Mailbox Blues

When I started submitting stories in 1992, I became obsessed by my mail, listening out for mail vans and postal workers. I learned that ninety-nine out of a hundred 9×12 inch envelopes contained rejection letters. My early acceptances came not by email, but in exciting small envelopes, addressed and stamped by the magazines themselves. This page contains mail reports and other updates. Many thanks to Christopher Reynaga for the camel-and-mailbox artwork.

The Most Recent Mailbox Blues

Sunday, 5 October 2025

My poem Andy Warhol’s Many Cats has just been published in Uppagus 🙂

Sunday, 5 October 2025

My poem What Moon Rabbit Reads was nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology by The Sprawl Mag 🙂

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

I am honored and delighted and excited and happy to announce that my poem “The Blackthorn,” first published in Dreams and Nightmares, has won the 2025 Rhysling Award in the long-poem category 🙂 Many thanks to David C. Kopaska-Merkel for giving the poem its first home 🙂

Monday, 22 September 2025

I’m delighted to report a poetry acceptance from Eye to the Telescope for their forthcoming Cyberpunk issue edited by Casey Aimer 🙂

Thursday, 18 September 2025

I’m happy to report a poetry acceptance from Star*Line 🙂

Wednesday, 27 August 2025

I’m delighted to report that my poem Outlaw, Exile, Traitor has been published in Baubles From Bones 🙂

Tuesday, 26 August 2025

There’s a lovely review by Sia of The Sign of the Dragon at Every Book a Doorway 🙂 🙂 🙂

Sunday, 24 August 2025

I am delighted to report that I have had four more poems accepted by Uppagus 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

My poem “Not Like This” (part of The Sign of the Dragon) has been reprinted in the Worldcon 2025 Souvenir Book 🙂 The poem first appeared in Apex Magazine.

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

My poem “To Undertake a Quest” has been reprinted in the Worlds of Possibility Poetry Anthology 🙂

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Mailbox Blues

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