Well, Foundry doesn’t want any of the five (or was it four?) poems I submitted. They did mention that they liked Sundays, after the cat dies but unfortunately couldn’t find a place for it. I think this means that they thought it sucked a little less than the rest of my work. Submitting is a painful… Read More Another rejection, and it’s all about the dog, the dog
I have a new poem up on Rattle. It’s a bit personal, about a time when I went crazy, when I lived in Portland for a summer in my 20s. The poem isn’t totally autobiographical but does capture how I felt, and the confusion and also the comfort of leaving your “real” mind behind and… Read More New poem up at Rattle
I can’t believe that I missed this. My poem “Paperdolls” ran in the September issue of Clementine Unbound and I mistakenly thought it was going to be in the November issue. A big and clumsy oops to me. (Maybe I need to start actually reading my email, eh?) Here are the first two sections, as teasers:… Read More New work up at Clementine Unbound
My flash fiction piece “Savages” is up at Panoplyzine. Here’s the beginning: Savages by Cinthia Ritchie Summers, we live like savages out at our mother’s fish camp. We don’t bathe. We wear the same clothes for weeks. Our smells swim through the tent, thick and oily. Our teeth remain unbrushed and after a few days our gums… Read More Flash fiction up at Panoplyzine
Well, Epiphany Magazine doesn’t want the submission I sent for their chapbook contest. A bummer. I’m having a hard time placing it since it crosses genres and steps outside the boundaries of tense and structure. But they were very nice plus they spelled my name right so kudos to them. (And how can you not like… Read More Two acceptances and a rejection
So there I was late one night, furiously browsing the submissions lists on various websites and bookmarking contests and magazines. Unlike most, I don’t choose magazines by rank or so-called “quality.” I choose by feel. I want my work placed in magazines where they’d feel at home, and where I’d feel at home. I don’t… Read More Work up at Skinny Poetry Journal
Well, what should I post first? The good news or the bad news? Okay, good news wins. My flash fiction piece “Savages” was accepted at Panoplyzine. The piece is an excerpt from a longer work, either a novella or a novel (depending on when and how and at what point I lose my steam) titled “Swimming… Read More An acceptance, and another rejection
Yesterday we took a drive out to Palmer to visit with my partner’s sister for her birthday. It was late afternoon, the sky a lazy blue, and the mountains looked so lovely that I couldn’t stop snapping photos as if I were a silly-headed tourist. While I don’t love winter, the cold or snow, I… Read More Mountains, and two more rejections
It’s been quite a week, no? I was sick with the flu, I practically died of heat-stroke during my last run (it was 82 here at my sister’s here in Philly yesterday) and I realized that the new poem I had been working on and thought was oh-so-wonderfully-perfect isn’t perfect at all. In fact, it… Read More New work up at damfino press
I just found out that my story “Milk” is up at 100 Word Story. Here’s the beginning. Trust me, it’s very short and readable because, you know, 100 words and all): Milk In the beginning, I cried for it. Yet each night after dark, I threw up that sour formula, that fake milk warmed in glass… Read More New work up at 100 Word Story
Cinthia Ritchie 