times before, by journals that I had less interest in and that were of much less prestige. 

      The AWP before, I’d constantly hung around the HFR table and acted like an obnoxious (not sober) goofball. After the story was accepted, I e-mailed the editor Beth Staples and had to be like, “I was the hilarious weird guy who kept messing with your Scrabble game please still publish my story.”

  11. June 20th, 2012 / 10:07 am A D Jameson—

      A friend was complaining once about how he never got work accepted anywhere. I asked him where he’d been published. He said, “Oh, just NOON, plus I won DIAGRAM’s short fiction context.” I told him to shut the fuck up.

  12. June 20th, 2012 / 10:08 am A D Jameson—

      My second-happiest publishing moment was slipping something past Bradford Morrow.

      I spent the money on a bicycle.

  13. June 20th, 2012 / 10:34 am Roxane—

      Hobart 12. I love Hobart and find every issue front to back readable and also my story got picked for Best American Short Stories 2012 and that was the most unexpected thing that’s ever happened to me as a writer.

  14. June 20th, 2012 / 11:41 am Victor Schultz—
  15. June 20th, 2012 / 11:57 am A D Jameson—

      But not an issue of Monkeybicycle.

  16. June 20th, 2012 / 11:58 am A D Jameson—

      Yes. I guess it’s still online, then. Too bad; it’s really awful.

      Published under my real name, too. Gah.

  17. June 20th, 2012 / 12:14 pm Christopher Lirette—

      The Southern Review. I’d read the magazine when I first started writing. It was my first personal rejection from the then editor Bret Lott. Then I had nice correspondence with the next editor Jeanne Leiby for, like, four years about poems I’d submitted. At that point, a little frustrated with knowing what they’d want (I’d been sending what I thought were my best, stateliest poems each time), I sent them an X-Files/Super Mario bros mashup thinking “whatever.” Then, they accepted it.

      You can read that poem now at christopherlirette.com/dana-scully-makes-it-to-the-fortress-level/

  18. June 20th, 2012 / 12:26 pm Victor Schultz—

      oh shoot, maybe you prefer it buried. sorry about that.

  19. June 20th, 2012 / 12:43 pm A D Jameson—

      Is all right. As I like to say, we learn to write by imitating what we like. I used to imitate Donald Barthelme to the point of embarrassment. Frederick Barthelme was very kind to accept it; it really made my week back in September 1998.

  20. June 20th, 2012 / 1:40 pm jasonbredle—

      Poems About Horses, Alfred A. Knopf. Yankee Doodle is in it, too.

  21. June 20th, 2012 / 1:56 pm bartleby_taco—

      MY DADS INBOX HE SAID “IM GLAD MY SON IS FUCKED UP” in a nice/funny way though

  22. June 20th, 2012 / 2:33 pm Luke Geddes—

      With that conceit I loved the poem before I even read it, and then I read it and loved it.

  23. June 21st, 2012 / 12:28 pm michael—

      For the first day of a weeklong summer workshop I took when I was 20, the instructor had us all bring in like four poems each, not to workshop them, but rather so we could orient ourselves to each other’s work. After the first class, the poetry editor of Whiskey Island, who was also in the class, came up to me holding my poems and said “Which of these isn’t published?” And I said, “Uh, all of them?” And she pulled one out of the stack and brandished it at me and said, “I want this one.” It was my first publication. The following December, in the middle of a particularly harrowing finals week, I got an email saying they’d nominated the poem for a Pushcart. Two months after that, it got run by Verse Daily, prompting a glowing email from Robert Wrigley, of all people, asking me to apply to the U of Idaho if I ever pursued an MFA. It was the coolest case of beginner’s luck ever.

  24. June 21st, 2012 / 4:36 pm Anonymous—

      Getting accepted by Mud Luscious was a really big deal for me. I was fully expecting to get rejected and the piece they took is something that I think is one of the best/most personal things I’ve ever written. Great magazine + something I’m really proud of = exciting publication experience.  It was recently, so it’s actually not up yet.

  25. June 21st, 2012 / 6:26 pm Anonymous—