My submission pace picked up a bit this year in both fiction and poetry. On the fiction front, it was a better than average year with my acceptance rate at 3.2% (up slightly from last year’s 3%) and a positive response rate (personal rejections plus acceptances) of 29% up significantly from last year’s 24%).
In poetry, things went even better: My acceptance rate was 4.5% (up from last year’s 2.4%) and for the first time higher than my fiction acceptance rate. Positive responses were also up at 23.7% which is higher than last year’s 11.2%, but less than 2022’s 26.3%. The weird thing is that in this pretty good year, the non-response rate is way up.
Here again are my publications for 2025.
Fiction
- Santa Monica Review: Elijah’s Funeral
- The Account: The Boy Who Loved Music
Poetry
- Rat’s Ass Review: Chicago Sonnet #26
- After Hours: #66 (print only)
- Dodging the Rain: Parrotland
- Big Score Lit: Chicago Sonnet #42 (print only)
- California Quarterly: Carmen Philomelaicum (translated from Latin), Jubilate Mammonæ, Museum of Broken Hearts (print only)
- Meniscus: Remember the Future
- Exacting Clam: Corpse in the Mirror (print only)
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