hello i’m a reject
07-Nov-06
i decided that i should try and create the impression that i am a real writer, although i am actually a half-arsed dabbler which is much better since it stops me, and other people, taking my writing too seriously. but now that i am a mentor on a real writing project, and launching a collection of poetry and prose (at the wagga wagga library – this friday at 5.30 … come along !) i really should make more of an effort.
thus i thought i might as well begin by starting a rejection slips collection, so i submitted a half-arsed sentimental childhood memoir (the cuban crisis, which, ironically, was also rejected by fourw, the very publication i am launching {insert emoticon here} to three magazines (meanjin, southerly and heat), and an editor, robert drewe for consideration for best australian stories 2006 published by black ink – the latter was submitted a week late to make it more likely to be rejected …
bookmark this page for my reviews of the rejection slips i receive as i build my collection