Ray Caesar "Oh Sweet Vanity"
Writing News
More Wow! The chapbook-length version of The Terrible Baby will be published by Dancing Girl Press. She should be delivered in February 2006.
Wow! My full-length version of The Terrible Baby is a semi-finalist in Sarabande books' Kathryn A Morton First Book Contest!!!!
So far this year:
2005 Acceptances: Wicked Alice (poetry), Margie (poetry), Orchid (prose), Tar Wolf Review (poetry), New Delta Review (poetry), Powhatan Review (poetry), Red Rock Review (poetry), Northwest Review (prose)
Got a nice rejection letter from Flume Press, but The Terrible Baby was not the winner, or a finalist. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!bbbbbite!
Great News----Got a Writer's Residency at The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Two weeks!--May 18th---June 3rd, sweet bliss.
Did not win or place in the Carve Fiction Contest.
Rejections: Smokelong Quarterly, Oxford American, New Millennium Writings, Mid-American Review, Harpur Palate, Failbetter, South Dakota Review, Appalachian Heritage, Story Quarterly, Southern Review, Shenandoah, Minnesota Review, Portland Review, Other Voices, Kenyon Review, Lillies and Cannonballs, Hotel Amerika, Baltimore Review, Agni, Rosebud, Caffeine Destiny, Inkwell, Poet Lore, Poetry, Confrontation, Diagram, Talking River Review, Prairie Schooner, Pecan Grove Press, and Third Coast.Entered Thirty First Book Contests (poetry) in November/December of last year. Most of the contests are now decided. Haven't won or placed or finaled in any of the contests. Bummer.
Submissions Out-----
The Terrible Baby: Mayapple Press, Word Tech Editions.
Soaping the Stream: FC2
Prose: Fiction, New Orleans Review, Salt Hill.Poetry: Columbia, Drunken Boat, Frank, In Posse, Luna, Literal Latte, Triquarterly, Washington Square.
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