Category Archives: Acceptance

Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology!

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Wow wow wow! My microfiction story “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” has been chosen to be included in Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology! What a delightful piece of news especially as fiction is my third genre, after poetry and creative nonfiction. Golly. Thank you so much to Lisa Ampleman, Jess Jelsma Masterton, at The Cincinnati Review for first publishing the story, to Best Microfiction Series Editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, and to this year’s judge Michael Martone for selecting it for the anthology!

You can read the story (and hear me read it to you) at The Cincinnati Review HERE!

My Lyric Essay “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” Accepted by the Bellingham Review

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I’m thrilled to share the news that my lyric essay “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” has been accepted by the Bellingham Review. I’ve long loved this literary journal and their commitment to lyric and hybrid essays. It’s such a delight that they’ll be publishing this essay.
It’s the last of my four essays inspired by the four classical elements to have found a home–this is my water essay and touches on Jaws, Altered States, fishing, drowning, the Bermuda Triangle, etc. Now I need to finish the last two essays of my following series based on the four fundamental forces in physics. I’m currently knee deep in the Strong Force and have to find a 4000 word essay inside the *gulp* 14,000 words of rough draft I’ve so far spun.

“It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Sick of Sick” Accepted for the anthology Show Us Your Papers

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Delighted to receive the news that my poems “It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Sick of Sick” will appear in the anthology Show Us Your Papers forthcoming from Main Street Rag. Thank you editors Wendy Scott Paff, Daniela Buccilli, and Cherise A. Pollard!
P.S. submissions are open until the end of August!

“If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun” Accepted for the next New Poetry from the Midwest anthology

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Halfway into this amazing week teaching and talking writing at the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference, I’m delighted to learn that my poem “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun” has been accepted for the next New Poetry from the Midwest anthology from New American Press!

My 2nd Book Has Won Elixir Press’ 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award!

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Holy moly!!! My second poetry book manuscript has WON the 2019 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Thank you judge Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis! Thank you Dana Curtis! And thank you to everyone who has been supportive and encouraging on my journey to get my second poetry book published–I am truly grateful. It’s so incredibly, heart-thumpingly delightful that “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun” has found a home at Elixir Press!!!

“It’s Something People in Love Do” Accepted for Terrapin Books’ Anthology A Compendium of Kisses!

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Delighted to learn that my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” has been accepted for Terrapin Books’ anthology A Compendium of Kisses, where it will appear along poems by Dorianne Laux, David Kirby, Tim Seibles, Ellen Bass, Alice Friman, Ron Smith, Charles H. Webb, Jeffrey Harrison, Caitlin Doyle, Kurt Brown, Baron Wormser, and Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and many others!