It has truly been the most profound honor of my (untrained, non-workshopped) writing career to find homes for my work in journals of some of the top American Universities/colleges😳
#Proud
#grateful
Acceptance for POETRY 😱😭🥳💃 from a place that's been running 29 yrs 😭 AND where I submitted for the very first time days ago 🙏🖤 AND look at the acceptance email 😱😭🙏
Arriving in bookstores around the world in May 2023, WHERE WE SET OUR EASEL by
@MandiraPattnaik
.
Please join me in welcoming Mandira to the Stanchion Books family!
When I first saw the
@Wigleaf
list was out, I began by searching the Longlist. No luck, I thought -- hadn't pub-ed much last yr. Then out of a casual interest, I scrolled the Top50. Lo & behold I'M THERE 😭
ty🙏
@VenitaBlackburn
@laughingyeti
@ContraryMag
The
@Wigleaf
Top 50 2023 & the Longlist are up! Thank you to our Guest Selecting Editor
@VenitaBlackburn
& to our Readers & Associate Series Editors! Just another way to celebrate writers, readers, & journals—all for very short fictions—all for the magic:
Allow me a minute for this to sink in! Meanwhile, heartiest CONGRATULATIONS to excellent writers who made it to
@Wigleaf
Top 50!! Keep it up!!! You rock!
Thrilled to make the
@Wigleaf
Top 50 Longlist with the story COUPLING in Flash Boulevard! Many thanks
@francinewitte
for accepting this piece and Selecting Editor
@kathyfish
So folks, I'm SUPER happy to announce this
#acceptance
which materialized last week! Deeply grateful to
@reenashah
for finding the pieces "Pistachios", "Neelakurinji", and "Fermentation Records" worthy of publication in The Rumpus
@The_Rumpus
!!!💃
I'd only heard about
@PushcartPrize
Today, after Nuala's email, I googled to learn more about it, a nomination for Pushcart was that remote a possibility for me!
Not enough words to thank
@NualaNiC
@Splonk1
for nominating my work 'Embryonic Star'
Can't tell u how much it means!
Please allow me this brag bc it's not actually a brag but a dream come true for a girl from the global south: it's that I am filling and processing THREE contracts simultaneously at this MOMENT IN TIME 😭🙏 2 US-based Uni publications & 1 journal based in 🇩🇪
Surprise!!! You didn't know a flash acceptance last Nov was a paying venue, until it just tells you, today, pretty much casually, they'll be paying upwards of USD 100 upon publication 😱
#writinglife
Did I just receive an
#acceptance
from a paying London-based mag for a verrry long story that hops from India to Europe to US, has a famous writer's doomed son as a character, French colonial history and mind-control? 😱
most declines suck but first thing that came to mind when i received one today was how to turn it into an erasure poem 🤣
best thing that's happened to lit twitter in recent times 😂😂😂
Guys, first acceptance for publication in 2024😱😭🥳🥳🥳🥳 I won't tell where, but see? I've got goosebumps realizing I'll still be a writer next year bc I worry all the time that I'm going to be over and done 😬
Offered a paid position on a lit team. One of those milestones I guess?! I'm so excited to start rightaway, under today's lovely sky!! 🙂
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity
Now THAT is how you chase your dream mags 😌
Founded in 1951,
@penn_review
is the oldest continuously published literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania
2019 🥺 2022 🥳
So this happened!!!!! Been in such awe of the publication!🥹Considered it waaaaaaaay above my league for the longest time, so thought it best never to submit at all... until I did for the first time some months ago...And they think it is good enough😲😭
Words fail me as I let this sink in! Truly overwhelmed!🙂
Thank you, editorial team at MFA program, University of Colorado-Boulder
@TimberJournal
!
Much gratitude EIC
@caralynnalbert
for selecting this piece! That remains one of my favorite acceptance notes!
Amazing Unbelievable Facts of 2021 (A thread)
1. 73 publication places, 77 pieces
2. Every first of the month, except for February and October, I had a new work published
3. Invited to Guest Read
4. Got paid to read fabulous work for a contest
ANNOUNCING THE SMOKELONG COMEDY PRIZE LONGLIST! Feel free to shout about being on it but please do not identify your story, as we are still finalising the shortlist ⚡️
#TheCommies
O my! Couldn't wait to share this news with everyone, I just received an acceptance from
@shortstorymag
Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine!!!Such a dream! Thank you so much Editors!
'A Torrent' will be included in Issue 12.2
Happy dance💃
That day, a flash collection (& u all know flash is my favorite) had just been declined, and the next minute, another email.
