Publishing updates, April 2026

Three months on from January:

• 12 pieces: 1 novella, 3 short creative nonfiction essays, 8 short stories
• 80 total submissions
• 43 rejections
• 6 personalized rejections
• 1 short list
• 1 long list
• 1 acceptance
• 1 thing I can’t talk about yet, but is very exciting.

Has turned into:

• 14 pieces
• 119 total submissions
• 80 rejections
• 8 personalized rejections
• 2 short lists
• 1 long list
• 1 published (short CNF)
• 2 accepted, forthcoming (novella & a short story)

First publication: “The Desert” went up at Marrow Magazine on April 6th. Short CNF. Travel, grief (or lack thereof). Go read it and the rest of the issue. Lots of good stuff.

So… currently: 36 responses pending across 11 active pieces. Mostly flash / short-short fiction with a literary horror lean. Still finding the right rooms for some of it. So maaaany journals.

I keep posting about this stuff because I think the data + context is helpful. Duotrope, Chillsubs, and Submission Grinder will give you just the data, but having it humanized is important too. I see people on reddit and forums despairing over not hearing back from a journal after 2 weeks and I’m like “Oh, you sweet summer child.”

The rest of life has been busy recently so my output has slowed a bit, but I’ve got a couple of pieces in progress that will join the herd soon. Fly, my pretties, fly!