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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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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Does anyone remember the high quality, short lived Heat City Literary Review? It was a really nice literary journal, based if I recall correctly in Boston. It seemed very promising. Their first couple of issues were very high quality using professional materials, excellent professional perfect bound glossy covers, about 90 pages. I loved their covers …
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It was my first trip to a dollar store anywhere, this one on Broadway, and she was aghast that I’d never been to one before. Dollar Tree was her idea of a darn good time. I was back in Knoxville after burning through money in Beverly Hills like Satan was after it. Had some good times, paying the price after. …
I have a new story that is currently featured by the Hidden Peak Press (2/15/2024) and scheduled to appear in the next issue of the Hidden Peak Review: "Surviving It All." This is a fairly newish publishing company headed by some experienced professionals with real cred based in the greater metro-Denver area. They do a …
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