/lit/ - Literature

>>21792652
Why do you like William Eggleston?

Damn, congratulations .
how did you manage it?
I've been sending shot stories for literal years at this point. I will resent any success that is not my own.

>>21792652
Huge, would be a dream of mine for my work to be acknowledged

I hope this is just the beginning of great things for you

>>21792670
To copy paste from the other thread
> All the credit should go to my friend who saw them advertise on facebook and thought to tell me about it.
I sent them my substack and i guess they liked what they saw. I had a brief interview, just making sure im a national, and asking if i was ready to appear on their podcast to discuss my work.

>>21792669
I like early color photography.In
fact I just ordered an Ernst Haas book to celebrate.

>>21792678
Thank you so much, im over the moon about it. This is all the excitement i felt when i was first accepted by a now defunct Christian magazine.

Im even a little giggly, which i don't usually get.

>>21792689
>fact I just ordered an Ernst Haas book to celebrate.
Based taste. He mogged soulless minimalist status quo with his maximalism. Enjoy anon.

>>21792700
Then you may also appreciate some of the poetry thumbnails.
One being Winogrand (i know, but he honestly has some stuff in that ocean of mediocrity )
and the other Alan Schaller

Greetings from wg!
I feel like my boy is going off to college. *wipes away tears*

>>21792724
Thanks dad.

>>21792652
Congratulations, anon. We are all going to make it.

That's truly amazing .
I really liked the two poems I've read so far, you have a real gift for picking a stanza form and sticking to it.
Also there is none of that young poet bravado, where you pretend to sound like a prophet. There is a clear and measured voice.


Congratulations.

The Dorothy Osborne poem was a delight. This kind of historical mimickery is tough to do. You deserve credit for it. Also I bet no one on lit had any clue who she is.

>>21792716
Sorry I didn't click on the link before.
Kino aesthetics.

>>21792957
Thank you =)
I was worried it'd be obscure as well, but i secretly hope it will win. I loved writing it, and it'll be an excuse to do more.

>>21792938
Cheers.
I had my early period of writing confessional nonsense about how girls don't like and whatnot. Thank god no one published it. Now i've calmed down a little, and no longer expect my truth to set the world on fire.
To be enjoyable would be more enough

I voted for the chalk poem and the living room one.

Both makes me think of when the kids were still home. You deserve the chance, I hope for things come your way

This is really cool anon.
Congratulations. I'll read ones in home from work

>>21792669
I posted this picture time ago.

What is a regional publisher? Is it one of those Penguin Random House imprints, or local press that caters to your community?

What kind of scale are we talking about?

>>21792670
What magazines do you submit to, anon?

>>21793602
>>21793451
Thanks.
Im quite happy people like the Living Room poem. Close rhyme and and a jokey stanza form is not best suited for it, but i think it worked out.

>>21793842
As local as they get. They publish throughout the country but are based just down the road from me. No association with PRH, though i think they do carry some big translations.

>>21793851
Sorry, i just went out. I have a whole list i could share with you, mostly small religious magazines as they still appreciate the classic stuff.
I'll post it if the thread is still around in a few hours.

>>21793868
>religious magazines
Interesting. I'm not particularly religious but I've been reading the Bible for knowledge. I'd be interested in magazines of short stories from the people who are devout religious. But honestly i enjoy existentialist or cautionary stories like Flannery O'Connor.
I'll check the thread again in a bit. I only subscribe to Paris Review. Although I've been meaning to branch out to others like ploughshares, agni, Colorado review, etc. I stopped buying best American short stories collections because I realized even though I enjoy various authors, I almost never share the same taste they do. So the stories they pick rarely vibe with me and I prefer to read the magazines directly to find what authors I like.

Voted.

I think you should do more free verse. That last one was excellent. Then again don't listen to me I don't really like poetry

>>21794787
Looks at blank thinks it's free. Some people are just not going to make it are they?

This could sound funny but what age were you when you first got published?

I'm reaching 30 and beginning to worry I left it to late.

Good work regardless

>>21792652
Fuck off and pay for an ad.
We seriously need a rule against self-promotion now, this is getting stupid.

>>21796204
Twenty five, i think.
It was a truly awful poem trying to Imitate late Yeats in his more prophetic mood. I was very wise to publish it under a pseudonym. I knew it was no good but thought sincerity will cover for the lack of skill

Anyway, thirty is fine, plenty of people published later in life. No one has to know, just write to the best of your ability.