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September 2020 Recap

| October 8, 2020

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 123 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 73 Stories withdrawn: 5 Resubmissions: 46 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 109 My submissions felt like they were back to normal this month, but they still are falling short of some month. […]

August 2020 Recap

| September 3, 2020

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 114 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 46 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 28 New Submissions: 29 Stories out at the end of the month: 123 This month was a little slow on the resubmissions front, but I submitted a ton of new poetry and a […]

July 2020 Recap

| August 6, 2020

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 102 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 43 Stories withdrawn: 1 (+2) Resubmissions: 62 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 114 Some reasonable numbers this month in terms of resubmissions! Also, this month was good for acceptances! I’ve signed the […]

June 2020 Recap

| July 2, 2020

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 129 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 58 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 32 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 102 Numbers are down this month, both because I didn’t get a lot of rejections, but also because I’ve been pulling […]

May 2020 Recap

| June 4, 2020

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 136 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 63 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 61 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 129 My overall submission numbers seem small this month, but I also haven’t had a lot of rejections coming my […]

April 2020 Recap

| May 5, 2020

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 186 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 86 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 1 (+4) Resubmissions: 38 New Submissions: 8 Stories out at the end of the month: 136 As work from home has become more and more regularized for me, I’ve felt like my downtime has […]

March 2020 Recap

| April 2, 2020

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 144 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 68 Stories withdrawn: 2 (+3) Resubmissions: 119 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 186 Rejections are even slower this past month than they were in February, and I’m not sure if that should […]

December 2019 and Overall 2019 Recaps!

| December 31, 2019

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 177 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 71 Stories withdrawn: 0 (+2) Resubmissions: 72 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 169 December was theoretically back to normal, though I was still juggling a lot of crochet and craft fairs. But […]

August Poetry Challenge Recap

| September 19, 2019

The Write Like You’re Alive challenge is a month-long effort to create something every day of the month. I’ve done the challenge three times now, but this year was the first time I did it strictly with poetry. I didn’t end up writing a poem every day–there were a couple of weekends where I just […]

August 2019 Recap

| September 5, 2019

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 150 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 109 Stories withdrawn: 7 (+1) Resubmissions: 106 New Submissions: 10 Stories out at the end of the month: 146 The numbers are all over the place this month. First up: the acceptances! I’ve signed all three of those […]