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

Friday, 16 May 2025

My poem “So This Is Time Travel” has been published in Rune 2025, the literary journal of Robert Morris University.

Wednesday, 14 May 2025

I’m delighted to report that my poem “Rules for a Magic Sword” has been published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, my tenth poem to appear there 🙂

Monday, 12 May 2025

I’m delighted to report that another poem of mine will be reprinted in Odyssey, a publication of the British Interplanetary Society 🙂

Monday, 12 May 2025

I’m happy to report that my poem “To Undertake a Quest” has just been published in Worlds of Possibility 🙂

Thursday, 8 May 2025

On May 19th, I will be a guest for C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernadez’s Fiction Impossible on Twitch. More details available here.

Monday, 5 May 2025

I am honored and delighted that three of my poems are finalists for the Rhysling Award 🙂 🙂 🙂

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

They were nominated for the award earlier and have now made the cut for inclusion in the Rhysling Anthology.

Monday, 28 April 2025

I’m honored and delighted that my poem “What Villains Read” has been selected for inclusion in this year’s Dwarf Stars anthology. The poem first appeared in Kaleidotrope.

Monday, 28 April 2025

I’m delighted to report a poetry acceptance from Julia Rios’s Worlds of Possibility 🙂

Saturday, 26 April 2025

I’m delighted to report that my poem “Nor Yet an Olive Branch” has been published in Eye to the Telescope #56, edited by Eva Papasoulioti 🙂

Thursday, 24 April 2025

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

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