dawn.vogel | March 5, 2026
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 33 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 14 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 23 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 40 February turned out pretty good on the resubmissions front, as I managed to send out more pieces than I received […]
dawn.vogel | February 3, 2026
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 38 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 39 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 34 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 33 I made more submissions in January than I did in December of last year, but I didn’t quite keep […]
dawn.vogel | October 7, 2025
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 48 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 19 (+2) (+1) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 19 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 43 My September wound up pretty busy, so I didn’t quite get in as many submissions as I might […]
dawn.vogel | September 9, 2025
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 48 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 22 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 24 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 48 I started and ended August with the same number of stories out, which is an accomplishment, especially with as busy […]
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the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 45 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 17 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 20 New Submissions: 7 Stories out at the end of the month: 48 My numbers this month were pretty stable, sending out a few more stories than I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 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the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 61 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 36 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 3 Resubmissions: 23 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 45 My June numbers were a little bit lower than they’ve been in past months, in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 5, 2025
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 60 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 30 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 32 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 61 My May numbers are a tiny bit up from April, which is exciting! It’s also kind of surprising, because […]
dawn.vogel | May 20, 2019
I started writing regularly in 2009 and lucked out by selling my first short story early in 2010. After that, things were a bit more hit and miss for a while. Between 2010 and 2014, I made a total of 11 story sales, some of them for no payment, and mostly for very small payments. […]
dawn.vogel | April 22, 2019
Last week, I talked about using submissions trackers to keep track of the various submissions I have out at any given time. Today, I’m talking about planning for submissions. When I’ve got a new piece to put into circulation, I generally have a loosely planned out list of markets I want to submit it to. […]
dawn.vogel | April 15, 2019
If you follow my monthly recap posts, you may have noticed that I frequently have a lot of stories in circulation at any given time. Currently, that number is close to 60, though it varies slightly from day to day. As someone who writes a lot of poetry, flash, and short stories, and who wants […]
