On submitting to anthologies and journals
I read this article last year, all about how you can trick yourself into sending out more poetry submissions by aiming for 100 rejections a year. One hundred is a big number. It means really committing to sending your work out into the world, and expecting - nay, revelling! - in the knock-backs. The #100RejectionsIn2024 project is a way of gamifying the amount of rejection you face as writer, and turning it into something a bit more fun. Plus, it really helps you to get out of your own way. If a poem is rejected at one press, just mark a talley on your 100 Rejections spreadsheet, and send that poem straight back out to somewhere new! The more poems you send, the more likely you are to be published. And it's definitely working for me; I've had more published in the past four months than I had in the last two years! And, in early April, I was delighted to have three new poems in the “ Not Ghosts, But Spirits Volume IV ” anthology by Querencia Press . Q...