I was wondering if anyone other then myself has been published.
I have one chap book of poetry, another containing twelve of my short stories. I've also have had poems published in a magazine during the 90's.
You can find the book with the short stories on
http://www.amazon.com
its called
MONSTER NEWS - THE BOOK
Not me, unless you count High School Newspaper, LOL! That is so great for you!
No, although I've submitted an academic paper to a peer-reviewed journal at my university....
Was just talking to the girl who's staying with me, about an idea she has for a collection of short stories!
Congrats on your achievements! I'll definately check out the link!
Not unless you count the monthly column I wrote for a magazine for a few years.
Yes, but my publishing creds are way more modest! *blush* I've been published twice in small online poetry journals and I won third place in a small teen-writers story contest. Nothing major.
I'll be finishing my first novel this summer, though, and I'll be trying really hard to get that published.
I'm in Dawn Prince-Hughes Aquamarine 5 (as Chris Marsh), letter to Donna Daugherty, former career counselor at Shepherd University (although Daugherty or Shepherd do not appear in the book)
Published?
Currently 23 papers in peer-reviewed journals, first author (or co-first author) on six of them.
I perform stand-up poetry - something that used to terrify me, but getting past which has been of great benefit. I deliberately eschewed publishing - only the publishers make money out of published poetry, and the idea that the only valid poetry is published poetry leads to poor 'performance' in readings...as they are
readings, rather than speakings...head down, book in the way, often a special 'poetry voice'. Very little entertainment value.
I memorise my work (or if I can't remember it, I figure it wasnt as good as I thought it was when I wrote it) and play to the audience. Then I ask them for money - and while it's never much, it's more than I'd make hawking my poems to publishers. It gets poetry across to people who'd never dream of picking up a poetry book too, let alone buying one. I did get published a few times, though I've never submitted - editors have asked me for pieces at performances, which is pleasing in its way
I got three pieces in a volume published by the Buddy Holly Society to commemorate some anniversary of his death - there was a national competition with a very enticing prize fund. Poems were selected by Roger McGough (
the Roger McGough!) and Paul somebody...used to be in a band, married some one-legged woman, been in the papers recently...
I didn't win any cash, and I suspect they didnt get too many entries because they even published my clerihew..."Buddy Holly/ We were not jolly/ When your plane fell out of the sky/ What an appallingly young age at which to die". No, I'm not particularly proud of that one...
I've published in my high school lit magazine but that's all...oh and my state used a fact sheet on arthritis I did for the Public Health Dept.
My mother has been urging me for the past year to begin a memoir...and to begin writing my story...but I suck at starting at the beginning...and it's been so RANDOM. Not to mention I keep having feelings of "Who's going to care to even read this?"
I perform stand-up poetry - something that used to terrify me, but getting past which has been of great benefit. I deliberately eschewed publishing - only the publishers make money out of published poetry, and the idea that the only valid poetry is published poetry leads to poor 'performance' in readings...as they are
readings, rather than speakings...head down, book in the way, often a special 'poetry voice'. Very little entertainment value.
I memorise my work (or if I can't remember it, I figure it wasnt as good as I thought it was when I wrote it) and play to the audience. Then I ask them for money - and while it's never much, it's more than I'd make hawking my poems to publishers. It gets poetry across to people who'd never dream of picking up a poetry book too, let alone buying one. I did get published a few times, though I've never submitted - editors have asked me for pieces at performances, which is pleasing in its way
Now that sounds like something worth thinking about...
I was published in a magazine, once. Gumbo magazine, an American magazine. I believe it was mainly directed towards youth. Anyways, I originally wrote it for a youth newspaper near my area, and they entered a partnership with Gumbo to publish articles, and mine was the first to be chosen. It was an article, that was re-titled: "To Give or not to Give," and was about safe sex. Kind of blushing as I write the topic, but hey, I wrote the article.
Too bad there's no blush emoticon.
I also have poetry I wrote online, and I read some of it at a coffeehouse for a dry grad, with a great response. I'm hoping to eventually get published by a publisher, though, so I'm trying to get started on a book. Sadly, the starting is the hard part for me.
Any tips?
Sort of. I'm involved with this:
http://www.thedoctorwhoproject.com/ which has seen a bit of my stuff published over the years in various formats ranging from books to CD-ROMs to the current online subscription service.
No, I'm not telling you which ones are mine - they're published under my real name, which I don't use online. Just assume mine are the best ones.
lol Alright, I will, Ethel.
I had some poetry in magazines and stuff like that. Also maybe a short story printed. (Because it won first prize in some state-wide competition back in college -- which is year 11/12 to all who do not know the state system in Tasmania.) Even got me a trophy for it -- my only trophy ever!! hehe. But that was ages ago.
Apart from that... I've come close. But not quite. Sent some sample chapters to a publisher, and they said "cool send more" but in the end their response was negative.
But I'm thinking... there are levels of rejection, yeah?
Also had a couple of articles in our university magazine. (a few years back).
That's about it, that I can recall.
I've got a short story, a personal essay, and a poem published in a local yearly anthology, but nothing much. I honestly don't think the short story was deserving of publication. The poem and the essay I liked though, I'll have to go dig them up sometime. I wrote them years before autism ever crossed my mind, but re-reading them...I wonder how I "slipped through the cracks" at school. those 3 were all published as a result of writing contests, the short story got an honorable mention, the poem got an honorable mention the next year, and the essay got first place in the youth division that same year. It also got me $25 for the contest and a nice little scholarship - it was the same essay I used for my scholarship application.