Back to work: Angst and more angst…
Okay, dear readers, I need you all to give me your opinions on this:
Last year I had an early version of my Japanese pop culture/folk tale manuscript in circulation. I’ve changed it since last September, re-organized, cut poems, added poems, but the core remains. So, do I send it back out to contests/publishers I’ve already sent it to? Or only send it to places I haven’t sent it before?
I usually have a policy that unless I’m a finalist/get a note etc I don’t want to send it back to the same place…
Oh, and now that I have a third manuscript, should I send both to the same places? Will they be sick of me if I do this?
Job phone interview went okay, I think. It sounds like a fantastic opportunity. But it might require a move. I’m not going to have angst about that til I get to the next round of interviews, though…and in the meantime, is it just me, or are there a TON of poetry teaching jobs around these days? None in my area, of course, but still, that’s got to be good for poets.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