The universe had decided your accidental poet's debut chapbook would be of poetry, not flash!!😱
Coming November!
DELIGHTED! THANK U
@fahmidanjournal
🙏
This email Subject line shouted,
"We want your poem"!!!
And followed up with, "Our guest poetry editor Lindsey Royce has selected your poem, “The Day I Became Madonna,” for publication in Prime Number Magazine, Issue 191, which will be published on Jan 1, 2021"
I am😮😃😲🤩😭🥳
'Girls Who Don't Cry' the new Flash Fiction collection by Mandira Pattnaik (
@MandiraPattnaik
) is now available. Check out the link below where you can read one of the stories. Below that, is a link to the paperback.
It's happening! The proofs are done, so here's announcing I have work forthcoming in The Lindenwood Review, annual journal of literary prose published by the Lindenwood University Press in St. Charles, Missouri. LOVE University MFA program Journals 💙💙💙
Couple of acceptances to round off what's been a DREAM weekend!!!😭
Thank YOU SO MUCH, editors and readers, for supporting my work ❤ 💕 💖
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity
Pleased to announce I am one of 10 contributors selected for this year’s ‘Best Asian Speculative Fiction’ anthology, forthcoming from
@InsigniaStories
Grateful to EIC
@KellyMatsuura
😊
#amwriting
Last week, I had a publication in Hypertext: two flash CNF pieces. Today I received an acceptance from a Journal (that's been in existence since 1981) for a longer personal essay!😭
Am I becoming an essayist? Wow, that'd be something 😳 👀
#amwriting
Terrible 🤪😬 terrible 🙄😔 Monday morning... kinda where you drop things, get drenched in spite of umbrella, miss bus kind of morning ...
but I literally received this a minute ago, and it does help!😌
Two
#cnf
pieces accepted in a dream journal!!! Won't be out until next year, but I can't stop grinning 😀 ! Both based in India of the 80s and 90s 😊
Isn't it one big special joy re-reading accepted work?!🙈😻
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity
#writerlife
Turns out, manuscripts need to be 50-70% unpublished...
So getting too many pieces out there is not advisable if you also want a chapbook or book?
#amwriting
O, WOW! A place I had never subbed before has accepted two of my pieces for themed upcoming Anthology!!! I only submitted last night😲 She sent me contracts to sign this afternoon😲How lovely is that?!🥳
Based in Tokyo -a first for me to be published there!
#amwriting
#writerlife
All the usual suspects who decline my work have done so for this month. I guess there's nothing to fear anymore, no more refreshing my inbox. Onwards... To be reckless, and perhaps... grazing newer pastures?😉
#MondayMorning
#amwriting
#writerlife
For all new
#writers
,
#BIPOC
and others, without any training, MFA, workshops etc., also born and raised in non-native English speaking world: I just crossed the 125 published/accepted writing pieces mark! I hope it inspires you to weave words, create diverse art!
Happy
#writing
Hey, I was late this morning and too many emails in the inbox...
There's an acceptance from
@gonelawn
Wooohooooo... 💃💃💃
And,
@The_Rumpus
sent me an encouraging note
Yaayyyyyy🤩
A notable publisher telling me that my full-length
#fiction
collection reached the final stage and was really liked by all the editors and readers!!😯 Ah, thank youuu!😭
Tad disappointed, but on a first try, I'll take it🙂 Yesss!
Emboldens me to sub more!
#WritingCommunity
.
@EL_DIAGRAM
just accepted my FIRST submission to them ever, which I think is huge, bc I'd been too daunted by DIAGRAM's standards to submit earlier 😬😟
Interestingly, this piece received some very kind comments from
@VariantLit
&
@landlocked
allowing me the confidence to submit
200 pieces published or slated to be published. Lots of kindness and support, many generous people on the way, lots of heartbreaks and many cold shoulders. I'll write a book abt my experiences as an outsider to the traditional publishing industry one day!🙂💕
Whoop! On
#furiousfiction
weekend, my previously longlisted story(May) 'Bustle' has been accepted for publication in a dream journal!!!😍
Appears online next month and included in the print Yearbook! Yay! 😙😀
Isn't that incredible?
