Five chapbooks were chosen this year for paper publication and promotion. Mine was not one of them.
Ten other chapbooks were chosen for online "publication" and possible inclusion in an anthology. Your Only Shiny Thing is one of those chapbooks!! Mission accomplished, by my standards! My teammate Zach is also one of the ten "runners up," congratulations to him as well.
However, there is a book contest taking entries in January. If I fatten up Your Only Shiny Thing, I have a fair chance at winning that sucker.
ROCK N ROLL!!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Envelope Addressed To Myself
So my SASE arrived in the mail yesterday, and just seeing the USC insignia on the stationery got me excited. Inside were two pieces of paper thanking me for entering the chapbook contest and reminding me that the winners will be announced at the state museum this Saturday.
On facebook, the poetry initiative invited all us poetry-types to the museum this Saturday as well. When I saw a list of names for "contest winners" and only 8 of them, I nearly snapped. "None of the three of us won? And there are only EIGHT instead of fifteen?! This is the DUMBEST con-- oh, from 2007. Hee he." Among them is Ray McManus, who will give another great reading. The man has yet to disappoint ever since the first time Severin and I saw him at the SC Book Fair open mic. He also did a great job teaching my creative writing class for a day and was the most interesting part of the Ed Madden celebration.
This Saturday, then! As long as there are only 14 contestants better than me, it should be a proud day!
On facebook, the poetry initiative invited all us poetry-types to the museum this Saturday as well. When I saw a list of names for "contest winners" and only 8 of them, I nearly snapped. "None of the three of us won? And there are only EIGHT instead of fifteen?! This is the DUMBEST con-- oh, from 2007. Hee he." Among them is Ray McManus, who will give another great reading. The man has yet to disappoint ever since the first time Severin and I saw him at the SC Book Fair open mic. He also did a great job teaching my creative writing class for a day and was the most interesting part of the Ed Madden celebration.
This Saturday, then! As long as there are only 14 contestants better than me, it should be a proud day!
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