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acceptance at midway journal

1/25/2021

 
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Thrilled to get a next-day acceptance of my new metafiction "Life Without Randall" at MIDWAY JOURNAL, where my flash "Zig Zag" won the "1000 Below" Contest a few years ago when Michael Martone was judge. I was sure they'd take much longer to decide.

I just sent "Life Without Randall" out and hadn't gotten any rejections yet. Always special, when that happens.

I love the story and was diligent about submissions, though I'm much less familiar with the market for very short fiction than I am for flash fiction and cnf.  I had to withdraw it from seven magazines, but I feel like this is my reward for managing to send it to so many. I haven't submitted anything to MIDWAY JOURNAL since they published "Zig Zag" (one of my weirdest flash—I'm fond of it, and not just because it earned me $500), but this seemed to fit their description: "The work we publish aims to complicate and question the boundaries of genre, binary, and perspective. It offers surprises and ways of re-seeing, re-thinking, and re-feeling …"

This story was so much fun to write.


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