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, 30 March 2025

I’m delighted to report a poetry acceptance from Constellations, my seventh from them 🙂

I am delighted to report that two of my poems are finalists for readers’ awards. So This Is Mars is a finalist for the AnLab Award. And What They Didn’t Do is a finalist for the Asimov’s Readers’ Award. It means a great deal to me that readers liked my work 🙂 🙂 🙂

Thursday, 27 March 2025

I’m delighted to report a poetry acceptance for the Plants issue of Eye to the Telescope, edited by Eva Papasoulioti 🙂

Thursday, 27 March 2025

I’m delighted to report my ninth poetry acceptance from Strange Horizons 🙂 🙂

Tuesday, 18 March 2025

I’m delighted to report that I had two poems accepted by Star*Line 🙂

Sunday, 16 March 2025

My poem “Lost and Found” has appeared in Worlds of IF #178, which is the second issue of the relaunched SF classic.

Sunday, 9 March 2025

My poem The Emperor Penguins of Mars has been published in DreamForge Anvil 🙂 🙂

Saturday, 1 March 2025

I have a guest post, An Epic in Verse, up at The Future Fire 🙂

Saturday, 1 March 2025

I am honored and delighted that three of my poems have been nominated for the Rhysling Award 🙂 🙂 🙂

The poems are What Dragons Didn’t Do, Right to Shelter, and The Blackthorn (first published in Dreams and Nightmares).

Saturday, 1 March 2025

My poem “Grandma and the AI” has just been published in Snakeskin 🙂

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