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| hello dren |
Since I last wrote to you, I’ve returned from Israel,
undergone a remarkable negative change in hairstyle and gotten a few things
published/accepted. Let’s go over them real quick. I won’t keep you long here.
First there was a nonfiction thingy on Thought Catalog called “Where to Put
Your Next Tattoo.” That decision has since been made.
Next, Word Riot
put up my hybrid poems, complete with illustrations. I think you’ll like them.
Then PANK
published a review that I wrote of David James Keaton’s novella Zee Bee & Bee on their blog (you may
have read the original review here on the blog; it’s since been revisioned).
This summer has been extremely productive for writing and of
course makes me dread returning to school all the more. Yesterday, I finished a
6,000 word story, the longest and most enjoyable thing I’ve written in a year.
I think I have decided in the last minute or so that I probably have to write a
chapbook before I go back or I’ll probably die. God that place. I can’t stop.
I’ve been writing more poetry lately, too, which feels
strange, and this feeling is justified because no one has wanted any of them
yet. I have high hopes though. I think I do.
This has been a particularly rife rejection season because
I’ve been submitting so much (two more since I composed this post/posted it),
but a few days ago Fractured West
said yes and I was pretty over the moon because I love Kirsty Logan and the
work that she puts out.
I am also laying plans to write a novella, which should be
crazy and might actually never happen because I am sort of afraid of it.
The Safety Pin Review hit its thirty-second issue this week,
starring David Greenspan, who is a king.
