{{{Betsy}}}
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Susan W. - May 06, 2003 11:37:50 am PDT #1226 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
erikaj - May 06, 2003 11:39:44 am PDT #1227 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
But everybody wants to be in the Atlantic...except now that they didn't publish Betsy.
deborah grabien - May 06, 2003 12:08:38 pm PDT #1228 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
The fact that they didn't publish Betsy puts them off my list. Because I read one of the things they didn't publish, and it was superb.
But I expect they honestly didn't get it out of the pile until the subject matter really had altered in realtime.
Consuela - May 06, 2003 12:12:37 pm PDT #1229 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Damn, the Atlantic, though! Keep aiming high, Betsy.
erikaj - May 06, 2003 12:18:47 pm PDT #1230 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Wrod, that was what I wanted to say, but Consuela said it better.
Brynn - May 07, 2003 3:44:01 am PDT #1231 of 10001
"I'd rather discuss the permutations of swordplay, with an undertone of definite allusion to sex." Beverly, offering an example of when your characters give you 'tude.
(don't know Atlantic... Canadian ignorance?) I once submitted to this local snobby literarary type journal (I may have told this story before) and on the rejection letter they spelled my last name (a German name) completey wrong. My friend, however got it worse - his piece was called ''A Scar in the Attic'' (a dark piece about death) and they wrote ''A Star in the Attic'' for his rejection letter. We still joke about it making various broadway-style hand motions and mock tapdances.
Betsy HP - May 12, 2003 8:16:39 pm PDT #1232 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Victor, I need your insight into the poetry market. I wrote a rhyme-and-meter poem about the late war. The Atlantic bounced it. One of my writers' group members suggested The Threepenny Review, but I don't think they print formal verse, do they?
Where should I go to find a market list for places that read (non-Hallmark) traditional poetry?
victor infante - May 12, 2003 8:31:21 pm PDT #1233 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
BHP, Threepenny has been known to take formal verse, on occasion.
The listing on writersmarket.com is actually quite good, although you have to pay $2.95 a month to use it, (best investment I ever made, though) it gives you access to their whole Poetry Market database.
I'd also suggest some of the places my friend Jerry Hicks recommends in his regular publishing column on poetix.net.
Oddly enough, I'm mostly out of the loop on the subject. I'm not writing much new poetry, and a lot of the older stuff is ending up in anthologies without much effort on my part. Which kind of freaks me a bit. Did just have a poem in the recent issue of Spillway, but I submitted it about two years ago.
Betsy HP - May 12, 2003 8:33:32 pm PDT #1234 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
a lot of the older stuff is ending up in anthologies without much effort on my part.
Praise indeed.
victor infante - May 12, 2003 8:36:35 pm PDT #1235 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Praise indeed.
That, or just being bloody around too long, one or the other. (:
Seriously, though, I don't recommend wasting your time with the Atlantic and the like. They'd never admit it, but they're closed markets that rarely take work from anyone outside their tight clique. And they and the New Yorker pick poems based on length rather than quality, which they also never admit.
I have low opinions. Can you tell? Do like ThreePenny a lot, though.