So I’m in Tucson, with no Internet access (I’ve wisely scheduled these posts so that it looks as if I’m more connected than I really am, hee, hee), and when I finally got my butt to the library and opened up my email, I was met with good news: My hybrid creative nonfiction piece How Mary,… Read More A new publication and an upcoming anthology
The best news: I recently signed a contract with Houghton Mifflin Hardcourt and a segment of my New York Times Magazine essay “Running Into Danger on an Alaskan Trail” will be featured in textbooks and reading materials for school-age students. This is so exciting because when I was in school, reading was the only thing that… Read More New work up at Brilliant Flash Fiction, and other good news
This is SO exciting. Kevin Brennan (and everyone knows I’m a huge fan of Brennan’s) recently launched a new literary magazine called The Disappointed Housewife. Is that the greatest name or what? The site publishes edgy poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, music, multi-media, photography and anything else that doesn’t fit inside normal conventions. As Brennan says in… Read More The Disappointed Housewife, an edgy new literary journal
What a busy and hectic week. (And then there was that press conference, which is just too damned ridiculous, surreal and depressing to write about.) Ever since I received my novel notes back from beta reader Kevin Brennan, I’ve been writing like mad. It’s the oddest thing: He basically recommended the same changes as my… Read More Writing like crazy (and more)
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
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
My reading challenge is going so swimmingly well that I’ve decided to burden myself with a second task-a submission challenge. Because, face it, I’m not going to get my work published unless I put on my big-girl pants, buckle down and face the daunting reality of multiple rejections hitting my email box on multiple days.… Read More Submission challenge, and a new editing service
I was feeling so heady last night. I stayed up until 4 a.m., writing like mad, and it was one of those times when everything flowed, when words dropped like fruit from my fingertips. I was so happy that I got up and danced around the room a couple of times (humming bad songs from… Read More Two fer Tuesday (or, more rejections, sigh, sigh)
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.” –Frank Kafka Well, I’ve been in Tucson on my DIY writing residency for three weeks now and have accomplished more than expected. I write hard all week and reward myself by renting a car on weekends, where I hit the mountains for long… Read More Desert dreaming (or, how a sunburn led to a needed insight)
I was excited to find my contributor’s copy of the Evening Street Review in my mailbox. I don’t know about you but when I receive a literary magazine featuring my work, I open it with fear and awe. Because no matter how many times I’ve seen my name in print, it’s always a small thrill, and… Read More Evening Street Review, and submission fears
Cinthia Ritchie 