Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer

Collection-in-Progress

I am working hard to prepare my poetry-collection manuscript for submission.

Which means that I am spending a lot of time sequencing (and re-sequencing) the poems.

Here’s a photo which might best be titled: “Batches (Or, After All of the Poems Were Set Out on the Floor but Before They’ve Been Assembled into a Single Contiguous Group).” (more…)

Monday Markets and Jobs for Writers

Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee, paying competitions, contests, and calls for submissions—plus jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction).
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