A day before my birthday, (that being 12/11), upon returning home from dinner (of the birthday peculiarity), a message was found on our house's answering machine. The message, much garbled by my own and my wife's rampant screaming, hooting, hollering, and other akin carryingson informed that I had not only been published, but actually won the Alligator Juniper National Writing Contest with my story "(Un/Re/I )Do." This was then followed by much excitement immediately backed up by eight days of eager anticipation turning to morbid paranoia as I repeatedly tried to contact them to find out "What the hell are going on?" Eventually, the paperwork came through and Uncle Sam got his bit, and soonishly, I'll be receiving some nicely nicelys as well as a summer publication date.
And thus my head did swell even more so than it already had swollen, for only a month earlier, I was notified that "Contents Within" will be nominated for the AWP Intro Award.
Some very good news indeed.
2 comments:
Hey! I'm up for an AWP intro too for my poem "Hell's Library."
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Congrats, my good man. That's quite an honor. I wouldn't let it go too far to your head, though. I submitted a piece to Alligator-Juniper, but mine was rejected, so obviously their judgement of quality is questionable.
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