acceptances – Robin Houghton

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 […]

Apparently I’m well known for broadcasting my rejections, but that’s no reason not to tell of the acceptances. Just when I was thinking I’d […]

Blog/ 01/04/2015

Just a quick update… I haven’t been blogging as much lately as I am knee-deep in a job, and paid work must be […]

Waiting to hear the results of submissions can be like waiting for the interest rate to change – something could happen today, next month […]

As part of my autumn poetry reactivation plan (sounds good, eh?) I’ve signed up for an online course from the Poetry’s School with […]

Last Thursday I had the pleasure of taking part in a reading at Tunbridge Wells library, organised by the wonderful Abegail Morley and featuring […]

Although I was delighted to hear that Antiphon is taking a poem of mine for the next issue, for a moment I had a […]

Good news and bad news! Quick update first of all to my October ‘working on, waiting on’ post: Poetry London – standard rejection […]

Since my last post I had a very welcome email from Jan Fortune at Envoi to say she would take for the next […]

As a poet friend once said to me, it’s always lovely when a poem finds a home. It’s true – it gives you […]