I attended the AWP session “So Many Submissions, So Little Time: Editors’ Strategies for Equitable and Efficient Submissions Management” to get some ideas for a side project I may be working on in the future, but in the end, this discussion just seemed to drive home how difficult it is to get something (particularly fiction) [...]

I’ve mentioned before that despite my 2010 submission binge, I haven’t submitted much lately. I only have a few things still out in the universe waiting for responses: a handful of short story submissions, most of which could safely be marked “lost/never responded” on Duotrope by now. A few grant-ish type of applications (all long [...]

My contributor copies of the Spring 2011 American Literary Review came last week. My short story “Living Arrangements,” the title story for my collection, appears in this issue. This story was a catalyst for my submission period last year. I have some very supportive writer friends who really got behind this story and told me [...]

If I could just say a few words…I’d be a better public speaker. But seriously, I had a great time presenting to West Side Writers over the weekend. Everyone seemed engaged and asked lots of questions, etc. While I don’t think I can recap everything I talked about, I’ll give a brief overview here. The [...]