Advice for those #submitting to literary magazines: consider, with the given theme, what most writers are going to be focused on. Then find a niche outside that mainline.

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< that isn't g00gle, won't steal all my work to train fcking AI, etc?

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#poetry #queer #queerpoetry #trans #transpoetry #OwnVoices

#WritersAgainstAI #ArtistsAgainstAI

#disabled #ChronicallyIll #writer VS the world

#ChronicPain
#spoonie #SoonieLife #AuDHD #neurodivergent

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Example: In response to Whisper House Press's call for "workplace horror," *most* subs were set in cubicles. Stories like these sort are up against a huge number of similarly set stories.

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(my #AuDHD #spoonie brain is fairly burnt out so I haven't done a whole lot of of #WriteSubmitRepeat grinding in 2026; applying for #EdFringe venues / trying to crowdfund my #poetry show is taking up what few arts admin spoons I seem, and neither enterprise is going particularly well.. :(

If, instead, you'd written a story about a gravedigger or an over-the-road trucker, your story must still be good (of course), but it would have a much better shot. Think strategically!

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< be doing between going to see NiceGP™️ about the neverending pains in my chest, crawling to my dramatherapy session, and trying my darndest to finish my @transunityquilt.bsky.social patch

wish me luck!

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it's all a numbers game
one must #WriteSubmitRepeat
rejections are a sign you are putting yourself out there

I know, I know, I know
but between you & me?
I hate it so much

I really don't want to have to self-publish MoM
but if no trad publisher picks it up by the end of 2026, I might just have to

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#OwnVoices #queer #QueerPoet #trans #transmasc #transmasculine #transboy #transguy #transman #TransPoet #nonbinary #NonBinaryPoet #genderqueer #genderfluid #gendernonconforming

< rather than an objective value judgment on the meaning and artistic merit of the work.

it still sucks, though.

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the awkward moment when you've been doing so much #writing admin, #Submittable wants you to scan a QR code to secure your account XD

does this mean hyperfocused Jude is so efficient, he could be mistaken for a spammy machine?

eh, I'll take it!

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#WriteSubmitRepeat update:

• submit 2 poems to prize 1 - done

• submit 2 poems to prize 2 - done

• proof/edit 3 poems for magazine sub - done

• ask if chapbook publisher will accept ~100 A5 pp rather than ~50 A4 pp - done

... and #Submittable is down. I wanna cry 🥲🥲🥲

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