Being on the happy side of a fine line, and other August musings
August. Already. Do you remember how summer holidays seemed in childhood – a long holiday starting late July (for those of us in […]
Category: Submissions
Summer reading, thinking & waiting
After a couple of weeks of what’s felt like full-on socialising in our sunny garden, I’m enjoying a quiet day alone catching up, […]
Quick! These submissions windows close tomorrow (31st May)
I’m just updating the quarterly poetry magazines submissions windows list, but it won’t be going out for a couple of days, so just […]
On redrafting old material, and a welcome acceptance
During my mini-retreat in Cork I dug out a number of old as-yet-unfinished or unpublished poems to see what I could breathe new […]
On #100rejections … (and 2 subscriptions)
The other day on Twitter I saw Penny Shutt mention #100rejections. Intrigued, I followed the hashtag and felt I’d stumbled on some sort of […]
Delighted and amazed to announce that…( just kidding)
I bet you were dead excited for me there for a second or two, weren’t you? No? Oh well…it’s that time of year […]
City walk, a workshop, Van Halen & Jo Bell’s ‘Kith’
This is the first year in a while that I haven’t been driving up to the Southbank for the T S Eliot Prize […]
2018 poetry submissions stats
Dear oh dear. Well, I promise to deliver the ‘ups and downs’ of poetry submissions, and 2018 was slim pickings for sure. Number […]
Updated – poetry magazine submissions windows
It’s December which means I’m updating the list of magazine submissions windows. If you ordered A Guide to Getting Published in UK Poetry Magazines […]
Small milestones
At the end of October it was my birthday, and over a boozy supper my dear husband suggested we do a ‘dry November’. […]