dawn.vogel | August 7, 2025
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 45 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 17 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 20 New Submissions: 7 Stories out at the end of the month: 48 My numbers this month were pretty stable, sending out a few more stories than I had rejections and acceptances. […]
dawn.vogel | July 4, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! For this month, we start with The History Place’s comprehensive list for every day of the month of July. Although not everything on this list is “weird,” there are certainly some gems tucked in there! Sky History also provides three […]
dawn.vogel | July 3, 2025
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 61 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 36 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 3 Resubmissions: 23 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 45 My June numbers were a little bit lower than they’ve been in past months, in part because I’ve continued […]
dawn.vogel | June 27, 2025
July is just around the corner, so it’s time for the July 2025 writing prompts! As per the usual, I took these from a variety of art challenges. I had a surprisingly difficult time finding some good ones for July, with the end result that these are a bit less summer themed than I expected. […]
dawn.vogel | August 6, 2024
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 46 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 32 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 39 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 Despite all of the shenanigans of July, my submission numbers went up a little bit this month. Not quite where […]
dawn.vogel | July 10, 2024
Reading: Mostly books to review. Watching: There hasn’t been a whole lot of watching lately, with family visits and a lot of other stuff on our calendar, but we watched the entirety of Hazbin Hotel on the Fourth of July, and I’m a fan! Super irreverent musical cartoon? Yeah, I’m in! Listening To: As an additional […]
dawn.vogel | June 28, 2024
July is almost here, so it’s time for the July 2024 writing prompts! This month, all of the prompts come from a variety of art challenges, though all of them are somewhat generically themed. The second and third columns definitely have more of a July or summer flavor, while the first column has some summer […]
dawn.vogel | August 8, 2023
I had one new publication in July, which was my poem “The Whale Shark’s Stars,” which appeared in Strange Horizons. This is an interlocking rubāʿīyāt, which is a slightly complicated format, but I was pleased at how well it worked for this poem! You can read it on the Strange Horizons website!
dawn.vogel | August 3, 2023
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 102 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 50 (+5) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 38 New Submissions: 26 Stories out at the end of the month: 107 The numbers are a bit all over the place this month, though the overall top and bottom line seem […]
dawn.vogel | June 30, 2023
July begins tomorrow, which means today is the perfect day to post my July 2023 prompts! This month’s prompts are mostly randomly generated, but the first column comes from the Kick in the Creatives July art challenge (with minor modifications). This month’s art challenge there is also to draw upside down, so you might think […]
