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Are anonymous submissions a good thing?

by Robin Houghton on November 15, 2012

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I came across this article recently, in Anon magazine, setting out the opinions of three writers as to whether anonymous submissions to magazines were a good idea. I rather like…

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It’s my birthday! Hurrah! I think

by Robin Houghton on October 29, 2012

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Children love having birthdays. I quite enjoyed them myself until I got to about 30, then I went through a period of getting a bit grumpy about the whole birthday…

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Would you pay to submit your poetry to a magazine? (Poll)

by Robin Houghton on October 25, 2012

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Here’s a thing. Poetry presses and magazines exist on a shoestring. Sometimes half a shoestring. I’m sure we’d all love to support them by subscribing to them all, but it…

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How’s your filing? And what’s in a (folder) name?

by Robin Houghton on October 13, 2012

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Here’s a pressing question – what sort of filing system do you favour? I love my lever arch files, with their colour-coded dividers and lovingly decided section names. But if…

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Brighton Stanza on top

by Robin Houghton on October 4, 2012

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First the good news: I got a note through a week or so ago from Paul McGrane at the Poetry Society saying my poem had been commended in the 2012…

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Writing musings/ submissions etc

by Robin Houghton on August 19, 2012

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I’ve been grabbing the odd hour here and there to write while my other half watches the cricket highlights each day. I need to submit some new stuff, so I…

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Out now – The Rialto 75

by Robin Houghton on August 14, 2012

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The Rialto: bedside reading for this week at least. Very proud that I have a poem in it on page 50. The Last They’ve been coming since posters were invented:…

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Writing again after a setback

by Robin Houghton on July 21, 2012

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A few weeks ago I was feeling a bit ‘stuck’ and decided to pay for another ‘Poetry Prescription’ from the Poetry Society. I got the feedback last week and it…

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Hurrah! The Rialto takes another

by Robin Houghton on June 12, 2012

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So excited to have had a poem accepted for The Rialto. The first poem I had published was in this magazine (Rialto 70, Autumn 2010) and to say that I was…

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The ups and downs of poetry submissions

by Robin Houghton on January 17, 2012

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Last week: issue 48 of The North failed to arrive, and when I asked for my ‘contributor’s copy’ I was told…erm… you’re not a contributor. The poem they’d asked for…

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