Note: Life continues to throw me for summer loops, so literary activity has come almost to a screeching halt out of family necessity. I am including this blog post here as a way of creating a throughline until the Fall, when I anticipate ramping back up. Until then….
Accountability check-in! But first, what is #100rejections anyway?
I have decided to set the literary goal of accumulating 100 rejections this calendar year to facilitate sustained efforts toward publication. Submitting multiple poems to one market and having them all rejected counts as one rejection. Having any number of poems in the packet accepted means that submission counts as an acceptance. I’m aiming for 120 submissions by September 30 to accomplish this.
July, 2017 — 7 Rejections, 0 Acceptances, 0 New Submissions
Year to Date, 63 / 10 / 69
- Augur Magazine, Rejection
- PANK Magazine (again), Rejection*
- The Atlantic (ghost), Rejection*
- Heron Tree, Rejection
- Honeysuckle Chapbook Contest, Rejection
- Monarch Review, Rejection
- Blackbird, Rejection
*The journals marked with an asterisk (*) satisfy my secondary literary goal of submitting to as many top-tier journals as possible. See my January Totals post for details.
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Tune in next month for August tallies (such as they may be….)!
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