Pieces: 154 Submissions: 288 Rejections: 185 Acceptances: 62 Pending: 26 Acceptance Percentage: 25.1% I’ve seen others post these types of stats lately and some have very high acceptance percentages and others lower. Some also have higher or lower numbers in terms of pieces written, submissions, etc. One thing that’s been personally helpful for me to …
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Mad Swirl was the last publication to publish anything of mine in 2024, a short story titled "Phoenix ER (Sur)Reality" on December 28, 2024. I'm very happy because Mad Swirl is one of my favorite magazines and because I've worked and worked and wrote and rewrote this piece and I like how it turned out …
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Bristol Noir Magazine: Scott C. Holstad's story The Final Episode? I have a new story titled "The Final Episode?" in the November 28, 2024 issue of Bristol Noir: Curiously Dark Fiction. It's very different from the other stories of mine Bristol Noir has published this year and, for me at least, ends on an upbeat …
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My 2,000-word metafictional story, Dazed, has been published and is featured in the August 4, 2024 edition of Horror Sleaze Trash magazine, whose motto is "Like pissing wine into an ocean of alcoholics." To drive it a little further home, their submissions guidelines include this phrase, "As long as it either gives you a laugh …
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Misfit Magazine No. 38, Spring 2024 with 2 poems by Scott C Holstad Issue 38 of Misfit Magazine is out and it's got two poems by Scott C. Holstad: Were We Reading the same Poems? and I Can’t Help It. The editor, Alan Catlin, put a great issue together featuring some great poets, including Ron …
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