Go for it
#WritingCommunity
👍💕
#amwriting
News:
@gonelawn
follows just 100 people and I'm one of them😯
Even BIGGER News:
@gonelawn
has accepted my
#fiction
for Issue 42 September 2021!! 😲
💞🎉DREAM acceptance!🥳🎊
#amwriting
Proud to announce
@ilanot_review
has kindly nominated my story
SWAMP
#published
in their Fall "TOXIC" Issue. Thank u so much🙏😊
Do
#submit
to their open call on the theme of "Delight"! I'll be *delighted* if you start by
#Reading
my piece👇
#amwriting
Today I woke up to a decline with an invitation to submit more immediately and the comment "your work is intriguing and full of brilliant possibilities." Needless to say, it has totally made my day 🥰
#WritingLife
Best of the Net nominations:
Fiction:
Myna Chang "Hometown Johnnies"
@MynaChang
Lucy Zhang "Xian Dan"
@Dango_Ramen
Poetry:
Jan Ball "Happy Birthday Brenda" and "Four Paperweights"
Mandira Pattnaik "Across the Wall"
@MandiraPattnaik
The happiest thing abt living outside the publishing hotspot is to be lucky enough for a digital
#microchap
(as opposed to print) anyone can download and read. And maybe love it🙂
Thank you!
OOH! Thrilled to share the cover of my debut
#poetry
#chapbook
! Many thanks to Farah Hasan
@fahmidanjournal
who designed it with incredible thought and patience! Pre-orders 🔜
While it's always hard to choose between our stories (we love them all!), here are our
#BestoftheNet
nominations for this year. Congratulations and good luck, everyone 🎉🍀!
#StruanGow
#QYTie
Popping in to say Good morning, and also to FINALLY be able to celebrate my inclusion in the 2021
@BestSmFictions
Anthology! The piece SWAMP was first
#published
in
@ilanot_review
Toxic Issue. Here's the link if u wish to
#read
(1/2)
It was a very long, crappy day, but guess what? Just received BIG NEWS!!! Something I can't share yet, not until April, but this, in my first year subbing? Exchanged emails, my heart was thumping, so edgy I mentioned the wrong piece, but now... all is well!
O, I am so excited🥳
I had abt eighty pieces of
#writing
accepted and/or
#published
this yr. Since I can legit brag, having a hard time keeping track of them!😜
#flashfiction
pieces nominated for BotN and Best Microfiction. Two mags solicited work AND Recd incredible support frm
#WritingCommunity
Flash Frontier, New Zealand, just nominated my
#microfiction
about drought and Vikings weilding swords and "Megh de, Pani de" prayers to
@bestmicrofic
2023 ! YAYYYYYY!!!!
Happy 2022! Thanks to everyone who wrote about the columnist positions. We had too much interest! We’re excited for our new columnists,
@amygcb
@MandiraPattnaik
&
@TravisCravey
, as we build a new section on our site. Will they each win a Pulitzer writing for trampset? Probably.
Watched the film adaptation of 2States once again last night. As a Bengali married to a Telegu, I soooo connect with it. Feels like
#MyStory
. I too cried at my wedding becoz I was tired making it happen, believing it'd happen all the way.
Thanks
@chetan_bhagat
6 months as
@trampset
editor and I've had the opportunity of reading and championing voices from across the planet, from Japan to India to Brazil to the US to Nigeria. Looking back with pride...
We are delighted to announce a Guest Editor for our forthcoming issue
@MandiraPattnaik
Mandira is the author of over 150 poetry and prose pieces published across the globe, including a wonderful story in our recent Clubs issue:
Beyond excited to have, “Carbon, Stranded, Makes A Stone”, listed in the Honorable Mentions!
Thank you so much to readers, editors and everyone who made it possible ❤ 🙏
Congratulations to the winners, finalists, longlisters, and honorable mentions, and thank you to all the writers who sent flash to the contest!
Full results here:
Hey! I've just been invited to the party
#FlashFlood2021
!! Thank you so much
@nationalflashfd
for accepting 'Continuator of Shadows'!
Huge gratitude for your hardwork and dedication, editors!
Join the flood!
#submit
Book Club members! Coming to you this week is the exquisite novella-in-flash WHERE WE SET OUR EASEL by
@MandiraPattnaik
, accompanied by a hand-poured, 7-ounce candle made by my youngest daughter & me, and featuring the complex blues & glowing yellow of the book's cover.
Annnnd another this morning 💃😭 for a piece that has been to a few places, rejected with praise, and now a perfect home... More soon 😀
#acceptance
#writinglife
Still in disbelief!
@AtlasAndAlice
is a dream publication, has been for long, and to be published with so many great stories and then be nominated... wow!!! Thank you so much for believing in my work ❤
Congratulations to all the nominees! Love all the pieces you've here!
💙💙PUBLICATION DAY💙💙
#WhereWeSetOurEasel
is a
#DREAM
made possible bc
#indie
publishing chose the work of a non-US based
#WriterofColor
🥹
Here's a page with readers' notes, reviews, interview, a tiny clip of the journey & pics of the process!