great reading LAST NIGHT and an essay accepted at under the sun

Such a good reading with Susan Gubernat on campus tonight. Really fun.

And just before I left I got an acceptance from an online creative nonfiction magazine that I love (UNDER THE SUN) of an essay that has gone through so many revisions that I can't count them any more. I thought I'd never get "Another Mary Doyle" right, and never get it placed, but I didn't want to give up on it. 

This will be my second appearance in UNDER THE SUN, a wonderful journal that had a long life as a print journal and now has a renewed life as an online journal. Its excellence under editor-in-chief Heidemarie Weidner has long been recognized by Best American Essays (see their BAE roster) and by writers and readers in the creative nonfiction community. It's a great place for "Another Mary Doyle" (and I think I've finally got it right).